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verb
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- To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.
- (mining) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.
- (fishing) To fish with a jig.
- To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.
- To sing to the tune of a jig.
- To skip school or be truant.
- To move briskly, especially as a dance.
- To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks.
- dance a quick dance with leaping and kicking motions
noun
- (music) A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.
- (mining) An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.
- (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.
- A device in manufacturing, woodworking, or other creative endeavors for controlling the location, path of movement, or both of either a workpiece or the tool that is operating upon it. Subsets of this general class include machining jigs, woodworking jigs, welders' jigs, jewelers' jigs, and many others.
- (traditional Irish music and dance) A lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig.
- (traditional English Morris dance) A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team.
- a device that holds a piece of machine work and guides the tools operating on it
- a fisherman's lure with one or more hooks that is jerked up and down in the water
- any of various old rustic dances involving kicking and leaping
- music in three-four time for dancing a jig
noun
verb
- (transitive) To deceive; cheat.
- (intransitive, of the eye) To quail.
- (transitive) To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear.
- (intransitive) To fly off; to turn aside.
- (transitive) To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.
- (intransitive) To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.
- turn pale, as if in fear
verb
noun
- the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
- Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.
- Alternative form of gyle.
- (uncountable) Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.
- shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
- the quality of being crafty
adj
verb
noun
- Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle.
- An effective, clever or quick way of doing something.
- (card games) A sequence in which each player plays a card and a winning play is determined.
- (nautical) A sailor's spell of work at the helm, usually two hours long.
- A knot, braid, or plait of hair.
- (slang) A customer or client of a prostitute.
- (heraldry) A representation of arms that is drawn as an outline with labels to indicate colors.
- An entertaining difficult physical action.
- (Western Pennsylvania) A daily period of work, especially in shift-based jobs.
- Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank.
- (slang, vulgar) A term of abuse.
- (slang) A sex act, chiefly one performed for payment; an act of prostitution.
- A single element of a magician's (or any variety entertainer's) act; a magic trick.
- (card games) in a single round, the sequence of cards played by all the players; the high card is the winner
- a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement
- a cunning or deceitful action or device
- a prostitute's customer
- an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent
- an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
- a period of work or duty
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verb
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- That part of a variable resistor or potentiometer that rides over the resistance wire
- (UK, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.
- (Ireland, crime, slang) A rapist.
- (in combination) An operator of some machinery or apparatus.
- One who rides racehorses competitively.
- someone employed to ride horses in horse races
- an operator of some vehicle or machine or apparatus
noun
- An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.
- An act of deceiving someone.
- (law) The tort or fraudulent representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or recklessly, or without reasonable grounds for believing its truth and with intent to induce reliance on it; the plaintiff justifiably relies on the deception, to his injury.
- (uncountable) The state of being deceitful or deceptive.
- the quality of being fraudulent
- the act of deceiving
- a misleading falsehood
verb
- To deceptively trick into something wrong.
- To deceive by telling lies or otherwise giving a false impression.
- (literally) To lead astray, in a false direction.
- (loosely) To accidentally or intentionally confuse.
- give false or misleading information to
- lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions
noun
verb
noun
- something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
- pretentious or silly talk or writing
- communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive
- (countable, slang) A fraud or sham; (uncountable) hypocrisy.
- (US, countable, slang) Anything complicated, offensive, troublesome, unpleasant or worrying; a misunderstanding, especially if trivial.
- (uncountable, slang) Nonsense.
- (countable, US, crime, slang) A false arrest on trumped-up charges.
- (countable, British) A type of hard sweet (candy), usually peppermint flavoured with a striped pattern.
- (countable, slang) A cheat, fraudster, or hypocrite.
- (US, countable, African-American Vernacular, slang) A fight.
- (countable, slang) A hoax, jest, or prank.
- (countable, slang, perhaps by extension) The piglet of the wild boar.
intj
verb
- To deceive; to hoodwink.
- fool or hoax
- (transitive) To allow a person or an animal to live in one's home.
- (nautical) To reef.
- (transitive, climbing) To tighten (a belaying rope).
- (transitive) To shorten (a garment) or make it smaller.
- (transitive) To receive and properly absorb or comprehend.
- (transitive) To enjoy or appreciate.
- (transitive) To receive.
- (transitive) To arrest (a person).
- (transitive) To receive (goods) into one's home for the purpose of processing for a fee.
- (transitive) To attend a showing of.
- hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers
- take into one's family
- serve oneself to, or consume regularly
- accept
- take up as if with a sponge
- fold up
- earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- express willingness to have in one's home or environs
- call for and obtain payment of
- make (clothes) smaller
- suck or take up or in
- take up mentally
- provide with shelter
- see or watch
- take in, also metaphorically
- visit for entertainment
noun
- A fool.
- (nautical) A small auxiliary engine.
- A domestic animal, Equus asinus asinus, similar to a horse.
- A stubborn person.
- (UK, nautical) A sailor's storage chest.
- (poker slang) A bad poker player.
- domestic beast of burden descended from the African wild ass; patient but stubborn
- the symbol of the Democratic Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874
noun
noun
- A fool.
- A split, salted and smoked herring or salmon.
- (Australia) A young Aboriginal man who has been initiated into to the rights of manhood.
- (endearing) A child or young person.
- (UK, slang) The vagina.
- (UK, informal, humorous, often with capital) A member or supporter of UKIP (UK Independence Party).
- A male salmon after spawning.
- (military, RAF World War II code name) A patrol to protect fishing boats in the Irish and North Seas against attack from the air.
- (UK, naval slang) A torpedo.
- (Australia, slang) An Englishman who has moved to Australia.
- salted and smoked herring
adj
verb
- To dry out with heat or harsh chemicals; to desiccate.
- (by extension) To damage or treat with smoke.
- (cooking) To prepare (a herring or similar fish) by splitting, salting, and smoking.
- To punish by spanking or caning.
- To utterly defeat or humiliate.
- To lead astray or frame; to cause to get into trouble.
- To drink or give a drink of alcohol, especially to intoxication.
noun
- A fool.
- The rowel of a spur.
- (heraldry) A star with straight edges and usually with five or six points.
- (especially US) A fish of the family Mugilidae (order Mugiliformes) (grey mullets).
- A fish of the family Mullidae (order Syngnathiformes), especially the genus Mullus (red mullets or goatfish).
- A hairstyle where the hair is kept short on the top and sides and long at the back.
- (US) Any of several species of freshwater fish in the sucker family (especially in the genus Moxostoma, redhorses)
- (slang) A person who mindlessly follows a fad, a trend, or a leader.
- freshwater or coastal food fishes a spindle-shaped body; found worldwide
- highly valued lean flesh of marine or freshwater mullet
- bottom dwelling marine warm water fishes with two barbels on the chin
noun
verb
- deceive by a mock action
- To direct (a blow, thrust, or other offensive movement resembling an attack) on some part of the body, intended to distract from a real attack on another part.
- (rare) To direct a feint or mock attack against (someone).
- (intransitive, boxing, fencing, also often military) To make a feint or mock attack.
noun
- any distracting or deceptive maneuver (as a mock attack)
- (figuratively) Something feigned; a false or pretend appearance; a pretence or stratagem.
- (often military) A movement made to confuse an opponent; a dummy.
- (boxing, fencing) A blow, thrust, or other offensive movement resembling an attack on some part of the body, intended to distract from a real attack on another part.
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- Someone who has been made a fool of or tricked; dupe.
- (informal) Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
- (tarot, often capitalized Fool) A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester.
- (cooking) A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.
- (slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular, Hispanic) An informal greeting akin to buddy, dude, or man.
- (derogatory, slang) A tankie.
- (historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
- (literature) A stock character typified by unintelligence, naïveté or lucklessness, usually as a form of comic relief; often used as a source of insight or pathos for the audience, as such characters are generally less bound by social expectations.
- (derogatory) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
- a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages
- a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
- a person who lacks good judgment
adj
verb
- To practise deceit or stealth; to cheat, to deceive, to trick.
- To apply, enforce, or establish (something, often regarded as burdensome as a restriction or tax: see verb sense 1.2.1) with authority.
- To affect authoritatively or forcefully; to influence strongly.
- To encroach or intrude, especially in a manner regarded as unfair or unwarranted; to presume, to take advantage of; also, to be a burden or inconvenience.
- compel to behave in a certain way
- impose something unpleasant
- impose and collect
verb
- (transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.
- (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner; to commit adultery, or to engage in sexual or romantic conduct with a person other than one's partner in contravention of the rules of society or agreement in the relationship.
- (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.
- (informal, intransitive) To disregard self-imposed restrictions or commitments in favour of resting or indulging oneself.
- (transitive) To avoid a seemingly inevitable thing.
- engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
- be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
- defeat someone through trickery or deceit
- deprive somebody of something by deceit
noun
- (uncountable) The weed cheatgrass.
- (countable) Someone who cheats.
- (card games, uncountable) A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
- (countable) An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.
- (video games, countable) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.
- someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
- weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat
- the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
- a deception for profit to yourself
- weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
verb
noun
- (slang) A cheating trick; a fraud.
- A seabird of the genus Larus or of the subfamily Larinae.
- One easily cheated; a dupe.
- Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Cepora.
- (dialectal) A channel made by a stream; a natural watercourse; running water.
- A stupid animal.
- (dialectal) A breach or hole made by the force of a torrent; fissure, chasm.
- a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
- mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs
noun
- A trick or deception put or laid on others.
- (UK, school or university slang) A task imposed on a student as punishment.
- (religion) A practice of laying hands on a person in a religious ceremony; used e.g. in confirmation and ordination.
- (printing) Arrangement of a printed product’s pages on the printer's sheet so as to have the pages in proper order in the final product.
- The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.
- An unwelcome burden, presence, or obligation.
- That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined.
- an uncalled-for burden
- the act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo)
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noun
- (informal, TikTok) A counterfeit; a fake.
- (informal, by extension) A cheap consumer product intended to imitate a more expensive product.
- (video games) An unanticipated method or incident by which duplicates of in-game items are created; a duplication glitch.
- (food service, hospitality) A duplicate of an order receipt printed for kitchen staff.
- (photography) A duplicate of a photographic image.
- A person who has been deceived.
- (crosswording) A word which appears more than once in a crossword puzzle.
- (video games, Minecraft) An in-game item that was created by means of a duplication glitch.
- a person who is tricked or swindled
noun
- A trick or con.
- (informal, uncountable) Clipping of gaffer tape.
- (nautical) The upper spar used to control a gaff-rigged sail.
- A minor error or faux pas, a gaffe.
- Rough or harsh treatment; criticism.
- (UK, Ireland, slang) A place of residence.
- A tool consisting of a large metal hook with a handle or pole, especially the one used to pull large fish aboard a boat.
- (LGBTQ) A type of tight, panty-like underwear worn to hold the penis and testicles tucked backwards and make one's genital region look smooth, as if one had a vulva.
- an iron hook with a handle; used for landing large fish
- a spar rising aft from a mast to support the head of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail
- a sharp metal spike or spur that is fastened to the leg of a gamecock
verb
noun
- something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
- intentional deception resulting in injury to another person
- a person who makes deceitful pretenses
- the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
- (law) The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.
- The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
- Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved or unlawful gain.
- A person who performs any such trick.
noun
- A trick or deception; a falsehood.
- An unimportant individual in a greater system.
- Alternative form of cogue (“wooden vessel for milk”).
- (carpentry) A projection or tenon at the end of a beam designed to fit into a matching opening of another piece of wood to form a joint.
- (historical) The hypothetical precursor ship type of the above said to be in use during the early Middle Ages, variously alleged to be Frisian or Scandinavian.
- (mining) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
- A gear; especially, a cogwheel.
- (historical) A partially clinker-built, flat-bottomed, square-rigged mediaeval ship of burden or war, with a round, bulky hull and a single mast, typically 15 to 25 meters in length, in use from ca. 1150 to 1500.
- (physics) Initialism of center of gravity
- (by extension) A small fishing boat.
- A tooth on a gear.
- a subordinate who performs an important but routine function
- tooth on the rim of gear wheel
verb
- To load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat.
- To furnish with a cog or cogs.
- To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
- To plagiarize.
- To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; to palm off.
- To cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently.
- (intransitive) Of an electric motor or generator, to snap preferentially to certain positions when not energized.
- roll steel ingots
- join pieces of wood with cogs
noun
- A jest or scoff; trick or deception.
- (countable) Three of the same cards held in one hand; three of a kind.
- (slang) A geek who is involved in a glee club, choir, or singing.
- (uncountable) A once-popular game of cards played by three people.
- (informal) A stream of saliva from a person's mouth.
- An enticing glance or look.
verb
verb
noun
- (countable, Canada, US, informal) A person who is a target or victim of a confidence game.
- (countable, Australia, military slang) A weak or useless person.
- (countable, politics) A pacifist, appeaser, an isolationist, a dove.
- (uncountable) The meat from this bird.
- (countable) A person hired to transport film footage out of a region where transport options are limited.
- (countable) One of several birds of the family Columbidae within the order Columbiformes.
- wild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs
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adj
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- One who or that which slicks.
- (metalworking) A curved tool for smoothing the surfaces of a mould after the withdrawal of the pattern.
- A symmetrical knife with a handle at each end, used for burnishing leather.
- A person who is perceived as clever, urbane and possibly disreputable. (abbreviation of city slicker.)
- Synonym of slicker brush
- (slang) A swindler or conman.
- (originally Canada, US) A waterproof coat or jacket.
- A two-handled tool for finishing concrete or mortar; a darby.
- someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
- a person with good manners and stylish clothing
- a macintosh made from cotton fabric treated with oil and pigment to make it waterproof
verb
- (transitive) To delude or trick; to play a prank upon.
- (transitive) To joke about; to ridicule (a trait, habit, etc.).
- (transitive, US, Southern and Western, colloquial) To challenge to a match.
- (intransitive) To engage in banter or playful conversation.
- (intransitive) To play or do something amusing.
- (UK, dialect) To haggle; cheapen the price.
- (transitive) To tease (someone) mildly.
- be silly or tease one another
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verb
noun
- the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
- (countable, chiefly in the plural) singular of shenanigans: a deceitful confidence trick; also, an act of mischief; a prank, a trick; an act of mischievous play, especially by children.
- reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others
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adj
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- (intransitive) To speak persuasively or with guile to obtain something.
- To use guile or persuasion on (someone); also, to deceive or perpetrate a hoax on (someone).
- (Polari) To meet and seduce (someone) for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation; to pick up.
- (specifically) To obtain (confidential information) by impersonation or other deception; also, to deceive (someone) into disclosing confidential information.
- To obtain (something) for free, particularly by guile or persuasion.
- (transitive, British, criminal slang) To obtain (something) through armed robbery or robbery involving violence, or theft; to rob; to steal.
- To obtain (something desired), or avoid (something undesired), through improvisation or luck; to fluke, to get away with.
verb
- To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
- To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
- (music) To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.
- To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
- To insult or slight.
- To run together; to articulate poorly.
- speak disparagingly of; e.g., make a racial slur
- utter indistinctly
- become vague or indistinct
- play smoothly or legato
noun
- Any instance of separate things gradually blending together, such as heartbeats in some medical disorders.
- (music) A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
- An act of running one's words together; poor verbal articulation.
- (music) The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).
- An insult or slight, especially one that is muttered incoherently under one's breath.
- A mark of dishonour; a blight or stain.
- An extremely offensive and socially unacceptable term targeted at a group of people (such as an ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.).
- a disparaging remark
- a blemish made by dirt
- (music) a curved line spanning notes that are to be played legato
verb
noun
- a vest pocket to hold a pocket watch
- an adornment that hangs from a watch chain
- short chain or ribbon attaching a pocket watch to a man's vest
- A hand-held electronic device that can be used as a remote control or as a key to unlock motor cars, doors, etc., and thus, modern car keys.
- (see usage notes) A small ornament attached to such a chain.
- A little pocket near the waistline of a pair of trousers or in a waistcoat or vest to hold money or valuables, especially a pocket watch.
- A short chain or ribbon to connect such a pocket to the watch.
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verb
- deceive somebody
- become discolored with, or as if with, mildew spots
- be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
- (intransitive) To turn sour; said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.
- (transitive) To confuse or baffle (someone).
- (intransitive) To act slyly or craftily.
- (transitive) To trick, fool or outwit (someone) by cunning or ingenuity.
- (transitive) To repair (boots) with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.
- (intransitive) To discolour paper. Fox marks are spots on paper caused by humidity. (See foxing.)
- (transitive) To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.
- (transitive) To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.
noun
- alert carnivorous mammal with pointed muzzle and ears and a bushy tail; most are predators that do not hunt in packs
- a shifty deceptive person
- the grey or reddish-brown fur of a fox
- A hidden radio transmitter, finding which is the goal of radiosport.
- (cartomancy) The fourteenth Lenormand card.
- The gemmeous dragonet, a fish, Callionymus lyra, so called from its yellow color.
- (mechanics) A wedge driven into the split end of a bolt to tighten it.
- Any member of the genus Vulpes; a true fox.
- (uncountable) The fur of a fox.
- (in particular) The red fox, a small carnivore (Vulpes vulpes) with red or silver fur.
- (nautical) A small strand of rope made by twisting several rope-yarns together. Used for seizings, mats, sennits, and gaskets.
- (figurative) A cunning person.
- A fox terrier.
- (Australia) A flying fox.
- (slang, figurative) A person with reddish brown hair, typically a woman.
- (chiefly philosophy) Someone who fuses many different influences and concepts in their philosophy or worldview.
- (slang, figurative) A physically attractive person, typically a woman.
- Other canines that resemble true foxes, of the genera Cerdocyon, Lycalopex, Otocyon, and Urocyon.
- (military, aviation) Air-to-air weapon launched.
verb
verb
verb
- To deceive; cheat; defraud.
- (transitive) To trade, exchange; barter.
- To give in; give way; knuckle under; truckle.
- (intransitive, US, slang) To travel, to proceed.
- (intransitive) To have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with.
- (intransitive) To drive a truck.
- (transitive, slang) To fight or otherwise physically engage with.
- To fail; run out; run short; be unavailable; diminish; abate.
- (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To tread (down); stamp on; trample (down).
- (intransitive, film production) To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject.
- (intransitive) To engage in commerce; to barter or deal.
- (transitive, slang) To run over or through a tackler in American football.
- (intransitive, US, Canada, slang) To persist, to endure.
- (transitive) To convey by truck.
- convey (goods etc.) by truck
noun
- (countable, uncountable, US, Canada, India, Australia) A heavier motor vehicle designed to carry goods or to pull a semi-trailer designed to carry goods; (in Malaysia/Singapore) a such vehicle with a closed or covered carriage.
- The part of a skateboard or roller skate that joins the wheels to the deck, consisting of a hanger, baseplate, kingpin, and bushings, and sometimes mounted with a riser in between.
- A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage.
- (UK, rail transport) A railroad car, chiefly one designed to carry goods.
- (historical) The practice of paying workers in kind, or with tokens only exchangeable at a shop owned by the employer [forbidden in the 19th century by the Truck Acts].
- (US, rail transport) Abbreviation of railroad truck or wheel truck; a pivoting frame, one attached to the bottom of the bed of a railway car at each end, that rests on the axle and which swivels to allow the axle (at each end of which is a solid wheel) to turn with curves in the track.
- Dirt or other messiness.
- (nautical) On a wooden mast, a circular disc (or sometimes a rectangle) of wood near or at the top of the mast, usually with holes or sheaves to reeve signal halyards; also a temporary or emergency place for a lookout. "Main" refers to the mainmast, whereas a truck on another mast may be called (on the mizzenmast, for example) "mizzen-truck".
- (theater) A platform with wheels or casters.
- (usually with negative) Social intercourse; dealings, relationships.
- (US, often attributive) Garden produce, groceries (see truck garden).
- (usually with negative) Relevance, bearing.
- The ball on top of a flagpole.
- Any smaller wagon or cart or vehicle of various designs, pushed or pulled by hand or (obsolete) pulled by an animal, used to move and sometimes lift goods, like those in hotels for moving luggage or in libraries for moving books.
- a handcart that has a frame with two low wheels and a ledge at the bottom and handles at the top; used to move crates or other heavy objects
- an automotive vehicle suitable for hauling
noun
verb
- (transitive) To deceive; cheat.
- (intransitive, of the eye) To quail.
- (transitive) To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear.
- (intransitive) To fly off; to turn aside.
- (transitive) To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.
- (intransitive) To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.
- turn pale, as if in fear
noun
verb
adj
noun
- An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.
- An act of deceiving someone.
- (law) The tort or fraudulent representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or recklessly, or without reasonable grounds for believing its truth and with intent to induce reliance on it; the plaintiff justifiably relies on the deception, to his injury.
- (uncountable) The state of being deceitful or deceptive.
- the quality of being fraudulent
- the act of deceiving
- a misleading falsehood
noun
- A fool.
- (nautical) A small auxiliary engine.
- A domestic animal, Equus asinus asinus, similar to a horse.
- A stubborn person.
- (UK, nautical) A sailor's storage chest.
- (poker slang) A bad poker player.
- domestic beast of burden descended from the African wild ass; patient but stubborn
- the symbol of the Democratic Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874
noun
noun
- A fool.
- A split, salted and smoked herring or salmon.
- (Australia) A young Aboriginal man who has been initiated into to the rights of manhood.
- (endearing) A child or young person.
- (UK, slang) The vagina.
- (UK, informal, humorous, often with capital) A member or supporter of UKIP (UK Independence Party).
- A male salmon after spawning.
- (military, RAF World War II code name) A patrol to protect fishing boats in the Irish and North Seas against attack from the air.
- (UK, naval slang) A torpedo.
- (Australia, slang) An Englishman who has moved to Australia.
- salted and smoked herring
adj
verb
- To dry out with heat or harsh chemicals; to desiccate.
- (by extension) To damage or treat with smoke.
- (cooking) To prepare (a herring or similar fish) by splitting, salting, and smoking.
- To punish by spanking or caning.
- To utterly defeat or humiliate.
- To lead astray or frame; to cause to get into trouble.
- To drink or give a drink of alcohol, especially to intoxication.
noun
- A fool.
- The rowel of a spur.
- (heraldry) A star with straight edges and usually with five or six points.
- (especially US) A fish of the family Mugilidae (order Mugiliformes) (grey mullets).
- A fish of the family Mullidae (order Syngnathiformes), especially the genus Mullus (red mullets or goatfish).
- A hairstyle where the hair is kept short on the top and sides and long at the back.
- (US) Any of several species of freshwater fish in the sucker family (especially in the genus Moxostoma, redhorses)
- (slang) A person who mindlessly follows a fad, a trend, or a leader.
- freshwater or coastal food fishes a spindle-shaped body; found worldwide
- highly valued lean flesh of marine or freshwater mullet
- bottom dwelling marine warm water fishes with two barbels on the chin
noun
noun
- A trick or deception put or laid on others.
- (UK, school or university slang) A task imposed on a student as punishment.
- (religion) A practice of laying hands on a person in a religious ceremony; used e.g. in confirmation and ordination.
- (printing) Arrangement of a printed product’s pages on the printer's sheet so as to have the pages in proper order in the final product.
- The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.
- An unwelcome burden, presence, or obligation.
- That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined.
- an uncalled-for burden
- the act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo)
noun
- A trick or con.
- (informal, uncountable) Clipping of gaffer tape.
- (nautical) The upper spar used to control a gaff-rigged sail.
- A minor error or faux pas, a gaffe.
- Rough or harsh treatment; criticism.
- (UK, Ireland, slang) A place of residence.
- A tool consisting of a large metal hook with a handle or pole, especially the one used to pull large fish aboard a boat.
- (LGBTQ) A type of tight, panty-like underwear worn to hold the penis and testicles tucked backwards and make one's genital region look smooth, as if one had a vulva.
- an iron hook with a handle; used for landing large fish
- a spar rising aft from a mast to support the head of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail
- a sharp metal spike or spur that is fastened to the leg of a gamecock
verb
verb
noun
- something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
- pretentious or silly talk or writing
- communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive
- (countable, slang) A fraud or sham; (uncountable) hypocrisy.
- (US, countable, slang) Anything complicated, offensive, troublesome, unpleasant or worrying; a misunderstanding, especially if trivial.
- (uncountable, slang) Nonsense.
- (countable, US, crime, slang) A false arrest on trumped-up charges.
- (countable, British) A type of hard sweet (candy), usually peppermint flavoured with a striped pattern.
- (countable, slang) A cheat, fraudster, or hypocrite.
- (US, countable, African-American Vernacular, slang) A fight.
- (countable, slang) A hoax, jest, or prank.
- (countable, slang, perhaps by extension) The piglet of the wild boar.
intj
noun
- something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
- intentional deception resulting in injury to another person
- a person who makes deceitful pretenses
- the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
- (law) The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.
- The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
- Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved or unlawful gain.
- A person who performs any such trick.
noun
- A trick or deception; a falsehood.
- An unimportant individual in a greater system.
- Alternative form of cogue (“wooden vessel for milk”).
- (carpentry) A projection or tenon at the end of a beam designed to fit into a matching opening of another piece of wood to form a joint.
- (historical) The hypothetical precursor ship type of the above said to be in use during the early Middle Ages, variously alleged to be Frisian or Scandinavian.
- (mining) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
- A gear; especially, a cogwheel.
- (historical) A partially clinker-built, flat-bottomed, square-rigged mediaeval ship of burden or war, with a round, bulky hull and a single mast, typically 15 to 25 meters in length, in use from ca. 1150 to 1500.
- (physics) Initialism of center of gravity
- (by extension) A small fishing boat.
- A tooth on a gear.
- a subordinate who performs an important but routine function
- tooth on the rim of gear wheel
verb
- To load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat.
- To furnish with a cog or cogs.
- To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
- To plagiarize.
- To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; to palm off.
- To cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently.
- (intransitive) Of an electric motor or generator, to snap preferentially to certain positions when not energized.
- roll steel ingots
- join pieces of wood with cogs
noun
- A jest or scoff; trick or deception.
- (countable) Three of the same cards held in one hand; three of a kind.
- (slang) A geek who is involved in a glee club, choir, or singing.
- (uncountable) A once-popular game of cards played by three people.
- (informal) A stream of saliva from a person's mouth.
- An enticing glance or look.
verb
verb
noun
- Someone who has been made a fool of or tricked; dupe.
- (informal) Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
- (tarot, often capitalized Fool) A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester.
- (cooking) A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.
- (slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular, Hispanic) An informal greeting akin to buddy, dude, or man.
- (derogatory, slang) A tankie.
- (historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
- (literature) A stock character typified by unintelligence, naïveté or lucklessness, usually as a form of comic relief; often used as a source of insight or pathos for the audience, as such characters are generally less bound by social expectations.
- (derogatory) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
- a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages
- a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
- a person who lacks good judgment
adj
noun
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To speak persuasively or with guile to obtain something.
- To use guile or persuasion on (someone); also, to deceive or perpetrate a hoax on (someone).
- (Polari) To meet and seduce (someone) for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation; to pick up.
- (specifically) To obtain (confidential information) by impersonation or other deception; also, to deceive (someone) into disclosing confidential information.
- To obtain (something) for free, particularly by guile or persuasion.
- (transitive, British, criminal slang) To obtain (something) through armed robbery or robbery involving violence, or theft; to rob; to steal.
- To obtain (something desired), or avoid (something undesired), through improvisation or luck; to fluke, to get away with.
verb
noun
- the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
- Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.
- Alternative form of gyle.
- (uncountable) Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.
- shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
- the quality of being crafty
verb
noun
- the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
- (countable, chiefly in the plural) singular of shenanigans: a deceitful confidence trick; also, an act of mischief; a prank, a trick; an act of mischievous play, especially by children.
- reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others
verb
intj
noun
verb
- To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.
- (mining) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.
- (fishing) To fish with a jig.
- To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.
- To sing to the tune of a jig.
- To skip school or be truant.
- To move briskly, especially as a dance.
- To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks.
- dance a quick dance with leaping and kicking motions
noun
- (music) A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.
- (mining) An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.
- (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.
- A device in manufacturing, woodworking, or other creative endeavors for controlling the location, path of movement, or both of either a workpiece or the tool that is operating upon it. Subsets of this general class include machining jigs, woodworking jigs, welders' jigs, jewelers' jigs, and many others.
- (traditional Irish music and dance) A lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig.
- (traditional English Morris dance) A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team.
- a device that holds a piece of machine work and guides the tools operating on it
- a fisherman's lure with one or more hooks that is jerked up and down in the water
- any of various old rustic dances involving kicking and leaping
- music in three-four time for dancing a jig
verb
noun
- the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
- Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.
- Alternative form of gyle.
- (uncountable) Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.
- shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
- the quality of being crafty
verb
noun
- That part of a variable resistor or potentiometer that rides over the resistance wire
- (UK, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.
- (Ireland, crime, slang) A rapist.
- (in combination) An operator of some machinery or apparatus.
- One who rides racehorses competitively.
- someone employed to ride horses in horse races
- an operator of some vehicle or machine or apparatus
verb
- To deceptively trick into something wrong.
- To deceive by telling lies or otherwise giving a false impression.
- (literally) To lead astray, in a false direction.
- (loosely) To accidentally or intentionally confuse.
- give false or misleading information to
- lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions
noun
verb
noun
- something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
- pretentious or silly talk or writing
- communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive
- (countable, slang) A fraud or sham; (uncountable) hypocrisy.
- (US, countable, slang) Anything complicated, offensive, troublesome, unpleasant or worrying; a misunderstanding, especially if trivial.
- (uncountable, slang) Nonsense.
- (countable, US, crime, slang) A false arrest on trumped-up charges.
- (countable, British) A type of hard sweet (candy), usually peppermint flavoured with a striped pattern.
- (countable, slang) A cheat, fraudster, or hypocrite.
- (US, countable, African-American Vernacular, slang) A fight.
- (countable, slang) A hoax, jest, or prank.
- (countable, slang, perhaps by extension) The piglet of the wild boar.
intj
verb
- To deceive; to hoodwink.
- fool or hoax
- (transitive) To allow a person or an animal to live in one's home.
- (nautical) To reef.
- (transitive, climbing) To tighten (a belaying rope).
- (transitive) To shorten (a garment) or make it smaller.
- (transitive) To receive and properly absorb or comprehend.
- (transitive) To enjoy or appreciate.
- (transitive) To receive.
- (transitive) To arrest (a person).
- (transitive) To receive (goods) into one's home for the purpose of processing for a fee.
- (transitive) To attend a showing of.
- hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers
- take into one's family
- serve oneself to, or consume regularly
- accept
- take up as if with a sponge
- fold up
- earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- express willingness to have in one's home or environs
- call for and obtain payment of
- make (clothes) smaller
- suck or take up or in
- take up mentally
- provide with shelter
- see or watch
- take in, also metaphorically
- visit for entertainment
verb
- deceive by a mock action
- To direct (a blow, thrust, or other offensive movement resembling an attack) on some part of the body, intended to distract from a real attack on another part.
- (rare) To direct a feint or mock attack against (someone).
- (intransitive, boxing, fencing, also often military) To make a feint or mock attack.
noun
- any distracting or deceptive maneuver (as a mock attack)
- (figuratively) Something feigned; a false or pretend appearance; a pretence or stratagem.
- (often military) A movement made to confuse an opponent; a dummy.
- (boxing, fencing) A blow, thrust, or other offensive movement resembling an attack on some part of the body, intended to distract from a real attack on another part.
adj
verb
noun
- Someone who has been made a fool of or tricked; dupe.
- (informal) Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
- (tarot, often capitalized Fool) A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester.
- (cooking) A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.
- (slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular, Hispanic) An informal greeting akin to buddy, dude, or man.
- (derogatory, slang) A tankie.
- (historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
- (literature) A stock character typified by unintelligence, naïveté or lucklessness, usually as a form of comic relief; often used as a source of insight or pathos for the audience, as such characters are generally less bound by social expectations.
- (derogatory) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
- a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages
- a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
- a person who lacks good judgment
adj
verb
- To practise deceit or stealth; to cheat, to deceive, to trick.
- To apply, enforce, or establish (something, often regarded as burdensome as a restriction or tax: see verb sense 1.2.1) with authority.
- To affect authoritatively or forcefully; to influence strongly.
- To encroach or intrude, especially in a manner regarded as unfair or unwarranted; to presume, to take advantage of; also, to be a burden or inconvenience.
- compel to behave in a certain way
- impose something unpleasant
- impose and collect
verb
- (transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.
- (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner; to commit adultery, or to engage in sexual or romantic conduct with a person other than one's partner in contravention of the rules of society or agreement in the relationship.
- (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.
- (informal, intransitive) To disregard self-imposed restrictions or commitments in favour of resting or indulging oneself.
- (transitive) To avoid a seemingly inevitable thing.
- engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
- be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
- defeat someone through trickery or deceit
- deprive somebody of something by deceit
noun
- (uncountable) The weed cheatgrass.
- (countable) Someone who cheats.
- (card games, uncountable) A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
- (countable) An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.
- (video games, countable) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.
- someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
- weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat
- the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
- a deception for profit to yourself
- weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
verb
noun
- (slang) A cheating trick; a fraud.
- A seabird of the genus Larus or of the subfamily Larinae.
- One easily cheated; a dupe.
- Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Cepora.
- (dialectal) A channel made by a stream; a natural watercourse; running water.
- A stupid animal.
- (dialectal) A breach or hole made by the force of a torrent; fissure, chasm.
- a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
- mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs
verb
noun
- (informal, TikTok) A counterfeit; a fake.
- (informal, by extension) A cheap consumer product intended to imitate a more expensive product.
- (video games) An unanticipated method or incident by which duplicates of in-game items are created; a duplication glitch.
- (food service, hospitality) A duplicate of an order receipt printed for kitchen staff.
- (photography) A duplicate of a photographic image.
- A person who has been deceived.
- (crosswording) A word which appears more than once in a crossword puzzle.
- (video games, Minecraft) An in-game item that was created by means of a duplication glitch.
- a person who is tricked or swindled
noun
- A trick or con.
- (informal, uncountable) Clipping of gaffer tape.
- (nautical) The upper spar used to control a gaff-rigged sail.
- A minor error or faux pas, a gaffe.
- Rough or harsh treatment; criticism.
- (UK, Ireland, slang) A place of residence.
- A tool consisting of a large metal hook with a handle or pole, especially the one used to pull large fish aboard a boat.
- (LGBTQ) A type of tight, panty-like underwear worn to hold the penis and testicles tucked backwards and make one's genital region look smooth, as if one had a vulva.
- an iron hook with a handle; used for landing large fish
- a spar rising aft from a mast to support the head of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail
- a sharp metal spike or spur that is fastened to the leg of a gamecock
verb
verb
noun
- (countable, Canada, US, informal) A person who is a target or victim of a confidence game.
- (countable, Australia, military slang) A weak or useless person.
- (countable, politics) A pacifist, appeaser, an isolationist, a dove.
- (uncountable) The meat from this bird.
- (countable) A person hired to transport film footage out of a region where transport options are limited.
- (countable) One of several birds of the family Columbidae within the order Columbiformes.
- wild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs
verb
adj
noun
- One who or that which slicks.
- (metalworking) A curved tool for smoothing the surfaces of a mould after the withdrawal of the pattern.
- A symmetrical knife with a handle at each end, used for burnishing leather.
- A person who is perceived as clever, urbane and possibly disreputable. (abbreviation of city slicker.)
- Synonym of slicker brush
- (slang) A swindler or conman.
- (originally Canada, US) A waterproof coat or jacket.
- A two-handled tool for finishing concrete or mortar; a darby.
- someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
- a person with good manners and stylish clothing
- a macintosh made from cotton fabric treated with oil and pigment to make it waterproof
verb
- (transitive) To delude or trick; to play a prank upon.
- (transitive) To joke about; to ridicule (a trait, habit, etc.).
- (transitive, US, Southern and Western, colloquial) To challenge to a match.
- (intransitive) To engage in banter or playful conversation.
- (intransitive) To play or do something amusing.
- (UK, dialect) To haggle; cheapen the price.
- (transitive) To tease (someone) mildly.
- be silly or tease one another
noun
verb
noun
- the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
- (countable, chiefly in the plural) singular of shenanigans: a deceitful confidence trick; also, an act of mischief; a prank, a trick; an act of mischievous play, especially by children.
- reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others
noun
verb
adj
verb
- To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
- To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
- (music) To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.
- To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
- To insult or slight.
- To run together; to articulate poorly.
- speak disparagingly of; e.g., make a racial slur
- utter indistinctly
- become vague or indistinct
- play smoothly or legato
noun
- Any instance of separate things gradually blending together, such as heartbeats in some medical disorders.
- (music) A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
- An act of running one's words together; poor verbal articulation.
- (music) The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).
- An insult or slight, especially one that is muttered incoherently under one's breath.
- A mark of dishonour; a blight or stain.
- An extremely offensive and socially unacceptable term targeted at a group of people (such as an ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.).
- a disparaging remark
- a blemish made by dirt
- (music) a curved line spanning notes that are to be played legato
adj
verb
noun
- Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle.
- An effective, clever or quick way of doing something.
- (card games) A sequence in which each player plays a card and a winning play is determined.
- (nautical) A sailor's spell of work at the helm, usually two hours long.
- A knot, braid, or plait of hair.
- (slang) A customer or client of a prostitute.
- (heraldry) A representation of arms that is drawn as an outline with labels to indicate colors.
- An entertaining difficult physical action.
- (Western Pennsylvania) A daily period of work, especially in shift-based jobs.
- Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank.
- (slang, vulgar) A term of abuse.
- (slang) A sex act, chiefly one performed for payment; an act of prostitution.
- A single element of a magician's (or any variety entertainer's) act; a magic trick.
- (card games) in a single round, the sequence of cards played by all the players; the high card is the winner
- a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement
- a cunning or deceitful action or device
- a prostitute's customer
- an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent
- an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
- a period of work or duty
verb
noun
- a vest pocket to hold a pocket watch
- an adornment that hangs from a watch chain
- short chain or ribbon attaching a pocket watch to a man's vest
- A hand-held electronic device that can be used as a remote control or as a key to unlock motor cars, doors, etc., and thus, modern car keys.
- (see usage notes) A small ornament attached to such a chain.
- A little pocket near the waistline of a pair of trousers or in a waistcoat or vest to hold money or valuables, especially a pocket watch.
- A short chain or ribbon to connect such a pocket to the watch.
adj
verb
- deceive somebody
- become discolored with, or as if with, mildew spots
- be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
- (intransitive) To turn sour; said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.
- (transitive) To confuse or baffle (someone).
- (intransitive) To act slyly or craftily.
- (transitive) To trick, fool or outwit (someone) by cunning or ingenuity.
- (transitive) To repair (boots) with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.
- (intransitive) To discolour paper. Fox marks are spots on paper caused by humidity. (See foxing.)
- (transitive) To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.
- (transitive) To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.
noun
- alert carnivorous mammal with pointed muzzle and ears and a bushy tail; most are predators that do not hunt in packs
- a shifty deceptive person
- the grey or reddish-brown fur of a fox
- A hidden radio transmitter, finding which is the goal of radiosport.
- (cartomancy) The fourteenth Lenormand card.
- The gemmeous dragonet, a fish, Callionymus lyra, so called from its yellow color.
- (mechanics) A wedge driven into the split end of a bolt to tighten it.
- Any member of the genus Vulpes; a true fox.
- (uncountable) The fur of a fox.
- (in particular) The red fox, a small carnivore (Vulpes vulpes) with red or silver fur.
- (nautical) A small strand of rope made by twisting several rope-yarns together. Used for seizings, mats, sennits, and gaskets.
- (figurative) A cunning person.
- A fox terrier.
- (Australia) A flying fox.
- (slang, figurative) A person with reddish brown hair, typically a woman.
- (chiefly philosophy) Someone who fuses many different influences and concepts in their philosophy or worldview.
- (slang, figurative) A physically attractive person, typically a woman.
- Other canines that resemble true foxes, of the genera Cerdocyon, Lycalopex, Otocyon, and Urocyon.
- (military, aviation) Air-to-air weapon launched.
verb
verb
verb
- To deceive; cheat; defraud.
- (transitive) To trade, exchange; barter.
- To give in; give way; knuckle under; truckle.
- (intransitive, US, slang) To travel, to proceed.
- (intransitive) To have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with.
- (intransitive) To drive a truck.
- (transitive, slang) To fight or otherwise physically engage with.
- To fail; run out; run short; be unavailable; diminish; abate.
- (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To tread (down); stamp on; trample (down).
- (intransitive, film production) To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject.
- (intransitive) To engage in commerce; to barter or deal.
- (transitive, slang) To run over or through a tackler in American football.
- (intransitive, US, Canada, slang) To persist, to endure.
- (transitive) To convey by truck.
- convey (goods etc.) by truck
noun
- (countable, uncountable, US, Canada, India, Australia) A heavier motor vehicle designed to carry goods or to pull a semi-trailer designed to carry goods; (in Malaysia/Singapore) a such vehicle with a closed or covered carriage.
- The part of a skateboard or roller skate that joins the wheels to the deck, consisting of a hanger, baseplate, kingpin, and bushings, and sometimes mounted with a riser in between.
- A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage.
- (UK, rail transport) A railroad car, chiefly one designed to carry goods.
- (historical) The practice of paying workers in kind, or with tokens only exchangeable at a shop owned by the employer [forbidden in the 19th century by the Truck Acts].
- (US, rail transport) Abbreviation of railroad truck or wheel truck; a pivoting frame, one attached to the bottom of the bed of a railway car at each end, that rests on the axle and which swivels to allow the axle (at each end of which is a solid wheel) to turn with curves in the track.
- Dirt or other messiness.
- (nautical) On a wooden mast, a circular disc (or sometimes a rectangle) of wood near or at the top of the mast, usually with holes or sheaves to reeve signal halyards; also a temporary or emergency place for a lookout. "Main" refers to the mainmast, whereas a truck on another mast may be called (on the mizzenmast, for example) "mizzen-truck".
- (theater) A platform with wheels or casters.
- (usually with negative) Social intercourse; dealings, relationships.
- (US, often attributive) Garden produce, groceries (see truck garden).
- (usually with negative) Relevance, bearing.
- The ball on top of a flagpole.
- Any smaller wagon or cart or vehicle of various designs, pushed or pulled by hand or (obsolete) pulled by an animal, used to move and sometimes lift goods, like those in hotels for moving luggage or in libraries for moving books.
- a handcart that has a frame with two low wheels and a ledge at the bottom and handles at the top; used to move crates or other heavy objects
- an automotive vehicle suitable for hauling
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- (transitive) To deceive; cheat.
- (intransitive, of the eye) To quail.
- (transitive) To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear.
- (intransitive) To fly off; to turn aside.
- (transitive) To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.
- (intransitive) To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.
- turn pale, as if in fear
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- Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle.
- An effective, clever or quick way of doing something.
- (card games) A sequence in which each player plays a card and a winning play is determined.
- (nautical) A sailor's spell of work at the helm, usually two hours long.
- A knot, braid, or plait of hair.
- (slang) A customer or client of a prostitute.
- (heraldry) A representation of arms that is drawn as an outline with labels to indicate colors.
- An entertaining difficult physical action.
- (Western Pennsylvania) A daily period of work, especially in shift-based jobs.
- Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank.
- (slang, vulgar) A term of abuse.
- (slang) A sex act, chiefly one performed for payment; an act of prostitution.
- A single element of a magician's (or any variety entertainer's) act; a magic trick.
- (card games) in a single round, the sequence of cards played by all the players; the high card is the winner
- a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement
- a cunning or deceitful action or device
- a prostitute's customer
- an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent
- an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
- a period of work or duty