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verb
- To elude; to cheat.
- (intransitive) To make a quick evasive turn or turns to confuse pursuers, incoming fire, etc.
- (intransitive, card games) In the games of spoilfive and forty-five, to win the game by taking all five tricks; also, to attempt to win all five tricks, losing what has been already won if unsuccessful.
- (transitive) To cause a vehicle to make a quick evasive turn.
noun
verb
- To cheat.
- (transitive) To defecate (on); to shit.
- (Australian slang) To laugh.
- (transitive) To excrete (something) by defecation.
- (US, slang) To kill.
- (intransitive) To defecate.
- (brass instrument technique) To incorrectly play a note by hitting a partial other than the one intended.
- (of a bird) To squawk.
noun
verb
adj
- (nautical) Keeping upright.
- (informal) Expensive, pricey.
- (of a person) Formal in behavior; unrelaxed.
- (professional wrestling, of a strike) Delivered more forcefully than needed, whether intentionally or accidentally, thus causing legitimate pain to the opponent.
- (of muscles or parts of the body) Painful or more rigid than usual as a result of excessive or unaccustomed exercise.
- (of an object) Rigid; hard to bend; inflexible.
- Potent.
- (informal) Dead, deceased.
- (golf) Of a shot, landing so close to the flagstick that it should be very easy to sink the ball with the next shot.
- (slang, of the penis) Erect.
- (mathematics) Of an equation, for which certain numerical solving methods are numerically unstable, unless the step size is taken to be extremely small.
- (figurative, of policies and rules and their application and enforcement) Inflexible; rigid.
- Having a dense consistency; thick; (by extension) Difficult to stir.
- (colloquial) Harsh, severe.
- (cooking, of whipping cream or egg whites) Beaten until so aerated that they stand up straight on their own.
- having a strong physiological or chemical effect
- strong, vigorous
- rigidly formal
- not moving or operating freely
- incapable of or resistant to bending
- marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable
- very drunk
adv
noun
- (prison slang) A note or letter surreptitiously sent by an inmate.
- (slang) A cadaver; a dead person.
- (slang) A person who is deceived, as a mark or pigeon in a swindle.
- (slang, chiefly Canada, US) An average person, usually male, of no particular distinction, skill, or education.
- (slang) A flop; a commercial failure.
- (US, slang, by extension) A customer who does not leave a tip.
- (US, slang) A person who leaves (especially a restaurant) without paying the bill.
- (finance, slang) Negotiable instruments, possibly forged.
- (blackjack) Any hard hand where it is possible to exceed 21 by drawing an additional card.
- the dead body of a human being
- an ordinary man
noun
- The act of cheating a person.
- Anything that is particularly foul, unhygienic or unpleasant.
- A dance performed to ska, dub, or reggae music.
- (derogatory, slang) A lewd and disreputable person, often female, especially an unattractive person with an air of tawdry promiscuity.
- (music) A style of rhythmic guitar strumming in ska, reggae, and punk.
- a rhythmic dance to reggae music performed by bending forward and extending the hands while bending the knees
- any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant
verb
adj
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
noun
- One who cheats others.
- An outlaw.
- One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group.
- (sports, slang) A runner who covertly joins a race without having registered as a participant.
- (military, aviation) An aircraft identified as an enemy, but distinct from "hostile" or "threat" in that it is not immediately to be engaged.
- an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band
verb
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 mock; to cheat.
- (intransitive, often with into or through) To force oneself (in a particular direction); to move aggressively.
- (UK, military, transitive) To polish (boots) to a high shine.
- (finance, transitive) To endeavour to raise prices in.
- (agriculture, transitive, of a bull) To mate with (a cow or heifer).
- (finance, transitive) To endeavour to raise the market price of.
- (agriculture, intransitive, of a cow or heifer) To be in heat; to be ready for mating with a bull.
- (intransitive) To lie, to tell untruths.
- speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths
- try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying
- advance in price
- push or force
adj
noun
- (UK) Clipping of bullseye.
- (uncountable, informal, euphemistic, slang) Clipping of bullshit.
- An adult male of certain large mammals, such as whales, elephants, camels and seals.
- (LGBTQ, slang) An elderly lesbian.
- (military, firearms) The central portion of a target, inside the inner and magpie.
- (slang, uncountable) Beef.
- A lie.
- Specifically, one that is uncastrated.
- (euphemistic, informal) Nonsense.
- A large, strong man.
- A papal bull, an official document or edict from the Pope.
- (finance) An investor who buys (commodities or securities) in anticipation of a rise in prices.
- A man who has sex with someone else's partner, with the consent of both.
- A seal affixed to a document, especially a document from the Pope.
- (Philadelphia, slang) A man or boy.
- A male of domesticated cattle or oxen of any age.
- Any adult male bovine.
- (loosely) Any bovine of an aggressive or long-horned breed regardless of age and sex.
- (US, slang) A policeman; a detective; a railroad security guard.
- a large and strong and heavyset man
- a serious and ludicrous blunder
- uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
- uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle
- an investor with an optimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to rise and so buys now for resale later
- mature male of various mammals of which the female is called ‘cow’; e.g. whales or elephants or especially cattle
- a formal proclamation issued by the pope (usually written in antiquated characters and sealed with a leaden bulla)
- the center of a target
- Obscene word for unacceptable behavior
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
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
adj
noun
noun
- A dishonest person; a cheater.
- (music) The symbol ♯, placed after the name of a note in the key signature or before a note on the staff to indicate that the note is to be played one chromatic semitone higher.
- (in the plural) Fine particles of husk mixed with coarse particle of flour of cereals; middlings.
- (psychiatry, healthcare) A sharp object; any item pointed enough to injure human skin.
- (music) A note that is sharp in a particular key.
- (usually in the plural) Something that is sharp.
- Alternative form of sharpie (“type of fishing boat”).
- (music) A note that is played one chromatic semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed by the symbol ♯.
- (music) The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic.
- (medicine) A hypodermic syringe.
- A sewing needle with a very slender point, more pointed than a blunt or a between.
- Part of a stream where the water runs very rapidly.
- A sharpie (member of Australian gangs of the 1960s and 1970s).
- a long thin sewing needle with a sharp point
- a musical notation indicating one half step higher than the note named
adj
- (mathematics, of a statement) Said of as extreme a value as possible.
- Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification.
- (chess) Tactical; risky.
- (colloquial) Illegal or dishonest.
- Forming a small or tight angle; especially, forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.
- Strongly distinguishing or differentiating; acute.
- (music) Higher in pitch than required.
- Having a strong acrid or acidic taste.
- Observant; alert; acute.
- Quick and alert.
- (colloquial) Stylish, smart or attractive.
- (colloquial) Intelligent.
- Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut or pierce easily; not dull, obtuse, or rounded.
- Steep; precipitous; abrupt.
- (colloquial) Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd, verging on dishonest.
- Piercing; keen; severe; painful.
- Exact, precise, accurate; keen.
- Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty.
- (music) Raised by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ♯ after the name of the note).
- Offensive, critical, or acrimonious; stern or harsh.
- Sudden, abrupt, intense, rapid.
- keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point
- having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
- (of something seen or heard) clearly defined
- (of a musical note) raised in pitch by one chromatic semitone
- dangerously steep
- having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing
- having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones
- marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
- quick and forceful
- harsh
- ending in a sharp point
- very sudden and in great amount or degree
adv
verb
verb
- To cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently.
- To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
- To load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat.
- To furnish with a cog or cogs.
- To plagiarize.
- To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; to palm off.
- (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
- 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 trick or deception; a falsehood.
- 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
noun
- Someone who cheats; something that cheats.
- Synonym of adulterer.
- An improvised breaker bar made from a length of pipe and a wrench (spanner), usually used to free screws, bolts, etc. that are difficult to remove with a ratchet or wrench alone.
- Any of various auxiliary lenses added to the visor of a welding hood to improve visibility, such as by providing refractive correction for presbyopia or providing magnification (e.g., 2×, 5×, 10×).
- someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
verb
- To cheat; to deceive; to play the beggar.
- (ambitransitive) To mumble, speak unclearly.
- (intransitive) To beg, especially if using a repeated phrase.
- To deprive of (something) by cheating; to impose upon.
- (ambitransitive) To nibble.
- To be sullen or sulky.
- To move the lips with the mouth closed; to mumble, as in sulkiness.
noun
adj
adv
noun
verb
verb
- 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
- (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.
noun
- 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
- A violinist, or fiddler, in a band.
- (informal) A workaround; a quick and less than perfect solution for some flaw or problem.
- 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.
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verb
noun
- any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians)
- one who is playfully mischievous
- (derogatory) Synonym of uggo: an unattractive person, especially one whose face supposedly resembles a monkey's.
- A fluid consisting of hydrochloric acid and zinc, used in the process of soldering.
- (loosely, sometimes proscribed) Any simian primate other than hominids; any monkey or ape.
- (historical) A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.
- (slang, vulgar, uncommon) A penis.
- (cladistically) Any simian, including humans.
- (slang, derogatory) Synonym of puppet: a person dancing to another's tune, a person controlled or directed by another.
- (slang) A drug habit; an addiction; a compulsion.
- (strictly) A member of the clade Simiiformes other than those in the clade Hominoidea containing apes, generally (but not universally) distinguished by small size, tails, and cheek pouches.
- (dance) A dance popularized by Major Lance in 1963, now usually only its upper-body dance move involving exaggerated drumming motions.
- (slang) The person in the motorcycle sidecar in sidecar racing.
- (blackjack) Synonym of face card.
- The weight of a pile driver or drop hammer.
- (slang) Synonym of five hundred, especially (British) 500 pounds sterling or (US, dated) 500 dollars.
- (derogatory) Synonym of idiot: a person of minimal intelligence.
- (slang, nautical) The vessel in which a mess receives its full allowance of grog.
- (informal, sometimes offensive) A naughty or mischievous person, especially a child.
- (slang, highly derogatory, ethnic slur, offensive) A black person.
- (slang, usually derogatory) A menial employee who does a repetitive job supposedly requiring minimal intelligence.
- (slang) A person's temper, said to be "up" when they are angry.
verb
- play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly
- intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly
- (US, Canada, in professional sports) To discuss future contracts with a player, against league rules.
- (intransitive) To try to influence someone, usually in an illegal or devious way; to try to deal (with someone).
- (intransitive) To make unauthorized or improper alterations, sometimes causing deliberate damage; to meddle (with something).
noun
- a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)
- (rail transport) A railway vehicle used to tamp down ballast.
- A tool used to tamp something down, such as tobacco in a pipe.
- An envelope of neutron-reflecting material in a nuclear weapon, used to delay the expansion of the reacting material and thus produce a longer-lasting and more energetic explosion.
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
noun
- (countable) Someone who cheats.
- (uncountable) The weed cheatgrass.
- (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
- engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
- (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 deceive; to fool; to trick.
- (transitive) To avoid a seemingly inevitable thing.
- be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
- defeat someone through trickery or deceit
- deprive somebody of something by deceit
verb
noun
- (sometimes offensive) an act of swindling or cheating
- (Cambridge University, Durham University) A small kitchen for use by college students.
- Synonym of gypsy (“contra dance step”).
- (derogatory, sometimes offensive) A cheat or swindle; a rip-off.
- (Cambridge University, Durham University) The room in which such college servants work.
- (Cambridge University, Durham University, historical) A domestic servant, generally male, who would attend upon (usually several) students, brushing their clothes, carrying parcels, waiting at parties and other tasks; generally equivalent to a scout in the historical sense at Oxford University or a skip at Trinity College, Dublin.
- Pain or discomfort.
- Gypsophila.
adj
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
adj
noun
noun
- A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays.
- A bad deal; a rip-off.
- (chess) A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally) or in castling.
- (rare) A castle or other fortification.
- A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family.
- (baseball, slang) A rookie.
- (British) A type of firecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name.
- mist; fog; roke
- (uncountable) A trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards.
- common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow
- (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
verb
verb
noun
- (informal, uncountable) Clipping of gaffer tape.
- A trick or con.
- (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
- One operating such a game.
- A game of skill which requires the bettor to guess under which of three small cups (or thimbles) a pea-sized object has been placed after the party operating the game rapidly rearranges them, providing opportunity for sleight-of-hand trickery; a shell game.
- a swindling sleight-of-hand game; victim guesses which of three things a pellet is under
noun
- A cheat; a con artist.
- One who sneaks; one who moves stealthily to acquire an item or information.
- (American football) A play where the quarterback receives the snap and immediately dives forward.
- An informer; a tell-tale.
- (movie theaters) Ellipsis of sneak preview
- The act of sneaking
- (US) A sneaker; a tennis shoe.
- someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police
- a person who is regarded as underhanded and furtive and contemptible
- someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions
adj
verb
- (ditransitive) To stealthily bring someone something.
- (intransitive, informal, with on) To inform an authority of another's misdemeanours.
- (intransitive) To creep or go stealthily; to come or go while trying to avoid detection, as a person who does not wish to be seen.
- (transitive) To take something stealthily without permission.
- to go stealthily or furtively
- put, bring, or take in a secretive or furtive manner
- pass on stealthily
- make off with belongings of others
noun
- A gullible or easily cheated person.
- A steam-powered road locomotive; a traction engine.
- (chiefly in the plural, Rhode Island) A steamed clam.
- (British, crime, slang) A member of a youth gang who engages in steaming (robbing and escaping in a large group).
- (cooking) A cooking appliance that cooks by steaming.
- (British, slang) A homosexual man with a preference for passive partners.
- Clipping of steamer trunk.
- (British, slang) An act of fellatio.
- A steamer duck: any of the four species of the duck genus Tachyeres which are all found in South America, three of which are flightless.
- (British, slang) A prostitute's client.
- A wetsuit with long sleeves and legs.
- (Maine) The soft-shell clam, sand gaper, or long-neck clam (Mya arenaria), an edible saltwater clam; specifically the clam when steamed for eating.
- (British, Scotland, slang) A drinking session.
- A stupid or contemptible person.
- (US, slang) a gambler who increases a wager after losing.
- (nautical) A vessel propelled by steam; a steamboat or steamship.
- A babycino (frothy milk drink).
- (Memphis, hip-hop, slang) A stolen vehicle.
- A vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam, as in washing and in various processes of manufacture.
- (horse racing) A racehorse the odds of which are becoming shorter (that is, decreasing) because bettors are backing it.
- a ship powered by one or more steam engines
- an edible clam with thin oval-shaped shell found in coastal regions of the United States and Europe
- a cooking utensil that can be used to cook food by steaming it
- a clam that is usually steamed in the shell
verb
verb
noun
- 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 use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
- the quality of being crafty
verb
- engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
- carve with a chisel
- deprive somebody of something by deceit
- (transitive, figurative) To make small changes to (something), bit by bit, resulting in change over time.
- (ambitransitive, informal) To beg or pressure somebody into giving up (something); to haggle excessively; to cheat; to obtain something from (someone) by cheating.
- (intransitive) To use a chisel.
- (transitive) To work something with a chisel.
noun
- an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge
- A part of some ploughs, next to the ploughshare, that helps cut into the soil and deal with obstructions such as rocks, roots, and stems.
- Gravel.
- (usually in the plural) Coarse flour; bran; the coarser part of bran or flour.
- A cutting tool used to remove parts of stone, wood or metal by pushing or pounding the back when the sharp edge is against the material. It consists of a slim, oblong block of metal with a sharp wedge or bevel formed on one end and sometimes a handle at the other end; there are hand tool versions (the original type) and versions as bits for power tools.
- A part of any of various tools or devices that has an analogous purpose, cutting raw material or a workpiece during the process that the tool or device performs.
verb
- To cheat, especially in the game of marbles.
- (transitive) To alter something from its true state, as to hide a flaw or uncertainty, deliberately but not necessarily dishonestly or immorally.
- (intransitive) To try to avoid giving a direct answer.
- (colloquial, minced oath) Used in place of fuck.
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- tamper, with the purpose of deception
intj
noun
- (US) Chocolate fudge.
- (euphemistic, slang) Fecal matter; feces.
- (countable) A deliberately misleading or vague answer.
- (uncountable) Light or frothy nonsense.
- (chiefly uncountable) A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream.
- (countable) A less than perfect decision or solution; an attempt to fix an incorrect solution after the fact.
- soft creamy candy
noun
adj
verb
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
- (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
- cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money
- escape, either physically or mentally
- evade payment to
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
- (intransitive, UK) To steal fuel from a self-service filling station by driving away without paying after filling the fuel tank or other container; to commit a drive-off.
- (transitive) To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone).
- (transitive) To spoil the score of (someone) in cribbage.
noun
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
verb
- (slang) To cheat; to be unfaithful to a romantic partner.
- (tennis, of a forehand or a backhand) To change one's position on the court to hit a forehand rather than a backhand, or vice versa.
- (rail transport, of a locomotive) To move from one end of the consist to the other, so as to pull the train in the opposite direction.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, around.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To go from place to place.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To be very busy doing many different things.
- play boisterously
noun
verb
noun
- The buttocks.
- A remnant, as in Rump Parliament.
- The hindquarters of a four-legged mammal, not including its legs
- A cut of meat from the rump of an animal.
- the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- fleshy hindquarters; behind the loin and above the round
noun
- The act of cheating a person.
- Anything that is particularly foul, unhygienic or unpleasant.
- A dance performed to ska, dub, or reggae music.
- (derogatory, slang) A lewd and disreputable person, often female, especially an unattractive person with an air of tawdry promiscuity.
- (music) A style of rhythmic guitar strumming in ska, reggae, and punk.
- a rhythmic dance to reggae music performed by bending forward and extending the hands while bending the knees
- any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant
verb
adj
noun
- One who cheats others.
- An outlaw.
- One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group.
- (sports, slang) A runner who covertly joins a race without having registered as a participant.
- (military, aviation) An aircraft identified as an enemy, but distinct from "hostile" or "threat" in that it is not immediately to be engaged.
- an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band
verb
noun
- A dishonest person; a cheater.
- (music) The symbol ♯, placed after the name of a note in the key signature or before a note on the staff to indicate that the note is to be played one chromatic semitone higher.
- (in the plural) Fine particles of husk mixed with coarse particle of flour of cereals; middlings.
- (psychiatry, healthcare) A sharp object; any item pointed enough to injure human skin.
- (music) A note that is sharp in a particular key.
- (usually in the plural) Something that is sharp.
- Alternative form of sharpie (“type of fishing boat”).
- (music) A note that is played one chromatic semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed by the symbol ♯.
- (music) The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic.
- (medicine) A hypodermic syringe.
- A sewing needle with a very slender point, more pointed than a blunt or a between.
- Part of a stream where the water runs very rapidly.
- A sharpie (member of Australian gangs of the 1960s and 1970s).
- a long thin sewing needle with a sharp point
- a musical notation indicating one half step higher than the note named
adj
- (mathematics, of a statement) Said of as extreme a value as possible.
- Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification.
- (chess) Tactical; risky.
- (colloquial) Illegal or dishonest.
- Forming a small or tight angle; especially, forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.
- Strongly distinguishing or differentiating; acute.
- (music) Higher in pitch than required.
- Having a strong acrid or acidic taste.
- Observant; alert; acute.
- Quick and alert.
- (colloquial) Stylish, smart or attractive.
- (colloquial) Intelligent.
- Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut or pierce easily; not dull, obtuse, or rounded.
- Steep; precipitous; abrupt.
- (colloquial) Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd, verging on dishonest.
- Piercing; keen; severe; painful.
- Exact, precise, accurate; keen.
- Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty.
- (music) Raised by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ♯ after the name of the note).
- Offensive, critical, or acrimonious; stern or harsh.
- Sudden, abrupt, intense, rapid.
- keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point
- having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
- (of something seen or heard) clearly defined
- (of a musical note) raised in pitch by one chromatic semitone
- dangerously steep
- having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing
- having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones
- marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
- quick and forceful
- harsh
- ending in a sharp point
- very sudden and in great amount or degree
adv
verb
noun
- Someone who cheats; something that cheats.
- Synonym of adulterer.
- An improvised breaker bar made from a length of pipe and a wrench (spanner), usually used to free screws, bolts, etc. that are difficult to remove with a ratchet or wrench alone.
- Any of various auxiliary lenses added to the visor of a welding hood to improve visibility, such as by providing refractive correction for presbyopia or providing magnification (e.g., 2×, 5×, 10×).
- someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
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
- (countable) Someone who cheats.
- (uncountable) The weed cheatgrass.
- (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
- engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
- (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 deceive; to fool; to trick.
- (transitive) To avoid a seemingly inevitable thing.
- be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
- defeat someone through trickery or deceit
- deprive somebody of something by deceit
verb
noun
- (sometimes offensive) an act of swindling or cheating
- (Cambridge University, Durham University) A small kitchen for use by college students.
- Synonym of gypsy (“contra dance step”).
- (derogatory, sometimes offensive) A cheat or swindle; a rip-off.
- (Cambridge University, Durham University) The room in which such college servants work.
- (Cambridge University, Durham University, historical) A domestic servant, generally male, who would attend upon (usually several) students, brushing their clothes, carrying parcels, waiting at parties and other tasks; generally equivalent to a scout in the historical sense at Oxford University or a skip at Trinity College, Dublin.
- Pain or discomfort.
- Gypsophila.
noun
- A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays.
- A bad deal; a rip-off.
- (chess) A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally) or in castling.
- (rare) A castle or other fortification.
- A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family.
- (baseball, slang) A rookie.
- (British) A type of firecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name.
- mist; fog; roke
- (uncountable) A trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards.
- common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow
- (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
verb
noun
- A cheat; a con artist.
- One who sneaks; one who moves stealthily to acquire an item or information.
- (American football) A play where the quarterback receives the snap and immediately dives forward.
- An informer; a tell-tale.
- (movie theaters) Ellipsis of sneak preview
- The act of sneaking
- (US) A sneaker; a tennis shoe.
- someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police
- a person who is regarded as underhanded and furtive and contemptible
- someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions
adj
verb
- (ditransitive) To stealthily bring someone something.
- (intransitive, informal, with on) To inform an authority of another's misdemeanours.
- (intransitive) To creep or go stealthily; to come or go while trying to avoid detection, as a person who does not wish to be seen.
- (transitive) To take something stealthily without permission.
- to go stealthily or furtively
- put, bring, or take in a secretive or furtive manner
- pass on stealthily
- make off with belongings of others
noun
- A gullible or easily cheated person.
- A steam-powered road locomotive; a traction engine.
- (chiefly in the plural, Rhode Island) A steamed clam.
- (British, crime, slang) A member of a youth gang who engages in steaming (robbing and escaping in a large group).
- (cooking) A cooking appliance that cooks by steaming.
- (British, slang) A homosexual man with a preference for passive partners.
- Clipping of steamer trunk.
- (British, slang) An act of fellatio.
- A steamer duck: any of the four species of the duck genus Tachyeres which are all found in South America, three of which are flightless.
- (British, slang) A prostitute's client.
- A wetsuit with long sleeves and legs.
- (Maine) The soft-shell clam, sand gaper, or long-neck clam (Mya arenaria), an edible saltwater clam; specifically the clam when steamed for eating.
- (British, Scotland, slang) A drinking session.
- A stupid or contemptible person.
- (US, slang) a gambler who increases a wager after losing.
- (nautical) A vessel propelled by steam; a steamboat or steamship.
- A babycino (frothy milk drink).
- (Memphis, hip-hop, slang) A stolen vehicle.
- A vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam, as in washing and in various processes of manufacture.
- (horse racing) A racehorse the odds of which are becoming shorter (that is, decreasing) because bettors are backing it.
- a ship powered by one or more steam engines
- an edible clam with thin oval-shaped shell found in coastal regions of the United States and Europe
- a cooking utensil that can be used to cook food by steaming it
- a clam that is usually steamed in the shell
verb
noun
adj
verb
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
- To elude; to cheat.
- (intransitive) To make a quick evasive turn or turns to confuse pursuers, incoming fire, etc.
- (intransitive, card games) In the games of spoilfive and forty-five, to win the game by taking all five tricks; also, to attempt to win all five tricks, losing what has been already won if unsuccessful.
- (transitive) To cause a vehicle to make a quick evasive turn.
noun
verb
- To cheat.
- (transitive) To defecate (on); to shit.
- (Australian slang) To laugh.
- (transitive) To excrete (something) by defecation.
- (US, slang) To kill.
- (intransitive) To defecate.
- (brass instrument technique) To incorrectly play a note by hitting a partial other than the one intended.
- (of a bird) To squawk.
noun
verb
adj
- (nautical) Keeping upright.
- (informal) Expensive, pricey.
- (of a person) Formal in behavior; unrelaxed.
- (professional wrestling, of a strike) Delivered more forcefully than needed, whether intentionally or accidentally, thus causing legitimate pain to the opponent.
- (of muscles or parts of the body) Painful or more rigid than usual as a result of excessive or unaccustomed exercise.
- (of an object) Rigid; hard to bend; inflexible.
- Potent.
- (informal) Dead, deceased.
- (golf) Of a shot, landing so close to the flagstick that it should be very easy to sink the ball with the next shot.
- (slang, of the penis) Erect.
- (mathematics) Of an equation, for which certain numerical solving methods are numerically unstable, unless the step size is taken to be extremely small.
- (figurative, of policies and rules and their application and enforcement) Inflexible; rigid.
- Having a dense consistency; thick; (by extension) Difficult to stir.
- (colloquial) Harsh, severe.
- (cooking, of whipping cream or egg whites) Beaten until so aerated that they stand up straight on their own.
- having a strong physiological or chemical effect
- strong, vigorous
- rigidly formal
- not moving or operating freely
- incapable of or resistant to bending
- marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable
- very drunk
adv
noun
- (prison slang) A note or letter surreptitiously sent by an inmate.
- (slang) A cadaver; a dead person.
- (slang) A person who is deceived, as a mark or pigeon in a swindle.
- (slang, chiefly Canada, US) An average person, usually male, of no particular distinction, skill, or education.
- (slang) A flop; a commercial failure.
- (US, slang, by extension) A customer who does not leave a tip.
- (US, slang) A person who leaves (especially a restaurant) without paying the bill.
- (finance, slang) Negotiable instruments, possibly forged.
- (blackjack) Any hard hand where it is possible to exceed 21 by drawing an additional card.
- the dead body of a human being
- an ordinary man
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
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 mock; to cheat.
- (intransitive, often with into or through) To force oneself (in a particular direction); to move aggressively.
- (UK, military, transitive) To polish (boots) to a high shine.
- (finance, transitive) To endeavour to raise prices in.
- (agriculture, transitive, of a bull) To mate with (a cow or heifer).
- (finance, transitive) To endeavour to raise the market price of.
- (agriculture, intransitive, of a cow or heifer) To be in heat; to be ready for mating with a bull.
- (intransitive) To lie, to tell untruths.
- speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths
- try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying
- advance in price
- push or force
adj
noun
- (UK) Clipping of bullseye.
- (uncountable, informal, euphemistic, slang) Clipping of bullshit.
- An adult male of certain large mammals, such as whales, elephants, camels and seals.
- (LGBTQ, slang) An elderly lesbian.
- (military, firearms) The central portion of a target, inside the inner and magpie.
- (slang, uncountable) Beef.
- A lie.
- Specifically, one that is uncastrated.
- (euphemistic, informal) Nonsense.
- A large, strong man.
- A papal bull, an official document or edict from the Pope.
- (finance) An investor who buys (commodities or securities) in anticipation of a rise in prices.
- A man who has sex with someone else's partner, with the consent of both.
- A seal affixed to a document, especially a document from the Pope.
- (Philadelphia, slang) A man or boy.
- A male of domesticated cattle or oxen of any age.
- Any adult male bovine.
- (loosely) Any bovine of an aggressive or long-horned breed regardless of age and sex.
- (US, slang) A policeman; a detective; a railroad security guard.
- a large and strong and heavyset man
- a serious and ludicrous blunder
- uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
- uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle
- an investor with an optimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to rise and so buys now for resale later
- mature male of various mammals of which the female is called ‘cow’; e.g. whales or elephants or especially cattle
- a formal proclamation issued by the pope (usually written in antiquated characters and sealed with a leaden bulla)
- the center of a target
- Obscene word for unacceptable behavior
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
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
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verb
- To cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently.
- To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
- To load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat.
- To furnish with a cog or cogs.
- To plagiarize.
- To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; to palm off.
- (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
- 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 trick or deception; a falsehood.
- 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 cheat; to deceive; to play the beggar.
- (ambitransitive) To mumble, speak unclearly.
- (intransitive) To beg, especially if using a repeated phrase.
- To deprive of (something) by cheating; to impose upon.
- (ambitransitive) To nibble.
- To be sullen or sulky.
- To move the lips with the mouth closed; to mumble, as in sulkiness.
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noun
- The act of cheating a person.
- Anything that is particularly foul, unhygienic or unpleasant.
- A dance performed to ska, dub, or reggae music.
- (derogatory, slang) A lewd and disreputable person, often female, especially an unattractive person with an air of tawdry promiscuity.
- (music) A style of rhythmic guitar strumming in ska, reggae, and punk.
- a rhythmic dance to reggae music performed by bending forward and extending the hands while bending the knees
- any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant
verb
adj
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- 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
- (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.
noun
- 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
- A violinist, or fiddler, in a band.
- (informal) A workaround; a quick and less than perfect solution for some flaw or problem.
- 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.
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- any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians)
- one who is playfully mischievous
- (derogatory) Synonym of uggo: an unattractive person, especially one whose face supposedly resembles a monkey's.
- A fluid consisting of hydrochloric acid and zinc, used in the process of soldering.
- (loosely, sometimes proscribed) Any simian primate other than hominids; any monkey or ape.
- (historical) A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.
- (slang, vulgar, uncommon) A penis.
- (cladistically) Any simian, including humans.
- (slang, derogatory) Synonym of puppet: a person dancing to another's tune, a person controlled or directed by another.
- (slang) A drug habit; an addiction; a compulsion.
- (strictly) A member of the clade Simiiformes other than those in the clade Hominoidea containing apes, generally (but not universally) distinguished by small size, tails, and cheek pouches.
- (dance) A dance popularized by Major Lance in 1963, now usually only its upper-body dance move involving exaggerated drumming motions.
- (slang) The person in the motorcycle sidecar in sidecar racing.
- (blackjack) Synonym of face card.
- The weight of a pile driver or drop hammer.
- (slang) Synonym of five hundred, especially (British) 500 pounds sterling or (US, dated) 500 dollars.
- (derogatory) Synonym of idiot: a person of minimal intelligence.
- (slang, nautical) The vessel in which a mess receives its full allowance of grog.
- (informal, sometimes offensive) A naughty or mischievous person, especially a child.
- (slang, highly derogatory, ethnic slur, offensive) A black person.
- (slang, usually derogatory) A menial employee who does a repetitive job supposedly requiring minimal intelligence.
- (slang) A person's temper, said to be "up" when they are angry.
verb
- play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly
- intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly
- (US, Canada, in professional sports) To discuss future contracts with a player, against league rules.
- (intransitive) To try to influence someone, usually in an illegal or devious way; to try to deal (with someone).
- (intransitive) To make unauthorized or improper alterations, sometimes causing deliberate damage; to meddle (with something).
noun
- a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)
- (rail transport) A railway vehicle used to tamp down ballast.
- A tool used to tamp something down, such as tobacco in a pipe.
- An envelope of neutron-reflecting material in a nuclear weapon, used to delay the expansion of the reacting material and thus produce a longer-lasting and more energetic explosion.
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
noun
- (sometimes offensive) an act of swindling or cheating
- (Cambridge University, Durham University) A small kitchen for use by college students.
- Synonym of gypsy (“contra dance step”).
- (derogatory, sometimes offensive) A cheat or swindle; a rip-off.
- (Cambridge University, Durham University) The room in which such college servants work.
- (Cambridge University, Durham University, historical) A domestic servant, generally male, who would attend upon (usually several) students, brushing their clothes, carrying parcels, waiting at parties and other tasks; generally equivalent to a scout in the historical sense at Oxford University or a skip at Trinity College, Dublin.
- Pain or discomfort.
- Gypsophila.
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noun
- (informal, uncountable) Clipping of gaffer tape.
- A trick or con.
- (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
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noun
- One operating such a game.
- A game of skill which requires the bettor to guess under which of three small cups (or thimbles) a pea-sized object has been placed after the party operating the game rapidly rearranges them, providing opportunity for sleight-of-hand trickery; a shell game.
- a swindling sleight-of-hand game; victim guesses which of three things a pellet is under
verb
noun
- 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 use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
- the quality of being crafty
noun
- (countable) Someone who cheats.
- (uncountable) The weed cheatgrass.
- (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
- engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
- (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 deceive; to fool; to trick.
- (transitive) To avoid a seemingly inevitable thing.
- be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
- defeat someone through trickery or deceit
- deprive somebody of something by deceit
verb
- engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
- carve with a chisel
- deprive somebody of something by deceit
- (transitive, figurative) To make small changes to (something), bit by bit, resulting in change over time.
- (ambitransitive, informal) To beg or pressure somebody into giving up (something); to haggle excessively; to cheat; to obtain something from (someone) by cheating.
- (intransitive) To use a chisel.
- (transitive) To work something with a chisel.
noun
- an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge
- A part of some ploughs, next to the ploughshare, that helps cut into the soil and deal with obstructions such as rocks, roots, and stems.
- Gravel.
- (usually in the plural) Coarse flour; bran; the coarser part of bran or flour.
- A cutting tool used to remove parts of stone, wood or metal by pushing or pounding the back when the sharp edge is against the material. It consists of a slim, oblong block of metal with a sharp wedge or bevel formed on one end and sometimes a handle at the other end; there are hand tool versions (the original type) and versions as bits for power tools.
- A part of any of various tools or devices that has an analogous purpose, cutting raw material or a workpiece during the process that the tool or device performs.
verb
- To cheat, especially in the game of marbles.
- (transitive) To alter something from its true state, as to hide a flaw or uncertainty, deliberately but not necessarily dishonestly or immorally.
- (intransitive) To try to avoid giving a direct answer.
- (colloquial, minced oath) Used in place of fuck.
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- tamper, with the purpose of deception
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noun
- (US) Chocolate fudge.
- (euphemistic, slang) Fecal matter; feces.
- (countable) A deliberately misleading or vague answer.
- (uncountable) Light or frothy nonsense.
- (chiefly uncountable) A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream.
- (countable) A less than perfect decision or solution; an attempt to fix an incorrect solution after the fact.
- soft creamy candy
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
- (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
- cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money
- escape, either physically or mentally
- evade payment to
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
- (intransitive, UK) To steal fuel from a self-service filling station by driving away without paying after filling the fuel tank or other container; to commit a drive-off.
- (transitive) To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone).
- (transitive) To spoil the score of (someone) in cribbage.
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- (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
verb
- (slang) To cheat; to be unfaithful to a romantic partner.
- (tennis, of a forehand or a backhand) To change one's position on the court to hit a forehand rather than a backhand, or vice versa.
- (rail transport, of a locomotive) To move from one end of the consist to the other, so as to pull the train in the opposite direction.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, around.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To go from place to place.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To be very busy doing many different things.
- play boisterously
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verb
noun
- The buttocks.
- A remnant, as in Rump Parliament.
- The hindquarters of a four-legged mammal, not including its legs
- A cut of meat from the rump of an animal.
- the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- fleshy hindquarters; behind the loin and above the round
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adj
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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