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noun
- An ambitious, driven person; a go-getter.
- (nautical) A bow thruster or a stern thruster.
- (surfing) A surfboard (usually a shortboard) with three fins of approximately equal size, one centred at the back, one on each side about 25cm forward and out near the rails.
- One who thrusts, who pushes or stabs.
- A device for propelling an object, especially a spacecraft or a ship (marine vessel).
- a small rocket engine that provides the thrust needed to maneuver a spacecraft
- one who intrudes or pushes themself forward
noun
- a person of great ability and ambition
- (figurative) An ambitious person, especially one who takes risks or has an extravagant lifestyle.
- A person who or a type of aircraft that flies at high elevations.
- (fishing) A vertical pole used in commercial fishing to locate the beginning and end of a long fishing line.
- A type of phaeton carriage.
- A swingboat.
- (finance) A glamorous stock that potentially offers high returns to investors.
noun
- an ambitious and aspiring young person
- (informal, derogatory) Someone who wishes to be part of, or to assimilate to, a majority group of which they are not a member.
- (informal, derogatory, often attributive) Someone who wishes to be someone or do something, but lacks the qualifications or talent; an overeager amateur; an aspirant.
noun
- an energetic person with unusual initiative
- A person who shows initiative and resourcefulness.
- an electric starting motor that automatically starts an internal-combustion engine
- A mechanism (usually one operated by electricity, compressed air, a spring, or an explosive gas), attached to an internal-combustion engine, as on an automobile, and used as a means of starting the engine without cranking it by hand.
- An engine so equipped, or the vehicle that it powers.
noun
- a fierce or audacious person
- large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangered
- Any of the three Australian species of black-and-yellow striped dragonflies of the genus Ictinogomphus.
- A male tiger; as opposed to a tigress.
- Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
- (inexact) A Tasmanian tiger, †Thylacinus cynocephalus.
- (inexact) A sabre-toothed tiger (any felid in subfamily †Machairodontinae).
- A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.
- (heraldry) A representation of a large mythological cat, used on a coat of arms.
- A final shouted phrase, accompanied by a jump or outstretched arms, at the end of a cheer.
- A tiger beetle.
- (US, slang) A person who is very athletic during sexual intercourse.
- (figurative) A ferocious, bloodthirsty and audacious person.
- (South Africa, dated but still used) A leopard.
- A tiger moth in the family Arctiidae.
- A tiger butterfly in tribe Danaini, especially subtribe Danaina.
- A relatively small country or group of countries with a fast-growing economy.
noun
- (figuratively) Someone who is a driving force in new endeavours.
- (military) A rod (for cylindrical secondaries) or sphere (for spherical secondaries) of fissile material at the center of the secondary of a multistage thermonuclear weapon, which undergoes nuclear fission when compressed to supercriticality by the imploding secondary, helping to raise the secondary to the pressures and temperatures necessary to ignite nuclear fusion in the secondary's fusion fuel.
- The part of some internal combustion engines which forms a high-voltage electric spark which ignites the fuel-air mixture to begin the power stroke. (Petrol engines have spark plugs. Diesel engines do not have them because the heat from their high compression ratios supplies the ignition.)
- electrical device that fits into the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine and ignites the gas by means of an electric spark
noun
- (figuratively) An excessive go-getter; one exhibiting over-ambition.
- (basketball) A player who can reliably shoot baskets.
- (UK, slang, soccer) A fan of the Arsenal Football Club.
- (military) An artillery soldier, especially one who holds private rank.
- The great northern diver or loon.
- (American football) A player on the kicking team whose primary job is to tackle the kickoff returner or punt returner.
- (UK, Ireland, dialect) The sea bream, especially Pagellus bogaraveo (blackspot sea bream)
- (metalworking, construction) A riveter; someone who operates a rivet gun.
- A person who operates a gun.
- (regional, Cebu, slang) The person designated to pour drinks in a drinking session.
- a serviceman in the artillery
- a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability)
contraction
noun
- Someone very talented at something, a genius.
- someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality
- (countable, UK, informal) A mental pondering, a thought.
- An astonishing and seemingly inexplicable turn of events.
- (countable) Something that causes amazement or awe; a marvel.
- (countable, US) A kind of donut; a cruller.
- (colloquial, sarcastic, following an adjective ending -less that typically has two syllables) A nominalizer that serves as a head noun for the preceding adjective, which together form a mocking or insulting epithet.
- (uncountable) A sense of awe, astonishment and curiosity, inspired by unexpected events, novel experiences and inexplicable circumstances, sometimes accompanied by surprise, shock or reverence.
- Fortunate circumstances.
- A feat that demonstrates incredible finesse or skill, as if performed by magic.
- a state in which you want to learn more about something
- something that causes feelings of wonder
- the feeling aroused by something strange and surprising
verb
- (intransitive) To be affected with surprise or admiration; to be struck with astonishment; to be amazed; to marvel; often followed by at.
- (transitive, intransitive) To ponder; to feel doubt and curiosity; to query in the mind.
- be amazed at
- have a wish or desire to know something
- place in doubt or express doubtful speculation
noun
- An ambitious or hard-working person (i.e. someone who arises at the 'crack' of dawn).
- (UK) A northern pintail, a dabbling duck of species Anas acuta.
- (computing) One who cracks (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions.
- (slang, chiefly British, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) A fine, great thing or person (crackerjack).
- A person or thing that breaks a thing (e.g., nutcracker).
- A dry, thin, crispy baked bread (usually salty or savoury, but sometimes sweet, as in the case of graham crackers and animal crackers).
- A prawn cracker.
- Refinery equipment used to pyrolyse organic feedstocks. If catalyst is used to aid pyrolysis it is informally called a cat-cracker
- A Christmas cracker.
- A firecracker.
- The final section of certain whips, which is made of a short, thin piece of unravelled rope, or which is a short piece of twisted string tied to the end of the whip, which produces a distinctive cracking sound when the whip is cracked.
- (US, derogatory, ethnic slur, offensive) An impoverished white person from the southeastern United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; (by extension) any white person (slang).
- a poor White person in the southern United States
- a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends
- a thin crisp wafer made of flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet
- firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing
- a programmer who cracks (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things
noun
- (figuratively) A remarkably impressive person or thing.
- One who or that which kills.
- Ellipsis of killer whale.
- (figuratively) Something that is so far ahead of its competition that it effectively kills off that competition.
- (sports, uncountable) A knockout form of darts or pool involving several players.
- Synonym of virama (“kind of diacritical mark”).
- (figuratively) That which causes stress or is extremely difficult, especially that which may cause failure at a task.
- A club used for killing fish.
- (philately) A particularly heavy type of handstamp, or portion of one, often obscuring a large part of the postage stamp.
- predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas
- the causal agent resulting in death
- a difficulty that is hard to deal with
- someone who causes the death of a person or animal
adj
adj
- Bold, daring, and tough.
- False; counterfeit; illegitimate.
- (sometimes childish) Evil; wicked.
- Not appropriate, of manners etc.
- (often childish) Not behaving; behaving badly; misbehaving; mischievous or disobedient.
- Not worth it.
- Not suitable or fitting.
- (Internet slang, sarcastic) Used without a copula to mock people who oppose something without having any real understanding of it.
- (chiefly in "bad boy", "bad girl", and similar phrases) Attractive due to (one's) rebellious nature.
- (informal, of a draft/check) Not covered by funds on account.
- (semantic change, amelioration, contranymic) Good, superlative, excellent, cool.
- (of food) Spoiled, rotten, overripe.
- Harmful, especially unhealthy; liable to cause health problems.
- (US) Overly promiscuous, licentious.
- (originally African-American Vernacular, of a woman) Very attractive; hot, sexy.
- (of a word, speech, or writing) Vulgar, obscene, or blasphemous.
- (of a need, want, or pain) Severe, urgent.
- Of poor physical appearance.
- Unskilled; of limited ability; not good.
- The injured or weak one of a pair of body parts, where the other one is healthy.
- (preceded by feel) Regretful, guilty, or ashamed.
- Of low quality.
- Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.
- Faulty; not functional.
- (of breath) Malodorous; foul.
- Inaccurate; incorrect
- (chiefly applied to a person's state of health) Sickly, unhealthy, unwell.
- Unfavorable; negative; not good.
- feeling physical discomfort or pain (‘tough’ is occasionally used colloquially for ‘bad’)
- not working properly
- (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition
- capable of harming
- reproduced fraudulently
- serious or severe
- nonstandard
- not financially safe or secure
- not capable of being collected
- having undesirable or negative qualities
- characterized by wickedness or immorality
- feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
- below average in quality or performance
- physically unsound or diseased
adv
intj
noun
verb
noun
- a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways
- any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales
- a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest
- (countable) A noctuid moth of species Cucullia umbratica.
- (sports and games) A person who feigns ineptitude to win money from others.
- (ichthyology, countable) Any predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.
- Any fish in the genus Epalzeorhynchos.
- Any fish in the genus Balantiocheilos.
- (informal) A relentless and resolute person or group, especially in business.
- (informal, derogatory) An ambulance chaser.
- (informal) A very good poker or pool player. Compare fish (a bad poker player).
- Someone who exploits others, for example by trickery, lies, usury, extortion.
- A roseline shark (Dawkinsia denisonii).
- (uncountable) Flesh of this animal, consumed as food.
- (UK, university slang, countable) A university student who is not a fresher that has engaged in sexual activity with a fresher; usually habitually and with multiple people.
- A person that excels in a particular field.
- (informal, derogatory) A sleazy and amoral lawyer.
- A paroon shark (Pangasius sanitwongsei).
- (paleontology, loosely) Any fish of the class Chondrichthyes, especially an extinct shark-like holocephalian.
- An iridescent shark (Pangasianodon hypophthalmus).
verb
noun
- A person of extraordinary fame or accomplishments.
- A musical composition set to a poetical story.
- A leading protagonist in a historical legend.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, slang) A cool, nice or helpful person, especially one who is male.
- A plausible story set in the historical past, but whose historicity is uncertain.
- A story in which a kernel of truth is embellished to an unlikely degree.
- (uncountable) Such stories considered collectively; unverified traditional tales.
- A fabricated backstory for a spy, with associated documents and records.
- (numismatics, heraldry) An inscription, motto, or title, especially one surrounding the field in a medal or coin, or placed upon a heraldic shield or beneath an engraving or illustration.
- (naval) The design and specification of a vessel.
- (cartography) A key to the symbols and color codes on a map, chart, etc.
- The life story of a saint (such stories are often embellished, but any kind is called a legend).
- A story of unknown origin describing plausible but extraordinary past events.
- brief description accompanying an illustration
- a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events
noun
- A pugnacious, competitive person.
- (eulogistic) A person with a strong determination to resist protracted or severe adversity, especially illness.
- A person who fights; a combatant.
- A participant in boxing or any martial art.
- (video games) A game with a focus on physical combat.
- A warrior; a fighting soldier.
- A class of fixed-wing aircraft whose primary purpose is to shoot down other aircraft, sometimes accompanied by a secondary purpose of attacking ground targets.
- (colloquial) A firefighter.
- (science fiction, by extension) A starfighter
- a high-speed military or naval airplane designed to destroy enemy aircraft in the air
- someone who fights for a cause
- someone who fights (or is fighting)
noun
- A person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim.
- (in combinations such as "two-greats", "three-greats" etc.) An instance of the word "great" signifying an additional generation in phrases expressing family relationships.
- (music) The main division in a pipe organ, usually the loudest division.
- a person who has achieved distinction and honor in some field
adj
- (applied to actions, thoughts and feelings) Arising from or possessing idealism; admirable; commanding; illustrious; eminent.
- (of an abstract noun) Much, more than usual.
- Impressive or striking.
- (informal) Very good; excellent; wonderful; fantastic.
- Taking much space; large.
- (applied to persons) Of much talent or achievements.
- Important, consequential.
- Much in use; favoured.
- (informal, British) Intensifying a word or expression, used in mild oaths.
- (qualifying nouns of family relationship) Involving more generations than the qualified word implies — as many extra generations as repetitions of the word great (from 1510s). [see Derived terms]
- Doing or exemplifying (a characteristic or pursuit) on a large scale; active or enthusiastic.
- in an advanced stage of pregnancy
- remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect
- excellent
- uppercase
- of major significance or importance
- relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind
adv
intj
adj
- Courageous, daring.
- fearless and daring
- Visually striking; conspicuous.
- Steep or abrupt.
- (Ireland) Naughty; insolent; badly-behaved.
- (typography, of typefaces) Having thicker strokes than the ordinary form of the typeface.
- (Philippines) Pornographic; depicting nudity.
- Presumptuous, forward or impudent.
- (wine, of alcoholic beverages) Full-bodied.
- very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front
- clear and distinct
verb
noun
noun
- an energetic attempt to achieve something
- an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals)
- a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
- A contest, a struggle.
- (military) Clipping of battle buddy.
- A one-on-one competition in rapping or breakdance.
- (military) A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; a combat, an engagement.
verb
adj
noun
verb
- be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight
- climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
- to exert strenuous effort against opposition
- make a strenuous or labored effort
- To have difficulty with something.
- To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.
- To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend.
noun
- A person with a unique and interesting personality or creative talent.
- A newly designed garment released by a fashion designer as part of a collection.
- A ridgeling.
- An object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived.
- an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made
- something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies
adj
- (comparable) Fresh, different.
- (not comparable) Relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others.
- (not comparable) Having a specified place or time as its origin.
- (not comparable) Pioneering.
- (of a potato chip) Seasoned with salt but no other flavoring; ready salted
- (not comparable) Newly created.
- (not comparable) First in a series of copies or versions.
- (of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary
- being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of
- not derived or copied or translated from something else
- preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed
noun
verb
noun
- One who succeeds while making only a minimal effort.
- (Philippines) A minibus; small bus (especially Toyota Coaster or in general resembling such regardless of brand name)
- A sailor (especially the master or pilot of a vessel) who travels only in coastal waters.
- (Australia, slang) An itinerant person who shirks work but still seeks food and lodging; a loafer, a sundowner.
- (computing, slang) A useless compact disc or DVD, such as one that was burned incorrectly or has become corrupted.
- (Canada, US) Ellipsis of coaster trout (“the brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) in Lake Superior and Maine”).
- (US) A cow from the coastal part of Texas.
- A small, flat or tray-like object on which a bottle, cup, glass, mug, etc., is placed to protect a table surface from drink spills, heat, or water condensation.
- A merchant vessel that stays in coastal waters, especially one that travels between ports of the same country.
- (US, winter sports) A sled or toboggan.
- (US, winter sports) A person who uses a sled or toboggan to slide down a slope covered with ice or snow; a sledder, a tobogganist.
- (US, informal) Ellipsis of rollercoaster.
- A person who originates from or inhabits a coastal area.
- a covering (plate or mat) that protects the surface of a table (i.e., from the condensation on a cold glass or bottle)
- a resident of a coastal area
- someone who coasts
noun
prep
verb
noun
noun
- An ambitious, driven person; a go-getter.
- (nautical) A bow thruster or a stern thruster.
- (surfing) A surfboard (usually a shortboard) with three fins of approximately equal size, one centred at the back, one on each side about 25cm forward and out near the rails.
- One who thrusts, who pushes or stabs.
- A device for propelling an object, especially a spacecraft or a ship (marine vessel).
- a small rocket engine that provides the thrust needed to maneuver a spacecraft
- one who intrudes or pushes themself forward
noun
- a person of great ability and ambition
- (figurative) An ambitious person, especially one who takes risks or has an extravagant lifestyle.
- A person who or a type of aircraft that flies at high elevations.
- (fishing) A vertical pole used in commercial fishing to locate the beginning and end of a long fishing line.
- A type of phaeton carriage.
- A swingboat.
- (finance) A glamorous stock that potentially offers high returns to investors.
noun
- an ambitious and aspiring young person
- (informal, derogatory) Someone who wishes to be part of, or to assimilate to, a majority group of which they are not a member.
- (informal, derogatory, often attributive) Someone who wishes to be someone or do something, but lacks the qualifications or talent; an overeager amateur; an aspirant.
noun
- an energetic person with unusual initiative
- A person who shows initiative and resourcefulness.
- an electric starting motor that automatically starts an internal-combustion engine
- A mechanism (usually one operated by electricity, compressed air, a spring, or an explosive gas), attached to an internal-combustion engine, as on an automobile, and used as a means of starting the engine without cranking it by hand.
- An engine so equipped, or the vehicle that it powers.
noun
- a fierce or audacious person
- large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangered
- Any of the three Australian species of black-and-yellow striped dragonflies of the genus Ictinogomphus.
- A male tiger; as opposed to a tigress.
- Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
- (inexact) A Tasmanian tiger, †Thylacinus cynocephalus.
- (inexact) A sabre-toothed tiger (any felid in subfamily †Machairodontinae).
- A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.
- (heraldry) A representation of a large mythological cat, used on a coat of arms.
- A final shouted phrase, accompanied by a jump or outstretched arms, at the end of a cheer.
- A tiger beetle.
- (US, slang) A person who is very athletic during sexual intercourse.
- (figurative) A ferocious, bloodthirsty and audacious person.
- (South Africa, dated but still used) A leopard.
- A tiger moth in the family Arctiidae.
- A tiger butterfly in tribe Danaini, especially subtribe Danaina.
- A relatively small country or group of countries with a fast-growing economy.
noun
- (figuratively) Someone who is a driving force in new endeavours.
- (military) A rod (for cylindrical secondaries) or sphere (for spherical secondaries) of fissile material at the center of the secondary of a multistage thermonuclear weapon, which undergoes nuclear fission when compressed to supercriticality by the imploding secondary, helping to raise the secondary to the pressures and temperatures necessary to ignite nuclear fusion in the secondary's fusion fuel.
- The part of some internal combustion engines which forms a high-voltage electric spark which ignites the fuel-air mixture to begin the power stroke. (Petrol engines have spark plugs. Diesel engines do not have them because the heat from their high compression ratios supplies the ignition.)
- electrical device that fits into the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine and ignites the gas by means of an electric spark
noun
- (figuratively) An excessive go-getter; one exhibiting over-ambition.
- (basketball) A player who can reliably shoot baskets.
- (UK, slang, soccer) A fan of the Arsenal Football Club.
- (military) An artillery soldier, especially one who holds private rank.
- The great northern diver or loon.
- (American football) A player on the kicking team whose primary job is to tackle the kickoff returner or punt returner.
- (UK, Ireland, dialect) The sea bream, especially Pagellus bogaraveo (blackspot sea bream)
- (metalworking, construction) A riveter; someone who operates a rivet gun.
- A person who operates a gun.
- (regional, Cebu, slang) The person designated to pour drinks in a drinking session.
- a serviceman in the artillery
- a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability)
contraction
noun
- Someone very talented at something, a genius.
- someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality
- (countable, UK, informal) A mental pondering, a thought.
- An astonishing and seemingly inexplicable turn of events.
- (countable) Something that causes amazement or awe; a marvel.
- (countable, US) A kind of donut; a cruller.
- (colloquial, sarcastic, following an adjective ending -less that typically has two syllables) A nominalizer that serves as a head noun for the preceding adjective, which together form a mocking or insulting epithet.
- (uncountable) A sense of awe, astonishment and curiosity, inspired by unexpected events, novel experiences and inexplicable circumstances, sometimes accompanied by surprise, shock or reverence.
- Fortunate circumstances.
- A feat that demonstrates incredible finesse or skill, as if performed by magic.
- a state in which you want to learn more about something
- something that causes feelings of wonder
- the feeling aroused by something strange and surprising
verb
- (intransitive) To be affected with surprise or admiration; to be struck with astonishment; to be amazed; to marvel; often followed by at.
- (transitive, intransitive) To ponder; to feel doubt and curiosity; to query in the mind.
- be amazed at
- have a wish or desire to know something
- place in doubt or express doubtful speculation
noun
- An ambitious or hard-working person (i.e. someone who arises at the 'crack' of dawn).
- (UK) A northern pintail, a dabbling duck of species Anas acuta.
- (computing) One who cracks (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions.
- (slang, chiefly British, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) A fine, great thing or person (crackerjack).
- A person or thing that breaks a thing (e.g., nutcracker).
- A dry, thin, crispy baked bread (usually salty or savoury, but sometimes sweet, as in the case of graham crackers and animal crackers).
- A prawn cracker.
- Refinery equipment used to pyrolyse organic feedstocks. If catalyst is used to aid pyrolysis it is informally called a cat-cracker
- A Christmas cracker.
- A firecracker.
- The final section of certain whips, which is made of a short, thin piece of unravelled rope, or which is a short piece of twisted string tied to the end of the whip, which produces a distinctive cracking sound when the whip is cracked.
- (US, derogatory, ethnic slur, offensive) An impoverished white person from the southeastern United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; (by extension) any white person (slang).
- a poor White person in the southern United States
- a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends
- a thin crisp wafer made of flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet
- firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing
- a programmer who cracks (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things
noun
- (figuratively) A remarkably impressive person or thing.
- One who or that which kills.
- Ellipsis of killer whale.
- (figuratively) Something that is so far ahead of its competition that it effectively kills off that competition.
- (sports, uncountable) A knockout form of darts or pool involving several players.
- Synonym of virama (“kind of diacritical mark”).
- (figuratively) That which causes stress or is extremely difficult, especially that which may cause failure at a task.
- A club used for killing fish.
- (philately) A particularly heavy type of handstamp, or portion of one, often obscuring a large part of the postage stamp.
- predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas
- the causal agent resulting in death
- a difficulty that is hard to deal with
- someone who causes the death of a person or animal
adj
noun
- a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways
- any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales
- a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest
- (countable) A noctuid moth of species Cucullia umbratica.
- (sports and games) A person who feigns ineptitude to win money from others.
- (ichthyology, countable) Any predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.
- Any fish in the genus Epalzeorhynchos.
- Any fish in the genus Balantiocheilos.
- (informal) A relentless and resolute person or group, especially in business.
- (informal, derogatory) An ambulance chaser.
- (informal) A very good poker or pool player. Compare fish (a bad poker player).
- Someone who exploits others, for example by trickery, lies, usury, extortion.
- A roseline shark (Dawkinsia denisonii).
- (uncountable) Flesh of this animal, consumed as food.
- (UK, university slang, countable) A university student who is not a fresher that has engaged in sexual activity with a fresher; usually habitually and with multiple people.
- A person that excels in a particular field.
- (informal, derogatory) A sleazy and amoral lawyer.
- A paroon shark (Pangasius sanitwongsei).
- (paleontology, loosely) Any fish of the class Chondrichthyes, especially an extinct shark-like holocephalian.
- An iridescent shark (Pangasianodon hypophthalmus).
verb
noun
- A person of extraordinary fame or accomplishments.
- A musical composition set to a poetical story.
- A leading protagonist in a historical legend.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, slang) A cool, nice or helpful person, especially one who is male.
- A plausible story set in the historical past, but whose historicity is uncertain.
- A story in which a kernel of truth is embellished to an unlikely degree.
- (uncountable) Such stories considered collectively; unverified traditional tales.
- A fabricated backstory for a spy, with associated documents and records.
- (numismatics, heraldry) An inscription, motto, or title, especially one surrounding the field in a medal or coin, or placed upon a heraldic shield or beneath an engraving or illustration.
- (naval) The design and specification of a vessel.
- (cartography) A key to the symbols and color codes on a map, chart, etc.
- The life story of a saint (such stories are often embellished, but any kind is called a legend).
- A story of unknown origin describing plausible but extraordinary past events.
- brief description accompanying an illustration
- a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events
noun
- A pugnacious, competitive person.
- (eulogistic) A person with a strong determination to resist protracted or severe adversity, especially illness.
- A person who fights; a combatant.
- A participant in boxing or any martial art.
- (video games) A game with a focus on physical combat.
- A warrior; a fighting soldier.
- A class of fixed-wing aircraft whose primary purpose is to shoot down other aircraft, sometimes accompanied by a secondary purpose of attacking ground targets.
- (colloquial) A firefighter.
- (science fiction, by extension) A starfighter
- a high-speed military or naval airplane designed to destroy enemy aircraft in the air
- someone who fights for a cause
- someone who fights (or is fighting)
noun
- A person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim.
- (in combinations such as "two-greats", "three-greats" etc.) An instance of the word "great" signifying an additional generation in phrases expressing family relationships.
- (music) The main division in a pipe organ, usually the loudest division.
- a person who has achieved distinction and honor in some field
adj
- (applied to actions, thoughts and feelings) Arising from or possessing idealism; admirable; commanding; illustrious; eminent.
- (of an abstract noun) Much, more than usual.
- Impressive or striking.
- (informal) Very good; excellent; wonderful; fantastic.
- Taking much space; large.
- (applied to persons) Of much talent or achievements.
- Important, consequential.
- Much in use; favoured.
- (informal, British) Intensifying a word or expression, used in mild oaths.
- (qualifying nouns of family relationship) Involving more generations than the qualified word implies — as many extra generations as repetitions of the word great (from 1510s). [see Derived terms]
- Doing or exemplifying (a characteristic or pursuit) on a large scale; active or enthusiastic.
- in an advanced stage of pregnancy
- remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect
- excellent
- uppercase
- of major significance or importance
- relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind
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noun
- an energetic attempt to achieve something
- an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals)
- a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
- A contest, a struggle.
- (military) Clipping of battle buddy.
- A one-on-one competition in rapping or breakdance.
- (military) A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; a combat, an engagement.
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verb
- be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight
- climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
- to exert strenuous effort against opposition
- make a strenuous or labored effort
- To have difficulty with something.
- To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.
- To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend.
noun
- A person with a unique and interesting personality or creative talent.
- A newly designed garment released by a fashion designer as part of a collection.
- A ridgeling.
- An object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived.
- an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made
- something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies
adj
- (comparable) Fresh, different.
- (not comparable) Relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others.
- (not comparable) Having a specified place or time as its origin.
- (not comparable) Pioneering.
- (of a potato chip) Seasoned with salt but no other flavoring; ready salted
- (not comparable) Newly created.
- (not comparable) First in a series of copies or versions.
- (of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary
- being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of
- not derived or copied or translated from something else
- preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed
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verb
noun
- One who succeeds while making only a minimal effort.
- (Philippines) A minibus; small bus (especially Toyota Coaster or in general resembling such regardless of brand name)
- A sailor (especially the master or pilot of a vessel) who travels only in coastal waters.
- (Australia, slang) An itinerant person who shirks work but still seeks food and lodging; a loafer, a sundowner.
- (computing, slang) A useless compact disc or DVD, such as one that was burned incorrectly or has become corrupted.
- (Canada, US) Ellipsis of coaster trout (“the brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) in Lake Superior and Maine”).
- (US) A cow from the coastal part of Texas.
- A small, flat or tray-like object on which a bottle, cup, glass, mug, etc., is placed to protect a table surface from drink spills, heat, or water condensation.
- A merchant vessel that stays in coastal waters, especially one that travels between ports of the same country.
- (US, winter sports) A sled or toboggan.
- (US, winter sports) A person who uses a sled or toboggan to slide down a slope covered with ice or snow; a sledder, a tobogganist.
- (US, informal) Ellipsis of rollercoaster.
- A person who originates from or inhabits a coastal area.
- a covering (plate or mat) that protects the surface of a table (i.e., from the condensation on a cold glass or bottle)
- a resident of a coastal area
- someone who coasts
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prep
verb
noun
adj
- Bold, daring, and tough.
- False; counterfeit; illegitimate.
- (sometimes childish) Evil; wicked.
- Not appropriate, of manners etc.
- (often childish) Not behaving; behaving badly; misbehaving; mischievous or disobedient.
- Not worth it.
- Not suitable or fitting.
- (Internet slang, sarcastic) Used without a copula to mock people who oppose something without having any real understanding of it.
- (chiefly in "bad boy", "bad girl", and similar phrases) Attractive due to (one's) rebellious nature.
- (informal, of a draft/check) Not covered by funds on account.
- (semantic change, amelioration, contranymic) Good, superlative, excellent, cool.
- (of food) Spoiled, rotten, overripe.
- Harmful, especially unhealthy; liable to cause health problems.
- (US) Overly promiscuous, licentious.
- (originally African-American Vernacular, of a woman) Very attractive; hot, sexy.
- (of a word, speech, or writing) Vulgar, obscene, or blasphemous.
- (of a need, want, or pain) Severe, urgent.
- Of poor physical appearance.
- Unskilled; of limited ability; not good.
- The injured or weak one of a pair of body parts, where the other one is healthy.
- (preceded by feel) Regretful, guilty, or ashamed.
- Of low quality.
- Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.
- Faulty; not functional.
- (of breath) Malodorous; foul.
- Inaccurate; incorrect
- (chiefly applied to a person's state of health) Sickly, unhealthy, unwell.
- Unfavorable; negative; not good.
- feeling physical discomfort or pain (‘tough’ is occasionally used colloquially for ‘bad’)
- not working properly
- (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition
- capable of harming
- reproduced fraudulently
- serious or severe
- nonstandard
- not financially safe or secure
- not capable of being collected
- having undesirable or negative qualities
- characterized by wickedness or immorality
- feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
- below average in quality or performance
- physically unsound or diseased
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verb
adj
- Courageous, daring.
- fearless and daring
- Visually striking; conspicuous.
- Steep or abrupt.
- (Ireland) Naughty; insolent; badly-behaved.
- (typography, of typefaces) Having thicker strokes than the ordinary form of the typeface.
- (Philippines) Pornographic; depicting nudity.
- Presumptuous, forward or impudent.
- (wine, of alcoholic beverages) Full-bodied.
- very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front
- clear and distinct