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- (slang) A pickpocket.
- Any snack food intended to be dipped in sauce.
- One who, or that which, dips (immerses something, or itself, into a liquid).
- (historical, informal, Christianity) A Baptist or Dunker.
- (South Asia, North India, slang, derogatory, offensive) an Indian-born immigrant residing in Western countries, often born in the 1990s or later
- Any of various small passerine birds of the genus Cinclus that live near fast-flowing streams and feed along the bottom.
- (cricket) A delivery bowled that curves into or away from the batter before pitching.
- Someone who dips chewing tobacco or snuff.
- (UK, India) The control in a vehicle that switches between high-beam and low-beam (i.e. dips the lights), especially when used to signal other vehicles.
- (historical) A person employed in a tin plate works to coat steel plates in molten tin by dipping them.
- A cup-shaped vessel with a long handle, for dipping into and ladling out liquids; a ladle or scoop.
- (historical) A person employed to assist a bather in and out of the sea.
- a ladle that has a cup with a long handle
- small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom
- small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage
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- (US, slang) A pickpocket.
- (xiangqi) A piece which moves horizontally and vertically like a rook but captures another piece by jumping over a different piece in the line of attack.
- Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.
- (military, chiefly aviation) An autocannon.
- A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar, which may include muzzle appendages.
- (historical) A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.
- (fandom slang) Misspelling of canon.
- (historical) A cylindrical item of plate armor protecting the arm, particularly one of a pair of such cylinders worn with a couter, the upper cannon protecting the upper arm and the lower cannon protecting the forearm.
- (baseball, figuratively, informal) The arm of a player who can throw well.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) A carom.
- (cooking) A rolled and filleted loin of meat.
- A cannon bit.
- (engineering) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
- A bone of a horse’s leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.
- (printing, uncountable) Alternative form of canon (“a large size of type”).
- a shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other
- heavy automatic gun fired from an airplane
- (Middle Ages) a cylindrical piece of armor plate to protect the arm
- heavy gun fired from a tank
- a large artillery gun that is usually on wheels
- lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals
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- Theft.
- (medicine) Plastic surgery for tightening facial tissues and improving the facial appearance.
- (sports) Weightlifting; a form of exercise in which weights are lifted.
- The action or process by which something is lifted; elevation
- (mathematics) A certain operation on a measure space; see lifting theory.
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- (informal, rare) Someone skilled in the use of their fingers, (especially) a pickpocket.
- (aviation) Synonym of jet bridge: the narrow elevated walkway connecting a plane to an airport.
- (historical) Synonym of digit: former units of measure notionally based on its width but variously standardized, (especially) the English digit of ¹⁄₁₆ foot (about 1.9 cm).
- (fashion) A part of a glove intended to cover a finger.
- (originally US) An informal measure of alcohol based on its height in a given glass compared to the width of the pourer's fingers while holding it.
- Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.
- (US, rare slang) A criminal who scouts for prospective victims and targets or who performs reconnaissance before a crime.
- (botany) Various protruding plant structures, as a banana from its hand.
- (historical) The teeth parallel to the blade of a scythe, fitted to a wooden frame called a crade.
- Something similar in shape to the human finger, particularly:
- The projections of a reaper or mower which similarly separate the stalks for cutting.
- One of the slender bony structures before the pectoral fins of gurnards and sea robins (Triglidae).
- (especially in the phrase 'give someone the finger') An obscene or insulting gesture made by raising one's middle finger towards someone with the palm of one's hand facing inwards.
- One of the supporting structures of wings in birds, bats, etc. evolved from earlier toes or fingers.
- (cooking) Finger-shaped pieces of food.
- (computing theory) A leaf in a finger tree data structure.
- (figurative) That which points; an indicator, as of guilt, blame, or suspicion.
- (historical) A unit of length notionally based on the length of an adult human's middle finger, standardized as 4½ inches (11.43 cm).
- (nautical) Clipping of finger pier (“a shorter, narrower pier projecting from a larger dock”).
- (UK slang) A person.
- (vulgar) An act of fingering (inserting a finger into someone's vagina or rectum for sexual pleasure).
- (chemistry) A tube extending from a sealed system, or sometimes into one in the case of a cold finger.
- (radio) Any of the individual receivers used in a rake receiver to decode signal components.
- Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body, particularly:
- (zoology) Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals, particularly:
- (historical) Synonym of digit: ¹⁄₁₂ the observed diameter of the sun or moon, (especially) with regard to eclipses.
- (anatomy) A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb.
- (US, rare slang) An informer to the police, (especially) one who identifies a criminal during a lineup.
- The lower, smaller segment of an arthropod claw.
- any of the terminal members of the hand (sometimes excepting the thumb)
- one of the parts of a glove that provides covering for a finger or thumb
- the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure
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- (transitive, sex) To use the fingers to penetrate or sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vulva, vagina, or anus.
- (transitive) To identify or point out; to blame for something.
- (transitive, Internet) To query (a user's status) using the Finger protocol.
- (transitive, music) To provide instructions in written music as to which fingers are to be used to produce particular notes or passages.
- (transitive) To poke, probe, feel, or fondle with a finger or fingers.
- (transitive) To report to or identify for the authorities; to inform on.
- (transitive, music) To use specified finger positions in producing notes on a musical instrument.
- indicate the fingering for the playing of musical scores for keyboard instruments
- search for on the computer
- feel or handle with the fingers
- examine by touch
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- (UK, slang, with "the") Pickpocketing.
- (vulgar, slang, especially with the verb "take") An act of urination.
- (informal) Someone who is remarkably skilled at something.
- (UK, slang, uncountable) Amphetamine.
- A whirring or hissing sound (as above).
- a buzzing or hissing sound as of something traveling rapidly through the air
- someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
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- a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places
- a candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow
- a brief immersion
- a brief swim in water
- tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped
- a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
- a gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms
- a depression in an otherwise level surface
- (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon
- (informal) A foolish person.
- (turpentine industry) The viscid exudation that is dipped out from incisions in the trees. Virgin dip is the runnings of the first year, yellow dip the runnings of subsequent years.
- A sauce for dipping.
- (geology) The angle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, such as a fault line.
- A lower section of a road or geological feature.
- The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
- A tank or trough where cattle or sheep are immersed in chemicals to kill parasites.
- (bodybuilding) A gymnastic or bodybuilding exercise on parallel bars in which the performer, resting on his hands, lets his arms bend and his body sink until his chin is level with the bars, and then raises himself by straightening his arms.
- (computer graphics) Initialism of device-independent pixel.
- (finance, informal) A financial asset in decline, seen as an investment opportunity.
- (uncountable) Finely ground tobacco, consumed by placing a small amount between the lip and gum.
- (aeronautics) A sudden drop followed by a climb, usually to avoid obstacles or as the result of getting into an airhole.
- A swim, usually a short swim to refresh.
- A dip stick.
- (ABDL, informal, uncommon) A diaper; diap, dipe.
- (informal) A diplomat.
- Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
- (dance) A move in many different styles of partner dances, often performed at the end of a dance, in which the follower leans far to the side and is supported by the leader.
- (birdwatching, colloquial) The act of missing out on seeing a sought after bird.
- (UK, dialect, uncountable, Birmingham) Fried bread.
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- dip into a liquid
- immerse in a disinfectant solution
- dip into a liquid while eating
- place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax
- stain an object by immersing it in a liquid
- slope downwards
- immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
- appear to move downward
- lower briefly
- take a small amount from
- plunge (one's hand or a receptacle) into a container
- scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface
- switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
- go down momentarily
- (intransitive) (of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.
- (transitive) To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.
- (transitive) To perform (a bow or curtsey) by inclining the body.
- (transitive) To lower into a liquid.
- (intransitive) To perform the action of plunging a dipper, ladle. etc. into a liquid or soft substance and removing a part.
- (transitive) To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.
- (transitive) To lower a light's beam.
- (birdwatching, colloquial) To miss out on seeing a sought after bird.
- (transitive) To briefly lower the body by bending the knees while keeping the body in an upright position, usually in rhythm, as when singing or dancing.
- (transitive) To lower (a flag), particularly a national ensign, to a partially hoisted position in order to render or to return a salute. While lowered, the flag is said to be “at the dip.” A flag being carried on a staff may be dipped by leaning it forward at an approximate angle of 45 degrees.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To leave; to quit or abandon.
- (transitive) To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; often with out.
- (intransitive) To incline downward from the plane of the horizon.
- To consume snuff by placing a pinch behind the lip or under the tongue so that the active chemical constituents of the snuff may be absorbed into the system for their narcotic effect.
- (transitive) To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
- (transitive) To immerse for baptism.
- (intransitive) To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
- (intransitive) To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
- (transitive) To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
- (transitive, dance) To perform a dip dance move (often phrased with the leader as the subject noun and the follower as the subject noun being dipped)
- (intransitive) To sink, drop, or slope downwards.
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- take by theft
- take into custody
- (intransitive, usually with “to”, slang) To admit, especially to a crime or wrongdoing.
- (transitive, originally New York dialectal, informal, African-American Vernacular) To obtain, to purchase (items including but not limited to drugs), to get hold of, to take.
- (transitive) To adopt.
- (slang, transitive) To take (a look, glance, etc.).
- (transitive, slang, of a pimp) To recruit a prostitute into the stable.
- (transitive, trainspotting, slang) To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.
- (transitive) To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.
- (transitive) To steal.
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- uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
- (military, historical) A roughly dome-shaped piece of armor, especially one covering the shoulder, the elbow, or the knee.
- (spinning) A conical ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.
- A quill or tube upon which silk is wound.
- (informal) A police officer or prison guard.
- (architecture, military) A merlon.
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- take by theft
- hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left
- make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle
- catch with a hook
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)
- secure with the foot
- hit with a hook
- entice and trap
- approach with an offer of sexual favors
- fasten with a hook
- make off with belongings of others
- (usually passive voice) To make addicted; to captivate.
- (transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
- (soccer, bowling) To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.
- (intransitive) To become attached, as by a hook.
- (field hockey, ice hockey) To use the hockey stick to trip or block another player
- To acquire as a spouse.
- (transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
- (cricket, golf, basketball) To play a hook shot.
- (transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).
- (intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.
- (transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
- (transitive) To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.
- (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
- (transitive) To attach a hook to.
- (bridge, slang) To finesse.
- (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
- (intransitive) To bend; to be curved.
- (rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
- (intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.
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- a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer
- a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent
- a catch for locking a door
- anything that serves as an enticement
- a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
- a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket
- a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something
- a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something
- (music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
- (boxing) a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc
- (bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
- (programming) Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.
- (typography) A diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.
- (Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word.
- (nautical, chiefly historical) A knee-shaped wooden join connecting the keel to the stem (post forming the frontmost part of the bow) or the sternpost in cog-like vessels or similar vessels.
- The amount of spin placed on a bowling ball.
- (geography) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
- (authorship) A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play.
- (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. (See draw, slice, fade.)
- (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height.
- A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
- (slang) A prostitute.
- The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
- (agriculture) A field sown two years in succession.
- The curved needle used in the art of crochet.
- Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
- (informal) A grasp (of), an attachment (to).
- A snare; a trap.
- (informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
- A sharp bend or angle in the course or length of an object (e.g. a bend in a river, etc.).
- (narratology) A gimmick or element of a creative work intended to be attention-grabbing for the audience; a compelling idea for a story that will be sure to attract people's attention.
- (baseball) A curveball.
- A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.
- (basketball) a basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head. Also called hook shot.
- (bridge, slang) A finesse.
- A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
- (card games, slang) A jack (the playing card).
- (typography, rare) A háček.
- An advantageous hold.
- A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.
- (surfing) Synonym of shoulder (“the part of a wave that has not yet broken”).
- (Canada, Australia, military) Any of the chevrons denoting rank.
- (in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
- (nautical, informal) A ship's anchor.
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- take by theft
- cut the price of
- stop pursuing or acting
- write quickly
- get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
- (transitive, slang) To kill.
- (transitive, slang) To rob.
- To remove (something or someone) by hitting.
- (transitive) To assign (an item) to a bidder at an auction, indicated by knocking on the counter.
- (transitive, slang, vulgar, British) To have sex with (a woman).
- (transitive) To make a copy of, as of a design.
- (transitive) To remove, as a discount or estimate.
- (sports, by extension) To defeat.
- (transitive, informal) To accomplish hastily.
- (ambitransitive, slang) To halt one's work or other activity.
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- Thieving, larcenous.
- (nautical or military) Not having a full complement of workers.
- Light-hearted; fun and witty or easygoing.
- Delicate and skilled; nimble and dextrous
- Gentle; benign and with minimal intervention.
- Sparing; applying only slight pressure or minimal amounts.
- (food) Fresh and light-tasting, not rich, heavy, or highly seasoned.
- Flippant; lacking seriousness.
- having a metaphorically delicate touch
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- The theft of cars and illegally changing their identities for resale.
- The sound of something that rings.
- The quality of being resonant.
- A technique used in the study of wild birds, by attaching a small, individually numbered, metal or plastic tag to their legs or wings.
- the sound of a bell ringing
- having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant
- the giving of a ring as a token of engagement
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- To steal; to pilfer.
- To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
- To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
- (music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
- To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
- To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
- (ambitransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
- (cricket) To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.
- To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
- (American football, informal) To intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.
- To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
- To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
- To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
- (basketball) To screen.
- To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
- (transitive) To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
- remove in small bits
- look for and gather
- select carefully from a group
- eat intermittently; take small bites of
- provoke
- pay for something
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
- remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits
- harass with constant criticism
- attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
- pilfer or rob
- hit lightly with a picking motion
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- A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
- (American football) An interception.
- (art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
- A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
- (Australia) Pasture; feed, for animals.
- (baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
- (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
- (baseball) A pickoff.
- A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
- (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
- (nautical, slang) An anchor.
- A choice; ability to choose.
- That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
- (basketball) A screen.
- (weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.
- a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
- the best people or things in a group
- the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
- a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends
- the quantity of a crop that is harvested
- a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body
- the person or thing chosen or selected
- the act of choosing or selecting
- a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material
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- A criminal offence, the trade in stolen goods.
- (art) The mode of using the pencil or brush; style of touch.
- A touching, controlling, managing, using, taking care of, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands.
- manual (or mechanical) carrying or moving or delivering or working with something
- the action of touching with the hands (or the skillful use of the hands) or by the use of mechanical means
- the management of someone or something
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- the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
- 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
- a deception for profit to yourself
- weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
- (uncountable) The weed cheatgrass.
- (countable) Someone who cheats.
- (card games, uncountable) A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
- (countable) An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.
- (video games, countable) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.
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- engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
- be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
- defeat someone through trickery or deceit
- deprive somebody of something by deceit
- (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.
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- the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
- intentional deception resulting in injury to another person
- a person who makes deceitful pretenses
- something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
- (law) The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.
- The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
- Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved or unlawful gain.
- A person who performs any such trick.
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- the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
- a set of clothing (with accessories)
- gear used in fishing
- formation of masts, spars, sails, etc., on a vessel
- a truck consisting of a tractor and trailer together
- gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise
- a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses
- A promiscuous woman.
- (slang) Equipment used for taking recreational drugs.
- (slang, computing) A personal computer, typically one modified for looks.
- The special apparatus used for drilling wells.
- (US) A large truck, especially a semi-trailer truck.
- (algebra, ring theory) An algebraic structure similar to a ring, but without the requirement that every element have an additive inverse.
- (slang) Radio equipment, especially a citizen's band transceiver.
- (nautical) The rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft.
- An imperfectly castrated horse, sheep etc.
- (informal) A costume or an outfit.
- (Northern England, Scotland, dialect) A ridge.
- Special equipment or gear used for a particular purpose.
- (animation) A model outfitted with parameterized controls for animation.
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- equip with sails or masts
- manipulate in a fraudulent manner
- connect or secure to
- arrange the outcome of by means of deceit
- (transitive, intransitive, animation) To outfit a model with controls for animation.
- (transitive, manufacturing) To move (a heavy object) with the help of slings, hoists, block and tackle, levers, or similar equipment.
- (transitive) To manipulate something dishonestly for personal gain or discriminatory purposes.
- (transitive) To make or construct something in haste or in a makeshift manner.
- (transitive, informal) To dress or clothe in some costume.
- (transitive, nautical) To equip and fit (a ship) with sails, shrouds, and yards.
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- (slang, criminology) The buying and receiving of stolen goods.
- Material used to make fences, fences used as barriers or an enclosure.
- The art or sport of duelling with swords, especially with the 17th- to 18th-century European dueling swords and the practice weapons descended from them (sport fencing).
- a barrier that serves to enclose an area
- material for building fences
- the art or sport of fighting with swords (especially the use of foils or epees or sabres to score points under a set of rules)
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- steal goods; take as spoils
- take illegally; of intellectual property
- (transitive, chiefly South Asian) Synonym of rob, to steal something from someone by violence or threat of violence.
- (transitive) Synonym of plunder, to seize by violence particularly during the capture of a city during war or (video games) after successful combat.
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- goods or money obtained illegally
- informal terms for money
- (colloquial, US) Any valuable thing received for free, especially Christmas presents.
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A scoop used to remove scum from brine pans in saltworks.
- Synonym of sack, the plundering of a city, particularly during war.
- Synonym of booty, goods seized from an enemy by violence, particularly (historical) during the sacking of a town in war or (video games) after successful combat.
- (slang) Synonym of money.
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- steal goods; take as spoils
- plunder (a town) after capture
- destroy and strip of its possession
- take illegally; of intellectual property
- (transitive) To take unexpectedly.
- (transitive) To make extensive (over)use of, as if by plundering; to use or use up wrongfully.
- (transitive) To pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack.
- (transitive) To take (goods) by pillage.
- (intransitive) To take by force or wrongfully; to commit robbery or looting, to raid.
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- (slang) A pickpocket.
- Any snack food intended to be dipped in sauce.
- One who, or that which, dips (immerses something, or itself, into a liquid).
- (historical, informal, Christianity) A Baptist or Dunker.
- (South Asia, North India, slang, derogatory, offensive) an Indian-born immigrant residing in Western countries, often born in the 1990s or later
- Any of various small passerine birds of the genus Cinclus that live near fast-flowing streams and feed along the bottom.
- (cricket) A delivery bowled that curves into or away from the batter before pitching.
- Someone who dips chewing tobacco or snuff.
- (UK, India) The control in a vehicle that switches between high-beam and low-beam (i.e. dips the lights), especially when used to signal other vehicles.
- (historical) A person employed in a tin plate works to coat steel plates in molten tin by dipping them.
- A cup-shaped vessel with a long handle, for dipping into and ladling out liquids; a ladle or scoop.
- (historical) A person employed to assist a bather in and out of the sea.
- a ladle that has a cup with a long handle
- small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom
- small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage
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- (US, slang) A pickpocket.
- (xiangqi) A piece which moves horizontally and vertically like a rook but captures another piece by jumping over a different piece in the line of attack.
- Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.
- (military, chiefly aviation) An autocannon.
- A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar, which may include muzzle appendages.
- (historical) A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.
- (fandom slang) Misspelling of canon.
- (historical) A cylindrical item of plate armor protecting the arm, particularly one of a pair of such cylinders worn with a couter, the upper cannon protecting the upper arm and the lower cannon protecting the forearm.
- (baseball, figuratively, informal) The arm of a player who can throw well.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) A carom.
- (cooking) A rolled and filleted loin of meat.
- A cannon bit.
- (engineering) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
- A bone of a horse’s leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.
- (printing, uncountable) Alternative form of canon (“a large size of type”).
- a shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other
- heavy automatic gun fired from an airplane
- (Middle Ages) a cylindrical piece of armor plate to protect the arm
- heavy gun fired from a tank
- a large artillery gun that is usually on wheels
- lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals
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- Theft.
- (medicine) Plastic surgery for tightening facial tissues and improving the facial appearance.
- (sports) Weightlifting; a form of exercise in which weights are lifted.
- The action or process by which something is lifted; elevation
- (mathematics) A certain operation on a measure space; see lifting theory.
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- (informal, rare) Someone skilled in the use of their fingers, (especially) a pickpocket.
- (aviation) Synonym of jet bridge: the narrow elevated walkway connecting a plane to an airport.
- (historical) Synonym of digit: former units of measure notionally based on its width but variously standardized, (especially) the English digit of ¹⁄₁₆ foot (about 1.9 cm).
- (fashion) A part of a glove intended to cover a finger.
- (originally US) An informal measure of alcohol based on its height in a given glass compared to the width of the pourer's fingers while holding it.
- Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.
- (US, rare slang) A criminal who scouts for prospective victims and targets or who performs reconnaissance before a crime.
- (botany) Various protruding plant structures, as a banana from its hand.
- (historical) The teeth parallel to the blade of a scythe, fitted to a wooden frame called a crade.
- Something similar in shape to the human finger, particularly:
- The projections of a reaper or mower which similarly separate the stalks for cutting.
- One of the slender bony structures before the pectoral fins of gurnards and sea robins (Triglidae).
- (especially in the phrase 'give someone the finger') An obscene or insulting gesture made by raising one's middle finger towards someone with the palm of one's hand facing inwards.
- One of the supporting structures of wings in birds, bats, etc. evolved from earlier toes or fingers.
- (cooking) Finger-shaped pieces of food.
- (computing theory) A leaf in a finger tree data structure.
- (figurative) That which points; an indicator, as of guilt, blame, or suspicion.
- (historical) A unit of length notionally based on the length of an adult human's middle finger, standardized as 4½ inches (11.43 cm).
- (nautical) Clipping of finger pier (“a shorter, narrower pier projecting from a larger dock”).
- (UK slang) A person.
- (vulgar) An act of fingering (inserting a finger into someone's vagina or rectum for sexual pleasure).
- (chemistry) A tube extending from a sealed system, or sometimes into one in the case of a cold finger.
- (radio) Any of the individual receivers used in a rake receiver to decode signal components.
- Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body, particularly:
- (zoology) Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals, particularly:
- (historical) Synonym of digit: ¹⁄₁₂ the observed diameter of the sun or moon, (especially) with regard to eclipses.
- (anatomy) A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb.
- (US, rare slang) An informer to the police, (especially) one who identifies a criminal during a lineup.
- The lower, smaller segment of an arthropod claw.
- any of the terminal members of the hand (sometimes excepting the thumb)
- one of the parts of a glove that provides covering for a finger or thumb
- the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure
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- (transitive, sex) To use the fingers to penetrate or sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vulva, vagina, or anus.
- (transitive) To identify or point out; to blame for something.
- (transitive, Internet) To query (a user's status) using the Finger protocol.
- (transitive, music) To provide instructions in written music as to which fingers are to be used to produce particular notes or passages.
- (transitive) To poke, probe, feel, or fondle with a finger or fingers.
- (transitive) To report to or identify for the authorities; to inform on.
- (transitive, music) To use specified finger positions in producing notes on a musical instrument.
- indicate the fingering for the playing of musical scores for keyboard instruments
- search for on the computer
- feel or handle with the fingers
- examine by touch
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- (UK, slang, with "the") Pickpocketing.
- (vulgar, slang, especially with the verb "take") An act of urination.
- (informal) Someone who is remarkably skilled at something.
- (UK, slang, uncountable) Amphetamine.
- A whirring or hissing sound (as above).
- a buzzing or hissing sound as of something traveling rapidly through the air
- someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
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- a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places
- a candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow
- a brief immersion
- a brief swim in water
- tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped
- a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
- a gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms
- a depression in an otherwise level surface
- (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon
- (informal) A foolish person.
- (turpentine industry) The viscid exudation that is dipped out from incisions in the trees. Virgin dip is the runnings of the first year, yellow dip the runnings of subsequent years.
- A sauce for dipping.
- (geology) The angle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, such as a fault line.
- A lower section of a road or geological feature.
- The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
- A tank or trough where cattle or sheep are immersed in chemicals to kill parasites.
- (bodybuilding) A gymnastic or bodybuilding exercise on parallel bars in which the performer, resting on his hands, lets his arms bend and his body sink until his chin is level with the bars, and then raises himself by straightening his arms.
- (computer graphics) Initialism of device-independent pixel.
- (finance, informal) A financial asset in decline, seen as an investment opportunity.
- (uncountable) Finely ground tobacco, consumed by placing a small amount between the lip and gum.
- (aeronautics) A sudden drop followed by a climb, usually to avoid obstacles or as the result of getting into an airhole.
- A swim, usually a short swim to refresh.
- A dip stick.
- (ABDL, informal, uncommon) A diaper; diap, dipe.
- (informal) A diplomat.
- Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
- (dance) A move in many different styles of partner dances, often performed at the end of a dance, in which the follower leans far to the side and is supported by the leader.
- (birdwatching, colloquial) The act of missing out on seeing a sought after bird.
- (UK, dialect, uncountable, Birmingham) Fried bread.
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- dip into a liquid
- immerse in a disinfectant solution
- dip into a liquid while eating
- place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax
- stain an object by immersing it in a liquid
- slope downwards
- immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
- appear to move downward
- lower briefly
- take a small amount from
- plunge (one's hand or a receptacle) into a container
- scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface
- switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
- go down momentarily
- (intransitive) (of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.
- (transitive) To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.
- (transitive) To perform (a bow or curtsey) by inclining the body.
- (transitive) To lower into a liquid.
- (intransitive) To perform the action of plunging a dipper, ladle. etc. into a liquid or soft substance and removing a part.
- (transitive) To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.
- (transitive) To lower a light's beam.
- (birdwatching, colloquial) To miss out on seeing a sought after bird.
- (transitive) To briefly lower the body by bending the knees while keeping the body in an upright position, usually in rhythm, as when singing or dancing.
- (transitive) To lower (a flag), particularly a national ensign, to a partially hoisted position in order to render or to return a salute. While lowered, the flag is said to be “at the dip.” A flag being carried on a staff may be dipped by leaning it forward at an approximate angle of 45 degrees.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To leave; to quit or abandon.
- (transitive) To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; often with out.
- (intransitive) To incline downward from the plane of the horizon.
- To consume snuff by placing a pinch behind the lip or under the tongue so that the active chemical constituents of the snuff may be absorbed into the system for their narcotic effect.
- (transitive) To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
- (transitive) To immerse for baptism.
- (intransitive) To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
- (intransitive) To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
- (transitive) To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
- (transitive, dance) To perform a dip dance move (often phrased with the leader as the subject noun and the follower as the subject noun being dipped)
- (intransitive) To sink, drop, or slope downwards.
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- The theft of cars and illegally changing their identities for resale.
- The sound of something that rings.
- The quality of being resonant.
- A technique used in the study of wild birds, by attaching a small, individually numbered, metal or plastic tag to their legs or wings.
- the sound of a bell ringing
- having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant
- the giving of a ring as a token of engagement
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- A criminal offence, the trade in stolen goods.
- (art) The mode of using the pencil or brush; style of touch.
- A touching, controlling, managing, using, taking care of, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands.
- manual (or mechanical) carrying or moving or delivering or working with something
- the action of touching with the hands (or the skillful use of the hands) or by the use of mechanical means
- the management of someone or something
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- the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
- 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
- a deception for profit to yourself
- weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
- (uncountable) The weed cheatgrass.
- (countable) Someone who cheats.
- (card games, uncountable) A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
- (countable) An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.
- (video games, countable) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.
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- engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
- be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
- defeat someone through trickery or deceit
- deprive somebody of something by deceit
- (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.
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- the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
- intentional deception resulting in injury to another person
- a person who makes deceitful pretenses
- something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
- (law) The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.
- The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
- Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved or unlawful gain.
- A person who performs any such trick.
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- the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
- a set of clothing (with accessories)
- gear used in fishing
- formation of masts, spars, sails, etc., on a vessel
- a truck consisting of a tractor and trailer together
- gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise
- a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses
- A promiscuous woman.
- (slang) Equipment used for taking recreational drugs.
- (slang, computing) A personal computer, typically one modified for looks.
- The special apparatus used for drilling wells.
- (US) A large truck, especially a semi-trailer truck.
- (algebra, ring theory) An algebraic structure similar to a ring, but without the requirement that every element have an additive inverse.
- (slang) Radio equipment, especially a citizen's band transceiver.
- (nautical) The rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft.
- An imperfectly castrated horse, sheep etc.
- (informal) A costume or an outfit.
- (Northern England, Scotland, dialect) A ridge.
- Special equipment or gear used for a particular purpose.
- (animation) A model outfitted with parameterized controls for animation.
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- equip with sails or masts
- manipulate in a fraudulent manner
- connect or secure to
- arrange the outcome of by means of deceit
- (transitive, intransitive, animation) To outfit a model with controls for animation.
- (transitive, manufacturing) To move (a heavy object) with the help of slings, hoists, block and tackle, levers, or similar equipment.
- (transitive) To manipulate something dishonestly for personal gain or discriminatory purposes.
- (transitive) To make or construct something in haste or in a makeshift manner.
- (transitive, informal) To dress or clothe in some costume.
- (transitive, nautical) To equip and fit (a ship) with sails, shrouds, and yards.
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- (slang, criminology) The buying and receiving of stolen goods.
- Material used to make fences, fences used as barriers or an enclosure.
- The art or sport of duelling with swords, especially with the 17th- to 18th-century European dueling swords and the practice weapons descended from them (sport fencing).
- a barrier that serves to enclose an area
- material for building fences
- the art or sport of fighting with swords (especially the use of foils or epees or sabres to score points under a set of rules)
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- take by theft
- take into custody
- (intransitive, usually with “to”, slang) To admit, especially to a crime or wrongdoing.
- (transitive, originally New York dialectal, informal, African-American Vernacular) To obtain, to purchase (items including but not limited to drugs), to get hold of, to take.
- (transitive) To adopt.
- (slang, transitive) To take (a look, glance, etc.).
- (transitive, slang, of a pimp) To recruit a prostitute into the stable.
- (transitive, trainspotting, slang) To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.
- (transitive) To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.
- (transitive) To steal.
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- uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
- (military, historical) A roughly dome-shaped piece of armor, especially one covering the shoulder, the elbow, or the knee.
- (spinning) A conical ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.
- A quill or tube upon which silk is wound.
- (informal) A police officer or prison guard.
- (architecture, military) A merlon.
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- take by theft
- hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left
- make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle
- catch with a hook
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)
- secure with the foot
- hit with a hook
- entice and trap
- approach with an offer of sexual favors
- fasten with a hook
- make off with belongings of others
- (usually passive voice) To make addicted; to captivate.
- (transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
- (soccer, bowling) To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.
- (intransitive) To become attached, as by a hook.
- (field hockey, ice hockey) To use the hockey stick to trip or block another player
- To acquire as a spouse.
- (transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
- (cricket, golf, basketball) To play a hook shot.
- (transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).
- (intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.
- (transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
- (transitive) To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.
- (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
- (transitive) To attach a hook to.
- (bridge, slang) To finesse.
- (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
- (intransitive) To bend; to be curved.
- (rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
- (intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.
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- a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer
- a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent
- a catch for locking a door
- anything that serves as an enticement
- a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
- a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket
- a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something
- a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something
- (music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
- (boxing) a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc
- (bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
- (programming) Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.
- (typography) A diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.
- (Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word.
- (nautical, chiefly historical) A knee-shaped wooden join connecting the keel to the stem (post forming the frontmost part of the bow) or the sternpost in cog-like vessels or similar vessels.
- The amount of spin placed on a bowling ball.
- (geography) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
- (authorship) A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play.
- (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. (See draw, slice, fade.)
- (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height.
- A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
- (slang) A prostitute.
- The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
- (agriculture) A field sown two years in succession.
- The curved needle used in the art of crochet.
- Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
- (informal) A grasp (of), an attachment (to).
- A snare; a trap.
- (informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
- A sharp bend or angle in the course or length of an object (e.g. a bend in a river, etc.).
- (narratology) A gimmick or element of a creative work intended to be attention-grabbing for the audience; a compelling idea for a story that will be sure to attract people's attention.
- (baseball) A curveball.
- A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.
- (basketball) a basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head. Also called hook shot.
- (bridge, slang) A finesse.
- A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
- (card games, slang) A jack (the playing card).
- (typography, rare) A háček.
- An advantageous hold.
- A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.
- (surfing) Synonym of shoulder (“the part of a wave that has not yet broken”).
- (Canada, Australia, military) Any of the chevrons denoting rank.
- (in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
- (nautical, informal) A ship's anchor.
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- take by theft
- cut the price of
- stop pursuing or acting
- write quickly
- get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
- (transitive, slang) To kill.
- (transitive, slang) To rob.
- To remove (something or someone) by hitting.
- (transitive) To assign (an item) to a bidder at an auction, indicated by knocking on the counter.
- (transitive, slang, vulgar, British) To have sex with (a woman).
- (transitive) To make a copy of, as of a design.
- (transitive) To remove, as a discount or estimate.
- (sports, by extension) To defeat.
- (transitive, informal) To accomplish hastily.
- (ambitransitive, slang) To halt one's work or other activity.
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- To steal; to pilfer.
- To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
- To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
- (music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
- To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
- To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
- (ambitransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
- (cricket) To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.
- To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
- (American football, informal) To intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.
- To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
- To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
- To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
- (basketball) To screen.
- To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
- (transitive) To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
- remove in small bits
- look for and gather
- select carefully from a group
- eat intermittently; take small bites of
- provoke
- pay for something
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
- remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits
- harass with constant criticism
- attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
- pilfer or rob
- hit lightly with a picking motion
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- A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
- (American football) An interception.
- (art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
- A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
- (Australia) Pasture; feed, for animals.
- (baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
- (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
- (baseball) A pickoff.
- A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
- (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
- (nautical, slang) An anchor.
- A choice; ability to choose.
- That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
- (basketball) A screen.
- (weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.
- a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
- the best people or things in a group
- the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
- a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends
- the quantity of a crop that is harvested
- a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body
- the person or thing chosen or selected
- the act of choosing or selecting
- a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material
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- steal goods; take as spoils
- take illegally; of intellectual property
- (transitive, chiefly South Asian) Synonym of rob, to steal something from someone by violence or threat of violence.
- (transitive) Synonym of plunder, to seize by violence particularly during the capture of a city during war or (video games) after successful combat.
noun
- goods or money obtained illegally
- informal terms for money
- (colloquial, US) Any valuable thing received for free, especially Christmas presents.
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A scoop used to remove scum from brine pans in saltworks.
- Synonym of sack, the plundering of a city, particularly during war.
- Synonym of booty, goods seized from an enemy by violence, particularly (historical) during the sacking of a town in war or (video games) after successful combat.
- (slang) Synonym of money.
verb
- steal goods; take as spoils
- plunder (a town) after capture
- destroy and strip of its possession
- take illegally; of intellectual property
- (transitive) To take unexpectedly.
- (transitive) To make extensive (over)use of, as if by plundering; to use or use up wrongfully.
- (transitive) To pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack.
- (transitive) To take (goods) by pillage.
- (intransitive) To take by force or wrongfully; to commit robbery or looting, to raid.
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adj
- Thieving, larcenous.
- (nautical or military) Not having a full complement of workers.
- Light-hearted; fun and witty or easygoing.
- Delicate and skilled; nimble and dextrous
- Gentle; benign and with minimal intervention.
- Sparing; applying only slight pressure or minimal amounts.
- (food) Fresh and light-tasting, not rich, heavy, or highly seasoned.
- Flippant; lacking seriousness.
- having a metaphorically delicate touch