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noun
- (informal) A difficult problem.
- (US, slang) A Cadillac car.
- (figuratively, derogatory) An obese person.
- (figuratively, derogatory) A dirty or slovenly person.
- (uncountable) The edible meat of such an animal; pork.
- (specifically) A young swine, a piglet (contrasted with a hog, an adult swine).
- (US, military, slang) The general-purpose M60 machine gun, considered to be heavy and bulky.
- (US, slang) A Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
- (uncountable) A simple dice game in which players roll the dice as many times as they like, either accumulating a greater score or losing previous points gained.
- (countable and uncountable) An oblong block of cast metal (now only iron or lead).
- (Scotland) An earthenware pot or jar
- (engineering) A device for cleaning or inspecting the inside of an oil or gas pipeline, or for separating different substances within the pipeline. Named for the pig-like squealing noise made by their progress.
- (countable) Any of several mammalian species of the family Suidae, having cloven hooves, bristles and a snout adapted for digging; especially the domesticated animal Sus domesticus.
- (slang) The victim of a pig butchering scam.
- (figuratively, derogatory) Someone who overeats or eats rapidly and noisily.
- (specifically) An earthenware vessel used as a hot-water bottle
- (derogatory, slang) A police officer.
- (figuratively, derogatory) A lecherous or sexist man.
- A lead container used for radioactive waste.
- (uncountable) A light pinkish-red colour, like that of a pig (also called pig pink).
- The mold in which a block of metal is cast.
- uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
- a coarse obnoxious person
- a person regarded as greedy and pig-like
- domestic swine
- a crude block of metal (lead or iron) poured from a smelting furnace
- mold consisting of a bed of sand in which pig iron is cast
verb
- (intransitive) To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed.
- (intransitive) To live together in a crowded filthy manner.
- (intransitive) To greedily consume (especially food).
- (of swine) To give birth.
- (transitive, engineering) To clean (a pipeline) using a pig (the device).
- live like a pig, in squalor
- give birth to (piglets)
- eat greedily
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noun
- (informal) A problem, dilemma, or complicating factor.
- (slang, euphemistic) A vulva or vagina.
- An individual object or distinct entity.
- (in the plural) Possessions or equipment; stuff; gear.
- (MLE) Alternative form of ting.
- (informal) A romantic couple.
- (MLE) Girl; attractive woman.
- (chiefly historical) A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country.
- (informal) A romantic relationship.
- (informal) A unit or container, usually containing consumable goods.
- (slang, euphemistic) A penis.
- (informal, used possessively, chiefly in the negative) That which is favoured; personal preference.
- (informal, with a) A genuine concept, entity or phenomenon; something that actually exists (often contrary to expectation or belief).
- Corporeal object.
- (informal) A custom or practice.
- Whatever can be owned.
- (informal, used possessively, with "do") One's typical routine, habits, or manner.
- A word, symbol, sign, or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity.
- A living being or creature.
- That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.
- (informal, with the) The central point; the crux.
- Used after a noun to refer dismissively to the situation surrounding the noun's referent.
- a special situation
- a vaguely specified concern
- a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion
- an action
- a statement regarded as an object
- an entity that is not named specifically
- an artifact
- an event
- a separate and self-contained entity
- a special abstraction
- any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence
- a special objective
verb
noun
- (informal) A problem, delay or source of difficulty.
- (military, slang) A period of time spent in the military.
- A fastener or connection point, as for a trailer.
- Any of various knots used to attach a rope to an object other than another rope.
- (mining) A hole cut into the wall of a mine on which timbers are rested.
- A large Californian minnow, Lavinia exilicauda.
- A sudden pull.
- A hidden or unfavorable condition or element.
- a connection between a vehicle and the load that it pulls
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
- a knot that can be undone by pulling against the strain that holds it; a temporary knot
- an unforeseen obstacle
- the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg
- a period of time spent in military service
verb
- (intransitive) To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.
- (transitive) To pull with a jerk.
- (intransitive, UK) To strike the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere.
- (intransitive) To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; said of something obstructed or impeded.
- (informal, transitive) Clipping of hitchhike, to thumb a ride.
- (informal) To marry oneself to; especially to get hitched.
- (transitive) To attach, tie or fasten.
- jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched
- walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury
- to hook or entangle
- travel by getting free rides from motorists
- connect to a vehicle:
noun
- (informal) Technique.
- (informal) Technician; technologist.
- (informal) Clipping of technical rehearsal.
- (informal, used in titles) Technical college; technical school.
- (informal) Technology.
- Denotes technology businesses or the technology industry, especially in the field of computing and the Internet.
- (motor racing) Clipping of technical inspection
- a school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences
verb
noun
- a problem
- some situation or event that is thought about
- written works (especially in books or magazines)
- a vaguely specified concern
- (used with negation) having consequence
- that which has mass and occupies space
- (physics) Matter made up of normal particles, not antiparticles.
- Printed material, especially in books or magazines.
- An approximate amount or extent.
- (physics) Anything with mass and volume.
- (countable, law) Legal services provided by a lawyer or firm to their client in relation to a particular issue.
- An affair, condition, or subject, especially one of concern or (especially when preceded by the) one that is problematic.
- (uncountable) Importance.
- A kind of substance.
- (philosophy) Aristotelian: undeveloped potentiality subject to change and development; formlessness. Matter receives form, and becomes substance.
verb
noun
- (informal) A blunder, an error.
- (baseball, slang) A fly ball that is weakly hit just over the infielders.
- (US, military, slang) The Vietnam-era M79 grenade launcher (due to its distinctive report).
- (film, informal) A filmed or videotaped outtake that has recorded an amusing accident or mistake.
- (nautical) A gaff-rigged fore-and-aft sail set from and aft of the aftmost mast of a square-rigged ship; a spanker.
- an embarrassing mistake
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- (intransitive, transitive, usually with in, into, around, etc.) To move briskly and unhesitatingly, especially in an inappropriately casual manner, or when unannounced or uninvited.
- (intransitive, transitive) To dance the waltz (with).
- (informal) To accomplish a task with little effort.
- (transitive) To move with fanfare.
- dance a waltz
noun
- (informal) Amount.
- Alcoholic beverages in general.
- A type of beverage (usually mixed).
- A standard drink.
- (uncountable) Drinks in general; something to drink.
- A (served) alcoholic beverage.
- The action of drinking, especially with the verbs take or have.
- A beverage.
- (Australia, figurative) A downpour; a cloudburst; a rainstorm; a deluge; a lot of rain.
- (colloquial, with the) Any body of water.
- any liquid suitable for drinking
- a single serving of a beverage
- any large deep body of water
- the act of swallowing
- the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess
verb
- (transitive) To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
- (intransitive) To consume alcoholic beverages.
- (ambitransitive) To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
- (transitive, metonymic) To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.).
- Used in phrasal verbs: drink down, drink in, drink off, drink out, drink to, drink up.
- (transitive) To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
- consume alcohol
- be fascinated or spell-bound by; pay close attention to
- propose a toast to
- drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic
- take in liquids
noun
- (informal) A workaround; a quick and less than perfect solution for some flaw or problem.
- A violinist, or fiddler, in a band.
- A rack for drying pottery after glazing.
- (figurative) A clown; an unserious person entertaining a group.
- (informal) A scam; a fraud or swindle.
- (especially nautical) Any rail or device that prevents items from sliding off a table, stove, etc. in rough water.
- A violin, a small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin, shoulder, chest or on the upper thigh and played with a bow (see also usage notes below).
- (biology) A dock (Rumex pulcher) with leaves supposed to resemble the musical instrument.
- (usually proscribed) Any of various other bowed stringed instruments, particularly those of the violin family when played non-classically.
- (informal) An act of tinkering, playing around, or fidgeting with something.
- A long pole pulled by a draft animal to drag loose straw, hay, etc.
- bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow
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verb
- (informal, intransitive) Synonym of tinker (“to make small adjustments or improvements”); see also fiddle with.
- (informal, transitive) To fraudulently manipulate (records, accounts, etc.) in order to cheat or swindle.
- (intransitive) To fidget or play; to fuss; to idly amuse oneself, to act aimlessly, idly, or frivolously, particularly out of nervousness or restlessness; see also fiddle with.
- (intransitive) To play the fiddle or violin, particularly in a folk or country style.
- play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly
- commit fraud and steal from one's employer
- avoid (one's assigned duties)
- play on a violin
- try to fix or mend
- manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination
- play the violin or fiddle
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To appear from below or behind something, emerge, pop up, poke out.
- (transitive, informal) To make (coffee) in a percolator or a drip coffeemaker.
- (intransitive, informal) Of coffee: to be produced by heated water seeping (“percolating”) through coffee grounds.
- (transitive) To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of.
- (dialectal) To examine thoroughly.
- gain or regain energy
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- (informal) As a result of.
- Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering.
- Removed or subtracted from.
- Detached, separated, excluded or disconnected from; away from a position of attachment or connection to.
- (colloquial, more properly 'from') Out of the possession of.
- Outside the area or region of.
- Used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another, implying adjacency or accessibility via.
- Used to express location at sea relative to land or mainland.
- Not positioned upon, or away from a position upon.
- No longer wanting or taking.
- Temporarily not attending (a usual place), especially owing to illness or holiday.
- (slang, drugs) Under the influence of.
adj
- (by extension, Australia, slang) Disgusting, repulsive, abhorrent.
- Temporarily not attending a usual place, such as work or school, especially owing to illness or holiday.
- (predicative only) Inappropriate; untoward.
- Not correct; not properly formed; not logical, harmonious, etc.
- (British, in relation to a vehicle) On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left).
- (in phrases such as 'off day') Designating a time when one is not performing to the best of one's abilities.
- (chiefly UK) Rancid, rotten, gone bad.
- (predicative only) Presently unavailable. (of a dish on a menu)
- (predicative only) Inoperative, disabled.
- Less than normal, in temperament or in result.
- (poker slang) Offsuit.
- (predicative only) Cancelled; not happening.
- Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent.
- Started on the way.
- (in phrases such as 'well off', 'poorly off', 'comfortably off', etc., and in 'how?' questions) Circumstanced.
- (cricket) In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.
- Not fitted; not being worn.
- Far; off to the side.
- below a satisfactory level
- (of events) no longer planned or scheduled
- not performing or scheduled for duties
- not in operation or operational
- in an unpalatable state
adv
- Used in various other ways specific to individual idiomatic phrases, e.g. bring off, show off, put off, tell off, etc. See the entry for the individual phrase.
- So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated.
- Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
- (theater) Offstage.
- In a direction away from the speaker or other reference point.
- at a distance in space or time
- from a particular thing or place or position (‘forth’ is obsolete)
- no longer on or in contact or attached
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noun
- (informal) A suggestion; an idea.
- (UK, Australia, slang) A call-out for an emergency services team.
- (UK, dialect) A flat-bottomed boat, a barge (for carrying cargo, etc), now especially a light boat used in duck-shooting.
- A loud burst of voice or voices; a violent and sudden outcry, especially that of a multitude expressing joy, triumph, exultation, anger, or great effort.
- (informal) A greeting, name-check or other mention, for example on a radio or TV program.
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) A round of drinks in a pub; the turn to pay the shot or scot; an act of paying for a round of drinks.
- a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition
verb
- (intransitive) To utter a sudden and loud cry, as in joy, triumph, exultation or anger, or to attract attention, to animate others, etc.
- (Internet) To post a text message (for example, email) in upper case, regarded as the electronic messaging equivalent of oral shouting.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To forcefully attract attention or proclaim one’s presence.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To pay for food, drink or entertainment for others.
- (transitive) To utter with a shout; to cry; to shout out
- use foul or abusive language towards
- utter a sudden loud cry
- utter in a loud voice; talk in a loud voice (usually denoting characteristic manner of speaking)
- utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy
noun
- (informal) An attempt.
- A bacterial culture made by inoculating a solid medium, such as gelatin, with the puncture of a needle or wire.
- (industrial relations) Clipping of establishment.
- Criticism.
- (music) A single staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition.
- An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object.
- (aviation, slang) The horizontal or vertical stabilizer of an aircraft.
- A wound made by stabbing.
- Pain inflicted on a person's feelings.
- informal words for any attempt or effort
- a strong blow with a knife or other sharp pointed instrument
- a sudden sharp feeling
adj
verb
- (transitive) To thrust in a stabbing motion.
- (transitive) To pierce folded sheets, near their back edges, for the passage of thread or wire.
- (transitive) To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a (usually pointed) tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger.
- (intransitive) To cause a sharp, painful sensation (often used with at).
- (transitive, figurative) To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander.
- (transitive) To roughen a brick wall with a pick so as to hold plaster.
- (intransitive) To recklessly hit with the tip of a (usually pointed) object, such as a weapon or finger (often used with at).
- (transitive, oil industry) To guide the end of a pipe into a coupling when making up a connection.
- use a knife on
- stab or pierce
- poke or thrust abruptly
noun
- (countable) A problem affecting function.
- (countable, informal, engineering) An unexpected behavior in an electrical signal, especially if the signal spontaneously returns to expected behavior after a period of time.
- (video games) A bug or an exploit.
- (uncountable, music) A genre of experimental electronic music since the 1990s, characterized by a deliberate use of sonic artifacts that would normally be viewed as unwanted noise.
- (astronomy, countable) A sudden increase in the rotational frequency of a pulsar.
- a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine
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- (informal) Something preliminary, such as a trial, report, race, etc.
- (informal, usually in the plural) Clipping of preliminary examination; a type of exam sat at the end of the first year of most undergraduate degrees.
- (in the plural) The preliminary front matter of a book; all content preceding the main text or work itself.
- an examination taken by graduate students to determine their fitness to continue
- a minor match preceding the main event
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verb
- (informal) To fix problems; to correct or repair.
- To finish something off; to apply a finishing touch
- To consume or get rid of an excess of something.
- (baseball) To pitch the final innings especially of a game that is no longer close.
- To win a competition decisively.
- To get rid of (enemies) within a certain area.
- To clean up (liquid) with a mop, rag, sponge, or other cleaning device.
- (transitive) To absorb the leftovers of a dish with bread etc., in order to eat them.
- To clean up an area destroyed by a natural disaster or by violent activity.
- defeat thoroughly
- finish a task completely
- to wash or wipe with or as if with a mop
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adj
- informal intensifiers
- passionate or quick-tempered
- (colloquial, typically of a gay man) Extremely obvious; visibly evident.
- On fire with visible flames.
- (British, Australia, colloquial) Damned, bloody.
- Very enthusiastic or passionate.
- (colloquial) Very showy, flamboyant.
- Very bright and the color of flame.
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noun
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- something craved, especially an intravenous injection of a narcotic drug
- a determination of the place where something is
- the act of putting something in working order again
- an exemption granted after influence (e.g., money) is brought to bear
- A repair or corrective action.
- (figurative, by extension) Something that satisfies a yearning or a craving.
- (aviation) A non-waypoint terrain feature used to make a determination of location.
- A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.
- (US) Fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)
- (figurative, by extension) A compulsive desire or thrill.
- (slang) A single dose of a narcotic drug, especially when injected.
- A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.
- An understanding, grasp of something.
- A determination of location.
verb
- prepare for eating by applying heat
- to be about to do something
- make fixed, stable or stationary
- restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
- make infertile
- set or place definitely
- take vengeance on or get even
- kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study
- cause to be firmly attached
- make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
- influence an event or its outcome by illegal means
- decide upon or fix definitely
- put (something somewhere) firmly
- (transitive, chess) To prevent enemy pawns from advancing by directly opposing the most advanced one with one of one's own pawns so as to threaten to capture any advancing backward pawns.
- (intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.
- (transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
- (transitive) To mend, to repair.
- (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
- (transitive, mathematics, semantics) To map (a point or subset) to itself.
- (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
- (transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
- (slang, intransitive) To shoot; to inject a drug.
- (transitive, figuratively, usually in the passive) To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.
- (transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.
- (ditransitive, informal) To prepare (food or drink).
- (hyperbolic, chiefly with would) To be immensely pleasurable to.
- (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
- (transitive) To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins; to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion.
noun
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- a depression hollowed out of solid matter
- one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course
- an unoccupied space
- an opening deliberately made in or through something
- a fault
- an opening into or through something
- informal terms for the mouth
- An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
- (slang) An undesirable place to live or visit.
- (slang, rail transport) A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
- (baseball) The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
- (figuratively) A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
- (slang) Any bodily orifice, in particular the anus.
- (archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.
- (figurative) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
- (slang, derogatory) A person's mouth.
- (informal, with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
- (golf) A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.
- (Ireland, Scotland, vulgar) A vagina.
- (stud poker) A card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.
- (physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
- (computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
- A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
- In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
- (chess) A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in the future, control with a friendly pawn.
- (graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.
- (Canada, US, historical) A mountain valley.
- (golf) The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
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noun
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- preserve of crushed fruit
- a dense crowd of people
- deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems
- (mining) Alternative form of jamb.
- (slang) Something enjoyable; a delightful situation or outcome.
- (slang) Sexual relations or the contemplation of them.
- (countable, by extension) An informal event where people brainstorm and collaborate on projects.
- (countable) A blockage, congestion, or immobilization.
- (countable) A difficult situation.
- (countable, by extension, informal) A song; a track.
- (countable, roller derby) A play during which points can be scored.
- (countable, slang) That which one particularly prefers, desires, enjoys, or cares about.
- (UK, slang) Luck.
- (countable, climbing) Any of several manoeuvres requiring wedging of an extremity into a tight space.
- (Australia) The tree Acacia acuminata, with fruity-smelling hard timber.
- (countable, baseball) A difficult situation for a pitcher or defending team.
- (countable, basketball) A forceful dunk.
- (countable, popular music) An informal, impromptu performance or rehearsal.
- (Canada, slang) Balls, bollocks, courage, machismo.
- (less common in the US) A sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used in jam tarts
verb
- crush or bruise
- interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
- block passage through
- get stuck and immobilized
- push down forcibly
- press tightly together or cram
- crowd or pack to capacity
- (baseball) To throw a pitch at or near the batter's hands.
- To block or confuse a radio or radar signal by transmitting a more-powerful signal on the same frequency.
- (basketball) To dunk.
- To injure a finger or toe by sudden compression of the digit's tip.
- (Canada, informal) To give up on a date or some other joint endeavour; to stand up, chicken out, jam out.
- To render something unable to move.
- (colloquial) To be of high quality (especially for music).
- To get something stuck, often (though not necessarily) in a confined space.
- To cause congestion or blockage. Often used with "up".
- (music) To play music (especially improvisation as a group, or an informal unrehearsed session).
- To brusquely force something into a space; to cram, to squeeze.
- (nautical, transitive) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.
- (roller derby) To attempt to score points.
noun
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel
- soft semiliquid food
- a state of confusion and disorderliness
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
- a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax
- (collective) A group of iguanas.
- (cooking) A dessert of fruit and cream, similar to a fool.
- (collective) A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel who eat at the same table.
- A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).
- a thing or group of things in a disagreeable, disorganised, or dirty state; hence a bad situation
- (figuratively) a person in a state of (especially emotional) turmoil or disarray; an emotional wreck
- A building or room in which mess is eaten.
- (India) a type of restaurant characterized by homely-style cooking and food.
- (US) The milk given by a cow at one milking.
- (colloquial) a large quantity or number
- (euphemistic) excrement.
verb
- make a mess of or create disorder in
- eat in a mess hall
- To make soiled by ejaculating.
- (intransitive) To take meals with a mess.
- (transitive, often used with "up") To throw into disorder or to ruin.
- (intransitive) To interfere.
- (intransitive) To belong to a mess.
- To make soiled by defecating.
- (intransitive) To eat (with others).
- (transitive) To supply with a mess.
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- make into a puddle
- mix up or confuse
- To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.
- To dabble in mud.
- To make turbid or muddy.
- To think and act in a confused, aimless way.
- To mix together, to mix up; to confuse.
- To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.
- To mash slightly for use in a cocktail.
noun
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- vegetables (especially cucumbers) preserved in brine or vinegar
- (slang) A pipe for smoking methamphetamine.
- (baseball) A rundown.
- (Northern England, Scotland) A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.)
- (Northern England, Scotland) A small or indefinite quantity or amount (of something); a little, a bit, a few. Usually in partitive construction, frequently without "of"; a single grain or kernel of wheat, barley, oats, sand or dust.
- (chiefly US, Canada, Australia) A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
- (UK) A sweet, vinegary pickled chutney popular in Britain.
- (often in the plural) Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
- In an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the lights are mounted.
- (endearing) A mildly mischievous loved one.
- (informal) A difficult situation; peril.
- The brine used for preserving food.
- (uncountable) A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown
- (slang) A penis.
- (metalworking) A bath of dilute sulphuric or nitric acid, etc., to remove burnt sand, scale, rust, etc., from the surface of castings, or other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their colour.
verb
- preserve in a pickling liquid
- (Northern England, Scotland, ambitransitive) To eat sparingly.
- (transitive, ergative) To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
- (transitive) To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
- (Northern England, Scotland, ambitransitive) To pilfer.
- (programming, in Python) To serialize.
- (historical) To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment.
contraction
noun
verb
noun
- (informal) Something that is difficult to figure out; a puzzle.
- An implement for cracking nuts.
- (ornithology) Any bird of the genus Nucifraga in the crow family.
- (by extension) Ellipsis of nutcracker doll.
- (US, New York City) A bootleg mixed drink made from a blend of alcohols and fruit juices.
- any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insects
- a compound lever used to crack nuts open
- speckled birds that feed on nuts
verb
name
noun
- a minor difficulty
- a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface
- a clever method of doing something (especially something new and different)
- (US, dialect) A winkle
- A line or crease in the skin, especially when caused by age or fatigue.
- A twist on something existing; a novel difference.
- A small furrow, ridge or crease in an otherwise smooth surface.
- A fault, imperfection or bug especially in a new system or product; typically, they will need to be ironed out.
verb
- make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; ‘crisp’ is archaic
- make wrinkled or creased
- become wrinkled or crumpled or creased
- gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker
- (transitive) To make wrinkles in; to cause to have wrinkles.
- (intransitive, of skin) To develop irreversibly wrinkles; to age.
- (intransitive) To pucker or become uneven or irregular.
noun
- a source of difficulty
- a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
- a question raised for consideration or solution
- Difficulty in accepting or understanding or refusal to accept or understand.
- Objection.
- A difficulty that has to be resolved or dealt with.
- An addiction, other substance use disorder, or comparable psychological challenge.
- A question to be answered, schoolwork exercise.
- A puzzling circumstance.
- (climbing) A set of moves required to complete a climb.
adj
noun
- a source of difficulty
- an unwanted pregnancy
- an event causing distress or pain
- a strong feeling of anxiety
- an effort that is inconvenient
- an angry disturbance
- Violent or turbulent occurrence or event; unrest, disturbance.
- Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
- Health problems, ailment, generally of some particular part of the body.
- A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
- Difficulty in doing something.
- (mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Wife. Clipping of trouble and strife.
- Objectionable feature of something or someone; problem, drawback, weakness, failing, or shortcoming.
- A person liable to place others or themselves in such a situation.
- The state of being troubled, disturbed, or distressed mentally; unease, disquiet.
- Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
- A malfunction.
- A distressing or dangerous situation.
verb
- cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
- disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed
- take the trouble to do something; concern oneself
- to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
- move deeply
- (transitive) In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.
- (intransitive) To worry; to be anxious.
- (transitive, of ailments, etc.) To physically afflict.
- (reflexive or intransitive) To take pains (to do something); to bother.
- (transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
noun
- (programming) Initialism of internal compiler error.
- (automotive) Initialism of in-car entertainment.
- Initialism of intercontinental exchange.
- (computing) Initialism of in-circuit emulator/emulation.
- (medicine) Initialism of ice, compress, elevation (first-aid).
- Acronym of iridocorneal endothelial syndrome.
- (automotive) Acronym of internal combustion engine.
- a heat engine in which combustion occurs inside the engine rather than in a separate furnace; heat expands a gas that either moves a piston or turns a gas turbine
adj
name
- Initialism of International Cultural Exchange.
- (sports) Abbreviation of Iceland.
- Initialism of Institution of Civil Engineers.
- (government, US) Acronym of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“law-enforcement agency responsible for immigration and customs matters of the United States Federal government”).
- (rail transport) Initialism of Intercity-Express (“German high speed train”).
phrase
verb
- (slang, neologism, transitive, uncommon) To apprehend or deport by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
- (automotive, slang) To occupy a reserved electric car parking space (especially one equipped with a charger) with a traditional car equipped with an internal combustion engine.
- (slang, neologism, transitive, uncommon) To kill (in reference to and often by Immigration and Customs Enforcement).
noun
- an indirect suggestion
- a slight movement of the air
- a short respite
- the air that is inhaled and exhaled in respiration
- the process of taking in and expelling air during breathing
- (uncountable) The act or process of breathing.
- A small amount of something, such as wind, or common sense.
- (countable) A rest or pause.
- (countable) A single act of breathing in or out; a breathing of air.
- (uncountable) Air expelled from the lungs.
adj
verb
noun
- an indirect suggestion
- a just detectable amount
- a slight indication
- an indication of potential opportunity
- a slight but appreciable amount
- A small, barely detectable amount.
- An implicit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.
- (databases) An instruction to the database engine as to how a query should be executed, for example whether to use an index or not.
- A clue.
- (computing) Information in a computer-based font that suggests how the outlines of the font's glyphs should be distorted in order to produce, at specific sizes, a visually appealing pixel-based rendering; an instance of hinting.
verb
intj
noun
- (informal) A difficult problem.
- (US, slang) A Cadillac car.
- (figuratively, derogatory) An obese person.
- (figuratively, derogatory) A dirty or slovenly person.
- (uncountable) The edible meat of such an animal; pork.
- (specifically) A young swine, a piglet (contrasted with a hog, an adult swine).
- (US, military, slang) The general-purpose M60 machine gun, considered to be heavy and bulky.
- (US, slang) A Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
- (uncountable) A simple dice game in which players roll the dice as many times as they like, either accumulating a greater score or losing previous points gained.
- (countable and uncountable) An oblong block of cast metal (now only iron or lead).
- (Scotland) An earthenware pot or jar
- (engineering) A device for cleaning or inspecting the inside of an oil or gas pipeline, or for separating different substances within the pipeline. Named for the pig-like squealing noise made by their progress.
- (countable) Any of several mammalian species of the family Suidae, having cloven hooves, bristles and a snout adapted for digging; especially the domesticated animal Sus domesticus.
- (slang) The victim of a pig butchering scam.
- (figuratively, derogatory) Someone who overeats or eats rapidly and noisily.
- (specifically) An earthenware vessel used as a hot-water bottle
- (derogatory, slang) A police officer.
- (figuratively, derogatory) A lecherous or sexist man.
- A lead container used for radioactive waste.
- (uncountable) A light pinkish-red colour, like that of a pig (also called pig pink).
- The mold in which a block of metal is cast.
- uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
- a coarse obnoxious person
- a person regarded as greedy and pig-like
- domestic swine
- a crude block of metal (lead or iron) poured from a smelting furnace
- mold consisting of a bed of sand in which pig iron is cast
verb
- (intransitive) To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed.
- (intransitive) To live together in a crowded filthy manner.
- (intransitive) To greedily consume (especially food).
- (of swine) To give birth.
- (transitive, engineering) To clean (a pipeline) using a pig (the device).
- live like a pig, in squalor
- give birth to (piglets)
- eat greedily
noun
- (informal) A problem, dilemma, or complicating factor.
- (slang, euphemistic) A vulva or vagina.
- An individual object or distinct entity.
- (in the plural) Possessions or equipment; stuff; gear.
- (MLE) Alternative form of ting.
- (informal) A romantic couple.
- (MLE) Girl; attractive woman.
- (chiefly historical) A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country.
- (informal) A romantic relationship.
- (informal) A unit or container, usually containing consumable goods.
- (slang, euphemistic) A penis.
- (informal, used possessively, chiefly in the negative) That which is favoured; personal preference.
- (informal, with a) A genuine concept, entity or phenomenon; something that actually exists (often contrary to expectation or belief).
- Corporeal object.
- (informal) A custom or practice.
- Whatever can be owned.
- (informal, used possessively, with "do") One's typical routine, habits, or manner.
- A word, symbol, sign, or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity.
- A living being or creature.
- That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.
- (informal, with the) The central point; the crux.
- Used after a noun to refer dismissively to the situation surrounding the noun's referent.
- a special situation
- a vaguely specified concern
- a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion
- an action
- a statement regarded as an object
- an entity that is not named specifically
- an artifact
- an event
- a separate and self-contained entity
- a special abstraction
- any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence
- a special objective
verb
noun
- (informal) A problem, delay or source of difficulty.
- (military, slang) A period of time spent in the military.
- A fastener or connection point, as for a trailer.
- Any of various knots used to attach a rope to an object other than another rope.
- (mining) A hole cut into the wall of a mine on which timbers are rested.
- A large Californian minnow, Lavinia exilicauda.
- A sudden pull.
- A hidden or unfavorable condition or element.
- a connection between a vehicle and the load that it pulls
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
- a knot that can be undone by pulling against the strain that holds it; a temporary knot
- an unforeseen obstacle
- the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg
- a period of time spent in military service
verb
- (intransitive) To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.
- (transitive) To pull with a jerk.
- (intransitive, UK) To strike the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere.
- (intransitive) To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; said of something obstructed or impeded.
- (informal, transitive) Clipping of hitchhike, to thumb a ride.
- (informal) To marry oneself to; especially to get hitched.
- (transitive) To attach, tie or fasten.
- jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched
- walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury
- to hook or entangle
- travel by getting free rides from motorists
- connect to a vehicle:
noun
- (informal) Technique.
- (informal) Technician; technologist.
- (informal) Clipping of technical rehearsal.
- (informal, used in titles) Technical college; technical school.
- (informal) Technology.
- Denotes technology businesses or the technology industry, especially in the field of computing and the Internet.
- (motor racing) Clipping of technical inspection
- a school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences
verb
noun
- a problem
- some situation or event that is thought about
- written works (especially in books or magazines)
- a vaguely specified concern
- (used with negation) having consequence
- that which has mass and occupies space
- (physics) Matter made up of normal particles, not antiparticles.
- Printed material, especially in books or magazines.
- An approximate amount or extent.
- (physics) Anything with mass and volume.
- (countable, law) Legal services provided by a lawyer or firm to their client in relation to a particular issue.
- An affair, condition, or subject, especially one of concern or (especially when preceded by the) one that is problematic.
- (uncountable) Importance.
- A kind of substance.
- (philosophy) Aristotelian: undeveloped potentiality subject to change and development; formlessness. Matter receives form, and becomes substance.
verb
noun
- (informal) A blunder, an error.
- (baseball, slang) A fly ball that is weakly hit just over the infielders.
- (US, military, slang) The Vietnam-era M79 grenade launcher (due to its distinctive report).
- (film, informal) A filmed or videotaped outtake that has recorded an amusing accident or mistake.
- (nautical) A gaff-rigged fore-and-aft sail set from and aft of the aftmost mast of a square-rigged ship; a spanker.
- an embarrassing mistake
noun
verb
- (intransitive, transitive, usually with in, into, around, etc.) To move briskly and unhesitatingly, especially in an inappropriately casual manner, or when unannounced or uninvited.
- (intransitive, transitive) To dance the waltz (with).
- (informal) To accomplish a task with little effort.
- (transitive) To move with fanfare.
- dance a waltz
noun
- (informal) Amount.
- Alcoholic beverages in general.
- A type of beverage (usually mixed).
- A standard drink.
- (uncountable) Drinks in general; something to drink.
- A (served) alcoholic beverage.
- The action of drinking, especially with the verbs take or have.
- A beverage.
- (Australia, figurative) A downpour; a cloudburst; a rainstorm; a deluge; a lot of rain.
- (colloquial, with the) Any body of water.
- any liquid suitable for drinking
- a single serving of a beverage
- any large deep body of water
- the act of swallowing
- the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess
verb
- (transitive) To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
- (intransitive) To consume alcoholic beverages.
- (ambitransitive) To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
- (transitive, metonymic) To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.).
- Used in phrasal verbs: drink down, drink in, drink off, drink out, drink to, drink up.
- (transitive) To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
- consume alcohol
- be fascinated or spell-bound by; pay close attention to
- propose a toast to
- drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic
- take in liquids
noun
- (informal) A workaround; a quick and less than perfect solution for some flaw or problem.
- A violinist, or fiddler, in a band.
- A rack for drying pottery after glazing.
- (figurative) A clown; an unserious person entertaining a group.
- (informal) A scam; a fraud or swindle.
- (especially nautical) Any rail or device that prevents items from sliding off a table, stove, etc. in rough water.
- A violin, a small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin, shoulder, chest or on the upper thigh and played with a bow (see also usage notes below).
- (biology) A dock (Rumex pulcher) with leaves supposed to resemble the musical instrument.
- (usually proscribed) Any of various other bowed stringed instruments, particularly those of the violin family when played non-classically.
- (informal) An act of tinkering, playing around, or fidgeting with something.
- A long pole pulled by a draft animal to drag loose straw, hay, etc.
- bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow
intj
verb
- (informal, intransitive) Synonym of tinker (“to make small adjustments or improvements”); see also fiddle with.
- (informal, transitive) To fraudulently manipulate (records, accounts, etc.) in order to cheat or swindle.
- (intransitive) To fidget or play; to fuss; to idly amuse oneself, to act aimlessly, idly, or frivolously, particularly out of nervousness or restlessness; see also fiddle with.
- (intransitive) To play the fiddle or violin, particularly in a folk or country style.
- play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly
- commit fraud and steal from one's employer
- avoid (one's assigned duties)
- play on a violin
- try to fix or mend
- manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination
- play the violin or fiddle
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To appear from below or behind something, emerge, pop up, poke out.
- (transitive, informal) To make (coffee) in a percolator or a drip coffeemaker.
- (intransitive, informal) Of coffee: to be produced by heated water seeping (“percolating”) through coffee grounds.
- (transitive) To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of.
- (dialectal) To examine thoroughly.
- gain or regain energy
noun
- (informal) A suggestion; an idea.
- (UK, Australia, slang) A call-out for an emergency services team.
- (UK, dialect) A flat-bottomed boat, a barge (for carrying cargo, etc), now especially a light boat used in duck-shooting.
- A loud burst of voice or voices; a violent and sudden outcry, especially that of a multitude expressing joy, triumph, exultation, anger, or great effort.
- (informal) A greeting, name-check or other mention, for example on a radio or TV program.
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) A round of drinks in a pub; the turn to pay the shot or scot; an act of paying for a round of drinks.
- a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition
verb
- (intransitive) To utter a sudden and loud cry, as in joy, triumph, exultation or anger, or to attract attention, to animate others, etc.
- (Internet) To post a text message (for example, email) in upper case, regarded as the electronic messaging equivalent of oral shouting.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To forcefully attract attention or proclaim one’s presence.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To pay for food, drink or entertainment for others.
- (transitive) To utter with a shout; to cry; to shout out
- use foul or abusive language towards
- utter a sudden loud cry
- utter in a loud voice; talk in a loud voice (usually denoting characteristic manner of speaking)
- utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy
noun
- (informal) An attempt.
- A bacterial culture made by inoculating a solid medium, such as gelatin, with the puncture of a needle or wire.
- (industrial relations) Clipping of establishment.
- Criticism.
- (music) A single staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition.
- An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object.
- (aviation, slang) The horizontal or vertical stabilizer of an aircraft.
- A wound made by stabbing.
- Pain inflicted on a person's feelings.
- informal words for any attempt or effort
- a strong blow with a knife or other sharp pointed instrument
- a sudden sharp feeling
adj
verb
- (transitive) To thrust in a stabbing motion.
- (transitive) To pierce folded sheets, near their back edges, for the passage of thread or wire.
- (transitive) To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a (usually pointed) tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger.
- (intransitive) To cause a sharp, painful sensation (often used with at).
- (transitive, figurative) To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander.
- (transitive) To roughen a brick wall with a pick so as to hold plaster.
- (intransitive) To recklessly hit with the tip of a (usually pointed) object, such as a weapon or finger (often used with at).
- (transitive, oil industry) To guide the end of a pipe into a coupling when making up a connection.
- use a knife on
- stab or pierce
- poke or thrust abruptly
noun
- (countable) A problem affecting function.
- (countable, informal, engineering) An unexpected behavior in an electrical signal, especially if the signal spontaneously returns to expected behavior after a period of time.
- (video games) A bug or an exploit.
- (uncountable, music) A genre of experimental electronic music since the 1990s, characterized by a deliberate use of sonic artifacts that would normally be viewed as unwanted noise.
- (astronomy, countable) A sudden increase in the rotational frequency of a pulsar.
- a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine
verb
noun
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- something craved, especially an intravenous injection of a narcotic drug
- a determination of the place where something is
- the act of putting something in working order again
- an exemption granted after influence (e.g., money) is brought to bear
- A repair or corrective action.
- (figurative, by extension) Something that satisfies a yearning or a craving.
- (aviation) A non-waypoint terrain feature used to make a determination of location.
- A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.
- (US) Fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)
- (figurative, by extension) A compulsive desire or thrill.
- (slang) A single dose of a narcotic drug, especially when injected.
- A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.
- An understanding, grasp of something.
- A determination of location.
verb
- prepare for eating by applying heat
- to be about to do something
- make fixed, stable or stationary
- restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
- make infertile
- set or place definitely
- take vengeance on or get even
- kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study
- cause to be firmly attached
- make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
- influence an event or its outcome by illegal means
- decide upon or fix definitely
- put (something somewhere) firmly
- (transitive, chess) To prevent enemy pawns from advancing by directly opposing the most advanced one with one of one's own pawns so as to threaten to capture any advancing backward pawns.
- (intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.
- (transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
- (transitive) To mend, to repair.
- (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
- (transitive, mathematics, semantics) To map (a point or subset) to itself.
- (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
- (transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
- (slang, intransitive) To shoot; to inject a drug.
- (transitive, figuratively, usually in the passive) To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.
- (transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.
- (ditransitive, informal) To prepare (food or drink).
- (hyperbolic, chiefly with would) To be immensely pleasurable to.
- (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
- (transitive) To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins; to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion.
noun
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- a depression hollowed out of solid matter
- one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course
- an unoccupied space
- an opening deliberately made in or through something
- a fault
- an opening into or through something
- informal terms for the mouth
- An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
- (slang) An undesirable place to live or visit.
- (slang, rail transport) A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
- (baseball) The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
- (figuratively) A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
- (slang) Any bodily orifice, in particular the anus.
- (archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.
- (figurative) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
- (slang, derogatory) A person's mouth.
- (informal, with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
- (golf) A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.
- (Ireland, Scotland, vulgar) A vagina.
- (stud poker) A card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.
- (physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
- (computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
- A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
- In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
- (chess) A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in the future, control with a friendly pawn.
- (graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.
- (Canada, US, historical) A mountain valley.
- (golf) The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
verb
adj
noun
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- preserve of crushed fruit
- a dense crowd of people
- deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems
- (mining) Alternative form of jamb.
- (slang) Something enjoyable; a delightful situation or outcome.
- (slang) Sexual relations or the contemplation of them.
- (countable, by extension) An informal event where people brainstorm and collaborate on projects.
- (countable) A blockage, congestion, or immobilization.
- (countable) A difficult situation.
- (countable, by extension, informal) A song; a track.
- (countable, roller derby) A play during which points can be scored.
- (countable, slang) That which one particularly prefers, desires, enjoys, or cares about.
- (UK, slang) Luck.
- (countable, climbing) Any of several manoeuvres requiring wedging of an extremity into a tight space.
- (Australia) The tree Acacia acuminata, with fruity-smelling hard timber.
- (countable, baseball) A difficult situation for a pitcher or defending team.
- (countable, basketball) A forceful dunk.
- (countable, popular music) An informal, impromptu performance or rehearsal.
- (Canada, slang) Balls, bollocks, courage, machismo.
- (less common in the US) A sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used in jam tarts
verb
- crush or bruise
- interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
- block passage through
- get stuck and immobilized
- push down forcibly
- press tightly together or cram
- crowd or pack to capacity
- (baseball) To throw a pitch at or near the batter's hands.
- To block or confuse a radio or radar signal by transmitting a more-powerful signal on the same frequency.
- (basketball) To dunk.
- To injure a finger or toe by sudden compression of the digit's tip.
- (Canada, informal) To give up on a date or some other joint endeavour; to stand up, chicken out, jam out.
- To render something unable to move.
- (colloquial) To be of high quality (especially for music).
- To get something stuck, often (though not necessarily) in a confined space.
- To cause congestion or blockage. Often used with "up".
- (music) To play music (especially improvisation as a group, or an informal unrehearsed session).
- To brusquely force something into a space; to cram, to squeeze.
- (nautical, transitive) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.
- (roller derby) To attempt to score points.
noun
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel
- soft semiliquid food
- a state of confusion and disorderliness
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
- a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax
- (collective) A group of iguanas.
- (cooking) A dessert of fruit and cream, similar to a fool.
- (collective) A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel who eat at the same table.
- A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).
- a thing or group of things in a disagreeable, disorganised, or dirty state; hence a bad situation
- (figuratively) a person in a state of (especially emotional) turmoil or disarray; an emotional wreck
- A building or room in which mess is eaten.
- (India) a type of restaurant characterized by homely-style cooking and food.
- (US) The milk given by a cow at one milking.
- (colloquial) a large quantity or number
- (euphemistic) excrement.
verb
- make a mess of or create disorder in
- eat in a mess hall
- To make soiled by ejaculating.
- (intransitive) To take meals with a mess.
- (transitive, often used with "up") To throw into disorder or to ruin.
- (intransitive) To interfere.
- (intransitive) To belong to a mess.
- To make soiled by defecating.
- (intransitive) To eat (with others).
- (transitive) To supply with a mess.
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verb
- make into a puddle
- mix up or confuse
- To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.
- To dabble in mud.
- To make turbid or muddy.
- To think and act in a confused, aimless way.
- To mix together, to mix up; to confuse.
- To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.
- To mash slightly for use in a cocktail.
noun
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- vegetables (especially cucumbers) preserved in brine or vinegar
- (slang) A pipe for smoking methamphetamine.
- (baseball) A rundown.
- (Northern England, Scotland) A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.)
- (Northern England, Scotland) A small or indefinite quantity or amount (of something); a little, a bit, a few. Usually in partitive construction, frequently without "of"; a single grain or kernel of wheat, barley, oats, sand or dust.
- (chiefly US, Canada, Australia) A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
- (UK) A sweet, vinegary pickled chutney popular in Britain.
- (often in the plural) Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
- In an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the lights are mounted.
- (endearing) A mildly mischievous loved one.
- (informal) A difficult situation; peril.
- The brine used for preserving food.
- (uncountable) A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown
- (slang) A penis.
- (metalworking) A bath of dilute sulphuric or nitric acid, etc., to remove burnt sand, scale, rust, etc., from the surface of castings, or other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their colour.
verb
- preserve in a pickling liquid
- (Northern England, Scotland, ambitransitive) To eat sparingly.
- (transitive, ergative) To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
- (transitive) To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
- (Northern England, Scotland, ambitransitive) To pilfer.
- (programming, in Python) To serialize.
- (historical) To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment.
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noun
- (informal) Something that is difficult to figure out; a puzzle.
- An implement for cracking nuts.
- (ornithology) Any bird of the genus Nucifraga in the crow family.
- (by extension) Ellipsis of nutcracker doll.
- (US, New York City) A bootleg mixed drink made from a blend of alcohols and fruit juices.
- any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insects
- a compound lever used to crack nuts open
- speckled birds that feed on nuts
noun
- a minor difficulty
- a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface
- a clever method of doing something (especially something new and different)
- (US, dialect) A winkle
- A line or crease in the skin, especially when caused by age or fatigue.
- A twist on something existing; a novel difference.
- A small furrow, ridge or crease in an otherwise smooth surface.
- A fault, imperfection or bug especially in a new system or product; typically, they will need to be ironed out.
verb
- make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; ‘crisp’ is archaic
- make wrinkled or creased
- become wrinkled or crumpled or creased
- gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker
- (transitive) To make wrinkles in; to cause to have wrinkles.
- (intransitive, of skin) To develop irreversibly wrinkles; to age.
- (intransitive) To pucker or become uneven or irregular.
noun
- a source of difficulty
- a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
- a question raised for consideration or solution
- Difficulty in accepting or understanding or refusal to accept or understand.
- Objection.
- A difficulty that has to be resolved or dealt with.
- An addiction, other substance use disorder, or comparable psychological challenge.
- A question to be answered, schoolwork exercise.
- A puzzling circumstance.
- (climbing) A set of moves required to complete a climb.
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noun
- a source of difficulty
- an unwanted pregnancy
- an event causing distress or pain
- a strong feeling of anxiety
- an effort that is inconvenient
- an angry disturbance
- Violent or turbulent occurrence or event; unrest, disturbance.
- Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
- Health problems, ailment, generally of some particular part of the body.
- A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
- Difficulty in doing something.
- (mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Wife. Clipping of trouble and strife.
- Objectionable feature of something or someone; problem, drawback, weakness, failing, or shortcoming.
- A person liable to place others or themselves in such a situation.
- The state of being troubled, disturbed, or distressed mentally; unease, disquiet.
- Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
- A malfunction.
- A distressing or dangerous situation.
verb
- cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
- disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed
- take the trouble to do something; concern oneself
- to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
- move deeply
- (transitive) In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.
- (intransitive) To worry; to be anxious.
- (transitive, of ailments, etc.) To physically afflict.
- (reflexive or intransitive) To take pains (to do something); to bother.
- (transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
noun
- (programming) Initialism of internal compiler error.
- (automotive) Initialism of in-car entertainment.
- Initialism of intercontinental exchange.
- (computing) Initialism of in-circuit emulator/emulation.
- (medicine) Initialism of ice, compress, elevation (first-aid).
- Acronym of iridocorneal endothelial syndrome.
- (automotive) Acronym of internal combustion engine.
- a heat engine in which combustion occurs inside the engine rather than in a separate furnace; heat expands a gas that either moves a piston or turns a gas turbine
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- Initialism of International Cultural Exchange.
- (sports) Abbreviation of Iceland.
- Initialism of Institution of Civil Engineers.
- (government, US) Acronym of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“law-enforcement agency responsible for immigration and customs matters of the United States Federal government”).
- (rail transport) Initialism of Intercity-Express (“German high speed train”).
phrase
verb
- (slang, neologism, transitive, uncommon) To apprehend or deport by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
- (automotive, slang) To occupy a reserved electric car parking space (especially one equipped with a charger) with a traditional car equipped with an internal combustion engine.
- (slang, neologism, transitive, uncommon) To kill (in reference to and often by Immigration and Customs Enforcement).
noun
- an indirect suggestion
- a slight movement of the air
- a short respite
- the air that is inhaled and exhaled in respiration
- the process of taking in and expelling air during breathing
- (uncountable) The act or process of breathing.
- A small amount of something, such as wind, or common sense.
- (countable) A rest or pause.
- (countable) A single act of breathing in or out; a breathing of air.
- (uncountable) Air expelled from the lungs.
adj
verb
noun
- an indirect suggestion
- a just detectable amount
- a slight indication
- an indication of potential opportunity
- a slight but appreciable amount
- A small, barely detectable amount.
- An implicit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.
- (databases) An instruction to the database engine as to how a query should be executed, for example whether to use an index or not.
- A clue.
- (computing) Information in a computer-based font that suggests how the outlines of the font's glyphs should be distorted in order to produce, at specific sizes, a visually appealing pixel-based rendering; an instance of hinting.
verb
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verb
- (informal) To fix problems; to correct or repair.
- To finish something off; to apply a finishing touch
- To consume or get rid of an excess of something.
- (baseball) To pitch the final innings especially of a game that is no longer close.
- To win a competition decisively.
- To get rid of (enemies) within a certain area.
- To clean up (liquid) with a mop, rag, sponge, or other cleaning device.
- (transitive) To absorb the leftovers of a dish with bread etc., in order to eat them.
- To clean up an area destroyed by a natural disaster or by violent activity.
- defeat thoroughly
- finish a task completely
- to wash or wipe with or as if with a mop
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adj
noun
- (informal) Something preliminary, such as a trial, report, race, etc.
- (informal, usually in the plural) Clipping of preliminary examination; a type of exam sat at the end of the first year of most undergraduate degrees.
- (in the plural) The preliminary front matter of a book; all content preceding the main text or work itself.
- an examination taken by graduate students to determine their fitness to continue
- a minor match preceding the main event
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- informal intensifiers
- passionate or quick-tempered
- (colloquial, typically of a gay man) Extremely obvious; visibly evident.
- On fire with visible flames.
- (British, Australia, colloquial) Damned, bloody.
- Very enthusiastic or passionate.
- (colloquial) Very showy, flamboyant.
- Very bright and the color of flame.