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noun
- (fishing) A fish that tends to take bait.
- (curling) A stone that barely touches the outside of the house.
- (slang) One who copies someone else's work, style or techniques, especially in hip-hop.
- Agent noun of bite; someone or something who bites or tends to bite.
- (in combination, computing) Something (a data unit, machine etc.) with a width of a specified amount of bits.
- (fiction) A zombie.
- someone who bites
noun
- (angling) an instance of a fish taking the bait
- a strong odor or taste property
- a small amount of solid food; a mouthful
- a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
- a light informal meal
- a portion removed from the whole
- a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person
- wit having a sharp and caustic quality
- the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws
- The act of biting.
- (printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
- The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
- (television) Ellipsis of sound bite.
- (slang) Something unpleasant.
- (slang) A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.
- (figuratively, uncountable) incisiveness, provocativeness, exactness.
- A small meal or snack.
- (slang) An act of plagiarism.
- (figuratively, uncountable) Aggression.
- (cricket) The turn that a spin bowler imparts to a pitch.
- A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
- The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
- The wound left behind after having been bitten.
verb
- cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
- to grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws
- penetrate or cut, as with a knife
- deliver a sting to
- (intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
- (intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
- (intransitive, figurative) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
- (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
- (transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
- (intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
- (intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.
- (transitive) To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
- (transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
- (intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.
- (intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
- (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.
- (intransitive) To attack with the teeth.
- (stative, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
- (intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.
- (intransitive, chiefly in the negative) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.
noun
- (fishing) An artificial bait in the form of a small fish.
- (figuratively) A person or thing of relatively little consequence, importance, or value.
- (sports, especially soccer, cricket) a team that is considered less skilled and not expected to win many, if any, of its matches.
- Any small fish.
- (British, regional) Synonym of stickleback (family Gasterosteidae).
- Chiefly with a qualifying word: any of a number of other (small) fish from the family Cyprinidae; also (chiefly US), other small (usually freshwater) fish from other families.
- The common minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus), a small freshwater fish of the carp family Cyprinidae which has a green back with black elongated blotches, commonly swimming in large shoals.
- (Australia, New Zealand) Synonym of galaxiid (“any member of the family Galaxiidae of mostly small freshwater fish of the Southern Hemisphere”); specifically, the common galaxias, inanga, or jollytail (Galaxias maculatus).
- very small European freshwater fish common in gravelly streams
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noun
- (Internet) Someone who creates a false profile on a social media platform in order to deceive people.
- The meat of such a fish, popular in the Southern U.S. and Central Europe.
- Any fish of the order Siluriformes, mainly found in fresh water, lacking scales, and having barbels like whiskers around the mouth.
- (Internet) Such a false profile.
- large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins
- any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth
- flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed
noun
- (fishing) A type of fishing lure that resembles a frog.
- (music) The part of a violin bow (or that of other similar string instruments such as the viola, cello and contrabass) located at the end held by the player, to which the horsehair is attached.
- The depression in the upper face of a pressed or handmade clay brick.
- (Canada, offensive) A French-speaking person from Quebec.
- (rail transport) The part of a railroad overhead wire used to redirect a trolley pole from one wire to another at switches.
- (derogatory, ethnic slur) A French person.
- A device used to secure stems in a floral arrangement, also called a flower frog or kenzan.
- (politics, slang, derogatory, Malaysia) Defector: politician who switches to a different political party.
- An ornate fastener for clothing consisting of an oblong button, toggle, or knot, that fits through a loop.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Synonym of road; clipping of less common frog and toad.
- Any of a class of small tailless amphibians of the order Anura that typically hop.
- (rail transport) The part of a railway switch or turnout where the running rails cross (from the resemblance to the frog in a horse’s hoof).
- An organ on the bottom of a horse’s hoof that assists in the circulation of blood.
- A leather or fabric loop used to attach a sword or bayonet, or its scabbard, to a waist or shoulder belt.
- a decorative loop of braid or cord
- a person of French descent
- any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species
verb
- (ambitransitive, slang, mildly vulgar) To have sex with; fuck.
- (intransitive) To lie sprawled out like a frog; sploot.
- To hunt or trap frogs.
- (transitive, biology) To use a pronged plater to transfer (cells) to another plate.
- (ambitransitive) To unravel part of (a knitted garment), either to correct a mistake or to reclaim the thread or yarn.
- (transitive, cooking) To spatchcock (a chicken).
- To ornament or fasten a coat, etc. with frogs.
- hunt frogs for food
noun
- Abbreviation of catfish.
- (slang) A street name of the drug methcathinone.
- A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship.
- Abbreviation of category.
- Abbreviation of computed axial tomography; often used attributively, as in “CAT scan” or “CT scan”.
- (uncountable) The flesh of this animal eaten as food.
- (countable) A mammal of the family Felidae.
- (chiefly nautical) Ellipsis of cat-o'-nine-tails.
- Abbreviation of catalytic converter.
- (US, slang) Synonym of itinerant worker.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, vulgar) A vagina or vulva.
- Abbreviation of catamaran.
- Abbreviation of catapult.
- A double tripod for holding a plate, etc., with six feet, of which three rest on the ground in whatever position it is placed.
- (computing) A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output.
- (derogatory, offensive) An angry or spiteful person, especially a woman.
- (military, historical) A wheeled shelter, used in the Middle Ages to protect assailants approaching besieged enemy defences; a cathouse.
- (originally US, jazz, slang) A jazz musician; also, an enthusiast of jazz music.
- A carnivorous, four-legged, generally furry domesticated species (Felis catus) of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet.
- (countable, by extension) Chiefly with a descriptive word: an animal not of the family Felidae which (somewhat) resembles a domestic feline (etymology 1 sense 1.1.1).
- Any similar, chiefly non-domesticated, carnivorous mammal of the family Felidae, which includes bobcats, caracals, cheetahs, cougars, leopards, lions, lynxes, tigers, and other such species.
- A ground vehicle which uses caterpillar tracks, especially tractors, trucks, minibuses, and snow groomers.
- (slang) Any of a variety of earth-moving machines. (from their manufacturer Caterpillar Inc.)
- feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability to roar
- a whip with nine knotted cords
- a spiteful woman gossip
- the leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like tobacco or used to make tea; has the effect of a euphoric stimulant
- any of several large cats typically able to roar and living in the wild
- an informal term for a youth or man
- a large tracked vehicle that is propelled by two endless metal belts; frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm work
- any of various lithe-bodied roundheaded fissiped mammals, many with retractile claws
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- (nautical, transitive) To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails.
- (nautical, transitive) To hoist (an anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead.
- (computing, transitive) To apply the cat command to (one or more files).
- To go wandering at night.
- To gossip in a catty manner.
- (computing, slang) To dump large amounts of data on (an unprepared target), usually with no intention of browsing it carefully.
- beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails
- eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
verb
- (fishing, transitive) To use as bait when fishing.
- (nautical, transitive) To repair (a spar or mast) by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).
- (intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
- (intransitive, transitive) To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water, or to collect coral or pearls from the bottom of the sea.
- (transitive) To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
- (intransitive) To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
- (nautical, transitive) To hoist the flukes of.
- (transitive) To draw or guide (a wire or cable) by means of fish tape.
- (intransitive, followed by "for" or "around for") To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.
- seek indirectly
- catch or try to catch fish or shellfish
noun
- A period of time spent fishing.
- (uncountable) A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
- A cartilaginous fish (class Chondrichthyes).
- (uncountable, slang, sometimes derogatory, sometimes positive) A (feminine) woman. (See also fishy.)
- An instance of seeking something.
- (cartomancy) The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
- (nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
- (countable, poker slang) A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
- (Newfoundland) Cod; codfish.
- A placoderm (paraphyletic class †Placodermi).
- A jawless fish (paraphyletic infraphylum Agnatha).
- (uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.
- (LGBTQ slang, sometimes problematic) A drag queen or transgender woman who looks like a cisgender woman.
- (countable, nautical, military, slang) A torpedo (self-propelled explosive device).
- (prison slang) A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.
- A bony fish (clade Osteichthyes), including tetrapods.
- (Roman Catholicism) An aquatic or semiaquatic animal suitable for consumption during fasting on Fridays during Lent.
- (Jamaica, offensive, derogatory) A male homosexual; a gay man.
- (countable, slang) An easy victim for swindling.
- (cellular automata, rare) A spaceship.
- (countable) A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
- A spiny shark (paraphyletic class †Acanthodii)
- (countable, nautical) A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
- any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
- the flesh of fish used as food
verb
- (transitive) To catch by fishing with a concave spoon bait.
- Alternative form of spoom.
- (tennis, golf, croquet) To hit (the ball) weakly, pushing it with a lifting motion, instead of striking with an audible knock.
- To serve using a spoon; to transfer (something) with a spoon.
- (intransitive) To fish with a concave spoon bait.
- (transitive or intransitive, informal, of persons) To lie nestled front-to-back, following the contours of the bodies, in a manner reminiscent of stacked spoons.
- scoop up or take up with a spoon
- snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back of the others
noun
- (slang) An oar.
- (dentistry, informal) A spoon excavator.
- (fishing) A type of metal lure resembling the concave head of a tablespoon.
- An implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle.
- A measure that will fit into a spoon; a spoonful.
- (US, military) A safety handle on a hand grenade, a trigger.
- (slang) A metaphoric unit of finite physical and mental energy available for daily activities, especially in the context of living with chronic illness or disability.
- An implement for stirring food while being prepared; a wooden spoon.
- A South African shrub of the genus Spatalla.
- as much as a spoon will hold
- formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face
- a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food
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- (US, military, slang, mildly derogatory) A sailor in the Navy.
- (UK, slang, humorous, rare) A quid; one pound sterling.
- (inexact) A vampire squid.
- A fishhook with a piece of bright lead, bone, or other substance fastened on its shank to imitate a squid.
- (slang, motorcycling, derogatory) A motorcyclist, especially a sport biker, characterized by reckless riding and lack of protective gear.
- A South Korean children's game where players, divided into offense and defense, compete on a squid-shaped field; the offensive team tries to reach a designated area, and the defensive team attempts to block them.
- Any of several carnivorous marine cephalopod mollusks, of the order Teuthida, having a mantle, eight arms, and a pair of tentacles
- widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular tail fins
- (Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food
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- Any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once.
- (British, derogatory) An objectionable elderly woman.
- any of various game and food fishes of cool fresh waters mostly smaller than typical salmons
- flesh of any of several primarily freshwater game and food fishes
verb
- (transitive) To affix bait to a trap or a fishing hook or fishing line.
- (transitive) To target a pest species by laying baits.
- (transitive) To set dogs on (an animal etc.) to bite or worry; to attack with dogs, especially for sport.
- (intransitive) Of a horse or other animal: to take food, especially during a journey.
- (transitive) To intentionally annoy, torment, or threaten by constant rebukes or threats; to harass.
- (transitive) To lay baits in an environment to control pest species.
- (transitive) To attract with bait; to entice.
- (intransitive) (of a person) To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment during a journey.
- attack with dogs or set dogs upon
- harass with persistent criticism or carping
- lure, entice, or entrap with bait
adj
noun
- Food containing poison or a harmful additive to kill animals that are pests.
- A light or hasty luncheon.
- (as the head of a compound) Something that lures or entices a specified group.
- Anything which allures; something or someone used to lure or entice someone or something into doing something.
- Any substance, especially food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, trap, or net.
- A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.
- (Internet slang) A post intended to elicit a, usually strong or negative, reaction from others.
- (Geordie, Durham) A packed lunch - the bite to eat a worker took with them to eat.
- (vulgar, sexuality) Someone that attracts or entices a specified sex act being done to them.
- (East Anglia) A small meal taken mid-morning while farming.
- (Northern England) A miner's packed meal.
- anything that serves as an enticement
- something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed
noun
- (fishing) A nibble on the bait by a fish.
- (cricket) The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
- A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
- The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
- (baseball) A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.
- (geology) The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth or another solid celestial body.
- The discovery of a source of something.
- (bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins on the first roll of a frame.
- (philately) A cancellation postmark.
- (printing, historical) An imperfect matrix for type.
- (military, by extension) An attack, not necessarily physical.
- An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
- The strike plate of a door.
- (finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
- An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
- (ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.
- A blow or application of physical force against something.
- (historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
- a score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first ball
- a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions
- a conspicuous success
- (baseball) a pitch that the batter swings at and misses, or that the batter hits into foul territory, or that the batter does not swing at but the umpire judges to be in the area over home plate and between the batter's knees and shoulders
- a gentle blow
- an attack that is intended to seize or inflict damage on or destroy an objective
verb
- (transitive) To make and ratify; to reach; to find.
- (intransitive) To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
- (transitive) To create an impression.
- (transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
- (intransitive) To carry out a violent or illegal action.
- (transitive) To cause to ignite by friction.
- To touch; to act by appulse.
- (transitive) To punish; to afflict; to smite.
- To unfasten, to loosen (chains, bonds, etc.).
- (transitive) To hit.
- (transitive, figurative) To impinge upon.
- To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.
- (intransitive) To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.
- To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.
- (sports) To score a goal.
- (transitive) To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
- (transitive) To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.
- To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
- (nautical) To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)
- (intransitive, by extension) To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions.
- (intransitive) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
- (by extension) To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
- (intransitive) To set off on a walk or trip.
- (transitive, finance) To balance (a ledger or account).
- To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
- (transitive) To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
- (transitive) To impress, seem or appear to (a person).
- (masonry) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
- To discover a source of something, often a buried raw material such as ore (especially gold) or crude oil.
- To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.
- (intransitive) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
- (transitive) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
- To infest the flesh of a living vertebrate.
- (transitive) To manufacture, as by stamping.
- To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).
- (intransitive) To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
- (transitive, fishing) To hook (a fish) by a quick turn of the wrist.
- deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon
- form by stamping, punching, or printing
- cause to experience suddenly
- hit against; come into sudden contact with
- affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely
- make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target
- arrive at after reckoning, deliberating, and weighing
- hook by a pull on the line
- drive something violently into a location
- have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
- pierce with force
- cause to form (an electric arc) between electrodes of an arc lamp
- touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
- remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
- produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments
- find unexpectedly
- smooth with a strickle
- disassemble a temporary structure, such as a tent or a theatrical set
- occupy or take on
- stop work in order to press demands
- produce by ignition or a blow
- indicate (a certain time) by striking
- attain
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noun
- A trap or snare for fish, made from twigs; a weely.
- A small cataract over which fish attempt to jump; a salmon ladder.
- (figuratively) A significant move forward.
- A group of leopards.
- The distance traversed by a leap or jump.
- Half a bushel.
- (mining) A fault.
- Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
- (figuratively) A large step in reasoning, often one that is not justified by the facts.
- (music) A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other intermediate intervals.
- The act of leaping or jumping.
- the distance leaped (or to be leaped)
- an abrupt transition
- a sudden and decisive increase
- a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
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- (Maine) A pot-shaped trap used for catching lobsters or other seafood: a lobster pot.
- (UK, horse-racing, slang) A favorite: a heavily-backed horse.
- (historical) Any of various traditional units of volume notionally based on the capacity of a pot.
- (slang, uncountable) Ruin or deterioration.
- A vessel used for brewing or serving drinks: a coffeepot or teapot.
- A crucible: a melting pot.
- A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food, possibly excluding saucepans (see usage notes).
- (slang, electronics) A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to adjust sound volume) in an electronic device by rotating or sliding when manipulated by a human thumb, screwdriver, etc.
- (slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
- (chiefly East Midlands, Yorkshire) A plaster cast.
- (rail transport) A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail while insulating it from the ground.
- (roleplaying games, video games) Clipping of potion.
- (slang) Clipping of potbelly (“a pot-shaped belly, a paunch”).
- A perforated cask for draining sugar.
- A vessel (usually earthenware) used with a seal for storing food, such as a honeypot.
- (archaic except in place names) Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave.
- An allocation of money for a particular purpose.
- (historical) Alternative form of pott: a former size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches.
- A shallow hole used in certain games played with marbles. The marbles placed in it are called potsies.
- (Australia, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania) A glass of beer in Australia whose size varies regionally but is typically around 10 fl oz (285 mL).
- (historical) An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.
- A pot-shaped metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney: a chimney pot.
- (gambling, poker) The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively) any sum of money being used as an enticement.
- (slang) Clipping of potshot (“a haphazard shot; an easy or cheap shot”).
- A vessel used to hold soil for growing plants, particularly flowers: a flowerpot.
- the quantity contained in a pot
- the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker)
- a container in which plants are cultivated
- street names for marijuana
- slang for a paunch
- metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep; often has a handle and lid
- a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
- a resistor with three terminals, the third being an adjustable center terminal; used to adjust voltages in radios and TV sets
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
verb
- (electronics) To package a circuit by encasing it in resin.
- To put (something) into a pot.
- (transitive, British) To seat a person, usually a young child, on a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.
- (transitive) To drain (e.g. sugar of the molasses) in a perforated cask.
- (snooker, pool, billiards, transitive) To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
- (chiefly East Midlands) To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.
- (rugby, transitive) To score (a drop goal).
- (transitive) To shoot with a firearm.
- To preserve by bottling or canning.
- (transitive, colloquial) To secure; gain; win; bag.
- (British) To send someone to jail, expeditiously.
- To catch (a fish, eel, etc) via a pot.
- (snooker, pool, billiards, intransitive) To be capable of being potted.
- (slang, broadcasting) To fade volume in or out by means of a potentiometer.
- plant in a pot
noun
- (fishing) A fishing lure made to resemble a prey fish and that wobbles in the water; plug, minnow.
- (curling) A stone that rocks from side to side as it travels because it is not resting on its running surface.
- A boiled leg of mutton.
- (colloquial, law) A class of crime that can be charged as a lower penalty or a higher penalty, e.g. a crime punishable as either a misdemeanor or a felony at the discretion of the prosecutor.
- (retail, advertising) A small publicity notice which appears to float at eye level, being attached to a fixture by a flexible arm.
- (slang, British, Ireland, Islam, derogatory) a Salafi.
- One who or that which wobbles.
- (colloquial, law) A case that could go either way depending on factors that cannot be controlled.
- A person who is undecided, and might go to either side.
- (slang, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A sudden unexpected outburst of anger or rage; a tantrum.
- The end of the roll in a roller mill for shaping steel.
- something that wobbles
noun
- (fishing) A fish that tends to take bait.
- (curling) A stone that barely touches the outside of the house.
- (slang) One who copies someone else's work, style or techniques, especially in hip-hop.
- Agent noun of bite; someone or something who bites or tends to bite.
- (in combination, computing) Something (a data unit, machine etc.) with a width of a specified amount of bits.
- (fiction) A zombie.
- someone who bites
noun
- (angling) an instance of a fish taking the bait
- a strong odor or taste property
- a small amount of solid food; a mouthful
- a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
- a light informal meal
- a portion removed from the whole
- a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person
- wit having a sharp and caustic quality
- the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws
- The act of biting.
- (printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
- The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
- (television) Ellipsis of sound bite.
- (slang) Something unpleasant.
- (slang) A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.
- (figuratively, uncountable) incisiveness, provocativeness, exactness.
- A small meal or snack.
- (slang) An act of plagiarism.
- (figuratively, uncountable) Aggression.
- (cricket) The turn that a spin bowler imparts to a pitch.
- A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
- The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
- The wound left behind after having been bitten.
verb
- cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
- to grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws
- penetrate or cut, as with a knife
- deliver a sting to
- (intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
- (intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
- (intransitive, figurative) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
- (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
- (transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
- (intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
- (intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.
- (transitive) To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
- (transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
- (intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.
- (intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
- (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.
- (intransitive) To attack with the teeth.
- (stative, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
- (intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.
- (intransitive, chiefly in the negative) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.
noun
- (fishing) An artificial bait in the form of a small fish.
- (figuratively) A person or thing of relatively little consequence, importance, or value.
- (sports, especially soccer, cricket) a team that is considered less skilled and not expected to win many, if any, of its matches.
- Any small fish.
- (British, regional) Synonym of stickleback (family Gasterosteidae).
- Chiefly with a qualifying word: any of a number of other (small) fish from the family Cyprinidae; also (chiefly US), other small (usually freshwater) fish from other families.
- The common minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus), a small freshwater fish of the carp family Cyprinidae which has a green back with black elongated blotches, commonly swimming in large shoals.
- (Australia, New Zealand) Synonym of galaxiid (“any member of the family Galaxiidae of mostly small freshwater fish of the Southern Hemisphere”); specifically, the common galaxias, inanga, or jollytail (Galaxias maculatus).
- very small European freshwater fish common in gravelly streams
adj
verb
noun
- (fishing) A type of fishing lure that resembles a frog.
- (music) The part of a violin bow (or that of other similar string instruments such as the viola, cello and contrabass) located at the end held by the player, to which the horsehair is attached.
- The depression in the upper face of a pressed or handmade clay brick.
- (Canada, offensive) A French-speaking person from Quebec.
- (rail transport) The part of a railroad overhead wire used to redirect a trolley pole from one wire to another at switches.
- (derogatory, ethnic slur) A French person.
- A device used to secure stems in a floral arrangement, also called a flower frog or kenzan.
- (politics, slang, derogatory, Malaysia) Defector: politician who switches to a different political party.
- An ornate fastener for clothing consisting of an oblong button, toggle, or knot, that fits through a loop.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Synonym of road; clipping of less common frog and toad.
- Any of a class of small tailless amphibians of the order Anura that typically hop.
- (rail transport) The part of a railway switch or turnout where the running rails cross (from the resemblance to the frog in a horse’s hoof).
- An organ on the bottom of a horse’s hoof that assists in the circulation of blood.
- A leather or fabric loop used to attach a sword or bayonet, or its scabbard, to a waist or shoulder belt.
- a decorative loop of braid or cord
- a person of French descent
- any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species
verb
- (ambitransitive, slang, mildly vulgar) To have sex with; fuck.
- (intransitive) To lie sprawled out like a frog; sploot.
- To hunt or trap frogs.
- (transitive, biology) To use a pronged plater to transfer (cells) to another plate.
- (ambitransitive) To unravel part of (a knitted garment), either to correct a mistake or to reclaim the thread or yarn.
- (transitive, cooking) To spatchcock (a chicken).
- To ornament or fasten a coat, etc. with frogs.
- hunt frogs for food
noun
- Abbreviation of catfish.
- (slang) A street name of the drug methcathinone.
- A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship.
- Abbreviation of category.
- Abbreviation of computed axial tomography; often used attributively, as in “CAT scan” or “CT scan”.
- (uncountable) The flesh of this animal eaten as food.
- (countable) A mammal of the family Felidae.
- (chiefly nautical) Ellipsis of cat-o'-nine-tails.
- Abbreviation of catalytic converter.
- (US, slang) Synonym of itinerant worker.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, vulgar) A vagina or vulva.
- Abbreviation of catamaran.
- Abbreviation of catapult.
- A double tripod for holding a plate, etc., with six feet, of which three rest on the ground in whatever position it is placed.
- (computing) A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output.
- (derogatory, offensive) An angry or spiteful person, especially a woman.
- (military, historical) A wheeled shelter, used in the Middle Ages to protect assailants approaching besieged enemy defences; a cathouse.
- (originally US, jazz, slang) A jazz musician; also, an enthusiast of jazz music.
- A carnivorous, four-legged, generally furry domesticated species (Felis catus) of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet.
- (countable, by extension) Chiefly with a descriptive word: an animal not of the family Felidae which (somewhat) resembles a domestic feline (etymology 1 sense 1.1.1).
- Any similar, chiefly non-domesticated, carnivorous mammal of the family Felidae, which includes bobcats, caracals, cheetahs, cougars, leopards, lions, lynxes, tigers, and other such species.
- A ground vehicle which uses caterpillar tracks, especially tractors, trucks, minibuses, and snow groomers.
- (slang) Any of a variety of earth-moving machines. (from their manufacturer Caterpillar Inc.)
- feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability to roar
- a whip with nine knotted cords
- a spiteful woman gossip
- the leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like tobacco or used to make tea; has the effect of a euphoric stimulant
- any of several large cats typically able to roar and living in the wild
- an informal term for a youth or man
- a large tracked vehicle that is propelled by two endless metal belts; frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm work
- any of various lithe-bodied roundheaded fissiped mammals, many with retractile claws
adj
verb
- (nautical, transitive) To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails.
- (nautical, transitive) To hoist (an anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead.
- (computing, transitive) To apply the cat command to (one or more files).
- To go wandering at night.
- To gossip in a catty manner.
- (computing, slang) To dump large amounts of data on (an unprepared target), usually with no intention of browsing it carefully.
- beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails
- eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
noun
noun
- (fishing) A nibble on the bait by a fish.
- (cricket) The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
- A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
- The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
- (baseball) A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.
- (geology) The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth or another solid celestial body.
- The discovery of a source of something.
- (bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins on the first roll of a frame.
- (philately) A cancellation postmark.
- (printing, historical) An imperfect matrix for type.
- (military, by extension) An attack, not necessarily physical.
- An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
- The strike plate of a door.
- (finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
- An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
- (ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.
- A blow or application of physical force against something.
- (historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
- a score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first ball
- a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions
- a conspicuous success
- (baseball) a pitch that the batter swings at and misses, or that the batter hits into foul territory, or that the batter does not swing at but the umpire judges to be in the area over home plate and between the batter's knees and shoulders
- a gentle blow
- an attack that is intended to seize or inflict damage on or destroy an objective
verb
- (transitive) To make and ratify; to reach; to find.
- (intransitive) To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
- (transitive) To create an impression.
- (transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
- (intransitive) To carry out a violent or illegal action.
- (transitive) To cause to ignite by friction.
- To touch; to act by appulse.
- (transitive) To punish; to afflict; to smite.
- To unfasten, to loosen (chains, bonds, etc.).
- (transitive) To hit.
- (transitive, figurative) To impinge upon.
- To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.
- (intransitive) To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.
- To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.
- (sports) To score a goal.
- (transitive) To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
- (transitive) To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.
- To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
- (nautical) To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)
- (intransitive, by extension) To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions.
- (intransitive) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
- (by extension) To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
- (intransitive) To set off on a walk or trip.
- (transitive, finance) To balance (a ledger or account).
- To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
- (transitive) To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
- (transitive) To impress, seem or appear to (a person).
- (masonry) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
- To discover a source of something, often a buried raw material such as ore (especially gold) or crude oil.
- To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.
- (intransitive) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
- (transitive) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
- To infest the flesh of a living vertebrate.
- (transitive) To manufacture, as by stamping.
- To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).
- (intransitive) To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
- (transitive, fishing) To hook (a fish) by a quick turn of the wrist.
- deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon
- form by stamping, punching, or printing
- cause to experience suddenly
- hit against; come into sudden contact with
- affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely
- make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target
- arrive at after reckoning, deliberating, and weighing
- hook by a pull on the line
- drive something violently into a location
- have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
- pierce with force
- cause to form (an electric arc) between electrodes of an arc lamp
- touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
- remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
- produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments
- find unexpectedly
- smooth with a strickle
- disassemble a temporary structure, such as a tent or a theatrical set
- occupy or take on
- stop work in order to press demands
- produce by ignition or a blow
- indicate (a certain time) by striking
- attain
noun
adj
verb
noun
- A trap or snare for fish, made from twigs; a weely.
- A small cataract over which fish attempt to jump; a salmon ladder.
- (figuratively) A significant move forward.
- A group of leopards.
- The distance traversed by a leap or jump.
- Half a bushel.
- (mining) A fault.
- Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
- (figuratively) A large step in reasoning, often one that is not justified by the facts.
- (music) A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other intermediate intervals.
- The act of leaping or jumping.
- the distance leaped (or to be leaped)
- an abrupt transition
- a sudden and decisive increase
- a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
adj
verb
noun
- (Maine) A pot-shaped trap used for catching lobsters or other seafood: a lobster pot.
- (UK, horse-racing, slang) A favorite: a heavily-backed horse.
- (historical) Any of various traditional units of volume notionally based on the capacity of a pot.
- (slang, uncountable) Ruin or deterioration.
- A vessel used for brewing or serving drinks: a coffeepot or teapot.
- A crucible: a melting pot.
- A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food, possibly excluding saucepans (see usage notes).
- (slang, electronics) A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to adjust sound volume) in an electronic device by rotating or sliding when manipulated by a human thumb, screwdriver, etc.
- (slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
- (chiefly East Midlands, Yorkshire) A plaster cast.
- (rail transport) A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail while insulating it from the ground.
- (roleplaying games, video games) Clipping of potion.
- (slang) Clipping of potbelly (“a pot-shaped belly, a paunch”).
- A perforated cask for draining sugar.
- A vessel (usually earthenware) used with a seal for storing food, such as a honeypot.
- (archaic except in place names) Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave.
- An allocation of money for a particular purpose.
- (historical) Alternative form of pott: a former size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches.
- A shallow hole used in certain games played with marbles. The marbles placed in it are called potsies.
- (Australia, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania) A glass of beer in Australia whose size varies regionally but is typically around 10 fl oz (285 mL).
- (historical) An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.
- A pot-shaped metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney: a chimney pot.
- (gambling, poker) The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively) any sum of money being used as an enticement.
- (slang) Clipping of potshot (“a haphazard shot; an easy or cheap shot”).
- A vessel used to hold soil for growing plants, particularly flowers: a flowerpot.
- the quantity contained in a pot
- the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker)
- a container in which plants are cultivated
- street names for marijuana
- slang for a paunch
- metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep; often has a handle and lid
- a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
- a resistor with three terminals, the third being an adjustable center terminal; used to adjust voltages in radios and TV sets
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
verb
- (electronics) To package a circuit by encasing it in resin.
- To put (something) into a pot.
- (transitive, British) To seat a person, usually a young child, on a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.
- (transitive) To drain (e.g. sugar of the molasses) in a perforated cask.
- (snooker, pool, billiards, transitive) To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
- (chiefly East Midlands) To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.
- (rugby, transitive) To score (a drop goal).
- (transitive) To shoot with a firearm.
- To preserve by bottling or canning.
- (transitive, colloquial) To secure; gain; win; bag.
- (British) To send someone to jail, expeditiously.
- To catch (a fish, eel, etc) via a pot.
- (snooker, pool, billiards, intransitive) To be capable of being potted.
- (slang, broadcasting) To fade volume in or out by means of a potentiometer.
- plant in a pot
noun
- (fishing) A fishing lure made to resemble a prey fish and that wobbles in the water; plug, minnow.
- (curling) A stone that rocks from side to side as it travels because it is not resting on its running surface.
- A boiled leg of mutton.
- (colloquial, law) A class of crime that can be charged as a lower penalty or a higher penalty, e.g. a crime punishable as either a misdemeanor or a felony at the discretion of the prosecutor.
- (retail, advertising) A small publicity notice which appears to float at eye level, being attached to a fixture by a flexible arm.
- (slang, British, Ireland, Islam, derogatory) a Salafi.
- One who or that which wobbles.
- (colloquial, law) A case that could go either way depending on factors that cannot be controlled.
- A person who is undecided, and might go to either side.
- (slang, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A sudden unexpected outburst of anger or rage; a tantrum.
- The end of the roll in a roller mill for shaping steel.
- something that wobbles
verb
noun
- (Internet) Someone who creates a false profile on a social media platform in order to deceive people.
- The meat of such a fish, popular in the Southern U.S. and Central Europe.
- Any fish of the order Siluriformes, mainly found in fresh water, lacking scales, and having barbels like whiskers around the mouth.
- (Internet) Such a false profile.
- large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins
- any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth
- flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed
verb
- (fishing, transitive) To use as bait when fishing.
- (nautical, transitive) To repair (a spar or mast) by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).
- (intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
- (intransitive, transitive) To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water, or to collect coral or pearls from the bottom of the sea.
- (transitive) To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
- (intransitive) To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
- (nautical, transitive) To hoist the flukes of.
- (transitive) To draw or guide (a wire or cable) by means of fish tape.
- (intransitive, followed by "for" or "around for") To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.
- seek indirectly
- catch or try to catch fish or shellfish
noun
- A period of time spent fishing.
- (uncountable) A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
- A cartilaginous fish (class Chondrichthyes).
- (uncountable, slang, sometimes derogatory, sometimes positive) A (feminine) woman. (See also fishy.)
- An instance of seeking something.
- (cartomancy) The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
- (nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
- (countable, poker slang) A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
- (Newfoundland) Cod; codfish.
- A placoderm (paraphyletic class †Placodermi).
- A jawless fish (paraphyletic infraphylum Agnatha).
- (uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.
- (LGBTQ slang, sometimes problematic) A drag queen or transgender woman who looks like a cisgender woman.
- (countable, nautical, military, slang) A torpedo (self-propelled explosive device).
- (prison slang) A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.
- A bony fish (clade Osteichthyes), including tetrapods.
- (Roman Catholicism) An aquatic or semiaquatic animal suitable for consumption during fasting on Fridays during Lent.
- (Jamaica, offensive, derogatory) A male homosexual; a gay man.
- (countable, slang) An easy victim for swindling.
- (cellular automata, rare) A spaceship.
- (countable) A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
- A spiny shark (paraphyletic class †Acanthodii)
- (countable, nautical) A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
- any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
- the flesh of fish used as food
verb
- (transitive) To catch by fishing with a concave spoon bait.
- Alternative form of spoom.
- (tennis, golf, croquet) To hit (the ball) weakly, pushing it with a lifting motion, instead of striking with an audible knock.
- To serve using a spoon; to transfer (something) with a spoon.
- (intransitive) To fish with a concave spoon bait.
- (transitive or intransitive, informal, of persons) To lie nestled front-to-back, following the contours of the bodies, in a manner reminiscent of stacked spoons.
- scoop up or take up with a spoon
- snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back of the others
noun
- (slang) An oar.
- (dentistry, informal) A spoon excavator.
- (fishing) A type of metal lure resembling the concave head of a tablespoon.
- An implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle.
- A measure that will fit into a spoon; a spoonful.
- (US, military) A safety handle on a hand grenade, a trigger.
- (slang) A metaphoric unit of finite physical and mental energy available for daily activities, especially in the context of living with chronic illness or disability.
- An implement for stirring food while being prepared; a wooden spoon.
- A South African shrub of the genus Spatalla.
- as much as a spoon will hold
- formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face
- a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food
verb
noun
- (US, military, slang, mildly derogatory) A sailor in the Navy.
- (UK, slang, humorous, rare) A quid; one pound sterling.
- (inexact) A vampire squid.
- A fishhook with a piece of bright lead, bone, or other substance fastened on its shank to imitate a squid.
- (slang, motorcycling, derogatory) A motorcyclist, especially a sport biker, characterized by reckless riding and lack of protective gear.
- A South Korean children's game where players, divided into offense and defense, compete on a squid-shaped field; the offensive team tries to reach a designated area, and the defensive team attempts to block them.
- Any of several carnivorous marine cephalopod mollusks, of the order Teuthida, having a mantle, eight arms, and a pair of tentacles
- widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular tail fins
- (Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food
verb
noun
- Any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once.
- (British, derogatory) An objectionable elderly woman.
- any of various game and food fishes of cool fresh waters mostly smaller than typical salmons
- flesh of any of several primarily freshwater game and food fishes
verb
- (transitive) To affix bait to a trap or a fishing hook or fishing line.
- (transitive) To target a pest species by laying baits.
- (transitive) To set dogs on (an animal etc.) to bite or worry; to attack with dogs, especially for sport.
- (intransitive) Of a horse or other animal: to take food, especially during a journey.
- (transitive) To intentionally annoy, torment, or threaten by constant rebukes or threats; to harass.
- (transitive) To lay baits in an environment to control pest species.
- (transitive) To attract with bait; to entice.
- (intransitive) (of a person) To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment during a journey.
- attack with dogs or set dogs upon
- harass with persistent criticism or carping
- lure, entice, or entrap with bait
adj
noun
- Food containing poison or a harmful additive to kill animals that are pests.
- A light or hasty luncheon.
- (as the head of a compound) Something that lures or entices a specified group.
- Anything which allures; something or someone used to lure or entice someone or something into doing something.
- Any substance, especially food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, trap, or net.
- A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.
- (Internet slang) A post intended to elicit a, usually strong or negative, reaction from others.
- (Geordie, Durham) A packed lunch - the bite to eat a worker took with them to eat.
- (vulgar, sexuality) Someone that attracts or entices a specified sex act being done to them.
- (East Anglia) A small meal taken mid-morning while farming.
- (Northern England) A miner's packed meal.
- anything that serves as an enticement
- something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed