reverse dunk
lay-in
dunking
bomb
let
net ball
bucketball
dunk shot
hazard
putback
dunkfest
windmill
floater
stool-ball
air ball
volleyball
nurdle
tip in
volley
hook
frontcourt
racquets
knock-on
basketball
rim out
basketball game
hoops
rimless
attack
jai alai
basket
pass
nothing but net
freeball
guard
above the rim
fast break
bare hand
field goal
playing field
jump ball
dunk
box out
backheader
fat
service court
backball
pancake
ball
loofball
stuff shot
basketball hoop
hoop
post
kickout
granny style
one-pocket
upcourt
footy
nutmeg
goaltending
court game
cherry-bomb
knock on
maund
crib
catch
ruck
touchdown
racquetball
rim
bowl
loft
broomball
goaltend
hooker
puntabout
reverse layup
personal foul
bocce
inlane
wallyball
down
netball
pick
hook shot
header
finger-roll
fallaway
jam
kickback
rimless
fat
upcourt
down
reverse dunk
lay-in
dunking
bomb
let
net ball
bucketball
dunk shot
hazard
putback
dunkfest
windmill
floater
stool-ball
air ball
volleyball
tip in
volley
hook
frontcourt
racquets
knock-on
basketball
basketball game
hoops
attack
jai alai
basket
nothing but net
freeball
guard
fast break
field goal
playing field
jump ball
dunk
backheader
service court
backball
pancake
loofball
stuff shot
basketball hoop
hoop
fat
post
kickout
granny style
one-pocket
footy
nutmeg
goaltending
court game
cherry-bomb
knock on
maund
crib
catch
touchdown
racquetball
rim
bowl
broomball
hooker
puntabout
reverse layup
personal foul
bocce
inlane
wallyball
netball
pick
hook shot
header
finger-roll
fallaway
jam
kickback
nurdle
rim out
pass
bare hand
box out
ball
dunk
nutmeg
ruck
loft
goaltend
noun
- A throw into the basket from a considerable distance.
- A cyclone whose central pressure drops at an average rate of at least one millibar per hour for at least 24 hours.
- Events or conditions that have a speedy destructive effect.
- A woman’s breast.
- An act of jumping into water while keeping one's arms and legs tucked into the body, as in a squatting position, to maximize splashing.
- A large amount of money.
- A professional wrestling throw in which an opponent is lifted and then slammed back-first down to the mat.
- A heavy-walled container designed to permit chemical reactions under high pressure.
- A success; the bomb.
- Any explosive charge.
- A long forward pass.
- A failure; an unpopular commercial product.
- A high kick that sends the ball relatively straight up so players can get under it before it comes down.
- An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, (especially) one dropped from an aircraft.
- An action or statement that causes a strong reaction.
- A car in poor condition.
- A very attractive woman.
- A recreational drug ground up, wrapped, and swallowed.
adj
verb
- To attack or annoy in the manner of a bombing.
- To crash.
- To move at high speed.
- To jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs.
- To add an excessive amount of chlorine to a pool when it has not been maintained properly.
- To fail dismally.
- To attack using one or more bombs; to bombard.
- To make oneself drunk.
- To cover an area in many graffiti tags.
- To make a smelly mess in a toilet.
noun
- The side of the court into which the ball is served.
- An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.
- A problem with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction cannot execute in the following clock cycle, potentially leading to incorrect results.
- The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
- A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
- Chance.
- An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it.
- The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
- A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
verb
noun
- A dunk where the dunker swings his arm in a circular motion before throwing the ball through the hoop.
- A pitch where the pitcher swings his arm in a circular motion before throwing the ball.
- A child's toy consisting of vanes mounted on a stick that rotate when blown by a person or by the wind.
- Any of various muscle exercises in which a large deal of the body makes a great circle, typically one where a kettlebell is raised overhead and the torso is rotated to the other side with the hand reaching its foot (hitting the core, glutes, hamstrings, trapezius, rhomboids, deltoids and rotator cuffs) but sometimes even a windshield wiper.
- Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Byasa, the wings of which resemble the vanes of a windmill.
- An imaginary enemy, but presented as real.
- A guitar move where the strumming hand mimics a turning windmill.
- A machine which translates linear motion of wind to rotational motion by means of adjustable vanes called sails.
- The structure containing such machinery.
- The false shower.
- A breakdancing move in which the dancer rolls his/her torso continuously in a circular path on the floor, across the upper chest, shoulders and back, while twirling the legs in a V shape in the air.
verb
noun
- Early layup taken by a player moving towards the rim where, upon release, the ball floats in the air over the top of a defender before dropping softly into the hoop.
- An unaffiliated player.
- One who votes illegally in various polling places or election districts, either under false registration made by himself or under the name of some properly registered person who has not already voted.
- A small suet dumpling put into soup.
- Someone who attaches themselves to a group of people, much to the dismay of that group, and repeatedly shows up to participate in group activities despite attempts to get rid of, or “flush,” said individual.
- A policy covering property at more than one location or which may be in transit.
- A floating rate bond.
- A maneuver in which a surfer transitions above the unbroken face of the wave onto the lip, or on top of the breaking section of the wave.
- One who or that which floats.
- A kind of river mussel (genus Anodonta).
- A book circulated between prisoners that is not part of the official prison library.
- A threadlike speck in the visual field that seems to move, possibly caused by degeneration of the vitreous humour.
- A misstep; a faux pas.
- A piece of faeces that floats.
- A voter who shifts from party to party, especially one whose vote can be purchased.
- A person, such as a delegate to a convention or a member of a legislature, who represents an irregular constituency, such as one formed by a union of the voters of two counties neither of which has a number sufficient to be allowed a (or an extra) representative of its own.
- A corpse floating in a body of water.
- An employee of a company who does not have fixed tasks to do but fills in wherever needed, usually when someone else is away.
- An "extra" male at a dinner party, or a young friend of the hostess, whose assignment is to entertain the female guests.
- A coin which does not spin when thrown in the air.
- A pie floater.
- A sandal.
noun
- 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.
- Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.
- The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
- A ship's anchor.
- Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
- A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
- A field sown two years in succession.
- A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. (See draw, slice, fade.)
- A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.
- A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
- 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.
- 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.
- A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.
- A jack (the playing card).
- Any of the chevrons denoting rank.
- 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.
- The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
- Synonym of shoulder (“the part of a wave that has not yet broken”)
- A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
- a háček.
- a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc
- A finesse.
- A curveball.
- 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.
- The curved needle used in the art of crochet.
- Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
- A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
- a diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.
- A prostitute.
- A snare; a trap.
- 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.
verb
- To attach a hook to.
- To finesse.
- To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
- To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
- To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick to trip or block another player)
- To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
- To connect (hook into, hook together).
- To engage in prostitution.
- To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.
- To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.
- To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
- To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
- To play a hook shot.
- To make addicted; to captivate.
- To move or go with a sudden turn.
- To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
noun
- Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane of the net.
- The amount of time it takes for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level (e.g. an audio waveform representing a snare drum hit would feature a very fast attack, whereas that of a wave washing to shore would feature a slow attack).
- An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by physical, verbal, emotional, or other assault.
- The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
- A time in which one attacks; the offence of a battle.
- The beginning of active operations on anything.
- The sudden onset of a disease or condition.
- An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of opponent or enemy.
- Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
- An attempt to exploit a vulnerability in a computer system.
- The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that onset.
- An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
verb
- To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
- To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
- To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
- To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines, because it typesets into less space than "criticize" or similar).
- (Of a chemical species) To approach a chemical species or bond in order to form a bond with it.
- To apply violent force to someone or something.
- To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
- To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.
- To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
- To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
noun
- A circular hoop, from which a net is suspended, which is the goal through which the players try to throw the ball.
- The act of putting the ball through the basket, thereby scoring points.
- A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
- The game of basketball.
- A dance movement in some line dances, where men put their arms round the women's lower backs, and the women put their arms over the men's shoulders, and the group (usually of four, any more is difficult) spins round, which should result in the women's feet leaving the ground.
- The bulge of the male genitals seen through clothing.
- A wire or plastic container similar in shape to a basket, used for carrying articles for purchase in a shop.
- A drogue (or para-drogue) in the probe-and-drogue refueling method
- In an online shop, a listing of a customer's chosen items before they are ordered.
- The gondola or wicker basket suspended from the balloon, in which the pilot and passengers travel.
- The male genitalia and region surrounding it.
- A set or collection of intangible things.
- The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
- Bastard.
verb
verb
- To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
- To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.
- To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
- To spend.
- To go from one person to another.
- To put through a sieve.
- To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
- To reject; to pass up.
- To happen.
- In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
- To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
- To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
- To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
- To die.
- To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
- In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
- To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
- To put in circulation; to give currency to.
- To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
- To decline something that is offered or available.
- To move or be moved from one place to another.
- To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
- To continue.
- To elapse, to be spent.
- To progress from one state to another; to advance.
- To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
- To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.
- To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
- To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
- To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
- To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
- To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex, or other group to which one does not belong or would not have originally appeared to belong; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one was assigned male at birth or vice versa.
- To make a lunge or swipe.
- To decline or not attempt to answer a question.
- To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
- To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
- To achieve a successful outcome from.
- To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
noun
- A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
- Success in an examination or similar test.
- Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
- An intentional walk.
- The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
- A sexual advance.
- An attempt.
- A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
- A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
- The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
- A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
- A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.
- A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
- The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
- The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
- An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
- A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
- A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
- A thrust; a sally of wit.
- An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
noun
- A relatively short player, playing farther from the basket than a forward or centre.
- A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something.
- A state of caution; posture of defence.
- Something worn to protect part of the body, e.g. the shins in cricket.
- Either of two offensive positions between the centre and each of the offensive tackles, whose main responsibilities are to protect the quarterback, and open up "holes" through which offensive players can run.
- A player playing a position named guard.
- A squad responsible for protecting something.
- The position on the popping crease where a batsman makes a mark to align himself with the wicket; see take guard.
- A watchchain.
- The aircraft emergency frequency, a radio frequency reserved for emergency communications, typically 121.5MHz for civilian use.
- A part of a machine which blocks access to dangerous parts.
- A panel of a car that encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
- A garda; a police officer.
- The part of a sword that protects the wielder's hand.
- A ground grappling position in which one combatant has their back to the ground while attempting to control the other combatant using their legs.
- A Boolean expression that must evaluate to true for a branch of program execution to continue.
- An employee, normally travelling in the last vehicle of a train, responsible for the safety of the train.
verb
- To fasten by binding; to gird.
- To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like.
- To protect the edge of, especially with an ornamental border; hence, to face or ornament with lists, laces, etc.
- To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend.
- To watch by way of caution or defense; to be caution; to be in a state or position of defense or safety.
adj
- Being a shot in which the ground is struck before the ball.
- Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.
- Bountiful.
- Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.
- Fertile; productive.
- Thick; large.
- Of a role: significant; major; meaty.
- Rich; producing a large income; desirable.
- Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich (said of food).
- Bulbous; rotund.
noun
- A poorly played shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (see also thin, shank, toe)
- Such tissue as food: the fatty portion of (or trimmings from) meat cuts.
- A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue.
- That part of an organization deemed wasteful.
- A fat person.
- The best or richest productions; the best part.
- A lipid that is solid at room temperature, which fat tissue contains and which is also found in the blood circulation; sometimes, a refined substance chemically resembling such naturally occurring lipids.
- An erection.
- A beef cattle fattened for sale.
noun
- A defensive play in which the ball bounces off the top of a hand that has been pressed flat against the floor.
- A box on which an actor stands to make them appear taller.
- In the US (and e.g. Scotland), a leavened, thicker, fluffier cake.
- A kind of makeup, consisting of a thick layer of a compressed powder.
- In England, an often unleavened cake similar to a crepe.
- Composite leather made of scraps, glue and board, by extension of (4), material originally used for insoles, but later used also for heels and even soles.
- Anything very thin and flat.
- A type of throw, usually with a ring where the prop is thrown in such a way that it rotates round an axis of the diameter of the prop.
verb
verb
noun
- round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games
- a solid projectile that is shot by a musket
- an object with a spherical shape
- one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
- a spherical object used as a plaything
- a compact mass
- a lavish dance requiring formal attire
- a more or less rounded anatomical body or mass
- a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs
- a pitch that is not in the strike zone
noun
- horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball
- a light curved skeleton to spread out a skirt
- a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling
- a small arch used as croquet equipment
verb
noun
- A location on a basketball court near the basket.
- A long, narrow piece inserted into a root canal to provide retention for a crown.
- A prolonged final melody note, among moving harmony notes.
- A pole in a battery.
- The vertical part of a crochet stitch.
- A military base; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.
- A printing paper size measuring 19.25 inches x 15.5 inches.
- A single delivery of letters; the letters or deliveries that make up a single batch delivered to one person or one address.
- A moderate to deep passing route in which a receiver runs 10-20 yards from the line of scrimmage straight down the field, then cuts toward the middle of the field (towards the facing goalposts) at a 45-degree angle.
- A post mortem (investigation of body's cause of death).
- A goalpost.
- An appointed position in an organization, job.
- A stud; a two-by-four.
- An organisation for delivering letters, parcels etc., or the service provided by such an organisation.
- A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fencepost; a lightpost.
- Someone who travels express along a set route carrying letters and dispatches; a courier.
- Post-production.
- A message posted in an electronic or Internet forum, or on a blog, etc.
- An assigned station; a guard post.
adv
- Sent via the postal service.
- With the post, on post-horses; by a relay of horses (changing at every staging-post); hence, express, with speed, quickly.
verb
- To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, especially in trotting.
- To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, etc.
- To assign to a station; to set; to place.
- To publish (a message) to a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc.
- To send (an item of mail etc.) through the postal service.
- To pay down (the stake).
- To pay (a blind).
- To carry (an account) from the journal to the ledger.
- To travel with relays of horses; to travel by post horses, originally as a courier.
- To inform; to give the news to; to make acquainted with the details of a subject; often with up.
- To travel quickly; to hurry.
- To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review.
- To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation.
prep
noun
- A drop kick by a player on the side to return the ball back into play.
- A pass to another offensive player who immediately shoots for the basket.
- A kick made by the goalkeeper from the goal area.
- A rapid turn performed by shifting one's weight to the rear of the surfboard.
- A penalty for holding or sinking the driver
noun
- The playing of the ball between the legs of an opponent.
- A grey-brown colour.
- The powdered seed, ready for use.
- An evergreen tree (Myristica fragrans) cultivated in the East Indies for its spicy seeds.
- A whole nutmeg seed.
- A small moth, Hadula trifolii, feeding on plants and native to the Northern Hemisphere.
verb
noun
- A wicker basket.
- A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.
- A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort; a crib sheet.
- A literal translation, usually of a work originally in Latin or Ancient Greek.
- A bed for a child older than a baby.
- One’s residence, house or dwelling place, or usual place of resort.
- A bin for drying or storing grain, as with a corn crib.
- A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.
- A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.
- The card game cribbage.
- A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.
- A small raft made of timber.
- A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.
- A snack or packed lunch, especially as taken to work to eat during a break.
- A confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicle
- A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel
- The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.
- A boxy structure traditionally built of heavy wooden timbers, to support an existing structure from below, as with a mineshaft or a building being raised off its foundation in preparation for being moved; see cribbing.
- The baby Jesus and the manger in a creche or nativity scene, consisting of statues of Mary, Joseph and various other characters such as the magi.
- A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections.
- A cheat sheet or past test used by students; crib sheet.
verb
- To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
- To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.
- To place or confine in a crib.
- To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
- To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.
- To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.
- To complain, to grumble
- To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
noun
- The game of catching a ball.
- The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
- A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
- A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
- A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
- A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
- A fragment of music or poetry.
- The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
- Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
- The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
- The act of seizing or capturing.
- A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
- A slight remembrance; a trace.
- A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
- The first contact of an oar with the water.
- A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
- A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
- A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
- The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
- Something which is captured or caught.
verb
- To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).
- To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.
- To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).
- To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or infection.
- To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
- To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
- Of fire, to spread or be conveyed to.
- To be held back or impeded.
- To get pregnant.
- To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce.
- To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
- To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
- To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
- To be hit by something.
- To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).
- To have something be held back or impeded.
- To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
- To travel by means of.
- To become infected by (an illness).
- To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.
- To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
- To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
- To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke.
- To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)
- To charm or entrance.
- To grip or entangle.
- To handle an exception.
- To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.
- To spread by infection or similar means.
- To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).
- To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
- To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).
- To germinate and set down roots.
- To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
- To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
verb
- To contest the possession of the ball in a ruck.
- To become folded.
- To carry a backpack while hiking or marching.
- To crease or fold.
noun
- A contest in games in which the ball is thrown or bounced in the air and two players from opposing teams attempt to give their team an advantage, typically by tapping the ball to a teammate.
- Any one of a ruckman, a ruck rover or a rover; a follower.
- The common mass of people or things; the ordinary ranks.
- A small heifer.
- An argument or fight.
- The situation formed when a player carrying the ball is brought to the ground and one or more members of each side are engaged above the ball, trying to win possession of it; a loose scrum.
- A player who competes in said contests; a ruckman or ruckwoman.
- A rucksack; a large backpack.
- A throng or crowd of people or things; a mass, a pack.
- A crease, a wrinkle, a pucker, as on fabric.
noun
- A try (scoring play of grounding the ball in the opposing team's in-goal).
- The moment when an aircraft or spacecraft makes first or final contact with the ground during a landing.
- A defensive action of grounding the ball in the team's own in-goal to stop the play.
- A six-point score occurring when the ball enters possession of a team's player in the opponent's end zone.
- The moment of contact of a tornado with the ground.
noun
- The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
- A dish comprising a mix of different foods, not all of which need be cooked, served in a bowl.
- The action of bowling a ball.
- An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.
- A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape.
- A rounded portion of a glyph that encloses empty space, as in the letters d and o.
- A round crater (or similar) in the ground.
- A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)
- The game of bowls.
- The part of a spoon that holds content, as opposed to the handle.
- A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.
- As much as is held by a bowl.
- Part of a pipe, bong, or other smoking implement that holds the material to be burned.
- The round hollow part of anything.
verb
verb
- To throw the ball erroneously through the air instead of releasing it on the lane's surface.
- To propel high into the air.
- To fly or travel through the air, as though propelled
- To raise (a bed) on tall supports so that the space beneath can be used for something else.
- To furnish with a loft space.
noun
adv
- Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
- At or towards any place that is visualised as 'down' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
- From less to greater detail.
- So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
- Forward, straight ahead.
- In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- To the south (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
- From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
- At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
- As a down payment.
- On paper (or in a durable record).
- Get down.
- Into a state of non-operation.
- To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
- Away from the city (regardless of direction).
- Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, permanence, or success rather than being of indefinite duration.
- From a remoter or higher antiquity.
- So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
adj
- Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
- Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
- Having a lower score than an opponent.
- Sick or ill.
- Negative about; hostile to.
- Comfortable with, accepting of.
- Wounded and unable to move normally, or killed.
- Facing downwards.
- Fallen or felled.
- At a lower level than before.
- Accepted, respected, or loyally participating in the (thug) community.
- Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
- Out.
- Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
- Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
verb
- To disparage; to put down.
- To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
- To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
- Specifically, to cause (something in the air) to fall to the ground; to bring down (with a missile etc.).
- To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
- To lower; to put (something) down.
- To defeat; to overpower.
- To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
- To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
noun
- The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
- That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
- Down payment.
- A hill, especially a chalk hill; rolling grassland
- A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
- Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
- The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
- An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
- A negative aspect; a downer, a downside.
- A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
- A downstairs room of a two-story house.
- The lightest quark with a charge number of −¹⁄₃.
- A field, especially one used for horse racing.
- A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
prep
noun
- The ball used in this sport.
- A (usually women's) team sport derived from basketball, with seven players on each side who attempt to score goals by passing a ball and throwing it into the opponent's goal, which is a raised hoop with a net at one end of the playing area. Unlike basketball, a player in possession of the ball cannot move until the ball is passed to another player.
noun
- a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body
- the person or thing chosen or selected
- the quantity of a crop that is harvested
- the best people or things in a group
- the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
- a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
- a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material
- a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends
- the act of choosing or selecting
verb
- select carefully from a group
- look for and gather
- harass with constant criticism
- provoke
- remove in small bits
- remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits
- pilfer or rob
- pay for something
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
- attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
- hit lightly with a picking motion
- eat intermittently; take small bites of
noun
- The act of hitting the ball with the head.
- A headlong fall, jump or dive.
- Text, or other visual information, used to mark off a quantity of text, often titling or summarizing it.
- A pipe which connects several smaller pipes.
- One who puts a head on something.
- Text, or other visual information, that goes at the top of a column of information in a table.
- A font, text style, or typesetting used for any of the above.
- Someone who heads the ball.
- A raised tank that supplies water at constant pressure, especially to a central heating and hot water system.
- The upper portion of a page (or other) layout.
- The first part of a file or record that describes its contents.
- A machine that separates and gathers the heads of grain etc.
- the first part of a packet or stream, often containing its address and descriptors.
- A horizontal structural or finish piece over an opening.
- The rodeo performer who drives the steer toward the heeler to be tied.
- A brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall or within the brickwork with the short side showing.
verb
noun
- A play during which points can be scored.
- A forceful dunk.
- balls, bollocks, courage, machismo
- A blockage, congestion, or immobilization.
- A difficult situation.
- A song; a track.
- The tree Acacia acuminata, with fruity-smelling hard timber.
- Luck.
- A difficult situation for a pitcher or defending team.
- An informal event where people brainstorm and collaborate on projects.
- A sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used in jam tarts.
- An informal, impromptu performance or rehearsal.
- Any of several maneuvers requiring wedging of an extremity into a tight space.
- Sexual relations or the contemplation of them.
- That which one particularly prefers, desires, enjoys, or cares about.
verb
- To get something stuck, often (though not necessarily) in a confined space.
- To block or confuse a radio or radar signal by transmitting a more-powerful signal on the same frequency.
- To brusquely force something into a space; to cram, to squeeze.
- To injure a finger or toe by sudden compression of the digit's tip.
- To give up on a date or some other joint endeavour; to stand up, chicken out, jam out.
- To throw a pitch at or near the batter's hands.
- To play music (especially improvisation as a group, or an informal unrehearsed session).
- To cause congestion or blockage. Often used with "up".
- To attempt to score points.
- To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.
- To dunk.
- To render something unable to move.
noun
- A feature that saves the ball from draining and propels it back into play.
- A backward kick, a retrograde movement of an extremity.
- recoil; a sudden backward motion, usually in the direction of the operator.
- An accident wherein the upper tip of the bar of a running chainsaw contacts a relatively immovable object, forcing the bar upwards and pressing the running chain more firmly against the object, causing the saw to be hurled upwards and backwards into the operator's face.
- A dangerous buildup of gas pressure at the wellhead.
- In contract bridge, an ace asking convention initiated by the first step above four of the agreed trump suit.
- An accident where an object being cut by a rotating blade or disk, such as a circular saw, is caught by the blade and thrown outward.
- The board separating one bowling lane from another at the pit end.
- A relaxed party.
- A covert, often illegal, payment in return for a favor consisting of providing an opportunity of chargeable transaction; a kind of bribe.
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