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noun
- a cruelly rapacious person
- a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
- An animal, especially a large or dangerous land vertebrate.
- (often collective) All non-human animals seen as a group.
- A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.
- (prison slang, derogatory) A sex offender.
- (slang) Anything regarded as larger or more powerful than one of its normal size or strength.
- (figuratively) Something unpleasant and difficult.
- (slang) Someone who is particularly impressive, especially athletically or physically.
- (chiefly in Commonwealth English, more specifically) A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal.
- A monstrously unusual and dangerous animal.
- A thing or matter, especially a difficult or unruly one.
adj
verb
noun
adj
- resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility
- Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless, without intelligence or reason.
- Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans).
- Crude, unpolished.
- Strong, blunt, and spontaneous; being purely physical in nature.
- Without reason or intelligence (of animals).
- Unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless.
verb
noun
adj
- wild and menacing
- without civilizing influences
- (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
- marked by extreme and violent energy
- (US, slang) Severe, rude, aggressive.
- Wild; not cultivated or tamed.
- Barbaric; not civilized.
- (Ireland, US, slang) Great, brilliant, amazing.
- Primitive; lacking complexity or sophistication.
- (slang) Of an insult or person: disrespectful, audacious, and either blunt or sarcastic, in a hilarious way.
- Brutal, vicious, or merciless.
- (UK, slang) Unpleasant or unfair.
- Fierce and ferocious.
verb
noun
- a cruelly rapacious person
- an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field
- any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild
- (firearms) Clipping of wildcat cartridge.
- Any feral cat.
- (US) A bobcat (Lynx rufus) or other similar New World species of lynx.
- (figurative) A person who acts like a wildcat, (usually) a violent and easily-angered person or a sexually vigorous one.
- (UK) Felis silvestris, a common small Old World wild cat somewhat larger than a house cat.
- (nautical) A wheel that can be adjusted so as to revolve either with or on the shaft of a capstan.
- (American football) An offensive formation with an unbalanced line and a snap directly to the running back rather than the quarterback.
- (uncommon) Alternative spelling of wild cat, any undomesticated felid, as tigers or lions.
- (uncommon) Clipping of wildcat strike (“a strike undertaken without authorization from the relevant trade union”).
adj
- (of a mine or oil well) drilled speculatively in an area not known to be productive
- without official authorization
- outside the bounds of legitimate or ethical business practices
- (usually derogatory) Of or concerning businesses operating outside standard or legitimate practice, especially:
- (firearms) Of or concerning customized or hand-made cartridges.
- (oil industry) Of or concerning oil exploration in new areas, (particularly) small, independent operations.
- Of or concerning actions undertaken by workers without approval or in defiance of the formal leadership of their trade unions.
- Unauthorized by the proper authorities.
verb
noun
- a cruelly rapacious person
- a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women
- any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs
- (countable) Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.
- (figurative) Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.
- A man who makes amorous advances to many women.
- (music) A wolf tone or wolf note.
- Any of several related canines that resemble Canis lupus in appearance, especially those of the genus Canis.
- A white worm which infests granaries, the larva of Nemapogon granella, a tineid moth.
- A wolf spider.
- One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.
- A willying machine, to cleanse wool or willow.
verb
adv
adj
- (informal) very unpleasant
- resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility
- Pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of, a beast.
- (slang) Of computer hardware or motor vehicles etc.: ostentatiously powerful.
- Similar to the nature of a beast; contrary to the nature and dignity of human beings.
noun
- (figuratively) A rapacious person.
- (finance, slang) An accommodation bill (“a bill of exchange endorsed by a reputable third party acting as a guarantor, as a favour and without compensation”).
- (banking, slang) A blank cheque; a fraudulent cheque, such as one issued even though there are insufficient funds to honour it, or one that has been altered without authorization.
- A bird of prey of the family Accipitridae.
- (sailing, slang) A spinnaker (“supplementary sail to a mainsail”).
- A bird of the genus Elanus, having thin pointed wings, that preys on rodents and hunts by hovering; also, any bird of related genera in the subfamily Elaninae.
- Some species in the subfamily Perninae.
- (geometry) A polygon resembling the shape of a traditional toy kite (sense 3): a quadrilateral having two pairs of edges of equal length, the edges of each pair touching each other at one end.
- Any bird of the subfamily Milvinae, with long wings and weak legs, feeding mostly on carrion and spending long periods soaring; specifically, the red kite (Milvus milvus) and the black kite (Milvus migrans).
- (astrology) A planetary configuration wherein one planet of a grand trine is in opposition to an additional fourth planet.
- A tethered object which deflects its position in a medium by obtaining lift and drag in reaction with its relative motion in the medium.
- (cycling, slang) A rider who is good at climbs but less good at descents.
- (military aviation, slang) An aeroplane or aircraft.
- (British, dialectal) The brill (Scophthalmus rhombus), a type of flatfish.
- (US, prison slang) A (usually concealed) letter or oral message, especially one passed illegally into, within, or out of a prison.
- (Egyptology) A measure of weight equivalent to ¹⁄₁₀ deben (about 0.32 ounces or 9.1 grams).
- (Northern England, Scotland, dialectal) The stomach; the belly.
- A lightweight toy or other device, traditionally flat and shaped like a triangle with a segment of a circle attached to its base or like a quadrilateral (see sense 9), carried on the wind and tethered and controlled from the ground by one or more lines.
- a bank check that has been fraudulently altered to increase its face value
- any of several small graceful hawks of the family Accipitridae having long pointed wings and feeding on insects and small animals
- a bank check drawn on insufficient funds at another bank in order to take advantage of the float
- plaything consisting of a light frame covered with tissue paper; flown in wind at end of a string
verb
- To keep ahead of (an enemy) and repeatedly attack it from a distance, without exposing oneself to danger.
- (transitive, slang) To tamper with a document or record by increasing the quantity of something beyond its proper amount so that the difference may be unlawfully retained; in particular, to alter a medical prescription for this purpose by increasing the number of pills or other items.
- (intransitive, engineering, nautical) To deflect sideways in the water.
- (ambitransitive, rare) To manipulate like a toy kite; also, usually preceded by an inflection of go: to fly a toy kite.
- (ambitransitive, US, slang, by extension) To steal.
- (ambitransitive, banking, slang) To write or present (a cheque) on an account with insufficient funds, either to defraud or expecting that funds will become available by the time the cheque clears.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to move upwards rapidly like a toy kite; also (chiefly US, figuratively) to cause (something, such as costs) to increase rapidly.
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) glide in the manner of a kite (“bird”).
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move rapidly; to rush.
- (intransitive) To travel by kite, as when kitesurfing.
- (intransitive, US, prison slang) To pass a (usually concealed) letter or oral message, especially illegally, into, within, or out of a prison.
- To attack (an enemy) or otherwise cause it to give chase, so as to lead it somewhere (like a kite is led on a string), for example into a trap or ambush or away from its comrades or something it was protecting.
- get credit or money by using a bad check
- soar or fly like a kite
- increase the amount (of a check) fraudulently
- fly a kite
noun
- a cruelly rapacious person
- a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
- An animal, especially a large or dangerous land vertebrate.
- (often collective) All non-human animals seen as a group.
- A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.
- (prison slang, derogatory) A sex offender.
- (slang) Anything regarded as larger or more powerful than one of its normal size or strength.
- (figuratively) Something unpleasant and difficult.
- (slang) Someone who is particularly impressive, especially athletically or physically.
- (chiefly in Commonwealth English, more specifically) A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal.
- A monstrously unusual and dangerous animal.
- A thing or matter, especially a difficult or unruly one.
adj
verb
noun
adj
- resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility
- Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless, without intelligence or reason.
- Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans).
- Crude, unpolished.
- Strong, blunt, and spontaneous; being purely physical in nature.
- Without reason or intelligence (of animals).
- Unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless.
verb
noun
adj
- wild and menacing
- without civilizing influences
- (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
- marked by extreme and violent energy
- (US, slang) Severe, rude, aggressive.
- Wild; not cultivated or tamed.
- Barbaric; not civilized.
- (Ireland, US, slang) Great, brilliant, amazing.
- Primitive; lacking complexity or sophistication.
- (slang) Of an insult or person: disrespectful, audacious, and either blunt or sarcastic, in a hilarious way.
- Brutal, vicious, or merciless.
- (UK, slang) Unpleasant or unfair.
- Fierce and ferocious.
verb
noun
- a cruelly rapacious person
- an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field
- any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild
- (firearms) Clipping of wildcat cartridge.
- Any feral cat.
- (US) A bobcat (Lynx rufus) or other similar New World species of lynx.
- (figurative) A person who acts like a wildcat, (usually) a violent and easily-angered person or a sexually vigorous one.
- (UK) Felis silvestris, a common small Old World wild cat somewhat larger than a house cat.
- (nautical) A wheel that can be adjusted so as to revolve either with or on the shaft of a capstan.
- (American football) An offensive formation with an unbalanced line and a snap directly to the running back rather than the quarterback.
- (uncommon) Alternative spelling of wild cat, any undomesticated felid, as tigers or lions.
- (uncommon) Clipping of wildcat strike (“a strike undertaken without authorization from the relevant trade union”).
adj
- (of a mine or oil well) drilled speculatively in an area not known to be productive
- without official authorization
- outside the bounds of legitimate or ethical business practices
- (usually derogatory) Of or concerning businesses operating outside standard or legitimate practice, especially:
- (firearms) Of or concerning customized or hand-made cartridges.
- (oil industry) Of or concerning oil exploration in new areas, (particularly) small, independent operations.
- Of or concerning actions undertaken by workers without approval or in defiance of the formal leadership of their trade unions.
- Unauthorized by the proper authorities.
verb
noun
- a cruelly rapacious person
- a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women
- any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs
- (countable) Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.
- (figurative) Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.
- A man who makes amorous advances to many women.
- (music) A wolf tone or wolf note.
- Any of several related canines that resemble Canis lupus in appearance, especially those of the genus Canis.
- A white worm which infests granaries, the larva of Nemapogon granella, a tineid moth.
- A wolf spider.
- One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.
- A willying machine, to cleanse wool or willow.
verb
noun
- (figuratively) A rapacious person.
- (finance, slang) An accommodation bill (“a bill of exchange endorsed by a reputable third party acting as a guarantor, as a favour and without compensation”).
- (banking, slang) A blank cheque; a fraudulent cheque, such as one issued even though there are insufficient funds to honour it, or one that has been altered without authorization.
- A bird of prey of the family Accipitridae.
- (sailing, slang) A spinnaker (“supplementary sail to a mainsail”).
- A bird of the genus Elanus, having thin pointed wings, that preys on rodents and hunts by hovering; also, any bird of related genera in the subfamily Elaninae.
- Some species in the subfamily Perninae.
- (geometry) A polygon resembling the shape of a traditional toy kite (sense 3): a quadrilateral having two pairs of edges of equal length, the edges of each pair touching each other at one end.
- Any bird of the subfamily Milvinae, with long wings and weak legs, feeding mostly on carrion and spending long periods soaring; specifically, the red kite (Milvus milvus) and the black kite (Milvus migrans).
- (astrology) A planetary configuration wherein one planet of a grand trine is in opposition to an additional fourth planet.
- A tethered object which deflects its position in a medium by obtaining lift and drag in reaction with its relative motion in the medium.
- (cycling, slang) A rider who is good at climbs but less good at descents.
- (military aviation, slang) An aeroplane or aircraft.
- (British, dialectal) The brill (Scophthalmus rhombus), a type of flatfish.
- (US, prison slang) A (usually concealed) letter or oral message, especially one passed illegally into, within, or out of a prison.
- (Egyptology) A measure of weight equivalent to ¹⁄₁₀ deben (about 0.32 ounces or 9.1 grams).
- (Northern England, Scotland, dialectal) The stomach; the belly.
- A lightweight toy or other device, traditionally flat and shaped like a triangle with a segment of a circle attached to its base or like a quadrilateral (see sense 9), carried on the wind and tethered and controlled from the ground by one or more lines.
- a bank check that has been fraudulently altered to increase its face value
- any of several small graceful hawks of the family Accipitridae having long pointed wings and feeding on insects and small animals
- a bank check drawn on insufficient funds at another bank in order to take advantage of the float
- plaything consisting of a light frame covered with tissue paper; flown in wind at end of a string
verb
- To keep ahead of (an enemy) and repeatedly attack it from a distance, without exposing oneself to danger.
- (transitive, slang) To tamper with a document or record by increasing the quantity of something beyond its proper amount so that the difference may be unlawfully retained; in particular, to alter a medical prescription for this purpose by increasing the number of pills or other items.
- (intransitive, engineering, nautical) To deflect sideways in the water.
- (ambitransitive, rare) To manipulate like a toy kite; also, usually preceded by an inflection of go: to fly a toy kite.
- (ambitransitive, US, slang, by extension) To steal.
- (ambitransitive, banking, slang) To write or present (a cheque) on an account with insufficient funds, either to defraud or expecting that funds will become available by the time the cheque clears.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to move upwards rapidly like a toy kite; also (chiefly US, figuratively) to cause (something, such as costs) to increase rapidly.
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) glide in the manner of a kite (“bird”).
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move rapidly; to rush.
- (intransitive) To travel by kite, as when kitesurfing.
- (intransitive, US, prison slang) To pass a (usually concealed) letter or oral message, especially illegally, into, within, or out of a prison.
- To attack (an enemy) or otherwise cause it to give chase, so as to lead it somewhere (like a kite is led on a string), for example into a trap or ambush or away from its comrades or something it was protecting.
- get credit or money by using a bad check
- soar or fly like a kite
- increase the amount (of a check) fraudulently
- fly a kite
adv
adj
- (informal) very unpleasant
- resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility
- Pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of, a beast.
- (slang) Of computer hardware or motor vehicles etc.: ostentatiously powerful.
- Similar to the nature of a beast; contrary to the nature and dignity of human beings.
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