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noun
- a gambler who throws dice in the game of craps
- (craps) The player throwing the dice.
- (sports) a player who drives or kicks a ball at the goal (or a basketball player who shoots at the basket)
- a large marble used for shooting in the game of marbles
- a professional killer who uses a gun
- a person who shoots (usually with respect to their ability to shoot)
- (rare) A shooting star.
- Someone who shoots something; a gunner, archer, etc.
- (cricket) A delivery that skids after pitching, instead of bouncing.
- (video games) A video game in which shooting enemies (or targets) is the main objective.
- An alcoholic beverage typically served in a shot glass.
- (by extension) A loyal advocate or fan.
- (professional wrestling slang) A professional wrestler who uses actual fighting moves as part of his style, or who speaks his mind during a live or televised event (instead of speaking from a script).
- (slang) A firearm.
- A large marble used for knocking smaller marbles out of a chalk circle.
- A device for shooting.
- (alternative medicine) A device supposed to accumulate orgone.
- (slang) A photographer or cameraman.
- (slang) An associate willing to act in one's defence or to act against one's enemies, especially by force.
noun
- (backgammon) An exposed piece in backgammon.
- A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance.
- (by extension) A stain on someone's reputation or character; a disgrace.
- (biochemistry) A method of transferring proteins, DNA or RNA, onto a carrier.
- a blemish made by dirt
- an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
verb
- (transitive) To dry (writing, etc.) with blotting paper.
- (transitive) To cause a blot (on something) by spilling a coloured substance.
- (backgammon, transitive) To hit a blot.
- (transitive) To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
- (transitive) To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
- (transitive, MLE) To sell illegal drugs, to deal, to push.
- (transitive) To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
- (transitive) To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
- (intransitive) To soak up or absorb liquid.
- (transitive) To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; generally with out.
- dry (ink) with blotting paper
- make a spot or mark onto
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verb
noun
- A Persian game similar to backgammon.
- (US, 1980s, slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
- American spikenard (Aralia racemosa), a North American perennial herb with an aromatic root.
- A flowering plant of species Nardostachys jatamansi, in the valerian family, that grows in the Himalayas and is used as a perfume, an incense, a sedative, and an herbal medicine.
- A fragrant oil from the plant, formerly much prized.
- an aromatic ointment used in antiquity
noun
- (snooker, billiards) Backspin.
- (vulgar, slang) A casual sexual partner.
- (nautical) A ship's propeller.
- A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a partially or completely threaded shank, sometimes with a threaded point, and a head used to both hold the top material and to drive the screw either directly into a soft material or into a prepared hole.
- An Archimedes screw.
- (informal, in the plural, with "the") Rheumatism.
- (vulgar, slang) Sexual intercourse; the act of screwing.
- (mathematics) A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated. It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis.
- (slang, derogatory) A prison guard.
- (slang, derogatory) An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint.
- An amphipod crustacean.
- A simple machine, a helical inclined plane.
- A steam vessel propelled by a screw instead of wheels.
- The motion of screwing something; a turn or twist to one side.
- a simple machine of the inclined-plane type consisting of a spirally threaded cylindrical rod that engages with a similarly threaded hole
- someone who guards prisoners
- a propeller with several angled blades that rotates to push against water or air
- slang for sexual intercourse
- a fastener with a tapered threaded shank and a slotted head
verb
- (transitive, slang) To cheat someone or ruin their chances in a game or other situation.
- (transitive) To contort.
- (ambitransitive, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
- (colloquial, transitive) To give up on, to abandon, delay, to not think about someone or something.
- (transitive) To connect or assemble pieces using a screw.
- (soccer, transitive) To miskick (a ball) by hitting it with the wrong part of the foot.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) To screw back.
- (transitive) To extort or practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions; to put the screws on.
- (colloquial, transitive, imperative, mildly vulgar) Used to express great displeasure with, or contemptuous dismissal of, someone or something.
- cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion
- have sexual intercourse with
- defeat someone through trickery or deceit
- tighten or fasten by means of screwing motions
- turn like a screw
noun
- (backgammon) A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
- (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
- Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
- (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
- (backgammon) A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
- A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
- In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
- An attack on a location, person or people.
- (figuratively) A blow; a calamitous or damaging occurrence.
- A collision of a projectile with the target.
- (computing, Internet) A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
- An approximately correct answer in a test set.
- A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
- (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
- the act of contacting one thing with another
- a connection made via the internet to another website
- a conspicuous success
- (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together
- a dose of a narcotic drug
- a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate
- (baseball) when a batter strikes a pitched ball into fair territory and arrives safely on base (without an error or a fielder's choice being made by the defense)
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- (backgammon) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
- (transitive) To affect negatively.
- (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
- (figurative, ambitransitive) To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.
- (figuratively) To attack.
- (transitive, slang) To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
- To guess; to light upon or discover.
- (intransitive, baseball) To come up to bat.
- (intransitive) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
- (transitive, colloquial) To switch on or switch off (lights).
- (transitive, informal) To reach or achieve.
- (transitive) To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.
- (transitive) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
- (transitive) To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
- (transitive, military) To attack, especially amphibiously.
- (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
- (transitive) To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
- (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
- (transitive, music, informal) To commence playing.
- (transitive, card games) In blackjack, to deal a card to.
- (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
- (transitive, bodybuilding) To work out.
- (intransitive) To strike against something.
- (transitive, bodybuilding) (of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.
- (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
- reach a destination, either real or abstract
- cause to experience suddenly
- hit against; come into sudden contact with
- hit the intended target or goal
- affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely
- make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target
- deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument
- drive something violently into a location
- cause to move by striking
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
- hit with a missile from a weapon
- produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments
- pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to
- encounter by chance
- reach a point in time, or a certain state or level
noun
- (rare) Backgammon (the game itself).
- (backgammon) A victory in backgammon achieved when the opponent has not borne off a single stone.
- A cut of quick-cured pork leg.
- (dialectal) A joke, trick; play, sport, merriment.
- (nautical) A rope fastening a bowsprit to the stem of a ship (usually called a gammoning).
- (neologism, derogatory, UK) A middle-aged or older right-wing, reactionary white man, or such men collectively.
- meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked)
- hind portion of a side of bacon
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- The person running a game of two-up.
- One who packs boxes.
- A letterboxer.
- Attributive form of boxers (“boxer shorts”).
- A breed of stocky, medium-sized, short-haired dog with a square-jawed muzzle.
- A type of internal combustion engine in which cylinders are arranged in two banks on either side of a single crankshaft.
- A participant in a boxing match; a fighter who boxes.
- a workman employed to pack things into containers
- someone who fights with their fists for sport
- a breed of stocky medium-sized short-haired dog with a brindled coat and square-jawed muzzle developed in Germany
noun
- (uncountable) A variant of backgammon.
- (poker, uncountable) An uncommon poker variant where players bet on whether the next card will fall between two other cards.
- (military, slang) An AC2: an RCAF Aircraftman 2nd Class.
- (poker slang) two pair, aces and twos.
- (poker slang) An ace and a two as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
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- A playing piece in the game of checkers (British: draughts), or certain other table games such as backgammon.
- One who makes a check mark.
- The clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment.
- The fruit of the wild service tree or chequer tree, Photinia villosa, syn. Sorbus terminalis
- A pattern of alternating colours as on a chessboard.
- One who or that which checks or verifies something.
- An individual square appearing in such a pattern.
- One who hinders or stops something.
- one of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers
- an attendant who checks coats or baggage
- one who checks the correctness of something
verb
- (transitive) To mark in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.
- (intransitive) To develop markings in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.
- variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns
- mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on
noun
- (gambling) A house player in a casino.
- An accomplice at a confidence trick during an auction or gambling game, such as an accomplice of the seller who bids to drive up the price.
- (derogatory) Any person enthusiastically endorsing a product; especially, one who is getting paid for the endorsement.
- A person paid to endorse a product while pretending to be impartial.
- a decoy who acts as an enthusiastic customer in order to stimulate the participation of others
verb
noun
- The person who deals the cards in a card game.
- One who deals in goods, especially automobiles; a middleman.
- A particular type of stock broker or trader.
- A drug dealer, one who peddles illicit drugs.
- One who deals or metes out anything.
- someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold
- the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for their own account
- a seller of illicit goods
- a firm engaged in trading
- the person who distributes the playing cards in a card game
noun
- a card game played by one person
- extinct flightless bird related to the dodo
- a gem (usually a diamond) in a setting by itself
- a dull grey North American thrush noted for its beautiful song
- (card games, chiefly US) Any of various card games that can be played by one person.
- Ellipsis of Rodrigues solitaire (Pezophaps solitaria), an extinct bird related to the dodo.
- One of several American species of bird in the genus Myadestes in the thrush family.
- A person who lives alone; a recluse or hermit.
- (jewelry) A single gem, usually a diamond, mounted in a piece of jewellery by itself.
- (board games) A game for one person, played on a board with pegs or balls, in which the object is, beginning with all the places filled except one, to remove all but one of the pieces by "jumping", as in draughts.
- Ellipsis of Réunion solitaire (Raphus solitarius, now Threskiornis solitarius), an extinct bird formerly believed to be related to the dodo.
adj
noun
- The playing of a game.
- (Internet slang) Used in noun compounds to describe anything that is decorated in rainbow colors, in a parody of LED-equipped peripherals marketed as "gaming mice", etc.
- Ellipsis of videogaming.
- Synonym of gambling.
- Careful, strategic use of rules to achieve one's purposes, as one would use the rules of a game.
- the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize)
verb
noun
- (backgammon) Any of the twenty-four points on a backgammon board.
- (military, fortification) An earthwork consisting of two berms forming an angle with an open gorge.
- (architecture) A spire or steeple, especially of Gothic style; an object emerging from the ridge of a roof.
- (fencing) A method of attack with a sword (foil or épée) in which the attacker's back leg crosses in front of the front leg in the offensive move.
verb
noun
- Somebody who pretends to be an amateur at a game in order to win bets.
- A male prostitute who sells his services to men.
- A prostitute.
- A charlatan, huckster, grifter, swindler, a scoundrel.
- One who rushes or hurries; an energetic person.
- (corporate jargon) One who is willing to suffer the most for the sake of company profits; a hard worker.
- A pimp.
- a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets
- a shrewd or unscrupulous person who knows how to circumvent difficulties
noun
- (backgammon) A form of analysis in which the same position is played many times (with different dice rolls) and the various outcomes are recorded.
- (poker) A game variant in which players progressively reveal their cards.
- (HVAC) A malfunction in a gas furnace where gas burns outside the combustion chamber. Such a malfunction can cause damage to the furnace, carbon monoxide poisoning, or start a fire.
- An act of rolling out; gradual deployment.
- (aviation) The phase of a landing after touchdown but before the aircraft slows to taxi speed.
- (American football) A play in which a quarterback moves toward the sideline before attempting to pass.
adj
- (poker) Using a strategy which involves playing very few hands.
- (poker) Of a player, who plays very few hands.
- (informal, figurative, of persons or relationships) Intimate, close, close-knit, intimately friendly.
- Fitting close, or too close, to the body.
- (of a space, design or arrangement) Narrow, such that it is difficult for something or someone to pass through it.
- Well-rehearsed and accurate in execution.
- (colloquial) Scarce, hard to come by.
- Of a turn, sharp, so that the timeframe for making it is narrow and following it is difficult.
- Lacking holes; difficult to penetrate; waterproof.
- (slang) Intoxicated; drunk.
- (slang, figurative, usually derogatory) Miserly or frugal.
- (US, slang, motor racing) With understeer, primarily used to describe NASCAR stock cars.
- Unyielding or firm.
- (of time) Limited or restricted.
- (sports) Not conceding many goals.
- (New York, slang) Angry or irritated.
- (slang, Northern England, chiefly Liverpool) Mean; unfair; unkind.
- Under high tension; taut.
- (slang) Short of money.
- (slang) Extraordinarily great or special.
- (slang, vulgar) Of a person, having a tight vagina or anus.
- Close, very similar in a value such as score or time.
- Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
- closely constrained or constricted or constricting
- securely or solidly fixed in place; rigid
- (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched
- of textiles
- pulled or drawn tight
- set so close together as to be invulnerable to penetration
- very drunk
- demanding strict attention to rules and procedures
- of such close construction as to be impermeable
- pressed tightly together
- affected by scarcity and expensive to borrow
- exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent
- packed closely together
- (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity
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- A board game for two players in which each has 15 stones which move between 24 triangular points according to the roll of a pair of dice; the object is to move all of one's pieces around, and bear them off the board.
- (backgammon) A victory in the game when the loser has not borne off a stone, and still has one or more stones in the winner's inner home row or on the bar.
- a board game for two players; pieces move according to throws of the dice
name
- Initialism of World Backgammon Federation.
- Initialism of World Branding Forum.
- Initialism of World Badminton Federation.
- Initialism of World Banana Forum.
- Initialism of World Boxing Federation.
- Initialism of World Business Forum.
- Initialism of World Baptist Fellowship.
- Initialism of World Bodybuilding Federation.
- Initialism of World Bridge Federation.
- Initialism of World Bodypainting Festival.
noun
- a card player in a game of bridge
- a member of the crew of a ship
- a unit of length equal to 4 inches; used in measuring horses
- a rotating pointer on the face of a timepiece
- one of two sides of an issue
- the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb
- a hired laborer on a farm or ranch
- terminal part of the forelimb in certain vertebrates (e.g. apes or kangaroos)
- a round of applause to signify approval
- ability
- physical assistance
- a position given by its location to the side of an object
- something written by hand
- the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time
- A round of a card game.
- A side; part, camp; direction, either right or left.
- Promise, word; especially of a betrothal.
- (historical) A Native American gambling game, involving guessing the whereabouts of bits of ivory or similar, which are passed rapidly from hand to hand.
- Personal possession; ownership.
- (chiefly in the plural) Management, domain, control.
- An instance of helping.
- Handwriting; style of penmanship.
- (card games) The set of cards held by a player.
- The feel of a fabric; the impression or quality of the fabric as judged qualitatively by the sense of touch.
- (colloquial, chiefly in the negative plural) A hand which is free to assist; especially due to having one's hands full or otherwise fully preoccupied.
- Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity.
- (especially in compounds) An agent; a servant, or manual laborer; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty.
- Applause.
- (collective) A bunch of bananas, a typical retail amount, where individual fruits are fingers.
- A performer more or less skilful.
- (chiefly in measuring the height of horses) Four inches, a hand's breadth.
- A person's autograph or signature.
- A whole rhizome of ginger.
- The part of the forelimb below the forearm or wrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other animals.
- A limb of certain animals, such as the foot of a hawk, or any one of the four extremities of a monkey.
- (firearms) The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.
- (tobacco manufacturing) A bundle of tobacco leaves tied together.
- An index or pointer on a dial; such as the hour and minute hands on the face of an analog clock, which are used to indicate the time of day.
verb
- guide or conduct or usher somewhere
- place into the hands or custody of
- (transitive, nautical) To furl (a sail).
- (ditransitive) To give, pass or transmit with the hand, literally or figuratively.
- (transitive) To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct.
- (transitive, rare) To pledge by the hand; to handfast.
noun
- (backgammon) The raised edge of the game board.
- Any of several birds in the family Rallidae.
- A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing.
- The metal bar forming part of the track for a railroad.
- (drugs) A large line (portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug).
- A horizontal piece of wood that serves to separate sections of a door or window.
- A railroad; a railway, as a means of transportation.
- (electronics) A conductor maintained at a fixed electrical potential relative to ground, to which other circuit components are connected.
- (surfing) One of the lengthwise edges of a surfboard.
- (Internet) A vertical section on one side of a web page.
- Each of two vertical side bars supporting the rungs of a ladder.
- any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud
- a horizontal bar (usually of wood or metal)
- short for railway
- a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports
- a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
verb
- (transitive, rail transport, of rolling stock) To place on a track.
- To complain violently (against, about).
- (transitive, slang, drugs) To snort a line of powdered drugs.
- (transitive) To enclose with rails or a railing.
- (intransitive) To travel by railway.
- (transitive, vulgar, slang) To sexually penetrate in a rough manner.
- (transitive) To range in a line.
- complain bitterly
- spread negative information about
- lay with rails
- provide with rails
- criticize severely
- convey (goods etc.) by rails
- travel by rail or train
- fish with a handline over the rails of a boat
- enclose with rails
- separate with a railing
noun
- A trick-taking card game for two players.
- The act of taking certain cards in this game: the queen of spades and jack of diamonds, or (if either of those suits is trumps) the queen of clubs and jack of hearts.
- a card game played with a pack of forty-eight cards (two of each suit for high cards); play resembles whist
noun
- A dealer in gambling who gathers the dice with a stick.
- (slang) A cocksman.
- A player in a game played with a stick (such as hockey or lacrosse).
- (music) A male drummer.
- A simple drawing of a man with lines to represent limbs and torso.
- (US) A person who makes confectionery by pulling candy onto a stick.
- A stick seller, especially of walking sticks.
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- a gambler who throws dice in the game of craps
- (craps) The player throwing the dice.
- (sports) a player who drives or kicks a ball at the goal (or a basketball player who shoots at the basket)
- a large marble used for shooting in the game of marbles
- a professional killer who uses a gun
- a person who shoots (usually with respect to their ability to shoot)
- (rare) A shooting star.
- Someone who shoots something; a gunner, archer, etc.
- (cricket) A delivery that skids after pitching, instead of bouncing.
- (video games) A video game in which shooting enemies (or targets) is the main objective.
- An alcoholic beverage typically served in a shot glass.
- (by extension) A loyal advocate or fan.
- (professional wrestling slang) A professional wrestler who uses actual fighting moves as part of his style, or who speaks his mind during a live or televised event (instead of speaking from a script).
- (slang) A firearm.
- A large marble used for knocking smaller marbles out of a chalk circle.
- A device for shooting.
- (alternative medicine) A device supposed to accumulate orgone.
- (slang) A photographer or cameraman.
- (slang) An associate willing to act in one's defence or to act against one's enemies, especially by force.
noun
- (backgammon) An exposed piece in backgammon.
- A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance.
- (by extension) A stain on someone's reputation or character; a disgrace.
- (biochemistry) A method of transferring proteins, DNA or RNA, onto a carrier.
- a blemish made by dirt
- an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
verb
- (transitive) To dry (writing, etc.) with blotting paper.
- (transitive) To cause a blot (on something) by spilling a coloured substance.
- (backgammon, transitive) To hit a blot.
- (transitive) To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
- (transitive) To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
- (transitive, MLE) To sell illegal drugs, to deal, to push.
- (transitive) To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
- (transitive) To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
- (intransitive) To soak up or absorb liquid.
- (transitive) To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; generally with out.
- dry (ink) with blotting paper
- make a spot or mark onto
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- A Persian game similar to backgammon.
- (US, 1980s, slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
- American spikenard (Aralia racemosa), a North American perennial herb with an aromatic root.
- A flowering plant of species Nardostachys jatamansi, in the valerian family, that grows in the Himalayas and is used as a perfume, an incense, a sedative, and an herbal medicine.
- A fragrant oil from the plant, formerly much prized.
- an aromatic ointment used in antiquity
noun
- (snooker, billiards) Backspin.
- (vulgar, slang) A casual sexual partner.
- (nautical) A ship's propeller.
- A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a partially or completely threaded shank, sometimes with a threaded point, and a head used to both hold the top material and to drive the screw either directly into a soft material or into a prepared hole.
- An Archimedes screw.
- (informal, in the plural, with "the") Rheumatism.
- (vulgar, slang) Sexual intercourse; the act of screwing.
- (mathematics) A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated. It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis.
- (slang, derogatory) A prison guard.
- (slang, derogatory) An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint.
- An amphipod crustacean.
- A simple machine, a helical inclined plane.
- A steam vessel propelled by a screw instead of wheels.
- The motion of screwing something; a turn or twist to one side.
- a simple machine of the inclined-plane type consisting of a spirally threaded cylindrical rod that engages with a similarly threaded hole
- someone who guards prisoners
- a propeller with several angled blades that rotates to push against water or air
- slang for sexual intercourse
- a fastener with a tapered threaded shank and a slotted head
verb
- (transitive, slang) To cheat someone or ruin their chances in a game or other situation.
- (transitive) To contort.
- (ambitransitive, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
- (colloquial, transitive) To give up on, to abandon, delay, to not think about someone or something.
- (transitive) To connect or assemble pieces using a screw.
- (soccer, transitive) To miskick (a ball) by hitting it with the wrong part of the foot.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) To screw back.
- (transitive) To extort or practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions; to put the screws on.
- (colloquial, transitive, imperative, mildly vulgar) Used to express great displeasure with, or contemptuous dismissal of, someone or something.
- cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion
- have sexual intercourse with
- defeat someone through trickery or deceit
- tighten or fasten by means of screwing motions
- turn like a screw
noun
- (backgammon) A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
- (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
- Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
- (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
- (backgammon) A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
- A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
- In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
- An attack on a location, person or people.
- (figuratively) A blow; a calamitous or damaging occurrence.
- A collision of a projectile with the target.
- (computing, Internet) A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
- An approximately correct answer in a test set.
- A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
- (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
- the act of contacting one thing with another
- a connection made via the internet to another website
- a conspicuous success
- (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together
- a dose of a narcotic drug
- a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate
- (baseball) when a batter strikes a pitched ball into fair territory and arrives safely on base (without an error or a fielder's choice being made by the defense)
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- (backgammon) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
- (transitive) To affect negatively.
- (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
- (figurative, ambitransitive) To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.
- (figuratively) To attack.
- (transitive, slang) To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
- To guess; to light upon or discover.
- (intransitive, baseball) To come up to bat.
- (intransitive) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
- (transitive, colloquial) To switch on or switch off (lights).
- (transitive, informal) To reach or achieve.
- (transitive) To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.
- (transitive) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
- (transitive) To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
- (transitive, military) To attack, especially amphibiously.
- (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
- (transitive) To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
- (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
- (transitive, music, informal) To commence playing.
- (transitive, card games) In blackjack, to deal a card to.
- (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
- (transitive, bodybuilding) To work out.
- (intransitive) To strike against something.
- (transitive, bodybuilding) (of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.
- (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
- reach a destination, either real or abstract
- cause to experience suddenly
- hit against; come into sudden contact with
- hit the intended target or goal
- affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely
- make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target
- deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument
- drive something violently into a location
- cause to move by striking
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
- hit with a missile from a weapon
- produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments
- pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to
- encounter by chance
- reach a point in time, or a certain state or level
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- (rare) Backgammon (the game itself).
- (backgammon) A victory in backgammon achieved when the opponent has not borne off a single stone.
- A cut of quick-cured pork leg.
- (dialectal) A joke, trick; play, sport, merriment.
- (nautical) A rope fastening a bowsprit to the stem of a ship (usually called a gammoning).
- (neologism, derogatory, UK) A middle-aged or older right-wing, reactionary white man, or such men collectively.
- meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked)
- hind portion of a side of bacon
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- The person running a game of two-up.
- One who packs boxes.
- A letterboxer.
- Attributive form of boxers (“boxer shorts”).
- A breed of stocky, medium-sized, short-haired dog with a square-jawed muzzle.
- A type of internal combustion engine in which cylinders are arranged in two banks on either side of a single crankshaft.
- A participant in a boxing match; a fighter who boxes.
- a workman employed to pack things into containers
- someone who fights with their fists for sport
- a breed of stocky medium-sized short-haired dog with a brindled coat and square-jawed muzzle developed in Germany
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- (uncountable) A variant of backgammon.
- (poker, uncountable) An uncommon poker variant where players bet on whether the next card will fall between two other cards.
- (military, slang) An AC2: an RCAF Aircraftman 2nd Class.
- (poker slang) two pair, aces and twos.
- (poker slang) An ace and a two as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
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- A playing piece in the game of checkers (British: draughts), or certain other table games such as backgammon.
- One who makes a check mark.
- The clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment.
- The fruit of the wild service tree or chequer tree, Photinia villosa, syn. Sorbus terminalis
- A pattern of alternating colours as on a chessboard.
- One who or that which checks or verifies something.
- An individual square appearing in such a pattern.
- One who hinders or stops something.
- one of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers
- an attendant who checks coats or baggage
- one who checks the correctness of something
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- (transitive) To mark in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.
- (intransitive) To develop markings in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.
- variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns
- mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on
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- (gambling) A house player in a casino.
- An accomplice at a confidence trick during an auction or gambling game, such as an accomplice of the seller who bids to drive up the price.
- (derogatory) Any person enthusiastically endorsing a product; especially, one who is getting paid for the endorsement.
- A person paid to endorse a product while pretending to be impartial.
- a decoy who acts as an enthusiastic customer in order to stimulate the participation of others
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- The person who deals the cards in a card game.
- One who deals in goods, especially automobiles; a middleman.
- A particular type of stock broker or trader.
- A drug dealer, one who peddles illicit drugs.
- One who deals or metes out anything.
- someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold
- the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for their own account
- a seller of illicit goods
- a firm engaged in trading
- the person who distributes the playing cards in a card game
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- a card game played by one person
- extinct flightless bird related to the dodo
- a gem (usually a diamond) in a setting by itself
- a dull grey North American thrush noted for its beautiful song
- (card games, chiefly US) Any of various card games that can be played by one person.
- Ellipsis of Rodrigues solitaire (Pezophaps solitaria), an extinct bird related to the dodo.
- One of several American species of bird in the genus Myadestes in the thrush family.
- A person who lives alone; a recluse or hermit.
- (jewelry) A single gem, usually a diamond, mounted in a piece of jewellery by itself.
- (board games) A game for one person, played on a board with pegs or balls, in which the object is, beginning with all the places filled except one, to remove all but one of the pieces by "jumping", as in draughts.
- Ellipsis of Réunion solitaire (Raphus solitarius, now Threskiornis solitarius), an extinct bird formerly believed to be related to the dodo.
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- The playing of a game.
- (Internet slang) Used in noun compounds to describe anything that is decorated in rainbow colors, in a parody of LED-equipped peripherals marketed as "gaming mice", etc.
- Ellipsis of videogaming.
- Synonym of gambling.
- Careful, strategic use of rules to achieve one's purposes, as one would use the rules of a game.
- the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize)
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- (backgammon) Any of the twenty-four points on a backgammon board.
- (military, fortification) An earthwork consisting of two berms forming an angle with an open gorge.
- (architecture) A spire or steeple, especially of Gothic style; an object emerging from the ridge of a roof.
- (fencing) A method of attack with a sword (foil or épée) in which the attacker's back leg crosses in front of the front leg in the offensive move.
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- Somebody who pretends to be an amateur at a game in order to win bets.
- A male prostitute who sells his services to men.
- A prostitute.
- A charlatan, huckster, grifter, swindler, a scoundrel.
- One who rushes or hurries; an energetic person.
- (corporate jargon) One who is willing to suffer the most for the sake of company profits; a hard worker.
- A pimp.
- a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets
- a shrewd or unscrupulous person who knows how to circumvent difficulties
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- (backgammon) A form of analysis in which the same position is played many times (with different dice rolls) and the various outcomes are recorded.
- (poker) A game variant in which players progressively reveal their cards.
- (HVAC) A malfunction in a gas furnace where gas burns outside the combustion chamber. Such a malfunction can cause damage to the furnace, carbon monoxide poisoning, or start a fire.
- An act of rolling out; gradual deployment.
- (aviation) The phase of a landing after touchdown but before the aircraft slows to taxi speed.
- (American football) A play in which a quarterback moves toward the sideline before attempting to pass.
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- a card player in a game of bridge
- a member of the crew of a ship
- a unit of length equal to 4 inches; used in measuring horses
- a rotating pointer on the face of a timepiece
- one of two sides of an issue
- the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb
- a hired laborer on a farm or ranch
- terminal part of the forelimb in certain vertebrates (e.g. apes or kangaroos)
- a round of applause to signify approval
- ability
- physical assistance
- a position given by its location to the side of an object
- something written by hand
- the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time
- A round of a card game.
- A side; part, camp; direction, either right or left.
- Promise, word; especially of a betrothal.
- (historical) A Native American gambling game, involving guessing the whereabouts of bits of ivory or similar, which are passed rapidly from hand to hand.
- Personal possession; ownership.
- (chiefly in the plural) Management, domain, control.
- An instance of helping.
- Handwriting; style of penmanship.
- (card games) The set of cards held by a player.
- The feel of a fabric; the impression or quality of the fabric as judged qualitatively by the sense of touch.
- (colloquial, chiefly in the negative plural) A hand which is free to assist; especially due to having one's hands full or otherwise fully preoccupied.
- Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity.
- (especially in compounds) An agent; a servant, or manual laborer; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty.
- Applause.
- (collective) A bunch of bananas, a typical retail amount, where individual fruits are fingers.
- A performer more or less skilful.
- (chiefly in measuring the height of horses) Four inches, a hand's breadth.
- A person's autograph or signature.
- A whole rhizome of ginger.
- The part of the forelimb below the forearm or wrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other animals.
- A limb of certain animals, such as the foot of a hawk, or any one of the four extremities of a monkey.
- (firearms) The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.
- (tobacco manufacturing) A bundle of tobacco leaves tied together.
- An index or pointer on a dial; such as the hour and minute hands on the face of an analog clock, which are used to indicate the time of day.
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- guide or conduct or usher somewhere
- place into the hands or custody of
- (transitive, nautical) To furl (a sail).
- (ditransitive) To give, pass or transmit with the hand, literally or figuratively.
- (transitive) To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct.
- (transitive, rare) To pledge by the hand; to handfast.
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- (backgammon) The raised edge of the game board.
- Any of several birds in the family Rallidae.
- A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing.
- The metal bar forming part of the track for a railroad.
- (drugs) A large line (portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug).
- A horizontal piece of wood that serves to separate sections of a door or window.
- A railroad; a railway, as a means of transportation.
- (electronics) A conductor maintained at a fixed electrical potential relative to ground, to which other circuit components are connected.
- (surfing) One of the lengthwise edges of a surfboard.
- (Internet) A vertical section on one side of a web page.
- Each of two vertical side bars supporting the rungs of a ladder.
- any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud
- a horizontal bar (usually of wood or metal)
- short for railway
- a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports
- a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
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- (transitive, rail transport, of rolling stock) To place on a track.
- To complain violently (against, about).
- (transitive, slang, drugs) To snort a line of powdered drugs.
- (transitive) To enclose with rails or a railing.
- (intransitive) To travel by railway.
- (transitive, vulgar, slang) To sexually penetrate in a rough manner.
- (transitive) To range in a line.
- complain bitterly
- spread negative information about
- lay with rails
- provide with rails
- criticize severely
- convey (goods etc.) by rails
- travel by rail or train
- fish with a handline over the rails of a boat
- enclose with rails
- separate with a railing
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- A trick-taking card game for two players.
- The act of taking certain cards in this game: the queen of spades and jack of diamonds, or (if either of those suits is trumps) the queen of clubs and jack of hearts.
- a card game played with a pack of forty-eight cards (two of each suit for high cards); play resembles whist
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- A dealer in gambling who gathers the dice with a stick.
- (slang) A cocksman.
- A player in a game played with a stick (such as hockey or lacrosse).
- (music) A male drummer.
- A simple drawing of a man with lines to represent limbs and torso.
- (US) A person who makes confectionery by pulling candy onto a stick.
- A stick seller, especially of walking sticks.
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- A board game for two players in which each has 15 stones which move between 24 triangular points according to the roll of a pair of dice; the object is to move all of one's pieces around, and bear them off the board.
- (backgammon) A victory in the game when the loser has not borne off a stone, and still has one or more stones in the winner's inner home row or on the bar.
- a board game for two players; pieces move according to throws of the dice
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- (poker) Using a strategy which involves playing very few hands.
- (poker) Of a player, who plays very few hands.
- (informal, figurative, of persons or relationships) Intimate, close, close-knit, intimately friendly.
- Fitting close, or too close, to the body.
- (of a space, design or arrangement) Narrow, such that it is difficult for something or someone to pass through it.
- Well-rehearsed and accurate in execution.
- (colloquial) Scarce, hard to come by.
- Of a turn, sharp, so that the timeframe for making it is narrow and following it is difficult.
- Lacking holes; difficult to penetrate; waterproof.
- (slang) Intoxicated; drunk.
- (slang, figurative, usually derogatory) Miserly or frugal.
- (US, slang, motor racing) With understeer, primarily used to describe NASCAR stock cars.
- Unyielding or firm.
- (of time) Limited or restricted.
- (sports) Not conceding many goals.
- (New York, slang) Angry or irritated.
- (slang, Northern England, chiefly Liverpool) Mean; unfair; unkind.
- Under high tension; taut.
- (slang) Short of money.
- (slang) Extraordinarily great or special.
- (slang, vulgar) Of a person, having a tight vagina or anus.
- Close, very similar in a value such as score or time.
- Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
- closely constrained or constricted or constricting
- securely or solidly fixed in place; rigid
- (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched
- of textiles
- pulled or drawn tight
- set so close together as to be invulnerable to penetration
- very drunk
- demanding strict attention to rules and procedures
- of such close construction as to be impermeable
- pressed tightly together
- affected by scarcity and expensive to borrow
- exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent
- packed closely together
- (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity