perm
Vegas
stakehorse
multibet
opener
odds
gaff
game
play
player
gamester
game of chance
gambling game
straight tip
winner
two-up
vincent
bracket
make book
stakehorsing
slop
sport
sporting life
check-fold
match fixing
gambler
oddsmaking
martingale
call
en plein
sportsbook
ring in one's nose
under over
lady or tiger
bingolike
betting ring
loser
chalk-eating weasel
lotto
top-hatting
chuck-a-luck
hippodrome
open
live
kitty
pot
lucky streak
Billy Bunter
jackpot
no limit
craps
run of luck
whale
housie
stake
wager
levant
blind
roll
strip strategy
nongaming
gamblerlike
bet
stakes
strap strategy
oddsmaker
velvet
side bet
pricemaker
up the ante
bettable
breakage
Labouchère system
winnings
limp reraise
pro-gamer
Trixie
poker
raise
quiniela
Heinz
courtsiding
gambling system
stack
football pool
problem gambling
handicap
double straddle
drop
anti-martingale
sharbing
pari-mutuel
steamer
acepot
dice
theo
cee-lo
check-raise
multibet
bingolike
live
nongaming
gamblerlike
bettable
en plein
perm
opener
odds
player
gamester
game of chance
gambling game
straight tip
winner
two-up
vincent
bracket
stakehorsing
stakehorse
sport
sporting life
match fixing
gambler
oddsmaking
martingale
call
sportsbook
ring in one's nose
under over
lady or tiger
betting ring
loser
chalk-eating weasel
lotto
top-hatting
chuck-a-luck
kitty
pot
lucky streak
Billy Bunter
jackpot
no limit
craps
run of luck
whale
housie
stake
wager
levant
blind
roll
strip strategy
bet
stakes
strap strategy
oddsmaker
velvet
side bet
pricemaker
breakage
winnings
limp reraise
pro-gamer
Trixie
poker
raise
quiniela
Heinz
courtsiding
gambling system
football pool
problem gambling
double straddle
drop
anti-martingale
sharbing
pari-mutuel
steamer
acepot
dice
theo
cee-lo
stakehorse
gaff
game
play
make book
slop
check-fold
hippodrome
open
up the ante
martingale
stack
handicap
check-raise
noun
- The player who starts the betting.
- A person who opens something.
- A device that opens something; specifically a tin-opener/can-opener, or a bottle opener.
- An establishment that opens.
- The first act in a variety show or concert.
- The first goal or point scored.
- A period of time when it is legal to commercially fish.
- Cards of sufficient value to enable a player to open the betting.
- A person employed to separate sheets of hot metal that become stuck together.
- A batsman who normally plays in the first two positions of an innings.
- The first game played in a competition.
- The first in a series of events, items etc.; the first remark or sentence of a conversation.
- A pitcher who specializes in getting the first outs of a game before being replaced, either by a long reliever or a pitcher who would normally start.
noun
- The ratio of winnings to stake in betting situations.
- The ratio of the probability of an event happening to that of it not happening.
- I'd say the odds are strongly in favor of the sun rising tomorrow morning.
- An advantage given to a weaker opponent in order to equalize the game when playing casually, usually by removing one of the stronger player's pieces or by giving the weaker player more time.
verb
- To gamble.
- To use a gaff, especially to land a fish.
- To cheat or hoax.
- To doctor or modify for deceptive purposes.
- To affix gaffer tape to, or cover with gaffer tape.
noun
- Rough or harsh treatment; criticism.
- A place of residence.
- A trick or con.
- A minor error or faux pas, a gaffe.
- The upper spar used to control a gaff-rigged sail.
- A tool consisting of a large metal hook with a handle or pole, especially the one used to pull large fish aboard a boat.
- A type of tight, panty-like underwear worn to hold the male genitalia tucked backwards and make one's genital region look smooth, as if one had a vulva.
verb
- To gamble.
- To play card games, board games, or video games.
- To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.
- To perform premeditated seduction strategy.
noun
- The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.
- Prostitution. (Now chiefly in on the game.)
- Mastery; the ability to excel at something.
- An activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment, often competitive or having an explicit goal.
- A school subject during which sports are practised.
- A particular instance of playing a game.
- That which is gained, such as the stake in a game.
- The number of points necessary to win a game.
- In some games, a point awarded to the player whose cards add up to the largest sum.
- The equipment that enables such activity, particularly as packaged under a title.
- One's manner, style, or performance in playing a game.
- A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
- An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
- A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal.
- Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
- wild animals hunted for food.
- A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.
adj
verb
- To gamble.
- To act with levity or thoughtlessness; to trifle; to be careless.
- Contrary to fact, to give an appearance of being.
- To be performed; (or of a film) to be shown.
- To manipulate, deceive, or swindle someone.
- To move to and fro.
- To produce music (or a specified song or musical style) using (a specified musical instrument).
- To compete against, in a game.
- To act; to behave; to practice deception.
- To perform in or at; to give performances in or at.
- To produce music using a musical instrument.
- To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion; to operate.
- To take part in amorous activity; to make love.
- To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
- To kid; to joke; say something for amusement.
- (in the scoring of games and sports) To be the opposing score to.
- To act as the indicated role, especially in a performance.
- To produce music.
- To act or perform (a play).
- To bring into sportive or wanton action; to exhibit in action; to execute.
- To put in action or motion.
- To keep in play, as a hooked fish in order to land it.
- To use a device to watch or listen to the indicated recording.
- To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose of recreation or entertainment.
noun
- A geological formation that contains an accumulation or prospect of hydrocarbons or other resources.
- An instance of watching or listening to digital media.
- The extent to which a part of a mechanism can move freely, as for example lash, backlash, or slack.
- Movement (of a pattern of light etc.)
- An individual's performance in a sport or game.
- A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue.
- A button that, when pressed, causes media to be played.
- Activity for amusement only, especially among the young.
- Similar activity in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills.
- An attempt to move forward, as in a plan or strategy, for example by a business, investor, or political party.
- Sexual activity or sexual role-playing.
- The conduct, or course, of a game.
- A short sequence of action within a game.
- An action carried out when it is one's turn to play.
- A theatrical performance featuring actors.
noun
- A gambler.
- An electronic device that plays audio and/or video media.
- One who plays any game or sport.
- A mechanism that actuates a player piano or other automatic musical instrument.
- One who is playful; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler.
- A software application that plays audio and/or video media, such as a media player.
- A participant; one involved in something.
- An actor in a dramatic play.
- One who plays on a musical instrument.
- A gamer; a player of video games or similar.
- A person who plays the field rather than having a long-term sexual relationship.
noun
- A prediction of the outcome of games in a tournament, used for betting purposes.
- The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage, supporting the trunnions.
- "[" and "]" specifically - as opposed to the other forms, which have their own technical names.
- One of several ranges of numbers.
- The small curved or angular corner formed by a serif and a stroke in a letter.
- A pair of values that represent the smallest and largest elements of a range.
- A printed diagram of games in a tournament.
- Any intermediate object that connects a smaller part to a larger part, the smaller part typically projecting sideways from the larger part.
- A short crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.
- "(" and ")" specifically, the other forms above requiring adjectives for disambiguation.
- Typically of stationary weapons, the zone enclosed by one long and one short shot impact expected to be hit very accurately.
- A fixture attached to a wall to hold up a shelf.
verb
- To bound on both sides, to surround, as enclosing with brackets.
- To set aside, discount, ignore.
- To gauge the range of a target by firing equally short and long of it and ranging the weapon between the two to achieve a very accurate hit.
- To place in the same category.
- To enclose in typographical brackets.
- In the philosophical system of Edmund Husserl and his followers, to set aside metaphysical theories and existential questions concerning what is real in order to focus philosophical attention simply on the actual content of experience.
- To take multiple images of the same subject, using a range of exposure settings, in order to help ensure that a satisfactory image is obtained.
- To support by means of mechanical brackets.
- To mark distinctly for special treatment.
verb
- In the game of pool or snooker to pocket a ball by accident; in billiards, to make an ill-considered shot.
- To spill or dump liquid, especially over the edge of a container when it moves.
- To make one's way through soggy terrain.
- To feed pigs.
- To spill liquid upon; to soil with a spilled liquid.
noun
- Domestic liquid waste; household wastewater.
- A policeman.
- Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown about, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.
- A rubber thong sandal.
- Inferior, weak drink or semi-liquid food.
- Semi-solid like substance; goo, paste, mud, pulp.
- See slops.
- Scraps used as food for animals, especially pigs or hogs.
noun
- A sportsman; a gambler.
- Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.
- A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question)
- Term of endearment used by an adult for a child, usually a boy.
- One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.
- A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
- A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
- Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, fishing.
- Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport.
- A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. The term encompasses both mutants and organisms with non-genetic developmental abnormalities such as birth defects.
verb
- To display; to have as a notable feature.
- To close (a door).
- To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
- To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal.
- To amuse oneself, to play.
- To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
- To divert; to amuse; to make merry.
- To represent by any kind of play.
noun
- A gambling strategy in which one doubles the stake after each loss.
- A strap attached to the sword handle, preventing a sword being dropped if disarmed.
- A piece of harness used on a horse to keep it from raising its head above a desired point.
- A spar, or piece of rigging that strengthens the bowsprit.
- A stochastic process for which the conditional expectation of future values given the sequence of all prior values is equal to the current value.
verb
noun
- The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
- A short visit, usually for social purposes.
- A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
- A cry or shout.
- A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.
- A lawyer who was called to the bar (became licensed as a lawyer) in a specified year.
- The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
- The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
- An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
- An instance of calling someone on the telephone.
- Need; necessity.
- The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)
- A decision or judgement.
- A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
- A telephone conversation; a phone call.
- A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
- A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.
- A beckoning or summoning.
- A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
- A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call.
- A work shift which requires one to be available when requested, i.e. on call.
- The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
- The act of calling to the other batsman.
verb
- To require, demand.
- To scold.
- To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
- To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.
- Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.
- (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions).
- To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.
- To request, summon, or beckon.
- To cause to be verbally subjected to.
- To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
- To come to pass; to afflict.
- To match the current bet amount, in preparation for a raise in the same turn. (Usually, players are forbidden to announce one's play this way.)
- To predict.
- To contact by telephone.
- To pay a (social) visit (often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again).
- To name or refer to.
- To cry or shout.
- To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting.
- (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run.
- To stop at a station or port.
- To claim the existence of some malfeasance; to denounce as.
- To declare (an effort or project) to be a failure.
- To utter in a loud or distinct voice.
- To formally recognise a death: especially to announce and record the time, place and fact of a person’s death.
- To declare in advance.
- To request that one's band play (a particular tune).
- To lay claim to an object or role which is up for grabs.
- To tell in advance which shot one is attempting.
- To demand repayment of a loan.
- To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
- To make a decision as a referee or umpire.
verb
- To bet before any other player has in a particular betting round in a game of poker.
- To move to a position allowing fluid to flow.
- To bring up, broach.
- To make accessible to customers or clients.
- To spread; to expand into an open or loose position.
- To move to a position preventing electricity from flowing.
- To become open.
- To make something accessible or allow for passage by moving from a shut position.
- To enter upon, begin.
- To turn on; to switch on.
- To make (an open space, etc.) by clearing away an obstacle or obstacles, in order to allow for passage, access, or visibility.
- To begin a side's innings as one of the first two batsmen.
- To make (a bed) ready for a patient by folding back the bedcovers.
- To start (a campaign).
- To begin conducting business.
- To reveal one's hand.
- To load into memory for viewing or editing.
adj
- Not fulfilled.
- Made public, usable with a free licence and without proprietary components.
- Having a free variable.
- Having component words separated by spaces, as opposed to being joined together or hyphenated; for example, time slot as opposed to timeslot or time-slot.
- Public
- Mild (of the weather); free from frost or snow.
- With open access, of open science, or both.
- Candid, ingenuous, not subtle in character.
- Resulting from an incision, puncture or any other process by which the skin no longer protects an internal part of the body.
- In current use; mapped to part of memory.
- Of a note, played without pressing the string against the fingerboard.
- Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business.
- Able to have something pass through or along it.
- not covered, showing what is inside
- To be in a position preventing electricity from flowing.
- Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure.
- Source code of a computer program that is not within the text of a macro being generated.
- To be in a position allowing fluid to flow.
- Of a note, played without closing any finger-hole, key or valve.
- Able to be accessed (physically).
- Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; said of vowels.
- That ends in a vowel; not having a coda.
- Not physically drawn together, closed, folded or contracted; extended.
- Receptive.
- Which is part of a predefined collection of subsets of X, that defines a topological space on X.
- Written or sent with the intention that it may made public or referred to at any trial, rather than by way of confidential private negotiation for a settlement.
- Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration.
- Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing waterways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or inclement; mild; used of the weather or the climate.
- Whose first and last vertices are different.
noun
adj
- Being a bet which can be raised by the bettor, usually in reference to a blind or straddle.
- Recorded from a performance in front of an audience.
- Outstanding, top-notch, exhilarating.
- Having life; that is alive.
- Electrically charged or energized, usually indicating that the item may cause electrocution if touched.
- Being broadcast ("on the air"), as it happens.
- Operational; in actual use rather than in testing etc.
- Still in active play.
- Being in a state of ignition; burning.
- Imparting power; having motion.
- Being in existence; actual.
- Of an environment where sound is recorded: having noticeable reverberation.
- Featuring humans; not animated, in the phrases “live actors” or “live action”.
- Of a card: not yet dealt or played.
- In person.
- Having active properties; being energized.
- Taken from a living animal.
- Of firearms or explosives, capable of causing harm.
- Of an object or value: that may potentially be used in the future execution of a program.
verb
- To cope.
- To endure in memory; to escape oblivion.
- To spend, as one's life; to pass; to maintain; to continue in, constantly or habitually.
- To outlast danger; to float (said of a ship, boat, etc).
- To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside.
- To pass life in a specified manner.
- To maintain or support one's existence; to provide for oneself; to feed; to subsist.
- To make the most of life; to experience a full, rich life.
- (of an object) to have its proper place; to normally be stored.
- To be alive; to have life.
- To survive; to persevere; to continue.
- To act habitually in conformity with; to practice; to exemplify in one's way of life.
adv
noun
- the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker)
- metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep; often has a handle and lid
- a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
- the quantity contained in a pot
- a container in which plants are cultivated
- (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
- slang for a paunch
- a resistor with three terminals, the third being an adjustable center terminal; used to adjust voltages in radios and TV sets
- street names for marijuana
verb
noun
- In a casino, a person who routinely bets at the maximum limit allowable.
- Something, or someone, that is excellent.
- Any one of numerous large marine mammals comprising an informal group within infraorder Cetacea that usually excludes dolphins and porpoises.
- Any species of Cetacea.
- A person who spends large amounts of money on things that are marketed to them.
- An investor who deals with very large amounts of money.
- Something, or someone, that is very large.
verb
noun
- the money risked on a gamble
- (law) a right or legal share of something; a financial involvement with something
- a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track)
- instrument of execution consisting of a vertical post that a victim is tied to for burning
- a strong wooden or metal post with a point at one end so it can be driven into the ground
verb
noun
- A player who is forced to pay such a bet.
- Any device intended to conceal or hide.
- A destination sign mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc.
- Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.
- No score.
- The blindside.
- A forced bet: the small blind or the big blind.
- A hiding place.
- A movable covering for a window to keep out light, made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass.
- A blindage.
verb
- To make temporarily or permanently blind.
- To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal.
- To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel, for example a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.
adj
- Using blinded study design, wherein information is purposely limited to prevent bias.
- Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit.
- Having no openings for light or passage; both dark and exitless.
- Uncircumcised
- Unintelligible or illegible.
- Closed at one end; having a dead end; exitless.
- Smallest or slightest.
- Unable to see, due to physiological or neurological factors.
- Failing to see, acknowledge, perceive.
- Without any prior knowledge.
- Of a place, having little or no visibility.
- Unconditional; without regard to evidence, logic, reality, accidental mistakes, extenuating circumstances, etc.
adv
noun
- A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (and especially in the phrase on a roll).
- A heavy, reverberatory sound.
- A swagger or rolling gait.
- A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.
- A catalogue or list, (especially) one kept for official purposes.
- The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
- A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
- A training match for a fighting dog.
- One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill.
- A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
- A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.
- The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.
- Any of various financial instruments or transactions that involve opposite positions at different expiries, "rolling" a position from one expiry to another.
- A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.
- The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
- The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis.
- That which is rolled up.
- A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.
- An instance of the act of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
- The skill of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
- The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.
- The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching; or the equivalent in an aircraft.
- An official or public document; a register; a record.
- An instance of the act of rolling an aircraft through one or more complete rotations about its longitudinal axis.
- A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
verb
- To travel by sailing.
- To cause to betray secrets or to testify for the prosecution.
- To enrobe in toilet-paper (as a prank or spectacle).
- To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution.
- To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface.
- To leave or begin a journey.
- To engage in sparring in the context of jujitsu or other grappling disciplines.
- To load ocean freight cargo onto a vessel other than the one it was meant to sail on.
- To move, like waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
- To rotate about the fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare pitch.
- To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.
- To slip past (a defender) with the ball.
- To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.
- To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.
- To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball.
- To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
- to move and cause an effect on someone
- To create a new character in a role-playing game, especially by using dice to determine properties.
- To throw dice.
- To generate a random number.
- To have a rolling aspect.
- To create a customized version of.
- To (cause to) film.
- To utter with an alveolar trill.
- To beat up; to assault.
- To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).
- To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to enwrap; often with up.
- To compete, especially with vigor.
- To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.
- To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
- To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.
- To turn over and over.
- To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in such a manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.
- To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling.
- To spread itself under a roller or rolling-pin.
- To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with forth, or out.
- To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers.
- To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
- To betray secrets.
noun
- Money acquired by gambling.
- The drug dextromethorphan.
- A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side.
- Very fine fur, including the skin and fur on a deer's antlers.
- A female chinchilla; a sow.
verb
- To remove the velvet from a deer's antlers.
- to retract.
- To cover with velvet or with a covering of a similar texture.
- To coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying.
- To soften; to mitigate.
adj
noun
- A bet on some aspect of a game or competition that is not the main bet of the game or the prize of the competition; proposition bet.
- An investment of time, money, or resources that reinforces one's commitment to a course of action.
- An investment or risk undertaken by a company that is not part of its core business.
noun
- The left-over money in a parimutuel betting pool resulting from rounding off the payoffs, added to the pool for the next race or event or kept as profit.
- Something that has been broken.
- A service which is unused by a customer, such as an unredeemed gift card, which therefore represents a pure profit to the seller.
- The act of breaking.
noun
- Any of various card games in which, following each of one or more rounds of dealing or revealing cards, the players in sequence make tactical bets or drop out, the bets forming a pool to be taken either by the sole remaining player or, after all rounds and bets have been completed, by those remaining players who hold a superior hand according to a standard ranking of hand values for the game.
- A tool like a soldering iron for making poker drawings.
- A kind of duck, the pochard.
- One who pokes.
- Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.
- A knife.
- All the four cards of the same rank.
- A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick.
verb
noun
- A bet that increases the previous bet.
- A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
- A cairn or pile of stones.
- A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.
verb
- To remove or break up (a blockade), either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
- To cause something to come to the surface of water.
- To create, increase or develop.
- To establish contact with (e.g., by telephone or radio).
- To cause (a dead person) to live again; to resurrect.
- To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or printing in which the sum payable is specified.
- To open, initiate.
- To create; to constitute (a use, or a beneficial interest in property).
- To collect or amass.
- To relinquish (a siege), or cause this to be done.
- To mention (a question, issue) for discussion.
- To promote.
- To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof of the mouth.
- To instantiate and transmit (an exception, by throwing it, or an event).
- To bring up; to grow.
- To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
- To exponentiate, to involute.
- To make (bread, etc.) light, as by yeast or leaven.
- To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear.
- To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect.
- To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
- To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it.
- To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
verb
- arrange the order of so as to increase one's winning chances
- load or cover with stacks
- arrange in stacks
noun
- an orderly pile
- (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
- a list in which the next item to be removed is the item most recently stored (LIFO)
- a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated
- a storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO)
verb
noun
- Something that prevents, hampers, or hinders.
- An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race (or other contest of skill) to the competitor possessing disadvantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success.
- The disadvantage itself, in particular physical or mental disadvantages of people.
- A race or similar contest in which there is an allowance of time, distance, weight, or other advantage, to equalize the chances of the competitors.
noun
- The amount of money that a gambler exchanges for chips in a casino.
- A dropped pass.
- The distance that a person drops when being executed by hanging.
- The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
- A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape through surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid.
- Only used in get the drop on, have the drop on An advantage.
- The distance below a cliff or other high position through which someone or something could fall; hence, a steep slope.
- A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything.
- Usually preceded by the: alcoholic spirits in general.
- A trapdoor (“hinged platform”) on a gallows; a gallows itself.
- A point in a song, usually electronic music such as dubstep, house, trace, or trap, where there is a very noticeable and pleasing change in bass, tempo, and/or overall tone; a climax, a highlight.
- An ornament resembling a pendant; a gutta.
- The cover mounted on a swivel over a keyhole that rests over the keyhole when not in use to keep out debris, but is swiveled out of the way before inserting the key.
- A fruit which has fallen off a tree, etc., or has been knocked off accidentally, rather than picked.
- Of women's clothes: the difference between the bust circumference and hip circumference.
- A mechanism for lowering something, such as a machine for lowering heavy weights on to a ship's deck, or a device for temporarily lowering a gas jet, etc.
- A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, whether openly (as with a mail drop), or secretly or illegally (as in crime or espionage); a drop-off point.
- The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
- An instance of making a delivery of people, supplies, or things, especially by parachute out of an aircraft (an airdrop), but also by truck, etc.
- A dose of liquid medicine in the form of a drop (sense 1).
- A decline in degree, quality, quantity, or rate.
- A single measure of whisky.
- A curtain which falls in front of a theatrical stage; also, a section of (cloth) scenery lowered on to the stage like a curtain.
- An item made available for the player to pick up from the remains of a defeated enemy.
- A release (of music, a video game, etc).
- Often preceded by a defining word: a small, round piece of hard candy, such as a lemon drop; a lozenge.
- Of men's clothes: the difference between the chest circumference and waist circumference.
- Usually preceded by the: relegation from one division to a lower one.
- A liquid medicine that is intended to be administered in drops (sense 1).
- A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
- An act of moving downwards under the force of gravity; a descent, a fall.
- The depth of a (square) sail (generally applied to the courses only); the vertical dimension of a sail.
- Preceded by the: execution by hanging.
verb
- To dispose or get rid of (something); to lose, to remove.
- To let (something) fall; to allow (something) to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on).
- To reduce; to make smaller.
- To come to an end (by not being kept up); to lapse, to stop.
- To fall behind or to the rear of a group of people, etc., as a result of not keeping up with those at the front.
- To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot, etc.; to bring down, to shoot down.
- To pass or use (counterfeit cheques, money, etc.).
- To quickly lower or take down (one's trousers), especially in public.
- Of the testicles: to hang further away from the body and begin producing sperm due to puberty.
- To cook (food, especially fast food), particularly by lowering into hot oil to deep-fry, or by grilling.
- Of an animal (usually a sheep): to give birth to (young); of a bird: to lay (an egg).
- To impart (something).
- To cease concerning oneself over (someone or something); to have nothing more to do with (a discussion, subject, etc.).
- To perform (rap music).
- Usually followed by by, in, or into: of a person: to visit someone or somewhere informally or without a prior appointment.
- Of a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.: to enter public distribution.
- To play (a portion of music) in the manner of a disc jockey.
- Of a liquid: to fall in drops or droplets.
- To drop out of the betting.
- To collapse in exhaustion or injury; also, to fall dead, or to fall in death.
- To fall or sink quickly or suddenly to the ground.
- Of a voice: to lower in timbre, often due to puberty.
- To fall (straight down) under the influence of gravity, like a drop of liquid.
- Of a song or sound: to lower in key, pitch, tempo, or other quality.
- To move to a lower position; to allow to hang downwards; to lower.
- To let (a letter, etc.) fall into a postbox; hence, to send (a letter, email, or other message) in an offhand manner.
- To drip (a liquid) in drops or small amounts.
- To set down (someone or something) from a vehicle; to stop and deliver or deposit (someone or something); to drop off.
- To cease to include (something), as if on a list; to dismiss, to eject, to expel.
- To (unexpectedly) lose (a competition, game, etc.).
- To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter, etc.).
- To lower (a sound, a voice, etc.) in pitch or volume.
- To fall into a particular condition or state.
- To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
- To present the user with a more basic interface.
- To release (a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.) to the public.
- To lose, spend, or otherwise part with (money).
- To score (a goal) by means of a drop kick.
- To mention (something) casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
- To enter a more basic interface.
- To decrease, diminish, or lessen in condition, degree, value, etc.
- Especially in drop acid: to swallow (a drug, particularly LSD).
- Of a fielder: to fail to dismiss (a batsman) by accidentally dropping a batted ball that had initially been caught.
- To cancel or cease to participate in (a scheduled course, event, or project).
noun
- a gambler who increases a wager after losing.
- A mode of transportation propelled by steam.
- A stupid or contemptible person.
- A vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam, as in washing and in various processes of manufacture.
- A cooking appliance that cooks by steaming.
- 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.
- A member of a youth gang who engages in steaming (robbing and escaping in a large group).
- The soft-shell clam, sand gaper, or long-neck clam (Mya arenaria), an edible saltwater clam; specifically the clam when steamed for eating.
- A prostitute's client.
- A gullible or easily cheated person.
- A vessel propelled by steam; a steamboat or steamship.
- A steamed clam.
- An act of fellatio.
- A homosexual man with a preference for passive partners.
- A wetsuit with long sleeves and legs.
- A babycino (frothy milk drink).
- A racehorse the odds of which are becoming shorter (that is, decreasing) because bettors are backing it.
- A drinking session.
- A steam-powered road locomotive; a traction engine.
verb
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