English words for 'A promiscuous man.'
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noun
- (informal) A promiscuous man.
- (Southeast Asia) An insect of the order Coleoptera referring to certain species of rove beetles, particularly in the genus Paederus. Known for secreting a potent irritant, pederin, which can cause severe skin irritation and blistering when contacted.
- A tom (male cat).
- male cat
verb
noun
- (colloquial) A sexually attractive, promiscuous male.
- a man who is virile and sexually active
- An iron brace across the shorter diameter of the link of a chain cable.
- (engineering) A stud bolt.
- (jewelry) A style of earring where the decorative element is mounted on a straight post.
- (engineering) A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal.
- A place, such as a ranch, where such animals are kept.
- (construction) A vertical post, especially one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed.
- A male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding.
- An animal (usually livestock) that has been registered and is retained for breeding.
- A cleat on a shoe.
- (by extension, collective) A group of such animals, also of locomotives.
- (poker) A type of poker in which the player cannot discard, and some of the cards are exposed.
- A female animal, especially a studmare (broodmare), kept for breeding.
- (LGBTQ, slang) A sexually dominant lesbian, chiefly African-American.
- A small object that protrudes from something; an ornamental knob.
- Clipping of student.
- poker in which each player receives hole cards and the remainder are dealt face up; bets are placed after each card is dealt
- an upright in house framing
- ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt)
- adult male horse kept for breeding
verb
noun
- A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct.
- (gambling) A tool with a straight edge at the end used by a croupier to move chips or money across a gaming table.
- (British, originally Northern England, Scotland) A series, a succession; specifically (rail transport) a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
- A slant that causes the bow or stern of a watercraft to extend beyond the keel; also, the upper part of the bow or stern that extends beyond the keel.
- (specifically) In full, angle of rake or rake angle: the angle between the edge or face of a tool (especially a cutting tool) and a plane (usually one perpendicular to the object that the tool is being applied to).
- A slant of some other part of a watercraft (such as a funnel or mast) away from the perpendicular, usually towards the stern.
- (Northern England and climbing, also figurative) A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.
- A share of profits, takings, etc., especially if obtained illegally; specifically (gambling) the scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
- (Scotland) Rate of progress; pace, speed.
- A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.
- (geology) The direction of slip during the movement of a fault, measured within the fault plane.
- (roofing) The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
- (mining) A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
- (chiefly Ireland, Scotland, slang) A lot, plenty.
- A type of lockpick that has a ridged or notched blade that moves across the pins in a pin tumbler lock, causing them to settle into a shear line.
- (Midlands, Northern England) Alternative spelling of raik (“a course, a way; pastureland over which animals graze; a journey to transport something between two places; a run; also, the quantity of items so transported”).
- The act of raking.
- (agriculture, horticulture) A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.
- (cellular automata) A type of puffer train that leaves behind a stream of spaceships as it moves.
- a dissolute man in fashionable society
- a long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move leaves or loosen soil
- degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
verb
- To pick (a lock) with a rake.
- (ambitransitive, figurative) Followed by up: to bring up or uncover (something), as embarrassing information, past misdeeds, etc.
- (military, nautical) To fire upon an enemy vessel from a position in line with its bow or stern, causing one's fire to travel through the length of the enemy vessel for maximum damage.
- (intransitive, chiefly Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) To move swiftly; to proceed rapidly.
- (transitive) To provide (the bow or stern of a watercraft) with a rake (“a slant that causes it to extend beyond the keel”).
- (intransitive, rare) Of a watercraft: to have a rake at its bow or stern.
- (ambitransitive, figurative) To claw at; to scrape, to scratch; followed by away: to erase, to obliterate.
- (intransitive, falconry) Of a bird of prey: to fly after a quarry; also, to fly away from the falconer, to go wide of the quarry being pursued.
- (ambitransitive, figurative) To search through (thoroughly).
- (transitive, chiefly Ireland, Northern England, Scotland, also figurative) To cover (something) by or as if by raking things over it.
- (transitive) Often followed by an adverb or preposition such as away, off, out, etc.: to drag or pull in a certain direction.
- (ambitransitive, also figurative) To move (a beam of light, a glance with the eyes, etc.) across (something) with a long side-to-side motion; specifically (often military) to use a weapon to fire at (something) with a side-to-side motion; to spray with gunfire.
- To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
- (ambitransitive) To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.
- (transitive, also figurative) Often followed by in: to gather (things which are apart) together, especially quickly.
- Alternative spelling of raik (“(intransitive, Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) to walk; to roam, to wander; of animals (especially sheep): to graze; (transitive, chiefly Scotland) to roam or wander through (somewhere)”)
- sweep the length of
- examine hastily
- level or smooth with a rake
- gather with a rake
- move through with or as if with a rake
- scrape gently
noun
- a man devoted to the pursuit of pleasure
- a resident of Corinth
- An inhabitant or a resident of Corinth, and its suburbs.
- An inhabitant, a resident of; a thing that originates from Corinthia
- A worldly, fashionable person, accepted in society though possibly dissolute.
- A sailboat owner who helms his or her own boat in competitive racing.
- An accomplished amateur athlete.
adj
noun
- A lively, mischievous man.
- (by extension) A person with an official role which involves facilitating social interaction.
- (US) An employee, usually male, of a Borscht Belt resort charged with the duty of entertaining guests throughout the day by providing any number of services, from comedian to master of ceremonies.
noun
- a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women
- A man who makes amorous advances to many women.
- any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs
- a cruelly rapacious person
- (countable) Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.
- (figurative) Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.
- (music) A wolf tone or wolf note.
- Any of several related canines that resemble Canis lupus in appearance, especially those of the genus Canis.
- A white worm which infests granaries, the larva of Nemapogon granella, a tineid moth.
- A wolf spider.
- One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.
- A willying machine, to cleanse wool or willow.
verb
adj
noun
verb
noun
- A man who is attracted to or aroused by the sexual infidelity of a partner.
- A man married to an adulterous spouse, especially when he is unaware or unaccepting of the fact.
- A West Indian plectognath fish, Rhinesomus triqueter.
- Synonym of fringed filefish.
- The scrawled cowfish, Acanthostracion quadricornis and allied species.
- a man whose wife committed adultery
verb
noun
name
- A town in Conejos County, Colorado.
- An unincorporated community in Greene County, Tennessee.
- A male given name from the Romance languages.
- A village in Macomb County, Michigan.
- An unincorporated community in Marion County, Florida.
- (fiction) One of the main characters of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: the ardent lover of Juliet.
noun
- man with strong sexual desires
- (by extension) A lecherous man.
- one of a class of woodland deities; attendant on Bacchus; identified with Roman fauns
- (Greek mythology) A sylvan deity or demigod, male companion of Pan or Dionysus, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness, sometimes pictured with a perpetual erection.
- (Roman mythology) Synonym of faun.
- Any of various butterflies of the nymphalid subfamily Satyrinae, having brown wings marked with eyelike spots; a meadow brown.
noun
verb
noun
adj
verb
- (transitive) To waste or squander, especially in pleasure (most often with away).
- (intransitive) To act wantonly; to be lewd or lascivious.
- (intransitive) To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic.
- engage in amorous play
- become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously
- spend wastefully
- waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
- indulge in a carefree or voluptuous way of life
- behave extremely cruelly and brutally
noun
noun
- a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex
- someone who swings sports implements
- One who swinges.
- A performer of swing music or whose style is influenced by swing.
- One who swings.
- (politics, informal) A swing voter.
- A bet in which the bettor must correctly pick two runners to finish in any of the places in any order.
- A swing ride.
- (sex) A person who practices swinging (sex with different partners).
noun
- a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex
- a heavy footfall
- a vagrant
- a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure)
- a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure
- a commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule
- Any ship which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A long walk, possibly of more than one day, in a scenic or wilderness area.
- A metal plate worn by diggers under the hollow of the foot to save the shoe.
- (sometimes derogatory) A homeless person; a vagabond.
- (in apposition) Of objects, stray, intrusive and unwanted.
- Shaking or juddering of a vehicle's driving axle under hard acceleration or braking, caused by the suspension not fully restraining it, and leading to reduction in tire traction.
- Clipping of trampoline, especially a very small one.
- (derogatory) A disreputable, promiscuous woman; a slut.
verb
- walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
- travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition
- cross on foot
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- (transitive) To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.
- (transitive, Scotland) To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.
- (colloquial, intransitive) To scram; begone.
- (intransitive) To shake or judder under hard acceleration or braking, referring to the movement of a vehicle's driving axle caused by the suspension not fully restraining it, leading to reduction in tire traction.
- To walk for a long time (usually through difficult terrain).
- To hitchhike.
- To walk with heavy footsteps.
- (transitive) To travel or wander through.
noun
- a well-built sexually attractive man
- a large piece of something without definite shape
- (informal) An attractive man, especially one who is muscular.
- A large or dense piece of something.
- (computing) A record of differences between almost contiguous portions of two files (or other sources of information). Differences that are widely separated by areas which are identical in both files would not be part of a single hunk. Differences that are separated by small regions which are identical in both files may comprise a single hunk. Patches are made up of hunks.
- (US, slang) A honyock.
- (US) A goal or base in children's games.
noun
- A male homosexual.
- A spy or other operative of an intelligence service, especially the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency.
- A male employee who has a great—and often, in the view of others, an excessive—commitment to serving the interests of the organization which employs him.
- a male employee whose first loyalty is to the company rather than to fellow workers
noun
- A person with peculiar sexual tastes.
- a person with unusual sexual tastes
- A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.
- (Scotland, dialect) A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying.
- Any sexual preference outside normal or expected norms.
- An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
- (mathematics) A positive 1-soliton solution to the sine-Gordon equation.
- Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.
- A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc.
- a difficulty or flaw in a plan or operation
- an eccentric idea
- a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight
- a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (‘rick’ and ‘wrick’ are British)
verb
noun
- (slang) A sexually aggressive man.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) (from "dog and bone") Phone or mobile phone.
- (preceded by definite article) A dance having a brief vogue in the 1960s in which the actions of a dog were mimicked.
- Any member of the family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, and their relatives (extant and extinct).
- (often attributive) A male dog, wolf, or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen.
- One of the cones used to divide up a racetrack when training horses.
- A metal support for logs in a fireplace.
- (slang, derogatory) A dull, unattractive girl or woman.
- (derogatory) Someone who is cowardly, worthless, or morally reprehensible.
- A hot dog: a frankfurter, wiener, or similar sausage; or a sandwich made from this.
- (informal) Something that performs poorly.
- (slang, chiefly in the plural) Foot; toe.
- (transport, historical) A double-ended side spike driven through a hole in the flange of a rail on a tramway.
- A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet wheel, to restrain the back action.
- The species Canis familiaris (sometimes designated Canis lupus familiaris), domesticated for thousands of years and of highly variable appearance because of human breeding.
- Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like projection.
- (film) A flop; a film that performs poorly at the box office.
- (poker slang) An underdog.
- (cartomancy) The eighteenth Lenormand card.
- (slang) A man, guy, chap.
- (uncountable) The meat of this animal, eaten as food.
- a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward
- someone who is morally reprehensible
- metal supports for logs in a fireplace
- a member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times; occurs in many breeds
- a dull unattractive unpleasant girl or woman
- informal term for a man
- a smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked; often served on a bread roll
adj
verb
- (transitive, nautical) To fasten a hatch securely.
- (transitive, slang) To criticize.
- (intransitive, transitive) To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.
- (transitive, military) To divide (a watch) with a comrade.
- (transitive) To pursue with the intent to catch.
- (transitive) To follow in an annoying or harassing way.
- (intransitive, emerging usage in British) To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.
- go after with the intent to catch
noun
- A male shelduck.
- An Old World duck of the genus Tadorna (shelducks).
- The call sign for an artillery officer.
- A merganser.
- large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges
- Old World gooselike duck slightly larger than a mallard with variegated mostly black-and-white plumage and a red bill
noun
verb
noun
- a male upstart who makes conceited, sardonic, insolent comments
- (slang) A hipster.
- (slang, offensive, ethnic slur) An Italian-American man.
- (slang) A knowledgeable or successful sports bettor.
- (informal, mildly derogatory, sarcastic or humorous) One who is insolent or flippant; one who makes jokes or perpetrates pranks.
- (US, slang) A member of the Mafia; a mobster.
noun
- (slang, vulgar) A young man who sleeps with partners without any intention of having a relationship with them.
- (slang, vulgar, derogatory) A weak and contemptible man.
- (prison slang, vulgar) A prisoner who provides sexual favors to a stronger inmate, either as the result of rape or in return for protection and gifts.
noun
- (informal) A promiscuous man.
- (Southeast Asia) An insect of the order Coleoptera referring to certain species of rove beetles, particularly in the genus Paederus. Known for secreting a potent irritant, pederin, which can cause severe skin irritation and blistering when contacted.
- A tom (male cat).
- male cat
verb
noun
- (colloquial) A sexually attractive, promiscuous male.
- a man who is virile and sexually active
- An iron brace across the shorter diameter of the link of a chain cable.
- (engineering) A stud bolt.
- (jewelry) A style of earring where the decorative element is mounted on a straight post.
- (engineering) A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal.
- A place, such as a ranch, where such animals are kept.
- (construction) A vertical post, especially one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed.
- A male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding.
- An animal (usually livestock) that has been registered and is retained for breeding.
- A cleat on a shoe.
- (by extension, collective) A group of such animals, also of locomotives.
- (poker) A type of poker in which the player cannot discard, and some of the cards are exposed.
- A female animal, especially a studmare (broodmare), kept for breeding.
- (LGBTQ, slang) A sexually dominant lesbian, chiefly African-American.
- A small object that protrudes from something; an ornamental knob.
- Clipping of student.
- poker in which each player receives hole cards and the remainder are dealt face up; bets are placed after each card is dealt
- an upright in house framing
- ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt)
- adult male horse kept for breeding
verb
noun
- A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct.
- (gambling) A tool with a straight edge at the end used by a croupier to move chips or money across a gaming table.
- (British, originally Northern England, Scotland) A series, a succession; specifically (rail transport) a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
- A slant that causes the bow or stern of a watercraft to extend beyond the keel; also, the upper part of the bow or stern that extends beyond the keel.
- (specifically) In full, angle of rake or rake angle: the angle between the edge or face of a tool (especially a cutting tool) and a plane (usually one perpendicular to the object that the tool is being applied to).
- A slant of some other part of a watercraft (such as a funnel or mast) away from the perpendicular, usually towards the stern.
- (Northern England and climbing, also figurative) A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.
- A share of profits, takings, etc., especially if obtained illegally; specifically (gambling) the scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
- (Scotland) Rate of progress; pace, speed.
- A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.
- (geology) The direction of slip during the movement of a fault, measured within the fault plane.
- (roofing) The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
- (mining) A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
- (chiefly Ireland, Scotland, slang) A lot, plenty.
- A type of lockpick that has a ridged or notched blade that moves across the pins in a pin tumbler lock, causing them to settle into a shear line.
- (Midlands, Northern England) Alternative spelling of raik (“a course, a way; pastureland over which animals graze; a journey to transport something between two places; a run; also, the quantity of items so transported”).
- The act of raking.
- (agriculture, horticulture) A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.
- (cellular automata) A type of puffer train that leaves behind a stream of spaceships as it moves.
- a dissolute man in fashionable society
- a long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move leaves or loosen soil
- degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
verb
- To pick (a lock) with a rake.
- (ambitransitive, figurative) Followed by up: to bring up or uncover (something), as embarrassing information, past misdeeds, etc.
- (military, nautical) To fire upon an enemy vessel from a position in line with its bow or stern, causing one's fire to travel through the length of the enemy vessel for maximum damage.
- (intransitive, chiefly Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) To move swiftly; to proceed rapidly.
- (transitive) To provide (the bow or stern of a watercraft) with a rake (“a slant that causes it to extend beyond the keel”).
- (intransitive, rare) Of a watercraft: to have a rake at its bow or stern.
- (ambitransitive, figurative) To claw at; to scrape, to scratch; followed by away: to erase, to obliterate.
- (intransitive, falconry) Of a bird of prey: to fly after a quarry; also, to fly away from the falconer, to go wide of the quarry being pursued.
- (ambitransitive, figurative) To search through (thoroughly).
- (transitive, chiefly Ireland, Northern England, Scotland, also figurative) To cover (something) by or as if by raking things over it.
- (transitive) Often followed by an adverb or preposition such as away, off, out, etc.: to drag or pull in a certain direction.
- (ambitransitive, also figurative) To move (a beam of light, a glance with the eyes, etc.) across (something) with a long side-to-side motion; specifically (often military) to use a weapon to fire at (something) with a side-to-side motion; to spray with gunfire.
- To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
- (ambitransitive) To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.
- (transitive, also figurative) Often followed by in: to gather (things which are apart) together, especially quickly.
- Alternative spelling of raik (“(intransitive, Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) to walk; to roam, to wander; of animals (especially sheep): to graze; (transitive, chiefly Scotland) to roam or wander through (somewhere)”)
- sweep the length of
- examine hastily
- level or smooth with a rake
- gather with a rake
- move through with or as if with a rake
- scrape gently
noun
- a man devoted to the pursuit of pleasure
- a resident of Corinth
- An inhabitant or a resident of Corinth, and its suburbs.
- An inhabitant, a resident of; a thing that originates from Corinthia
- A worldly, fashionable person, accepted in society though possibly dissolute.
- A sailboat owner who helms his or her own boat in competitive racing.
- An accomplished amateur athlete.
adj
noun
- A lively, mischievous man.
- (by extension) A person with an official role which involves facilitating social interaction.
- (US) An employee, usually male, of a Borscht Belt resort charged with the duty of entertaining guests throughout the day by providing any number of services, from comedian to master of ceremonies.
noun
- a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women
- A man who makes amorous advances to many women.
- any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs
- a cruelly rapacious person
- (countable) Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.
- (figurative) Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.
- (music) A wolf tone or wolf note.
- Any of several related canines that resemble Canis lupus in appearance, especially those of the genus Canis.
- A white worm which infests granaries, the larva of Nemapogon granella, a tineid moth.
- A wolf spider.
- One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.
- A willying machine, to cleanse wool or willow.
verb
noun
- A man who is attracted to or aroused by the sexual infidelity of a partner.
- A man married to an adulterous spouse, especially when he is unaware or unaccepting of the fact.
- A West Indian plectognath fish, Rhinesomus triqueter.
- Synonym of fringed filefish.
- The scrawled cowfish, Acanthostracion quadricornis and allied species.
- a man whose wife committed adultery
verb
noun
name
- A town in Conejos County, Colorado.
- An unincorporated community in Greene County, Tennessee.
- A male given name from the Romance languages.
- A village in Macomb County, Michigan.
- An unincorporated community in Marion County, Florida.
- (fiction) One of the main characters of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: the ardent lover of Juliet.
noun
- man with strong sexual desires
- (by extension) A lecherous man.
- one of a class of woodland deities; attendant on Bacchus; identified with Roman fauns
- (Greek mythology) A sylvan deity or demigod, male companion of Pan or Dionysus, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness, sometimes pictured with a perpetual erection.
- (Roman mythology) Synonym of faun.
- Any of various butterflies of the nymphalid subfamily Satyrinae, having brown wings marked with eyelike spots; a meadow brown.
noun
verb
noun
adj
verb
- (transitive) To waste or squander, especially in pleasure (most often with away).
- (intransitive) To act wantonly; to be lewd or lascivious.
- (intransitive) To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic.
- engage in amorous play
- become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously
- spend wastefully
- waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
- indulge in a carefree or voluptuous way of life
- behave extremely cruelly and brutally
noun
noun
- a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex
- someone who swings sports implements
- One who swinges.
- A performer of swing music or whose style is influenced by swing.
- One who swings.
- (politics, informal) A swing voter.
- A bet in which the bettor must correctly pick two runners to finish in any of the places in any order.
- A swing ride.
- (sex) A person who practices swinging (sex with different partners).
noun
- a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex
- a heavy footfall
- a vagrant
- a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure)
- a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure
- a commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule
- Any ship which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A long walk, possibly of more than one day, in a scenic or wilderness area.
- A metal plate worn by diggers under the hollow of the foot to save the shoe.
- (sometimes derogatory) A homeless person; a vagabond.
- (in apposition) Of objects, stray, intrusive and unwanted.
- Shaking or juddering of a vehicle's driving axle under hard acceleration or braking, caused by the suspension not fully restraining it, and leading to reduction in tire traction.
- Clipping of trampoline, especially a very small one.
- (derogatory) A disreputable, promiscuous woman; a slut.
verb
- walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
- travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition
- cross on foot
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- (transitive) To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.
- (transitive, Scotland) To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.
- (colloquial, intransitive) To scram; begone.
- (intransitive) To shake or judder under hard acceleration or braking, referring to the movement of a vehicle's driving axle caused by the suspension not fully restraining it, leading to reduction in tire traction.
- To walk for a long time (usually through difficult terrain).
- To hitchhike.
- To walk with heavy footsteps.
- (transitive) To travel or wander through.
noun
- a well-built sexually attractive man
- a large piece of something without definite shape
- (informal) An attractive man, especially one who is muscular.
- A large or dense piece of something.
- (computing) A record of differences between almost contiguous portions of two files (or other sources of information). Differences that are widely separated by areas which are identical in both files would not be part of a single hunk. Differences that are separated by small regions which are identical in both files may comprise a single hunk. Patches are made up of hunks.
- (US, slang) A honyock.
- (US) A goal or base in children's games.
noun
- A male homosexual.
- A spy or other operative of an intelligence service, especially the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency.
- A male employee who has a great—and often, in the view of others, an excessive—commitment to serving the interests of the organization which employs him.
- a male employee whose first loyalty is to the company rather than to fellow workers
noun
- A person with peculiar sexual tastes.
- a person with unusual sexual tastes
- A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.
- (Scotland, dialect) A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying.
- Any sexual preference outside normal or expected norms.
- An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
- (mathematics) A positive 1-soliton solution to the sine-Gordon equation.
- Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.
- A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc.
- a difficulty or flaw in a plan or operation
- an eccentric idea
- a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight
- a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (‘rick’ and ‘wrick’ are British)
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- (slang) A sexually aggressive man.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) (from "dog and bone") Phone or mobile phone.
- (preceded by definite article) A dance having a brief vogue in the 1960s in which the actions of a dog were mimicked.
- Any member of the family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, and their relatives (extant and extinct).
- (often attributive) A male dog, wolf, or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen.
- One of the cones used to divide up a racetrack when training horses.
- A metal support for logs in a fireplace.
- (slang, derogatory) A dull, unattractive girl or woman.
- (derogatory) Someone who is cowardly, worthless, or morally reprehensible.
- A hot dog: a frankfurter, wiener, or similar sausage; or a sandwich made from this.
- (informal) Something that performs poorly.
- (slang, chiefly in the plural) Foot; toe.
- (transport, historical) A double-ended side spike driven through a hole in the flange of a rail on a tramway.
- A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet wheel, to restrain the back action.
- The species Canis familiaris (sometimes designated Canis lupus familiaris), domesticated for thousands of years and of highly variable appearance because of human breeding.
- Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like projection.
- (film) A flop; a film that performs poorly at the box office.
- (poker slang) An underdog.
- (cartomancy) The eighteenth Lenormand card.
- (slang) A man, guy, chap.
- (uncountable) The meat of this animal, eaten as food.
- a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward
- someone who is morally reprehensible
- metal supports for logs in a fireplace
- a member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times; occurs in many breeds
- a dull unattractive unpleasant girl or woman
- informal term for a man
- a smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked; often served on a bread roll
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verb
- (transitive, nautical) To fasten a hatch securely.
- (transitive, slang) To criticize.
- (intransitive, transitive) To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.
- (transitive, military) To divide (a watch) with a comrade.
- (transitive) To pursue with the intent to catch.
- (transitive) To follow in an annoying or harassing way.
- (intransitive, emerging usage in British) To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.
- go after with the intent to catch
noun
- A male shelduck.
- An Old World duck of the genus Tadorna (shelducks).
- The call sign for an artillery officer.
- A merganser.
- large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges
- Old World gooselike duck slightly larger than a mallard with variegated mostly black-and-white plumage and a red bill
noun
verb
noun
- a male upstart who makes conceited, sardonic, insolent comments
- (slang) A hipster.
- (slang, offensive, ethnic slur) An Italian-American man.
- (slang) A knowledgeable or successful sports bettor.
- (informal, mildly derogatory, sarcastic or humorous) One who is insolent or flippant; one who makes jokes or perpetrates pranks.
- (US, slang) A member of the Mafia; a mobster.
noun
- (slang, vulgar) A young man who sleeps with partners without any intention of having a relationship with them.
- (slang, vulgar, derogatory) A weak and contemptible man.
- (prison slang, vulgar) A prisoner who provides sexual favors to a stronger inmate, either as the result of rape or in return for protection and gifts.
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