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noun
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noun
- informal term for information
- (slang) A generator (device that converts mechanical to electrical energy).
- (chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) Information.
- (informal) A generation (group of people born in a specific range of years).
- (informal, in combination) A specific version of something in a chronological sequence.
- Alternative letter-case form of Gen (“member of the Gen Movement”).
- (fandom slang) Fan fiction that does not specifically focus on romance or sex.
- (birdwatching) Information about the location of a bird.
adj
adv
verb
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noun
- (informal) Term of endearment.
- A small cake baked in a usually paper container shaped like a cup, often with icing on top.
- (slang, sports) An unskilled player or team, especially one expected to be easily defeated by a stronger opponent.
- (slang) A weak or effeminate man.
- (slang) An attractive young woman.
- small cake baked in a muffin tin
verb
- (intransitive, informal) With out: to saturate by cupcakes.
- (ambitransitive) To cover or be abundant with cake-like decorations such as frills.
- (transitive, slang) To handle easily and successfully.
- (intransitive, informal) To make cupcakes.
- (transitive) To mash a cupcake at; to cover with cupcake.
- (transitive, slang, rare) To flirt with; to talk or act amorously or intimately to.
- (transitive, informal, rare) To feed cupcakes.
- (intransitive, slang) To flirt; to talk or act amorously or intimately.
noun
- (informal) A term of endearment.
- (informal) A slackard or time-waster.
- (informal) A divining rod or similarly intended device.
- (informal) Someone who draws constantly.
- (entomology, UK) A cockchafer (genus Melolontha).
- (entomology, regional) A woodlouse.
- (informal) An idiot.
- (informal, British) The V-1 flying bomb.
- (entomology) An antlion larva (Myrmeleontidae).
- (historical, "doodlebug tractor") An automobile converted into a cheap tractor for a small farm during the Second World War.
- a small motor vehicle
- the larva of any of several insects
- a small jet-propelled winged missile that carries a bomb
noun
- (informal) A term of endearment.
- A sausage-shaped thing.
- A dachshund; sausage dog.
- An individual item of this food.
- A food made of ground meat (or meat substitute) and seasoning, packed in a section of the animal's intestine, or in a similarly cylindrical shaped synthetic casing.
- (rhyming slang) Ellipsis of sausage roll (“the dole; unemployment”).
- (vulgar slang) A penis.
- a small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon
- highly seasoned minced meat stuffed in casings
verb
- (transitive) To squeeze (something) into something tightly fitting.
- (transitive) To make sausage-like, especially to give the appearance of barely fitting into the casing or skin.
- (transitive, with on) To fit snugly into.
- (engineering) To form a sausage-like shape, with a non-uniform cross section.
- (intransitive) To squeeze tightly into (something) in a rolled or sausage-like form.
- (transitive) To make into sausage.
adv
- (informal, in definitions or explanations) A circumstance or situation in which.
- (fused relative) The time at, on or during which.
- At an earlier time and under different, usually less favorable, circumstances.
- (interrogative, Internet slang, often humorous) Used after a noun or noun phrase in isolation to express impatience with an anticipated future event.
- (relative) At which, on which, during which: often omitted or replaced with that.
- (interrogative) At what time? At which time? Upon which occasion or circumstance? Used to introduce direct or indirect questions about time.
conj
- Since; given the fact that; considering that.
- During the time that; at the time of the action of the following clause or participle phrase.
- At what time; at which time.
- At (or as soon as) that time that; at the (or any and every) time that; if.
- Whereas; although; at the same time as; in spite of the fact that.
intj
noun
pron
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noun
- informal term for a man
- a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward
- someone who is morally reprehensible
- metal supports for logs in a fireplace
- a member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times; occurs in many breeds
- a dull unattractive unpleasant girl or woman
- a smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked; often served on a bread roll
- (Cockney rhyming slang) (from "dog and bone") Phone or mobile phone.
- (preceded by definite article) A dance having a brief vogue in the 1960s in which the actions of a dog were mimicked.
- Any member of the family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, and their relatives (extant and extinct).
- (often attributive) A male dog, wolf, or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen.
- One of the cones used to divide up a racetrack when training horses.
- A metal support for logs in a fireplace.
- (slang, derogatory) A dull, unattractive girl or woman.
- (derogatory) Someone who is cowardly, worthless, or morally reprehensible.
- A hot dog: a frankfurter, wiener, or similar sausage; or a sandwich made from this.
- (informal) Something that performs poorly.
- (slang, chiefly in the plural) Foot; toe.
- (transport, historical) A double-ended side spike driven through a hole in the flange of a rail on a tramway.
- A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet wheel, to restrain the back action.
- The species Canis familiaris (sometimes designated Canis lupus familiaris), domesticated for thousands of years and of highly variable appearance because of human breeding.
- Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like projection.
- (film) A flop; a film that performs poorly at the box office.
- (poker slang) An underdog.
- (cartomancy) The eighteenth Lenormand card.
- (slang) A sexually aggressive man.
- (slang) A man, guy, chap.
- (uncountable) The meat of this animal, eaten as food.
verb
- go after with the intent to catch
- (transitive, nautical) To fasten a hatch securely.
- (transitive, slang) To criticize.
- (intransitive, transitive) To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.
- (transitive, military) To divide (a watch) with a comrade.
- (transitive) To pursue with the intent to catch.
- (transitive) To follow in an annoying or harassing way.
- (intransitive, emerging usage in British) To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.
adj
noun
- (informal) A custom or practice.
- (slang, euphemistic) A vulva or vagina.
- An individual object or distinct entity.
- (in the plural) Possessions or equipment; stuff; gear.
- (informal) A problem, dilemma, or complicating factor.
- (MLE) Alternative form of ting.
- (informal) A romantic couple.
- (MLE) Girl; attractive woman.
- (chiefly historical) A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country.
- (informal) A romantic relationship.
- (informal) A unit or container, usually containing consumable goods.
- (slang, euphemistic) A penis.
- (informal, used possessively, chiefly in the negative) That which is favoured; personal preference.
- (informal, with a) A genuine concept, entity or phenomenon; something that actually exists (often contrary to expectation or belief).
- Corporeal object.
- Whatever can be owned.
- (informal, used possessively, with "do") One's typical routine, habits, or manner.
- A word, symbol, sign, or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity.
- A living being or creature.
- That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.
- (informal, with the) The central point; the crux.
- Used after a noun to refer dismissively to the situation surrounding the noun's referent.
- a special situation
- a vaguely specified concern
- a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion
- an action
- a statement regarded as an object
- an entity that is not named specifically
- an artifact
- an event
- a separate and self-contained entity
- a special abstraction
- any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence
- a special objective
verb
prep
noun
symbol
- By extension, sometimes used to blend other pairs of words that differ by being spelled with o vs a.
- (Singapore, Malaysia) Connecting a person's common name and alias, both of them are legal names.
- Forming gender-neutral versions of Spanish-derived words by replacing both the masculine -o and feminine -a.
verb
noun
- (informal) A situation, occasion, or event.
- (informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
- (in particular) A transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
- An agreement between parties; an arrangement.
- (card games) The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
- (uncountable) Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
- (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
- A particular instance of trading (buying or selling; exchanging; bartering); a transaction.
- (countable) A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
- (slang, of a person) A personality trait, especially a negative one, and the underlying cause of it.
- an agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each
- the type of treatment received (especially as the result of an agreement)
- the act of apportioning or distributing something
- the act of distributing playing cards
- the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time
- a plank of softwood (fir or pine board)
- wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir)
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
- a particular instance of buying or selling
adj
verb
- (ambitransitive) To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
- (transitive) To administer or give out, as in small portions.
- (intransitive) To have dealings or business.
- (intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave.
- (intransitive) To trade professionally (followed by in).
- (intransitive, with “with”) To handle, to manage, to cope.
- (transitive) deliver damage, a blow, strike or cut. To inflict.
- (ambitransitive) To distribute cards to the players in a game.
- (transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
- (baseball) To pitch.
- (transitive) : To take action with regard to someone or something.
- (intransitive) To be concerned with.
- act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression
- succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available
- behave in a certain way towards others
- take into consideration for exemplifying purposes
- give (a specific card) to a player
- sell (especially of illegal material)
- administer or bestow, as in small portions
- do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood
- distribute cards to the players in a game
- give out as one's portion or share
- be in charge of, act on, or dispose of
- take action with respect to (someone or something)
- direct the course of; manage or control
noun
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- something craved, especially an intravenous injection of a narcotic drug
- a determination of the place where something is
- the act of putting something in working order again
- an exemption granted after influence (e.g., money) is brought to bear
- A repair or corrective action.
- (figurative, by extension) Something that satisfies a yearning or a craving.
- (aviation) A non-waypoint terrain feature used to make a determination of location.
- A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.
- (US) Fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)
- (figurative, by extension) A compulsive desire or thrill.
- (slang) A single dose of a narcotic drug, especially when injected.
- A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.
- An understanding, grasp of something.
- A determination of location.
verb
- prepare for eating by applying heat
- to be about to do something
- make fixed, stable or stationary
- restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
- make infertile
- set or place definitely
- take vengeance on or get even
- kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study
- cause to be firmly attached
- make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
- influence an event or its outcome by illegal means
- decide upon or fix definitely
- put (something somewhere) firmly
- (transitive, chess) To prevent enemy pawns from advancing by directly opposing the most advanced one with one of one's own pawns so as to threaten to capture any advancing backward pawns.
- (intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.
- (transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
- (transitive) To mend, to repair.
- (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
- (transitive, mathematics, semantics) To map (a point or subset) to itself.
- (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
- (transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
- (slang, intransitive) To shoot; to inject a drug.
- (transitive, figuratively, usually in the passive) To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.
- (transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.
- (ditransitive, informal) To prepare (food or drink).
- (hyperbolic, chiefly with would) To be immensely pleasurable to.
- (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
- (transitive) To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins; to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion.
noun
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- a depression hollowed out of solid matter
- one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course
- an unoccupied space
- an opening deliberately made in or through something
- a fault
- an opening into or through something
- informal terms for the mouth
- An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
- (slang) An undesirable place to live or visit.
- (slang, rail transport) A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
- (baseball) The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
- (figuratively) A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
- (slang) Any bodily orifice, in particular the anus.
- (archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.
- (figurative) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
- (slang, derogatory) A person's mouth.
- (informal, with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
- (golf) A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.
- (Ireland, Scotland, vulgar) A vagina.
- (stud poker) A card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.
- (physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
- (computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
- A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
- In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
- (chess) A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in the future, control with a friendly pawn.
- (graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.
- (Canada, US, historical) A mountain valley.
- (golf) The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
verb
adj
noun
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- preserve of crushed fruit
- a dense crowd of people
- deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems
- (mining) Alternative form of jamb.
- (slang) Something enjoyable; a delightful situation or outcome.
- (slang) Sexual relations or the contemplation of them.
- (countable, by extension) An informal event where people brainstorm and collaborate on projects.
- (countable) A blockage, congestion, or immobilization.
- (countable) A difficult situation.
- (countable, by extension, informal) A song; a track.
- (countable, roller derby) A play during which points can be scored.
- (countable, slang) That which one particularly prefers, desires, enjoys, or cares about.
- (UK, slang) Luck.
- (countable, climbing) Any of several manoeuvres requiring wedging of an extremity into a tight space.
- (Australia) The tree Acacia acuminata, with fruity-smelling hard timber.
- (countable, baseball) A difficult situation for a pitcher or defending team.
- (countable, basketball) A forceful dunk.
- (countable, popular music) An informal, impromptu performance or rehearsal.
- (Canada, slang) Balls, bollocks, courage, machismo.
- (less common in the US) A sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used in jam tarts
verb
- crush or bruise
- interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
- block passage through
- get stuck and immobilized
- push down forcibly
- press tightly together or cram
- crowd or pack to capacity
- (baseball) To throw a pitch at or near the batter's hands.
- To block or confuse a radio or radar signal by transmitting a more-powerful signal on the same frequency.
- (basketball) To dunk.
- To injure a finger or toe by sudden compression of the digit's tip.
- (Canada, informal) To give up on a date or some other joint endeavour; to stand up, chicken out, jam out.
- To render something unable to move.
- (colloquial) To be of high quality (especially for music).
- To get something stuck, often (though not necessarily) in a confined space.
- To cause congestion or blockage. Often used with "up".
- (music) To play music (especially improvisation as a group, or an informal unrehearsed session).
- To brusquely force something into a space; to cram, to squeeze.
- (nautical, transitive) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.
- (roller derby) To attempt to score points.
noun
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel
- soft semiliquid food
- a state of confusion and disorderliness
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
- a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax
- (collective) A group of iguanas.
- (cooking) A dessert of fruit and cream, similar to a fool.
- (collective) A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel who eat at the same table.
- A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).
- a thing or group of things in a disagreeable, disorganised, or dirty state; hence a bad situation
- (figuratively) a person in a state of (especially emotional) turmoil or disarray; an emotional wreck
- A building or room in which mess is eaten.
- (India) a type of restaurant characterized by homely-style cooking and food.
- (US) The milk given by a cow at one milking.
- (colloquial) a large quantity or number
- (euphemistic) excrement.
verb
- make a mess of or create disorder in
- eat in a mess hall
- To make soiled by ejaculating.
- (intransitive) To take meals with a mess.
- (transitive, often used with "up") To throw into disorder or to ruin.
- (intransitive) To interfere.
- (intransitive) To belong to a mess.
- To make soiled by defecating.
- (intransitive) To eat (with others).
- (transitive) To supply with a mess.
noun
verb
- make into a puddle
- mix up or confuse
- To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.
- To dabble in mud.
- To make turbid or muddy.
- To think and act in a confused, aimless way.
- To mix together, to mix up; to confuse.
- To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.
- To mash slightly for use in a cocktail.
noun
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- vegetables (especially cucumbers) preserved in brine or vinegar
- (slang) A pipe for smoking methamphetamine.
- (baseball) A rundown.
- (Northern England, Scotland) A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.)
- (Northern England, Scotland) A small or indefinite quantity or amount (of something); a little, a bit, a few. Usually in partitive construction, frequently without "of"; a single grain or kernel of wheat, barley, oats, sand or dust.
- (chiefly US, Canada, Australia) A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
- (UK) A sweet, vinegary pickled chutney popular in Britain.
- (often in the plural) Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
- In an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the lights are mounted.
- (endearing) A mildly mischievous loved one.
- (informal) A difficult situation; peril.
- The brine used for preserving food.
- (uncountable) A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown
- (slang) A penis.
- (metalworking) A bath of dilute sulphuric or nitric acid, etc., to remove burnt sand, scale, rust, etc., from the surface of castings, or other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their colour.
verb
- preserve in a pickling liquid
- (Northern England, Scotland, ambitransitive) To eat sparingly.
- (transitive, ergative) To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
- (transitive) To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
- (Northern England, Scotland, ambitransitive) To pilfer.
- (programming, in Python) To serialize.
- (historical) To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment.
noun
contraction
noun
- informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions; often vituperative or vulgar
- a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
- The specialized language of a social group, sometimes used to conceal one's meaning from outsiders; cant.
- (countable, India) A curse word.
- (countable) An item of slang; a slang word or expression.
- (UK, dialect) Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory.
- (countable) A particular variety of slang; the slang used by a particular group.
- Language outside of conventional usage and in the informal register.
- Language that is unique to a particular profession or subject; jargon.
verb
adj
noun
noun
- informal terms for objecting
- meat from an adult domestic bovine
- cattle that are reared for their meat
- (uncountable) Bovine animals.
- (uncountable) The meat from cattle or other bovines; especially, that from adults.
- (figurative, slang, uncountable) Essence, content; the important part of a document or project.
- (slang, uncountable or countable, plural beefs) A grudge; dislike (of something or someone); lack of faith or trust (in something or someone); a reason for a dislike or grudge. (often + with)
- (now chiefly Canada, US, countable, now uncommon, plural beeves) A bovine (cow or bull) being raised for its meat.
- (prison slang) A criminal charge.
- (by extension, slang, uncountable) Muscle or musculature; size, strength or potency.
- (Dorset) Fibrous calcite or limestone, especially when occurring in a jagged layer between shales in Dorset.
- (in the meat industry, on product packaging) The edible portions of a cow (including those which are not meat).
verb
- complain
- (transitive, slang) To add weight or strength to.
- (intransitive, slang) To fart; break wind.
- (chiefly African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE, intransitive, slang) To feud or hold a grudge against.
- (intransitive, slang) To complain.
- (intransitive, chiefly Yorkshire) To cry.
- (transitive, slang) To fail or mess up.
- (intransitive, slang, Australia) To sing or speak loudly; to cry out.
adj
noun
- informal terms for objecting
- a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked
- an unpleasant difficulty
- female of any member of the dog family
- (vulgar, offensive, slang) A woman.
- (dated or specialised, dog-breeding) A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother.
- (vulgar, informal, slang) Place; situation
- (vulgar, offensive) A submissive person who does what others want; (prison slang) a man forced or coerced into a homoerotic relationship.
- (vulgar, figurative) Something unforgiving and unpleasant.
- (slang, vulgar, offensive, often sexist) A despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, usually a woman.
- (slang, vulgar, idiomatic, derogatory, misogynistic) A female sexual partner, typically in casual sexual relations
- (humorous, vulgar, colloquial, used with a possessive pronoun) Friend.
- (chess, slang, vulgar, offensive) A queen.
- (LGBTQ slang, idiomatic, vulgar, chiefly humorous) a sexual partner
- (colloquial, vulgar, card games) A queen playing card, particularly the queen of spades in the card game of hearts.
- (colloquial, vulgar) A difficult or confounding problem.
- (LGBTQ slang, derogatory) An obviously gay man.
- (vulgar, colloquial) A complaint, especially when the complaint is unjustified.
- (vulgar, offensive) A man considered soft, effeminate, weak, timid or pathetic in some way
verb
noun
verb
noun
- informal terms for objecting
- the backward jerk of a gun when it is fired
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- the sudden stimulation provided by strong drink (or certain drugs)
- a rhythmic thrusting movement of the legs as in swimming or calisthenics
- the act of delivering a blow with the foot
- An increase in speed in the final part of a running race.
- (colloquial) A shoe.
- The action of swinging a foot or leg.
- (figuratively) Any bucking motion of an object that lacks legs or feet.
- (uncountable and countable) A pungent or spicy flavour; piquancy.
- (soccer) The distance traveled by kicking the ball.
- (computer hardware) The act of restarting or resetting a watchdog timer.
- (informal) A pocket.
- (Internet) The removal of a person from an online activity.
- A hit or strike with the leg, foot or knee.
- A stimulation provided by an intoxicating substance.
- (soccer) A pass played by kicking with the foot.
- (music) Clipping of kickdrum; a 808.
- (film, television) Synonym of kicker (“backlight positioned at an angle”).
- (colloquial) Something that tickles the fancy; something fun or amusing; a pleasure; a thrill.
- The recoil of a gun.
verb
- strike with the foot
- thrash about or strike out with the feet
- spring back, as from a forceful thrust
- kick a leg up
- stop consuming
- drive or propel with the foot
- make a goal
- express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness
- (transitive) To direct to a particular place by a blow with the foot or leg.
- (intransitive) To die.
- (slang, intransitive) To be emphatically excellent.
- (chess, transitive) To attack (a piece) in order to force it to move.
- (of a firearm) To recoil; to push by recoiling.
- (transitive, slang) To overcome (a bothersome or difficult issue or obstacle); to free oneself of (a problem).
- (with "off" or "out") To eject summarily.
- (transitive) To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg.
- (reflexive, informal) To reproach oneself for making a mistake or missing an opportunity.
- (intransitive, cycling) To accelerate quickly with a few pedal strokes in an effort to break away from other riders.
- (transitive, Internet) To forcibly remove a participant from an online activity.
- To move or push suddenly and violently.
- (computing, transitive) To reset (a watchdog timer).
- (intransitive) To show opposition or resistance.
- (printing, historical) To work a press by impact of the foot on a treadle.
- (intransitive) To make a sharp jerking movement of the leg, as to strike something.
noun
- informal terms for objecting
- the noise of squawking
- (aviation) An issue or complaint related to aircraft maintenance.
- A shrill noise, especially made by a voice or bird. If made by a bird, it typically signals discomfort or anger; a yell, scream, or call.
- The American night heron.
- (programming, informal) A warning message indicating a possible error.
- (aviation) A four-digit transponder code used by aircraft for identification or transmission of emergency signals.
- (informal) A complaint or objection.
verb
- utter a harsh abrupt scream
- complain
- (slang, intransitive) To speak out; to protest.
- To make a squawking noise; to yell, scream, or call out shrilly.
- (slang, intransitive) To report an infraction; to rat on or tattle; to disclose a secret.
- (aviation) To set or transmit a four-digit transponder code. (Normally followed by the specific code in question.)
- (programming, intransitive, informal) To produce a warning message, indicating a possible error.
adj
- (used informally) associated on close terms
- (informal) On intimate terms:
- (used colloquially) having the relationship of friends or pals
- (informal) Friendly:
- Making a show of friendliness; attempting to be on intimate terms but insincerely or inappropriately; cozying up.
- Naturally and genuinely easy to get along with.
- On intimate terms but in an inappropriate way, for dishonest or selfish motives, etc.
- In a close friendship or relationship.
noun
adj
- (used informally) associated on close terms
- spoken as if with a thick tongue
- not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions
- abounding; having a lot of
- (of darkness) densely dark
- relatively dense in consistency
- hard to pass through because of dense growth
- (used informally) stupid
- having a short and solid form or stature
- having component parts closely crowded together
- (slang, chiefly of women) Curvy and voluptuous, and especially having large hips.
- Heavy in build; thickset.
- Impenetrable to sight.
- Deep, intense, or profound.
- Having a viscous consistency.
- Densely crowded or packed.
- Greatly evocative of one's nationality or place of origin.
- Difficult to understand, or poorly articulated.
- (informal) Friendly or intimate.
- (informal) Stupid.
- Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension.
- Abounding in number.
- Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.
- (academic) Detailed and expansive; substantive.
noun
adv
det
adv
- (informal) Used idiomatically before certain other adjectives.
- Used before different, before comparatives with more and less, and idiomatically before other comparatives.
- (colloquial, usually humorous) Not, does not, do not, etc.
- (without adjective, now Scotland, informal) Not.
- not in any degree or manner; not at all
- used to express refusal or denial or disagreement etc. or especially to emphasize a negative statement
- referring to the degree to which a certain quality is present
det
noun
particle
prep
verb
adj
adj
- (informal) Relating to women or girls.
- Having conjunctivitis.
- Having a colour between red and white; pale red.
- Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet.
- (informal) Relating to homosexuals as a group within society.
- By comparison to red (communist), supportive of socialist ideas but not actually socialist or communist.
- of a light shade of red
noun
- (regional) A young Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, before it becomes a smolt; a parr.
- (regional) The common minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus.
- Pale red.
- (historical) Any of various lake pigments or dyes in yellow, yellowish green or brown shades, made with plant coloring and a metallic oxide base.
- Any of various flowers of that colour in the genus Dianthus, sometimes called carnations.
- Magenta, the colour evoked by red and blue light when combined.
- (slang) The vagina or vulva.
- Alternative form of pinko.
- A color reminiscent of pinks, the flowers.
- Hunting pink; scarlet, as worn by hunters.
- (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, coloured pink, with a value of 6 points.
- (slang) An unlettered and uncultured, but relatively prosperous, member of the middle classes; compare Babbitt, bourgeoisie.
- A huntsman.
- a person with mildly leftist political views
- any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus cultivated for their fragrant flowers
- a light shade of red
verb
- To prick with a sword.
- To decorate a piece of clothing or fabric by adding holes or by scalloping the fringe.
- Of a motor car, to emit a high "pinking" noise, usually as a result of ill-set ignition timing for the fuel used (in a spark ignition engine).
- (intransitive) To become pink in color, to redden.
- To wound by irony, criticism, or ridicule.
- (transitive) To turn (a topaz or other gemstone) pink by the application of heat.
- Of a musical instrument, to sound a very high-pitched, short note.
- (transitive) To turn (something) pink.
- sound like a car engine that is firing too early
- make light, repeated taps on a surface
- cut in a zigzag pattern with pinking shears, in sewing
adj
noun
- (New England) An informal beach party in which food, usually seafood, is cooked in a firepit dug in the sand, filled with hot coals.
- (slang, chiefly California, Northwestern US) An instance of smoking (usually marijuana) in an enclosed space.
- (slang, vulgar) A meeting of predominantly females.
- a cookout at the seashore where clams and fish and other foods are cooked — usually on heated stones covered with seaweed
verb
noun
noun
- informal term for information
- (slang) A generator (device that converts mechanical to electrical energy).
- (chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) Information.
- (informal) A generation (group of people born in a specific range of years).
- (informal, in combination) A specific version of something in a chronological sequence.
- Alternative letter-case form of Gen (“member of the Gen Movement”).
- (fandom slang) Fan fiction that does not specifically focus on romance or sex.
- (birdwatching) Information about the location of a bird.
adj
adv
verb
noun
- (informal) Term of endearment.
- A small cake baked in a usually paper container shaped like a cup, often with icing on top.
- (slang, sports) An unskilled player or team, especially one expected to be easily defeated by a stronger opponent.
- (slang) A weak or effeminate man.
- (slang) An attractive young woman.
- small cake baked in a muffin tin
verb
- (intransitive, informal) With out: to saturate by cupcakes.
- (ambitransitive) To cover or be abundant with cake-like decorations such as frills.
- (transitive, slang) To handle easily and successfully.
- (intransitive, informal) To make cupcakes.
- (transitive) To mash a cupcake at; to cover with cupcake.
- (transitive, slang, rare) To flirt with; to talk or act amorously or intimately to.
- (transitive, informal, rare) To feed cupcakes.
- (intransitive, slang) To flirt; to talk or act amorously or intimately.
noun
- (informal) A term of endearment.
- (informal) A slackard or time-waster.
- (informal) A divining rod or similarly intended device.
- (informal) Someone who draws constantly.
- (entomology, UK) A cockchafer (genus Melolontha).
- (entomology, regional) A woodlouse.
- (informal) An idiot.
- (informal, British) The V-1 flying bomb.
- (entomology) An antlion larva (Myrmeleontidae).
- (historical, "doodlebug tractor") An automobile converted into a cheap tractor for a small farm during the Second World War.
- a small motor vehicle
- the larva of any of several insects
- a small jet-propelled winged missile that carries a bomb
noun
- (informal) A term of endearment.
- A sausage-shaped thing.
- A dachshund; sausage dog.
- An individual item of this food.
- A food made of ground meat (or meat substitute) and seasoning, packed in a section of the animal's intestine, or in a similarly cylindrical shaped synthetic casing.
- (rhyming slang) Ellipsis of sausage roll (“the dole; unemployment”).
- (vulgar slang) A penis.
- a small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon
- highly seasoned minced meat stuffed in casings
verb
- (transitive) To squeeze (something) into something tightly fitting.
- (transitive) To make sausage-like, especially to give the appearance of barely fitting into the casing or skin.
- (transitive, with on) To fit snugly into.
- (engineering) To form a sausage-like shape, with a non-uniform cross section.
- (intransitive) To squeeze tightly into (something) in a rolled or sausage-like form.
- (transitive) To make into sausage.
noun
- informal term for a man
- a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward
- someone who is morally reprehensible
- metal supports for logs in a fireplace
- a member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times; occurs in many breeds
- a dull unattractive unpleasant girl or woman
- a smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked; often served on a bread roll
- (Cockney rhyming slang) (from "dog and bone") Phone or mobile phone.
- (preceded by definite article) A dance having a brief vogue in the 1960s in which the actions of a dog were mimicked.
- Any member of the family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, and their relatives (extant and extinct).
- (often attributive) A male dog, wolf, or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen.
- One of the cones used to divide up a racetrack when training horses.
- A metal support for logs in a fireplace.
- (slang, derogatory) A dull, unattractive girl or woman.
- (derogatory) Someone who is cowardly, worthless, or morally reprehensible.
- A hot dog: a frankfurter, wiener, or similar sausage; or a sandwich made from this.
- (informal) Something that performs poorly.
- (slang, chiefly in the plural) Foot; toe.
- (transport, historical) A double-ended side spike driven through a hole in the flange of a rail on a tramway.
- A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet wheel, to restrain the back action.
- The species Canis familiaris (sometimes designated Canis lupus familiaris), domesticated for thousands of years and of highly variable appearance because of human breeding.
- Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like projection.
- (film) A flop; a film that performs poorly at the box office.
- (poker slang) An underdog.
- (cartomancy) The eighteenth Lenormand card.
- (slang) A sexually aggressive man.
- (slang) A man, guy, chap.
- (uncountable) The meat of this animal, eaten as food.
verb
- go after with the intent to catch
- (transitive, nautical) To fasten a hatch securely.
- (transitive, slang) To criticize.
- (intransitive, transitive) To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.
- (transitive, military) To divide (a watch) with a comrade.
- (transitive) To pursue with the intent to catch.
- (transitive) To follow in an annoying or harassing way.
- (intransitive, emerging usage in British) To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.
adj
noun
- (informal) A custom or practice.
- (slang, euphemistic) A vulva or vagina.
- An individual object or distinct entity.
- (in the plural) Possessions or equipment; stuff; gear.
- (informal) A problem, dilemma, or complicating factor.
- (MLE) Alternative form of ting.
- (informal) A romantic couple.
- (MLE) Girl; attractive woman.
- (chiefly historical) A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country.
- (informal) A romantic relationship.
- (informal) A unit or container, usually containing consumable goods.
- (slang, euphemistic) A penis.
- (informal, used possessively, chiefly in the negative) That which is favoured; personal preference.
- (informal, with a) A genuine concept, entity or phenomenon; something that actually exists (often contrary to expectation or belief).
- Corporeal object.
- Whatever can be owned.
- (informal, used possessively, with "do") One's typical routine, habits, or manner.
- A word, symbol, sign, or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity.
- A living being or creature.
- That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.
- (informal, with the) The central point; the crux.
- Used after a noun to refer dismissively to the situation surrounding the noun's referent.
- a special situation
- a vaguely specified concern
- a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion
- an action
- a statement regarded as an object
- an entity that is not named specifically
- an artifact
- an event
- a separate and self-contained entity
- a special abstraction
- any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence
- a special objective
verb
noun
- (informal) A situation, occasion, or event.
- (informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
- (in particular) A transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
- An agreement between parties; an arrangement.
- (card games) The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
- (uncountable) Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
- (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
- A particular instance of trading (buying or selling; exchanging; bartering); a transaction.
- (countable) A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
- (slang, of a person) A personality trait, especially a negative one, and the underlying cause of it.
- an agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each
- the type of treatment received (especially as the result of an agreement)
- the act of apportioning or distributing something
- the act of distributing playing cards
- the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time
- a plank of softwood (fir or pine board)
- wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir)
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
- a particular instance of buying or selling
adj
verb
- (ambitransitive) To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
- (transitive) To administer or give out, as in small portions.
- (intransitive) To have dealings or business.
- (intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave.
- (intransitive) To trade professionally (followed by in).
- (intransitive, with “with”) To handle, to manage, to cope.
- (transitive) deliver damage, a blow, strike or cut. To inflict.
- (ambitransitive) To distribute cards to the players in a game.
- (transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
- (baseball) To pitch.
- (transitive) : To take action with regard to someone or something.
- (intransitive) To be concerned with.
- act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression
- succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available
- behave in a certain way towards others
- take into consideration for exemplifying purposes
- give (a specific card) to a player
- sell (especially of illegal material)
- administer or bestow, as in small portions
- do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood
- distribute cards to the players in a game
- give out as one's portion or share
- be in charge of, act on, or dispose of
- take action with respect to (someone or something)
- direct the course of; manage or control
noun
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- something craved, especially an intravenous injection of a narcotic drug
- a determination of the place where something is
- the act of putting something in working order again
- an exemption granted after influence (e.g., money) is brought to bear
- A repair or corrective action.
- (figurative, by extension) Something that satisfies a yearning or a craving.
- (aviation) A non-waypoint terrain feature used to make a determination of location.
- A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.
- (US) Fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)
- (figurative, by extension) A compulsive desire or thrill.
- (slang) A single dose of a narcotic drug, especially when injected.
- A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.
- An understanding, grasp of something.
- A determination of location.
verb
- prepare for eating by applying heat
- to be about to do something
- make fixed, stable or stationary
- restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
- make infertile
- set or place definitely
- take vengeance on or get even
- kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study
- cause to be firmly attached
- make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
- influence an event or its outcome by illegal means
- decide upon or fix definitely
- put (something somewhere) firmly
- (transitive, chess) To prevent enemy pawns from advancing by directly opposing the most advanced one with one of one's own pawns so as to threaten to capture any advancing backward pawns.
- (intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.
- (transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
- (transitive) To mend, to repair.
- (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
- (transitive, mathematics, semantics) To map (a point or subset) to itself.
- (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
- (transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
- (slang, intransitive) To shoot; to inject a drug.
- (transitive, figuratively, usually in the passive) To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.
- (transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.
- (ditransitive, informal) To prepare (food or drink).
- (hyperbolic, chiefly with would) To be immensely pleasurable to.
- (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
- (transitive) To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins; to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion.
noun
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- a depression hollowed out of solid matter
- one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course
- an unoccupied space
- an opening deliberately made in or through something
- a fault
- an opening into or through something
- informal terms for the mouth
- An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
- (slang) An undesirable place to live or visit.
- (slang, rail transport) A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
- (baseball) The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
- (figuratively) A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
- (slang) Any bodily orifice, in particular the anus.
- (archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.
- (figurative) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
- (slang, derogatory) A person's mouth.
- (informal, with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
- (golf) A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.
- (Ireland, Scotland, vulgar) A vagina.
- (stud poker) A card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.
- (physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
- (computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
- A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
- In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
- (chess) A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in the future, control with a friendly pawn.
- (graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.
- (Canada, US, historical) A mountain valley.
- (golf) The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
verb
adj
noun
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- preserve of crushed fruit
- a dense crowd of people
- deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems
- (mining) Alternative form of jamb.
- (slang) Something enjoyable; a delightful situation or outcome.
- (slang) Sexual relations or the contemplation of them.
- (countable, by extension) An informal event where people brainstorm and collaborate on projects.
- (countable) A blockage, congestion, or immobilization.
- (countable) A difficult situation.
- (countable, by extension, informal) A song; a track.
- (countable, roller derby) A play during which points can be scored.
- (countable, slang) That which one particularly prefers, desires, enjoys, or cares about.
- (UK, slang) Luck.
- (countable, climbing) Any of several manoeuvres requiring wedging of an extremity into a tight space.
- (Australia) The tree Acacia acuminata, with fruity-smelling hard timber.
- (countable, baseball) A difficult situation for a pitcher or defending team.
- (countable, basketball) A forceful dunk.
- (countable, popular music) An informal, impromptu performance or rehearsal.
- (Canada, slang) Balls, bollocks, courage, machismo.
- (less common in the US) A sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used in jam tarts
verb
- crush or bruise
- interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
- block passage through
- get stuck and immobilized
- push down forcibly
- press tightly together or cram
- crowd or pack to capacity
- (baseball) To throw a pitch at or near the batter's hands.
- To block or confuse a radio or radar signal by transmitting a more-powerful signal on the same frequency.
- (basketball) To dunk.
- To injure a finger or toe by sudden compression of the digit's tip.
- (Canada, informal) To give up on a date or some other joint endeavour; to stand up, chicken out, jam out.
- To render something unable to move.
- (colloquial) To be of high quality (especially for music).
- To get something stuck, often (though not necessarily) in a confined space.
- To cause congestion or blockage. Often used with "up".
- (music) To play music (especially improvisation as a group, or an informal unrehearsed session).
- To brusquely force something into a space; to cram, to squeeze.
- (nautical, transitive) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.
- (roller derby) To attempt to score points.
noun
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel
- soft semiliquid food
- a state of confusion and disorderliness
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
- a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax
- (collective) A group of iguanas.
- (cooking) A dessert of fruit and cream, similar to a fool.
- (collective) A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel who eat at the same table.
- A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).
- a thing or group of things in a disagreeable, disorganised, or dirty state; hence a bad situation
- (figuratively) a person in a state of (especially emotional) turmoil or disarray; an emotional wreck
- A building or room in which mess is eaten.
- (India) a type of restaurant characterized by homely-style cooking and food.
- (US) The milk given by a cow at one milking.
- (colloquial) a large quantity or number
- (euphemistic) excrement.
verb
- make a mess of or create disorder in
- eat in a mess hall
- To make soiled by ejaculating.
- (intransitive) To take meals with a mess.
- (transitive, often used with "up") To throw into disorder or to ruin.
- (intransitive) To interfere.
- (intransitive) To belong to a mess.
- To make soiled by defecating.
- (intransitive) To eat (with others).
- (transitive) To supply with a mess.
noun
verb
- make into a puddle
- mix up or confuse
- To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.
- To dabble in mud.
- To make turbid or muddy.
- To think and act in a confused, aimless way.
- To mix together, to mix up; to confuse.
- To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.
- To mash slightly for use in a cocktail.
noun
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- vegetables (especially cucumbers) preserved in brine or vinegar
- (slang) A pipe for smoking methamphetamine.
- (baseball) A rundown.
- (Northern England, Scotland) A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.)
- (Northern England, Scotland) A small or indefinite quantity or amount (of something); a little, a bit, a few. Usually in partitive construction, frequently without "of"; a single grain or kernel of wheat, barley, oats, sand or dust.
- (chiefly US, Canada, Australia) A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
- (UK) A sweet, vinegary pickled chutney popular in Britain.
- (often in the plural) Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
- In an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the lights are mounted.
- (endearing) A mildly mischievous loved one.
- (informal) A difficult situation; peril.
- The brine used for preserving food.
- (uncountable) A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown
- (slang) A penis.
- (metalworking) A bath of dilute sulphuric or nitric acid, etc., to remove burnt sand, scale, rust, etc., from the surface of castings, or other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their colour.
verb
- preserve in a pickling liquid
- (Northern England, Scotland, ambitransitive) To eat sparingly.
- (transitive, ergative) To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
- (transitive) To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
- (Northern England, Scotland, ambitransitive) To pilfer.
- (programming, in Python) To serialize.
- (historical) To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment.
noun
noun
- informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions; often vituperative or vulgar
- a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
- The specialized language of a social group, sometimes used to conceal one's meaning from outsiders; cant.
- (countable, India) A curse word.
- (countable) An item of slang; a slang word or expression.
- (UK, dialect) Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory.
- (countable) A particular variety of slang; the slang used by a particular group.
- Language outside of conventional usage and in the informal register.
- Language that is unique to a particular profession or subject; jargon.
verb
noun
- informal terms for objecting
- meat from an adult domestic bovine
- cattle that are reared for their meat
- (uncountable) Bovine animals.
- (uncountable) The meat from cattle or other bovines; especially, that from adults.
- (figurative, slang, uncountable) Essence, content; the important part of a document or project.
- (slang, uncountable or countable, plural beefs) A grudge; dislike (of something or someone); lack of faith or trust (in something or someone); a reason for a dislike or grudge. (often + with)
- (now chiefly Canada, US, countable, now uncommon, plural beeves) A bovine (cow or bull) being raised for its meat.
- (prison slang) A criminal charge.
- (by extension, slang, uncountable) Muscle or musculature; size, strength or potency.
- (Dorset) Fibrous calcite or limestone, especially when occurring in a jagged layer between shales in Dorset.
- (in the meat industry, on product packaging) The edible portions of a cow (including those which are not meat).
verb
- complain
- (transitive, slang) To add weight or strength to.
- (intransitive, slang) To fart; break wind.
- (chiefly African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE, intransitive, slang) To feud or hold a grudge against.
- (intransitive, slang) To complain.
- (intransitive, chiefly Yorkshire) To cry.
- (transitive, slang) To fail or mess up.
- (intransitive, slang, Australia) To sing or speak loudly; to cry out.
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- informal terms for objecting
- a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked
- an unpleasant difficulty
- female of any member of the dog family
- (vulgar, offensive, slang) A woman.
- (dated or specialised, dog-breeding) A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother.
- (vulgar, informal, slang) Place; situation
- (vulgar, offensive) A submissive person who does what others want; (prison slang) a man forced or coerced into a homoerotic relationship.
- (vulgar, figurative) Something unforgiving and unpleasant.
- (slang, vulgar, offensive, often sexist) A despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, usually a woman.
- (slang, vulgar, idiomatic, derogatory, misogynistic) A female sexual partner, typically in casual sexual relations
- (humorous, vulgar, colloquial, used with a possessive pronoun) Friend.
- (chess, slang, vulgar, offensive) A queen.
- (LGBTQ slang, idiomatic, vulgar, chiefly humorous) a sexual partner
- (colloquial, vulgar, card games) A queen playing card, particularly the queen of spades in the card game of hearts.
- (colloquial, vulgar) A difficult or confounding problem.
- (LGBTQ slang, derogatory) An obviously gay man.
- (vulgar, colloquial) A complaint, especially when the complaint is unjustified.
- (vulgar, offensive) A man considered soft, effeminate, weak, timid or pathetic in some way
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- informal terms for objecting
- the backward jerk of a gun when it is fired
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- the sudden stimulation provided by strong drink (or certain drugs)
- a rhythmic thrusting movement of the legs as in swimming or calisthenics
- the act of delivering a blow with the foot
- An increase in speed in the final part of a running race.
- (colloquial) A shoe.
- The action of swinging a foot or leg.
- (figuratively) Any bucking motion of an object that lacks legs or feet.
- (uncountable and countable) A pungent or spicy flavour; piquancy.
- (soccer) The distance traveled by kicking the ball.
- (computer hardware) The act of restarting or resetting a watchdog timer.
- (informal) A pocket.
- (Internet) The removal of a person from an online activity.
- A hit or strike with the leg, foot or knee.
- A stimulation provided by an intoxicating substance.
- (soccer) A pass played by kicking with the foot.
- (music) Clipping of kickdrum; a 808.
- (film, television) Synonym of kicker (“backlight positioned at an angle”).
- (colloquial) Something that tickles the fancy; something fun or amusing; a pleasure; a thrill.
- The recoil of a gun.
verb
- strike with the foot
- thrash about or strike out with the feet
- spring back, as from a forceful thrust
- kick a leg up
- stop consuming
- drive or propel with the foot
- make a goal
- express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness
- (transitive) To direct to a particular place by a blow with the foot or leg.
- (intransitive) To die.
- (slang, intransitive) To be emphatically excellent.
- (chess, transitive) To attack (a piece) in order to force it to move.
- (of a firearm) To recoil; to push by recoiling.
- (transitive, slang) To overcome (a bothersome or difficult issue or obstacle); to free oneself of (a problem).
- (with "off" or "out") To eject summarily.
- (transitive) To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg.
- (reflexive, informal) To reproach oneself for making a mistake or missing an opportunity.
- (intransitive, cycling) To accelerate quickly with a few pedal strokes in an effort to break away from other riders.
- (transitive, Internet) To forcibly remove a participant from an online activity.
- To move or push suddenly and violently.
- (computing, transitive) To reset (a watchdog timer).
- (intransitive) To show opposition or resistance.
- (printing, historical) To work a press by impact of the foot on a treadle.
- (intransitive) To make a sharp jerking movement of the leg, as to strike something.
noun
- informal terms for objecting
- the noise of squawking
- (aviation) An issue or complaint related to aircraft maintenance.
- A shrill noise, especially made by a voice or bird. If made by a bird, it typically signals discomfort or anger; a yell, scream, or call.
- The American night heron.
- (programming, informal) A warning message indicating a possible error.
- (aviation) A four-digit transponder code used by aircraft for identification or transmission of emergency signals.
- (informal) A complaint or objection.
verb
- utter a harsh abrupt scream
- complain
- (slang, intransitive) To speak out; to protest.
- To make a squawking noise; to yell, scream, or call out shrilly.
- (slang, intransitive) To report an infraction; to rat on or tattle; to disclose a secret.
- (aviation) To set or transmit a four-digit transponder code. (Normally followed by the specific code in question.)
- (programming, intransitive, informal) To produce a warning message, indicating a possible error.
adv
- (informal, in definitions or explanations) A circumstance or situation in which.
- (fused relative) The time at, on or during which.
- At an earlier time and under different, usually less favorable, circumstances.
- (interrogative, Internet slang, often humorous) Used after a noun or noun phrase in isolation to express impatience with an anticipated future event.
- (relative) At which, on which, during which: often omitted or replaced with that.
- (interrogative) At what time? At which time? Upon which occasion or circumstance? Used to introduce direct or indirect questions about time.
conj
- Since; given the fact that; considering that.
- During the time that; at the time of the action of the following clause or participle phrase.
- At what time; at which time.
- At (or as soon as) that time that; at the (or any and every) time that; if.
- Whereas; although; at the same time as; in spite of the fact that.
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- (informal) Used idiomatically before certain other adjectives.
- Used before different, before comparatives with more and less, and idiomatically before other comparatives.
- (colloquial, usually humorous) Not, does not, do not, etc.
- (without adjective, now Scotland, informal) Not.
- not in any degree or manner; not at all
- used to express refusal or denial or disagreement etc. or especially to emphasize a negative statement
- referring to the degree to which a certain quality is present
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- (used informally) associated on close terms
- (informal) On intimate terms:
- (used colloquially) having the relationship of friends or pals
- (informal) Friendly:
- Making a show of friendliness; attempting to be on intimate terms but insincerely or inappropriately; cozying up.
- Naturally and genuinely easy to get along with.
- On intimate terms but in an inappropriate way, for dishonest or selfish motives, etc.
- In a close friendship or relationship.
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- (used informally) associated on close terms
- spoken as if with a thick tongue
- not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions
- abounding; having a lot of
- (of darkness) densely dark
- relatively dense in consistency
- hard to pass through because of dense growth
- (used informally) stupid
- having a short and solid form or stature
- having component parts closely crowded together
- (slang, chiefly of women) Curvy and voluptuous, and especially having large hips.
- Heavy in build; thickset.
- Impenetrable to sight.
- Deep, intense, or profound.
- Having a viscous consistency.
- Densely crowded or packed.
- Greatly evocative of one's nationality or place of origin.
- Difficult to understand, or poorly articulated.
- (informal) Friendly or intimate.
- (informal) Stupid.
- Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension.
- Abounding in number.
- Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.
- (academic) Detailed and expansive; substantive.
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- (informal) Relating to women or girls.
- Having conjunctivitis.
- Having a colour between red and white; pale red.
- Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet.
- (informal) Relating to homosexuals as a group within society.
- By comparison to red (communist), supportive of socialist ideas but not actually socialist or communist.
- of a light shade of red
noun
- (regional) A young Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, before it becomes a smolt; a parr.
- (regional) The common minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus.
- Pale red.
- (historical) Any of various lake pigments or dyes in yellow, yellowish green or brown shades, made with plant coloring and a metallic oxide base.
- Any of various flowers of that colour in the genus Dianthus, sometimes called carnations.
- Magenta, the colour evoked by red and blue light when combined.
- (slang) The vagina or vulva.
- Alternative form of pinko.
- A color reminiscent of pinks, the flowers.
- Hunting pink; scarlet, as worn by hunters.
- (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, coloured pink, with a value of 6 points.
- (slang) An unlettered and uncultured, but relatively prosperous, member of the middle classes; compare Babbitt, bourgeoisie.
- A huntsman.
- a person with mildly leftist political views
- any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus cultivated for their fragrant flowers
- a light shade of red
verb
- To prick with a sword.
- To decorate a piece of clothing or fabric by adding holes or by scalloping the fringe.
- Of a motor car, to emit a high "pinking" noise, usually as a result of ill-set ignition timing for the fuel used (in a spark ignition engine).
- (intransitive) To become pink in color, to redden.
- To wound by irony, criticism, or ridicule.
- (transitive) To turn (a topaz or other gemstone) pink by the application of heat.
- Of a musical instrument, to sound a very high-pitched, short note.
- (transitive) To turn (something) pink.
- sound like a car engine that is firing too early
- make light, repeated taps on a surface
- cut in a zigzag pattern with pinking shears, in sewing
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- (New England) An informal beach party in which food, usually seafood, is cooked in a firepit dug in the sand, filled with hot coals.
- (slang, chiefly California, Northwestern US) An instance of smoking (usually marijuana) in an enclosed space.
- (slang, vulgar) A meeting of predominantly females.
- a cookout at the seashore where clams and fish and other foods are cooked — usually on heated stones covered with seaweed