lay-in
bomb
rim out
dunking
reverse dunk
field goal
throw-in
hoop
basket
air ball
basketball hoop
finger-roll
bucketball
chest pass
hoops
basketball
short pass
basketball game
screwback
post
tip in
playball
shot put
floater
stool-ball
balk
tee up
volley
dunk
hook
nothing but net
dunk shot
stuff shot
dead ball
rimless
kickout
hazard
gaga ball
stickball
loft
curler
shot
skid flip
backheader
stiff
basketball shot
tip off
upcourt
pass
inlane
reverse layup
service court
dodgeball
net ball
brick
combination
let
rim
hook shot
push
volleyball
goaltend
uppish
sideline cut
fallaway
freeball
hike
loofball
hole out
hole
rollunder
approach shot
pop fly
handpass
puntabout
bunny
find
puinsai
footy
windmill
granny style
inbound
putback
hooker
rainbow shot
fast break
dink
jack
pinball
line-out
sliotar
rimless
stiff
uppish
fallaway
upcourt
lay-in
bomb
dunking
reverse dunk
field goal
throw-in
hoop
basket
air ball
basketball hoop
finger-roll
bucketball
chest pass
hoops
basketball
short pass
basketball game
screwback
post
tip in
playball
shot put
floater
stool-ball
balk
volley
hook
dunk
nothing but net
dunk shot
stuff shot
dead ball
kickout
hazard
gaga ball
stickball
curler
shot
skid flip
backheader
basketball shot
inlane
reverse layup
service court
dodgeball
net ball
brick
combination
let
rim
hook shot
push
volleyball
sideline cut
fallaway
freeball
hike
loofball
rollunder
approach shot
pop fly
handpass
puntabout
bunny
footy
windmill
granny style
putback
hooker
rainbow shot
fast break
dink
jack
pinball
line-out
sliotar
rim out
tee up
dunk
loft
tip off
pass
goaltend
hole out
hole
find
puinsai
inbound
hike
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.
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.
adj
noun
- A set-piece where the ball is thrown back into play
- A throw of the ball back into play by the boundary umpire. The umpire faces away from the players and throws it in over his or her shoulder (so as to clearly not favour either side by where exactly it's thrown).
- An extra item added free of charge; a product that is thrown in with another.
- the start time of a Gaelic football match, comparable to kick off in other games.
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 pass of the ball that is primarily to the side rather than one that gains yardage.
- A pass of the ball between teammates too close together to allow an opponent to get between them. There is no particular distance the ball must travel to qualify as a short pass. For instance, if the passing player drops the ball and retreats before her teammate takes possession, it is not a short pass. A short pass is against the rules and results in a free pass to the opposition.
noun
- A powerful shot that imparts a spin to the ball.
- A tightening screw on the back of a hand tool.
- A type of case for a pocket watch where the mechanism is accessed by a removable back plate that screws onto the back of the case. Also, a watch that has such a case.
- A type of propeller in which the blades are angled to produce a motion similar to threading a screw. Also, the angle of the blades on such a propeller.
- The period of screw rotation during injection molding when the plastic can flow into the mold.
- A masonry abutment on an arch that is wedge-shaped in order to transmit the thrust downward.
- An industrial digging machine that uses a large screw at the back to drill into the ground.
- A hook-shapped attachment for an earring that sits behind the earlobe and tightens with a screw. Also, an earring that uses this type of attachment.
- The effect of putting backspin on the cue ball.
- A mechanism for attaching a small item to clothing that operates by a post which goes through the cloth and a small backing plate that screws to the post. Also, the medal, tie pin, button, etc. that uses this type of attachment.
- A half-volley executed by holding the racket loosely and swinging it straight at the ball.
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.
prep
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.
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
- The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.
- Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".
- The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
- The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
- A sudden and obstinate stop.
- A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
- The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
- An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
- A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
- An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
verb
- To refuse suddenly.
- To stop short and refuse to go on.
- To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
- To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
- To leave or make balks in.
- To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player.
- To stop, check, block.
- To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.
- To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
- To disappoint; to frustrate.
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
- A pass to another offensive player who immediately shoots for the basket.
- A drop kick by a player on the side to return the ball back into play.
- 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 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
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
noun
- throwing the basketball toward the hoop
- the act of firing a projectile
- a solid missile discharged from a firearm
- (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand
- a chance to do something
- a person who shoots (usually with respect to their ability to shoot)
- a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film
- the act of putting a liquid into the body by means of a syringe
- a small drink of liquor
- an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- an estimate based on little or no information
- an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera
- sports equipment consisting of a heavy metal ball used in the shot put
- an explosive charge used in blasting
- a blow hard enough to cause injury
- an attempt to score in a game
- informal words for any attempt or effort
- the launching of a missile or spacecraft to a specified destination
adj
adj
- Of a shot: landing so close to the flagstick that it should be very easy to sink the ball with the next shot.
- Delivered more forcefully than needed, whether intentionally or accidentally, thus causing legitimate pain to the opponent.
- Dead, deceased.
- Erect.
- Inflexible; rigid.
- Beaten until so aerated that they stand up straight on their own.
- Formal in behavior; unrelaxed.
- Rigid; hard to bend; inflexible.
- Harsh, severe.
- Potent.
- Painful as a result of excessive or unaccustomed exercise.
- Having a dense consistency; thick; (by extension) Difficult to stir.
- Of an equation: for which certain numerical solving methods are numerically unstable, unless the step size is taken to be extremely small.
- Keeping upright.
verb
- To tip ungenerously.
- To kill.
- To cheat someone
- To fail to pay that which one owes (implicitly or explicitly) to another, especially by departing hastily.
noun
- Any hard hand where it is possible to exceed 21 by drawing an additional card.
- A person who leaves (especially a restaurant) without paying the bill.
- A customer who does not leave a tip.
- A person who is deceived, as a mark or pigeon in a swindle.
- A cadaver; a dead person.
- Negotiable instruments, possibly forged.
- A note or letter surreptitiously sent by an inmate.
- A flop; a commercial failure.
- An average person, usually male, of no particular distinction, skill, or education.
adv
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 shot which misses, particularly one which bounces directly out of the basket because of a too-flat trajectory, as if the ball were a heavier object.
- A power brick; an external power supply consisting of a small box with an integral male power plug and an attached electric cord terminating in another power plug.
- A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
- The colour brick red.
- An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.
- A projectile.
- Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material.
- A carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick.
- A kilogram of cocaine.
- Something shaped like a brick.
- A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.
verb
- To blunder; to screw up.
- To make into bricks.
- To build, line, or form with bricks.
- To hit someone or something with a brick.
- To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick.
adj
noun
- A combination shot; a billiard; a shot where the cue ball hits a ball that strikes another ball on the table.
- One or more elements selected from a set without regard to the order of selection.
- An association or alliance of people for some common purpose.
- A sequence of numbers or letters used to open a combination lock.
- The act of combining, the state of being combined or the result of combining.
- A rapid sequence of punches or strikes in boxing or other combat sports.
- A motorcycle and sidecar.
- An object formed by combining.
noun
- A foul shot in which the cue ball is in contact with the cue and the object ball at the same time
- A wager that results in no loss or gain for the bettor as a result of a tie or even score
- A short, directed application of force; an act of pushing.
- An act of tensing the muscles of the abdomen in order to expel its contents.
- A marching or drill maneuver/manoeuvre performed by moving a formation (especially a company front) forward or toward the audience, usually to accompany a dramatic climax or crescendo in the music.
- An attempt to persuade someone into a particular course of action.
- The addition of a data item to the top of a stack.
- A great effort (to do something).
- The situation where a server sends data to a client without waiting for a request.
verb
- To move (a pawn) directly forward.
- To press or urge forward; to drive.
- To tense the muscles in the abdomen in order to give birth or defecate.
- To burst out of its pot, as a bud or shoot.
- To add (a data item) to the top of a stack.
- To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force.
- To strike the cue ball in such a way that it stays in contact with the cue and object ball at the same time (a foul shot).
- To continually attempt to persuade (a person) into a particular course of action.
- To make an all-in bet.
- To continually exert oneself in order to achieve a goal.
- To make a higher bid at an auction.
- To approach; to come close to.
- To continually promote (a point of view, a product for sale, etc.).
- To continue to attempt to persuade a person into a particular course of action.
- To publish (an update, etc.) by transmitting it to other computers.
noun
- A shot where the ball is angled sharply toward the sideline, just barely in bounds.
- A penalty shot awarded against a player who runs over the sideline with the ball. The opponents take a free puck from where the ball crossed the line; side puck.
- A sudden change of direction and run for the sideline.
noun
- The snap of the ball to start a play.
- A long walk, usually for pleasure or exercise.
- A sharp upward tug to raise something.
- An abrupt increase.
verb
- To snap the ball to start a play.
- To take a long walk for pleasure or exercise.
- To lean out to the windward side of a sailboat in order to counterbalance the effects of the wind on the sails.
- To unfairly or suddenly raise a price.
- To pull up or tug upwards sharply.
intj
verb
noun
noun
- In basketball, an easy shot (i.e., one right next to the bucket) that is missed.
- Bunny chow; a snack of bread filled with curry.
- A chine or gully formed by water running over the edge of a cliff; a wooded glen or small ravine opening through the cliff line to the sea.
- A brick arch or wooden bridge, covered with earth across a drawn or carriage in a water-meadow, just wide enough to allow a hay-wagon to pass over.
- A small pool of water.
- A rabbit, especially a juvenile.
- Any small drain or culvert.
- A sudden enlargement or mass of ore, as opposed to a vein or lode.
- A culvert or short covered drain connecting two ditches.
- A bunny girl: a nightclub waitress who wears a costume having rabbit ears and tail.
- A swelling from a blow; a bump.
adj
verb
- To successfully pass to or shoot the ball into.
- To decide that, to discover that, to form the opinion that.
- To discover game.
- To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end.
- To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
- To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish.
- To determine or judge.
- To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
- To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon.
- Locate on behalf of another
- To gain, as the object of desire or effort.
- To point out.
noun
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
- A soft drop shot played at or near the non-volley zone.
- A ride on the crossbar or handlebars of a bicycle.
- Hard work, especially one's share of a task.
- A penis.
- A foolish person, a despised person.
- A soft drop shot.
- A light chip; a chipped pass or shot
adv
verb
- To play a soft drop shot.
- To play a soft drop shot at or near the non-volley zone.
- To carry someone on a pushbike: behind, on the crossbar or on the handlebar.
- To chip lightly, to play a light chip shot.
adj
noun
- A small, typically white, ball used as the target ball in bowls; a jack-ball.
- A large California rockfish, the bocaccio, Sebastes paucispinis.
- Mangifera caesia, related to the mango tree.
- Any of the marine fish in the family Carangidae.
- Nothing, jack shit.
- A coarse mediaeval coat of defence, especially one made of leather.
- Each of a series of blocks in a harpsichord or the earlier virginal, communicating the action of the key to the quill; sometime also, a hopper in a modern piano.
- The eleventh batsman to come to the crease in an innings.
- A mechanical device used to raise and (temporarily) support a heavy object, now especially to lift one side of a motor vehicle when (e.g.) changing a tyre.
- Any of various levers for raising or lowering the sinkers which push the loops down on the needles in a knitting machine or stocking frame.
- The lowest court card in a deck of standard playing cards, ranking between the 10 and queen, with an image of a knave or pageboy on it.
- A torch or other light used in hunting to attract or dazzle game at night.
- The related tree Mangifera caesia.
- Money.
- A small, six-pointed playing piece used in the game of jacks.
- A small ship's flag used as a signal or identifying device; a small flag flown at the bow of the vessel.
- A pitcher or other vessel for holding liquid, especially alcoholic drink; a black-jack.
- A sailor.
- A lumberjack.
- A pike, especially when young.
- A sepoy.
- A device for turning a spit; a smokejack or roasting jack.
- A man, a fellow; a typical man; men in general.
- A home run.
- A device used to hold a boot by the heel, to assist in removing the boot.
- A switch for a jack plug, a jackknife switch; (more generally) a socket used to connect a device to a circuit, network etc.
- Plant of the genus Emex, also considered synonymous to Rumex, if not then containing two species lesser jack and little jack for Emex spinosa syn. Rumex spinosus, Australian English three-corner jack and prickly jack for Emex australis syn. Rumex hypogaeus.
- Spadix of a plant (also capitalized Jack).
- The edible fruit of the Asian tree (Artocarpus heterophyllus); also the tree itself.
- Plant in the genus Arisaema, also known as Jack-in-the-pulpit, and capitalized Jack.
- A smooth often ovoid large gravel or small cobble in a natural water course.
- A policeman or detective; (Australia) a military policeman.
- A name applied to a hypothetical or typical man.
- A male ass, especially when kept for breeding.
- A jackrabbit.
verb
- To physically raise using a jack.
- To hit (the ball) hard; especially, to hit (the ball) out of the field, producing a home run.
- To raise or increase.
- To increase the potency of an alcoholic beverage similarly to distillation by chilling it to below the freezing point of water, removing the water ice crystals that form, and leaving the still-liquid alcoholic portion.
- To dance by moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion.
- To steal something, typically an automobile.
- To jack off, to masturbate.
adj
English words for 'A shot in which the ball is tossed directly into the basket from near the rim.'
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