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noun
- Euphemistic form of bribe.
- An additional payment given freely as thanks for service.
- Euphemistic form of fee, in contexts where such additional payments have been made obligatory.
- a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter)
- an award (as for meritorious service) given without claim or obligation
noun
- In some contexts, this can imply bribery.
- (law) An introductory statement of facts or background information.
- An incentive that helps bring about a desired state.
- (shipping) The act of placing a port on a vessel's itinerary because the volume of cargo offered at that port justifies the cost of routing the vessel.
- a positive motivational influence
- act of bringing about a desired result
noun
- money offered as a bribe
- (slang) Money, specially when used as a bribe.
- street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate
- a cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats
- (countable, uncountable, informal, by extension, mineralogy) Some other substance, often a detergent or another surfactant, able to mix with both oil and water, used for cleaning.
- (chemistry) A metallic salt derived from a fatty acid, commonly used in cleaning products.
- (countable) A solid masonry unit or brick reduced in depth or height from standard dimensions.
- (slang) thiopental (sodium pentothal)
- (countable, informal) A soap opera.
verb
noun
- Money paid as a bribe.
- (slang) One or more diamonds.
- Water in frozen (solid) form.
- Elephant or rhinoceros ivory that has been poached and sold on the black market.
- (figuratively) Something having an extreme coldness of manner.
- A frozen dessert made of fruit juice, water and sugar.
- (ice hockey) The area where a game of ice hockey is played.
- An artifact that has been smuggled, especially one that is either clear or shiny.
- (figuratively) Something, such as awkwardness, that prevents open social interaction.
- (astronomy) Any volatile chemical, such as water, ammonia, or carbon dioxide, not necessarily in solid form, when discussing the composition of e.g. a planet as an ice giant vs a gas giant.
- (now dialectal) Icing; frosting ("a sweet, often creamy and thick glaze made primarily of sugar").
- (drugs) The crystal form of amphetamine-based drugs, including methamphetamine.
- (physics, astronomy) Any frozen volatile chemical, such as ammonia or carbon dioxide.
- the frozen part of a body of water
- a frozen dessert with fruit flavoring (especially one containing no milk)
- a rink with a floor of ice for ice hockey or ice skating
- water frozen in the solid state
- a flavored sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes
- diamonds
- an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
verb
- (intransitive) To become ice; to freeze.
- (transitive) To make icy; to freeze.
- (transitive, ice hockey) To shoot the puck the length of the playing surface, causing a stoppage in play called icing.
- (transitive, slang) To defeat decisively.
- (transitive) To cool with ice, as an injured body part or a beverage.
- (transitive, slang) To murder.
- (transitive, ice hockey) To put out a team for a match.
- (transitive) To cover with icing (frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg); to frost; as cakes, tarts, etc.
- put ice on or put on ice
- decorate with frosting
- cause to become ice or icy
adj
- Willing to act dishonestly for personal gain; accepting bribes.
- Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.
- In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
- In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.
- containing errors or alterations
- lacking in integrity
- touched by rot or decay
- not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
verb
- make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence
- (transitive) To introduce errors; to place into an invalid state.
- (transitive) To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.
- To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
- To debase or make impure by alterations or additions; to falsify.
- place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
- alter from the original
- corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
noun
- (euphemistic) Bribes paid to people.
- (accounting) The calculation of salaries and wages and the deduction of taxes etc.; the department in a company responsible for this.
- A list of employees who receive salary or wages, together with the amounts due to each.
- The total sum of money paid to employees.
- a list of employees and their salaries
- the department that determines the amounts of wage or salary due to each employee
- the total amount of money paid in wages
verb
verb
- (transitive) To bribe.
- make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence
- (transitive, ditransitive) To obtain, especially by some sacrifice.
- (transitive, informal) to accept as true; to believe
- (intransitive) To make a purchase or purchases, to treat (for a drink, meal or gift)
- (transitive, ditransitive) To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods.
- (poker slang, transitive) To make a bluff, usually a large one.
- (transitive) To be equivalent to in value.
- obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction
- be worth or be capable of buying
- acquire by trade or sacrifice or exchange
- accept as true
noun
noun
verb
verb
verb
noun
- (US, dialect) The whole collection or lot; caboodle.
- (slang) Money, especially when acquired or spent illegally or improperly; swag.
- (US, slang, West Point) Candy and snacks.
- a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in their hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card
- informal terms for money
noun
- (slang) A bribe.
- A stopper, alternative to a cork, often made of rubber, used to prevent fluid passing through the neck of a bottle, vat, a hole in a vessel etc.
- (slang) The human anus.
- The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bung-hole.
- The cecum or anus, especially of livestock.
- a plug used to close a hole in a barrel or flask
verb
- (transitive) To pass a bribe to (someone).
- (UK, Australia, transitive, informal) To put, throw, or place something without care; to chuck.
- (transitive) To plug, as with a bung.
- (transitive) To batter, bruise; to cause to bulge or swell.
- give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on
- close with a cork or stopper
adj
noun
verb
- (US politics) To accept bribes from multiple parties at once, with the intent of letting down one or more of them.
- (transitive, finance) To cause (a trader) to lose potential profit by buying shares just before the price falls, or by selling them just before the price rises.
- To operate a whipsaw.
- Of a trade union: to coerce employers into capitulating by bringing them the news that other (more easily convinced) employers have already done so.
- (transitive) To defeat someone in two different ways at once.
- saw with a whipsaw
- victimize, especially in gambling or negotiations
adj
noun
noun
verb
- (British, Australia, real estate) To buy a property by bidding more than the price of an existing, accepted offer.
- (British) To swindle; to extort.
- (British, Australia, real estate) To raise the selling price of something (especially property) after previously agreeing to a lower one.
- (British, Australia) To trump or preempt; to reap the benefit underhandedly from a situation that someone else has worked to create.
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- raise the price of something after agreeing on a lower price
verb
- (transitive, informal) To bribe.
- (transitive, slang) To extinguish the life of.
- To depart or slip away.
- (transitive, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
- To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.
- (transitive, informal) To cause to go easily; to facilitate.
- (transitive, slang, aviation) To perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly.
- (transitive) To put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate.
- lubricate with grease
noun
- (by extension) Any oily or fatty matter.
- Animal fat in a melted or soft state.
- Shorn but not yet cleansed wool.
- Inflammation of a horse's heels, also known as scratches or pastern dermatitis.
- (slang) Money.
- anything regarded as making something unclean
- a thick fatty oil (especially one used to lubricate machinery)
noun
- a commercial bribe paid by a seller to a purchasing agent in order to induce the agent to enter into the transaction
- (oil industry) A dangerous buildup of gas pressure at the wellhead.
- (countable) A backward kick; a retrograde movement of an extremity.
- A relaxed party.
- (countable, machinery) An accident where an object being cut by a rotating blade or disk, such as a circular saw, is caught by the blade and thrown outward.
- (uncountable, firearms, machinery) Recoil; a sudden backward motion, usually in the direction of the operator.
- (uncountable, bridge) In contract bridge, an ace asking convention initiated by the first step above four of the agreed trump suit.
- (machinery, forestry) An accident wherein the upper tip of the bar of a running chainsaw contacts a relatively immovable object, forcing the bar upwards and pressing the running chain more firmly against the object, causing the saw to be hurled upwards and backwards into the operator's face.
- (countable, bowling) The board separating one bowling lane from another at the pit end.
- (countable, informal) A covert, often illegal, payment in return for a favor consisting of providing an opportunity of chargeable transaction; especially, a kind of quid pro quo in which if you (an insider) secretly help me (an outsider) win the bid for the contract then I will secretly send you a portion of the contract value; thus, a kind of bribe.
- (pinball) A feature that saves the ball from draining and propels it back into play.
noun
- (uncountable, US, politics) A bribe, especially on an ongoing basis.
- the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage
- (horticulture) A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.
- (uncountable) Illicit profit by corrupt means, especially in public life.
- (horticulture) A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.
- A narrow spade used in digging drainage trenches.
- (uncountable, slang) A criminal’s special branch of practice.
- (uncountable, British, colloquial) Work; labor requiring effort.
- (countable, slang) A cut of the take (money).
- (countable) A con job.
- (uncountable) Corruption in official life.
- (surgery) A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.
- The depth of the blade of a digging tool such as a spade or shovel.
- (countable, British, colloquial) A job or trade.
- (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient
- the act of grafting something onto something else
verb
- To obtain illegal gain from bribery or similar corrupt practices.
- (transitive) To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.
- (transitive) To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon.
- (intransitive) To insert scions (grafts) from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.
- (chemistry) To form a graft polymer
- (transitive, surgery) To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.
- (transitive, nautical) To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope yarns.
- (colloquial, intransitive) To work hard.
- cause to grow together parts from different plants
- place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient
verb
noun
noun
- (informal) A bribe, a secret payment.
- (racquet sports) A shot played backhand, a backhand stroke.
- (surfing) A surfer who approaches a swell with the wave behind them ("on their backhand") rather than facing the wave ("on their forehand").
- A glass of wine given out of turn, the bottle having been handed backwards.
- (racquet sports) A player who plays a backhand shot.
- A blow with the back of the hand.
- a backhanded blow
verb
- (transitive, informal) To bribe, especially to deter oversight.
- (transitive) To pay back; to repay.
- (transitive) To pay and discharge (an employee).
- (nautical) To fall to leeward, as the head of a vessel under sail.
- (transitive) To pay back (repay) the entirety of a loan, thereby effecting the release of a lien on (the thing that was financed).
- (intransitive) To become worthwhile; to produce a net benefit.
- yield a profit or result
- eliminate by paying off (debts)
- take vengeance on or get even
- pay someone with influence in order to receive a favor
- do or give something to somebody in return
- pay off (loans or promissory notes)
noun
noun
- (figurative) A police officer who accepts offered bribes but does not actively seek them out.
- (derogatory, slang) A celibate man, especially a Japanese man, who eschews dating and sexual relationships.
- An organism notable for eating grass
- A fish of species Distichodus rostratus or Distichodus engycephalus, of Africa
verb
noun
- a concession given to mollify or placate
- piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid
- (derogatory) Ellipsis of milksop, a weak, easily frightened or ineffectual person.
- A piece of solid food to be soaked in liquid food.
- A piece of turf placed in the road as a target for a throw in road bowling.
- (figurative) Ellipsis of sop to Cerberus, something given or done to pacify or bribe.
- (music, informal) Clipping of soprano.
- (Appalachia) Gravy.
- Something entirely soaked.
- A thing of little or no value.
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verb
noun
- (law, historical) An inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of performance of certain services, typically military service.
- An amount charged for professional services.
- (law) An inheritable estate in land, whether absolute and without limitation to potential heirs (fee simple) or with limitations to particular kinds of heirs (fee tail).
- (law, historical) A right to the use of a superior's land as a stipend for certain services to be performed, typically military service.
- An additional monetary payment charged for a service or good, especially one that is minor compared to the underlying cost.
- (law, historical) Synonym of fief: the land so held.
- An amount charged for a privilege.
- an interest in land capable of being inherited
- a fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services
verb
- To corrupt.
- (transitive) To commit (official papers) to some office.
- (transitive) To smooth, grind, or cut with a file.
- (transitive) To place in an archive in a logical place and order.
- (transitive) To store a file (aggregation of data) on a storage medium such as a disc or another computer.
- (intransitive) To move in a file.
- (transitive) (of a journalist) To submit (an article) to a newspaper or similar publication.
- (intransitive, with for, chiefly law) To submit a formal request to some office.
- proceed in line
- smooth with a file
- place in a container for keeping records
- record in a public office or in a court of law
- file a formal charge against
noun
- A column of people one behind another, whether "single file" or in a grid pattern.
- A roll or list.
- (military) A small detachment of soldiers.
- A tool consisting of a strip or rod of hardened and coarse metal, used for removing sharp edges, shaping, and cutting, especially through metal; usually a hand tool.
- A collection of papers collated and archived together.
- (computing) An aggregation of data on a storage device, identified by a name.
- A course of thought; a thread of narration.
- (chess) One of the eight vertical lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a letter).
- (Canada, US) Clipping of file cabinet.
- A row of modular kitchen units and a countertop, consisting of cabinets and appliances below (dishwasher) and next to (stove/cooker) a countertop.
- a line of persons or things ranged one behind the other
- a steel hand tool with small sharp teeth on some or all of its surfaces; used for smoothing wood or metal
- a set of related records (either written or electronic) kept together
- office furniture consisting of a container for keeping papers in order
verb
- To exploit an advantage, often involving money, where the other person has little choice but to submit.
- (chiefly transitive) To force sexual intercourse or other sexual activity upon (someone) without their consent.
- (transitive, intransitive) To seize by force. (Now often with sexual overtones.)
- (slang, sometimes offensive) To subject (another person) to a painful or unfair experience.
- To overpower, destroy (someone); to trounce.
- (transitive) To carry (someone, especially a woman) off against their will, especially for sex; to abduct.
- (transitive) To plunder, to destroy or despoil.
- force (someone) to have sex against their will
- destroy and strip of its possession
noun
- Overpowerment; utter defeat.
- The stalks and husks of grapes from which the must has been expressed in winemaking.
- Synonym of rapeseed, Brassica napus.
- A filter containing the stalks and husks of grapes, used for clarifying wine, vinegar, etc.
- The act of forcing sex upon another person without their consent or against their will; originally coitus forced by a man on a woman, but now generally any sex act forced by any person upon another person, regardless of gender; by extension, any non-consensual sex act forced on, perpetrated by, or forced to penetrate any being.
- An insult to one's senses so severe that one feels that they cannot ever be the same afterwards.
- (now historical) One of the six former administrative divisions of Sussex, England.
- the crime of forcing a person to submit to sexual intercourse against his or her will
- the act of despoiling a country in warfare
- Eurasian plant cultivated for its seed and as a forage crop
noun
- the crime of a judge whose judgment is influenced by bribery
- (maritime law) a fraudulent breach of duty by the master of a ship that injures the owner of the ship or its cargo; includes every breach of trust such as stealing or sinking or deserting the ship or embezzling the cargo
- the offense of vexatiously persisting in inciting lawsuits and quarrels
- traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments
- (admiralty law) Unlawful or fraudulent acts by the crew of a vessel, harming the vessel's owner.
- The act of persistently instigating lawsuits, often groundless ones.
- The sale or purchase of religious or political positions of power.
noun
- Euphemistic form of bribe.
- An additional payment given freely as thanks for service.
- Euphemistic form of fee, in contexts where such additional payments have been made obligatory.
- a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter)
- an award (as for meritorious service) given without claim or obligation
noun
- In some contexts, this can imply bribery.
- (law) An introductory statement of facts or background information.
- An incentive that helps bring about a desired state.
- (shipping) The act of placing a port on a vessel's itinerary because the volume of cargo offered at that port justifies the cost of routing the vessel.
- a positive motivational influence
- act of bringing about a desired result
noun
- money offered as a bribe
- (slang) Money, specially when used as a bribe.
- street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate
- a cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats
- (countable, uncountable, informal, by extension, mineralogy) Some other substance, often a detergent or another surfactant, able to mix with both oil and water, used for cleaning.
- (chemistry) A metallic salt derived from a fatty acid, commonly used in cleaning products.
- (countable) A solid masonry unit or brick reduced in depth or height from standard dimensions.
- (slang) thiopental (sodium pentothal)
- (countable, informal) A soap opera.
verb
noun
- Money paid as a bribe.
- (slang) One or more diamonds.
- Water in frozen (solid) form.
- Elephant or rhinoceros ivory that has been poached and sold on the black market.
- (figuratively) Something having an extreme coldness of manner.
- A frozen dessert made of fruit juice, water and sugar.
- (ice hockey) The area where a game of ice hockey is played.
- An artifact that has been smuggled, especially one that is either clear or shiny.
- (figuratively) Something, such as awkwardness, that prevents open social interaction.
- (astronomy) Any volatile chemical, such as water, ammonia, or carbon dioxide, not necessarily in solid form, when discussing the composition of e.g. a planet as an ice giant vs a gas giant.
- (now dialectal) Icing; frosting ("a sweet, often creamy and thick glaze made primarily of sugar").
- (drugs) The crystal form of amphetamine-based drugs, including methamphetamine.
- (physics, astronomy) Any frozen volatile chemical, such as ammonia or carbon dioxide.
- the frozen part of a body of water
- a frozen dessert with fruit flavoring (especially one containing no milk)
- a rink with a floor of ice for ice hockey or ice skating
- water frozen in the solid state
- a flavored sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes
- diamonds
- an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
verb
- (intransitive) To become ice; to freeze.
- (transitive) To make icy; to freeze.
- (transitive, ice hockey) To shoot the puck the length of the playing surface, causing a stoppage in play called icing.
- (transitive, slang) To defeat decisively.
- (transitive) To cool with ice, as an injured body part or a beverage.
- (transitive, slang) To murder.
- (transitive, ice hockey) To put out a team for a match.
- (transitive) To cover with icing (frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg); to frost; as cakes, tarts, etc.
- put ice on or put on ice
- decorate with frosting
- cause to become ice or icy
noun
- (euphemistic) Bribes paid to people.
- (accounting) The calculation of salaries and wages and the deduction of taxes etc.; the department in a company responsible for this.
- A list of employees who receive salary or wages, together with the amounts due to each.
- The total sum of money paid to employees.
- a list of employees and their salaries
- the department that determines the amounts of wage or salary due to each employee
- the total amount of money paid in wages
verb
noun
verb
noun
- (slang) A bribe.
- A stopper, alternative to a cork, often made of rubber, used to prevent fluid passing through the neck of a bottle, vat, a hole in a vessel etc.
- (slang) The human anus.
- The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bung-hole.
- The cecum or anus, especially of livestock.
- a plug used to close a hole in a barrel or flask
verb
- (transitive) To pass a bribe to (someone).
- (UK, Australia, transitive, informal) To put, throw, or place something without care; to chuck.
- (transitive) To plug, as with a bung.
- (transitive) To batter, bruise; to cause to bulge or swell.
- give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on
- close with a cork or stopper
adj
noun
noun
verb
- (British, Australia, real estate) To buy a property by bidding more than the price of an existing, accepted offer.
- (British) To swindle; to extort.
- (British, Australia, real estate) To raise the selling price of something (especially property) after previously agreeing to a lower one.
- (British, Australia) To trump or preempt; to reap the benefit underhandedly from a situation that someone else has worked to create.
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- raise the price of something after agreeing on a lower price
noun
- a commercial bribe paid by a seller to a purchasing agent in order to induce the agent to enter into the transaction
- (oil industry) A dangerous buildup of gas pressure at the wellhead.
- (countable) A backward kick; a retrograde movement of an extremity.
- A relaxed party.
- (countable, machinery) An accident where an object being cut by a rotating blade or disk, such as a circular saw, is caught by the blade and thrown outward.
- (uncountable, firearms, machinery) Recoil; a sudden backward motion, usually in the direction of the operator.
- (uncountable, bridge) In contract bridge, an ace asking convention initiated by the first step above four of the agreed trump suit.
- (machinery, forestry) An accident wherein the upper tip of the bar of a running chainsaw contacts a relatively immovable object, forcing the bar upwards and pressing the running chain more firmly against the object, causing the saw to be hurled upwards and backwards into the operator's face.
- (countable, bowling) The board separating one bowling lane from another at the pit end.
- (countable, informal) A covert, often illegal, payment in return for a favor consisting of providing an opportunity of chargeable transaction; especially, a kind of quid pro quo in which if you (an insider) secretly help me (an outsider) win the bid for the contract then I will secretly send you a portion of the contract value; thus, a kind of bribe.
- (pinball) A feature that saves the ball from draining and propels it back into play.
noun
- (uncountable, US, politics) A bribe, especially on an ongoing basis.
- the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage
- (horticulture) A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.
- (uncountable) Illicit profit by corrupt means, especially in public life.
- (horticulture) A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.
- A narrow spade used in digging drainage trenches.
- (uncountable, slang) A criminal’s special branch of practice.
- (uncountable, British, colloquial) Work; labor requiring effort.
- (countable, slang) A cut of the take (money).
- (countable) A con job.
- (uncountable) Corruption in official life.
- (surgery) A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.
- The depth of the blade of a digging tool such as a spade or shovel.
- (countable, British, colloquial) A job or trade.
- (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient
- the act of grafting something onto something else
verb
- To obtain illegal gain from bribery or similar corrupt practices.
- (transitive) To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.
- (transitive) To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon.
- (intransitive) To insert scions (grafts) from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.
- (chemistry) To form a graft polymer
- (transitive, surgery) To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.
- (transitive, nautical) To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope yarns.
- (colloquial, intransitive) To work hard.
- cause to grow together parts from different plants
- place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient
noun
- (informal) A bribe, a secret payment.
- (racquet sports) A shot played backhand, a backhand stroke.
- (surfing) A surfer who approaches a swell with the wave behind them ("on their backhand") rather than facing the wave ("on their forehand").
- A glass of wine given out of turn, the bottle having been handed backwards.
- (racquet sports) A player who plays a backhand shot.
- A blow with the back of the hand.
- a backhanded blow
noun
noun
- (figurative) A police officer who accepts offered bribes but does not actively seek them out.
- (derogatory, slang) A celibate man, especially a Japanese man, who eschews dating and sexual relationships.
- An organism notable for eating grass
- A fish of species Distichodus rostratus or Distichodus engycephalus, of Africa
noun
noun
- the crime of a judge whose judgment is influenced by bribery
- (maritime law) a fraudulent breach of duty by the master of a ship that injures the owner of the ship or its cargo; includes every breach of trust such as stealing or sinking or deserting the ship or embezzling the cargo
- the offense of vexatiously persisting in inciting lawsuits and quarrels
- traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments
- (admiralty law) Unlawful or fraudulent acts by the crew of a vessel, harming the vessel's owner.
- The act of persistently instigating lawsuits, often groundless ones.
- The sale or purchase of religious or political positions of power.
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To bribe.
- make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence
- (transitive, ditransitive) To obtain, especially by some sacrifice.
- (transitive, informal) to accept as true; to believe
- (intransitive) To make a purchase or purchases, to treat (for a drink, meal or gift)
- (transitive, ditransitive) To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods.
- (poker slang, transitive) To make a bluff, usually a large one.
- (transitive) To be equivalent to in value.
- obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction
- be worth or be capable of buying
- acquire by trade or sacrifice or exchange
- accept as true
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- (US, dialect) The whole collection or lot; caboodle.
- (slang) Money, especially when acquired or spent illegally or improperly; swag.
- (US, slang, West Point) Candy and snacks.
- a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in their hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card
- informal terms for money
verb
- (US politics) To accept bribes from multiple parties at once, with the intent of letting down one or more of them.
- (transitive, finance) To cause (a trader) to lose potential profit by buying shares just before the price falls, or by selling them just before the price rises.
- To operate a whipsaw.
- Of a trade union: to coerce employers into capitulating by bringing them the news that other (more easily convinced) employers have already done so.
- (transitive) To defeat someone in two different ways at once.
- saw with a whipsaw
- victimize, especially in gambling or negotiations
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- (transitive, informal) To bribe.
- (transitive, slang) To extinguish the life of.
- To depart or slip away.
- (transitive, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
- To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.
- (transitive, informal) To cause to go easily; to facilitate.
- (transitive, slang, aviation) To perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly.
- (transitive) To put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate.
- lubricate with grease
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- (by extension) Any oily or fatty matter.
- Animal fat in a melted or soft state.
- Shorn but not yet cleansed wool.
- Inflammation of a horse's heels, also known as scratches or pastern dermatitis.
- (slang) Money.
- anything regarded as making something unclean
- a thick fatty oil (especially one used to lubricate machinery)
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adj
- Willing to act dishonestly for personal gain; accepting bribes.
- Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.
- In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
- In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.
- containing errors or alterations
- lacking in integrity
- touched by rot or decay
- not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
verb
- make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence
- (transitive) To introduce errors; to place into an invalid state.
- (transitive) To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.
- To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
- To debase or make impure by alterations or additions; to falsify.
- place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
- alter from the original
- corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
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- (uncountable, US, politics) A bribe, especially on an ongoing basis.
- the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage
- (horticulture) A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.
- (uncountable) Illicit profit by corrupt means, especially in public life.
- (horticulture) A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.
- A narrow spade used in digging drainage trenches.
- (uncountable, slang) A criminal’s special branch of practice.
- (uncountable, British, colloquial) Work; labor requiring effort.
- (countable, slang) A cut of the take (money).
- (countable) A con job.
- (uncountable) Corruption in official life.
- (surgery) A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.
- The depth of the blade of a digging tool such as a spade or shovel.
- (countable, British, colloquial) A job or trade.
- (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient
- the act of grafting something onto something else
verb
- To obtain illegal gain from bribery or similar corrupt practices.
- (transitive) To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.
- (transitive) To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon.
- (intransitive) To insert scions (grafts) from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.
- (chemistry) To form a graft polymer
- (transitive, surgery) To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.
- (transitive, nautical) To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope yarns.
- (colloquial, intransitive) To work hard.
- cause to grow together parts from different plants
- place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient
verb
- (transitive, informal) To bribe, especially to deter oversight.
- (transitive) To pay back; to repay.
- (transitive) To pay and discharge (an employee).
- (nautical) To fall to leeward, as the head of a vessel under sail.
- (transitive) To pay back (repay) the entirety of a loan, thereby effecting the release of a lien on (the thing that was financed).
- (intransitive) To become worthwhile; to produce a net benefit.
- yield a profit or result
- eliminate by paying off (debts)
- take vengeance on or get even
- pay someone with influence in order to receive a favor
- do or give something to somebody in return
- pay off (loans or promissory notes)
noun
- (slang) A bribe.
- A stopper, alternative to a cork, often made of rubber, used to prevent fluid passing through the neck of a bottle, vat, a hole in a vessel etc.
- (slang) The human anus.
- The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bung-hole.
- The cecum or anus, especially of livestock.
- a plug used to close a hole in a barrel or flask
verb
- (transitive) To pass a bribe to (someone).
- (UK, Australia, transitive, informal) To put, throw, or place something without care; to chuck.
- (transitive) To plug, as with a bung.
- (transitive) To batter, bruise; to cause to bulge or swell.
- give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on
- close with a cork or stopper
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- a concession given to mollify or placate
- piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid
- (derogatory) Ellipsis of milksop, a weak, easily frightened or ineffectual person.
- A piece of solid food to be soaked in liquid food.
- A piece of turf placed in the road as a target for a throw in road bowling.
- (figurative) Ellipsis of sop to Cerberus, something given or done to pacify or bribe.
- (music, informal) Clipping of soprano.
- (Appalachia) Gravy.
- Something entirely soaked.
- A thing of little or no value.
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- (law, historical) An inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of performance of certain services, typically military service.
- An amount charged for professional services.
- (law) An inheritable estate in land, whether absolute and without limitation to potential heirs (fee simple) or with limitations to particular kinds of heirs (fee tail).
- (law, historical) A right to the use of a superior's land as a stipend for certain services to be performed, typically military service.
- An additional monetary payment charged for a service or good, especially one that is minor compared to the underlying cost.
- (law, historical) Synonym of fief: the land so held.
- An amount charged for a privilege.
- an interest in land capable of being inherited
- a fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services
verb
- To corrupt.
- (transitive) To commit (official papers) to some office.
- (transitive) To smooth, grind, or cut with a file.
- (transitive) To place in an archive in a logical place and order.
- (transitive) To store a file (aggregation of data) on a storage medium such as a disc or another computer.
- (intransitive) To move in a file.
- (transitive) (of a journalist) To submit (an article) to a newspaper or similar publication.
- (intransitive, with for, chiefly law) To submit a formal request to some office.
- proceed in line
- smooth with a file
- place in a container for keeping records
- record in a public office or in a court of law
- file a formal charge against
noun
- A column of people one behind another, whether "single file" or in a grid pattern.
- A roll or list.
- (military) A small detachment of soldiers.
- A tool consisting of a strip or rod of hardened and coarse metal, used for removing sharp edges, shaping, and cutting, especially through metal; usually a hand tool.
- A collection of papers collated and archived together.
- (computing) An aggregation of data on a storage device, identified by a name.
- A course of thought; a thread of narration.
- (chess) One of the eight vertical lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a letter).
- (Canada, US) Clipping of file cabinet.
- A row of modular kitchen units and a countertop, consisting of cabinets and appliances below (dishwasher) and next to (stove/cooker) a countertop.
- a line of persons or things ranged one behind the other
- a steel hand tool with small sharp teeth on some or all of its surfaces; used for smoothing wood or metal
- a set of related records (either written or electronic) kept together
- office furniture consisting of a container for keeping papers in order
verb
- To exploit an advantage, often involving money, where the other person has little choice but to submit.
- (chiefly transitive) To force sexual intercourse or other sexual activity upon (someone) without their consent.
- (transitive, intransitive) To seize by force. (Now often with sexual overtones.)
- (slang, sometimes offensive) To subject (another person) to a painful or unfair experience.
- To overpower, destroy (someone); to trounce.
- (transitive) To carry (someone, especially a woman) off against their will, especially for sex; to abduct.
- (transitive) To plunder, to destroy or despoil.
- force (someone) to have sex against their will
- destroy and strip of its possession
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- Overpowerment; utter defeat.
- The stalks and husks of grapes from which the must has been expressed in winemaking.
- Synonym of rapeseed, Brassica napus.
- A filter containing the stalks and husks of grapes, used for clarifying wine, vinegar, etc.
- The act of forcing sex upon another person without their consent or against their will; originally coitus forced by a man on a woman, but now generally any sex act forced by any person upon another person, regardless of gender; by extension, any non-consensual sex act forced on, perpetrated by, or forced to penetrate any being.
- An insult to one's senses so severe that one feels that they cannot ever be the same afterwards.
- (now historical) One of the six former administrative divisions of Sussex, England.
- the crime of forcing a person to submit to sexual intercourse against his or her will
- the act of despoiling a country in warfare
- Eurasian plant cultivated for its seed and as a forage crop
adj
- Willing to act dishonestly for personal gain; accepting bribes.
- Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.
- In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
- In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.
- containing errors or alterations
- lacking in integrity
- touched by rot or decay
- not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
verb
- make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence
- (transitive) To introduce errors; to place into an invalid state.
- (transitive) To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.
- To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
- To debase or make impure by alterations or additions; to falsify.
- place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
- alter from the original
- corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality