run-in
brush
encountering
misencounter
bicker
find
humbug
cunt
face to face
close shave
bashfest
bump-in
pains
re-encounter
jar
dissonance
thematisation
meet with
ruboff
getup
bitch
dissension
bloodbath
hullabaloo
confrontational
meeting
kicker
microdrama
rap
investigational
no picnic
hassle
bangarang
crash
contretemps
gotcha
tribulation
clouting
smash
spanner
mire
drop in the bucket
carefrontation
pain in the butt
step to
inquire
gremlin
ax to grind
clash
stack
comedy of errors
wipeout
face up
collide with
run into
shitkicker
appalling
bruh moment
hit
stunt
impinge on
know
strike
fractious
interactee
ad hoc
disruption
face-off
molimen
face up to
cornering
horror story
devil
fuss
illapse
throwdown
flash
fiasco
dickens
at loggerheads
spiny
stinker
unevenness
pick
meet
monkey wrench
flirt
flashing
stumping
beast
blow
semidramatic
storm center
same old same old
disturbance
confrontation
storm centre
tackling
confrontational
investigational
fractious
ad hoc
at loggerheads
spiny
semidramatic
face to face
run-in
brush
encountering
misencounter
bicker
humbug
cunt
close shave
bashfest
bump-in
pains
re-encounter
jar
dissonance
thematisation
ruboff
getup
bitch
dissension
bloodbath
hullabaloo
meeting
kicker
microdrama
hassle
bangarang
crash
contretemps
gotcha
tribulation
clouting
smash
spanner
mire
drop in the bucket
carefrontation
pain in the butt
gremlin
ax to grind
clash
stack
comedy of errors
wipeout
shitkicker
appalling
bruh moment
stunt
interactee
disruption
face-off
molimen
cornering
horror story
devil
fuss
illapse
throwdown
flash
fiasco
dickens
stinker
unevenness
monkey wrench
flirt
flashing
stumping
beast
blow
storm center
same old same old
disturbance
confrontation
storm centre
tackling
find
meet with
rap
step to
inquire
face up
collide with
run into
hit
impinge on
know
strike
face up to
pick
meet
noun
- A short and sometimes occasional encounter or experience.
- An instrument, resembling a brush, used to produce a soft sound from drums or cymbals.
- An on-screen tool for "painting" a particular colour or texture.
- A set of defined design and parameters that produce drawn strokes of a certain texture and quality.
- A tuft of hair on the mandibles.
- Evergreen boughs, especially balsam, locally cut and baled for export, usually for use in making wreaths.
- In 3D video games, a convex polyhedron, especially one that defines structure of the play area.
- The floorperson of a poker room, usually in a casino.
- A piece of conductive material, usually carbon, serving to maintain electrical contact between the stationary and rotating parts of a machine.
- An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes including cleaning, painting, and arranging hair.
- The act of brushing something.
- Wild vegetation, generally larger than grass but smaller than trees. See shrubland.
- The furry tail of an animal, especially of a fox.
- A brush-like electrical discharge of sparks.
verb
verb
- To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon.
- To decide that, to discover that, to form the opinion that.
- To successfully pass to or shoot the ball into.
- 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.
- Locate on behalf of another
- To gain, as the object of desire or effort.
- To point out.
noun
noun
- Anything complicated, offensive, troublesome, unpleasant or worrying; a misunderstanding, especially if trivial.
- Nonsense.
- A type of hard sweet (candy), usually peppermint flavoured with a striped pattern.
- A hoax, jest, or prank.
- A fight.
- A fraud or sham; (uncountable) hypocrisy.
- A false arrest on trumped-up charges.
- The piglet of the wild boar.
- A cheat, fraudster, or hypocrite.
intj
verb
noun
- An unpleasant or difficult experience or incident.
- A woman, women, or bottom (i.e. submissive partner, not the top) as a source of sex.
- An extremely unpleasant or objectionable person (in US, especially a woman; in UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand more usually a man).
- (with words funny, good) A person (mostly between male friends); compare bastard.
- The female genitalia, especially the vulva.
- An objectionable object or item.
noun
- The effect of something contradictory or discordant; a clash.
- A small, approximately cylindrical container, normally made of clay or glass, for holding fruit, preserves, etc., or for ornamental purposes.
- A jar and its contents; as much as fills such a container; a jarful.
- A quivering or vibrating movement or sensation resulting from something being shaken or struck.
- A glass of beer or cider, served by the pint.
- An earthenware container, either with two or no handles, for holding oil, water, wine, etc., or used for burial.
- A sense of alarm or dismay.
- A clashing or discordant set of sounds, particularly with a quivering or vibrating quality.
- A pint glass
verb
- To knock, shake, or strike sharply, especially causing a quivering or vibrating movement.
- To harm or injure by such action.
- To act in disagreement or opposition, to clash, to be at odds with; to interfere; to dispute, to quarrel.
- To quiver or vibrate due to being shaken or struck.
- To (cause something to) give forth a rudely tremulous or quivering sound; to (cause something to) sound discordantly or harshly.
- To shock or surprise.
- Of the appearance, form, style, etc., of people and things: to look strangely different; to stand out awkwardly from its surroundings; to be incongruent.
- To preserve (food) in a jar.
noun
- An aggressive or very violent contest or confrontation.
- A large financial loss or massive layoff brought about by negative economic conditions.
- Indiscriminate killing or slaughter; a massacre.
- A bath taken in warm blood used as a restorative or medical treatment.
- An upset (as of a game with unexpected results, or a national presidential convention) or heavy defeat.
noun
- An encounter between people, even accidental.
- A place or instance of junction or intersection; a confluence.
- The people at such a gathering.
- A gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly.
- The act of persons or things that meet.
- An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
noun
- An unexpected situation, detail or circumstance, often unpleasant.
- An unpaired card which is part of a pair, two pair, or three of a kind poker hand.
- An outboard motor.
- A device that periodically displaces a newspaper from the print production line, to aid in gathering the newspapers into fixed-size bundles.
- A relaxed party.
- The kicking strap.
- The last one or two paragraphs of a story.
- The fermenting mass of fruit that is the basis of pruno, or "prison wine".
- A practitioner of the kicking performance art.
- One who takes kicks.
- An enticement for investors, e.g. warranty added to the investment contract.
- One who kicks.
- Synonym of lead-in (“start of photo caption”)
- A lighthearted or humorous item used to round off a news broadcast.
- Small text above a headline that indicates the topic of the story.
- A placekicker: a player who kicks the football during free kicks, kick offs, field goals, and extra point tries.
- A backlight positioned at an angle.
- A rubber pad that propels the ball away upon impact, like a bumper, but usually a horizontal side of a wall.
- A launch ramp.
- A particular type of Texan who is associated with country/western attire, attitudes, and/or philosophy.
verb
- To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock.
- To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
- To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music.
- To seize and carry off.
- To transport out of oneself; to affect with rapture.
- To talk casually; to engage in conversation.
- To utter quickly and sharply.
noun
- A whit; a jot.
- A positive appraisal; a recommendation.
- An appraisal.
- Any of the tokens that passed current for a halfpenny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.
- A charge, whether or not it results in a conviction.
- A lea or skein of yarn that forms the standard length taken from the reel, 80 yards of worsted or 120 yards of silk or cotton.
- Rap music.
- A sharp blow with something hard.
- A casual talk.
- Blame for something.
- A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music.
noun
- the act of colliding with something
- a loud resonant repeating noise
- a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles)
- a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)
- (computer science) an event that causes a computer system to become inoperative
verb
- fall or come down violently
- move with, or as if with, a crashing noise
- undergo damage or destruction on impact
- move violently as through a barrier
- break violently or noisily; smash
- occupy, usually uninvited
- make a sudden loud sound
- enter uninvited; informal
- cause to crash
- hurl or thrust violently
- undergo a sudden and severe downturn
- stop operating
- sleep in a convenient place
noun
noun
- An instance of accomplishing a tricky idea or overcoming a difficult obstacle.
- A feature of a system or a program that works in the way it is documented but is counter-intuitive and almost invites mistake or non-function.
- An attempt to disprove or refute someone's argument, usually in a deceptive or disingenuous way.
- An instance of publicly tricking someone or exposing them to ridicule, especially by means of an elaborate deception.
- A potential problem or source of trouble.
abbrev
- Understand you; comprehend you.
- Got you covered, got your back; when you have an advantage or responsibility over someone.
- Got you; have you; as in capture or apprehend.
- Got you back; as in after causing some form of retaliation or revenge against someone.
- Got you by surprise; exclamation indicating a successful trick or prank.
noun
- the act of colliding with something
- a vigorous blow
- a serious collision (especially of motor vehicles)
- a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head
- a conspicuous success
verb
- hit with great force
- break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over
- reduce to bankruptcy
- hit violently
- humiliate or depress completely
- damage or destroy as if by violence
- hit (a tennis ball) in a powerful overhead stroke
- collide or strike violently and suddenly
- overthrow or destroy (something considered evil or harmful)
- break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow
adv
noun
- A problem, dilemma or obstacle; something unexpected or troublesome (in the phrase spanner in the works)
- One who, or that which, spans.
- A hand tool for adjusting nuts and bolts; a wrench.
- A hand tool shaped like a small crank handle, for winding the spring of a wheel lock on a musket.
- A stupid or unintelligent person; one prone to making mistakes, especially in language.
verb
noun
- A skirmish, a hostile encounter.
- A loud sound, like the crashing together of metal objects.
- match; a game between two sides.
- An angry argument
- Opposition; contradiction; such as between differing or contending interests, views, purposes etc.
- Chatter; gossip; idle talk.
- A combination of garments that do not look good together, especially because of conflicting colours.
- An instance of restarting the game after a "dead ball", where it is dropped between two opposing players, who can fight for possession.
verb
- To coincide, to happen at the same time, thereby rendering it impossible to attend all.
- To argue angrily.
- To chatter or gossip.
- To come into violent conflict.
- To make a clashing sound.
- To fail to look good together; to contrast unattractively; to fail to harmonize.
- To face each other in an important game.
- To cause to make a clashing sound.
noun
- A fall or crash, a prang.
- A combination of interdependent, yet individually replaceable, software components or technologies used together on a system.
- A holding pattern, with aircraft circling one above the other as they wait to land.
- A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof.
- A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits.
- A large amount of an object.
- An implementation of a protocol suite (set of protocols forming a layered architecture).
- A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.
- A vertical drainpipe.
- Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.
- A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last.
- An extensive collection
- The amount of money a player has on the table.
- The quantity of a given item which fills up an inventory slot or bag.
- A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)
- A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.
- A smokestack.
- A generalization of schemes in algebraic geometry and of sheaves.
- A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.
- A stack data structure stored in main memory that is manipulated during machine language procedure call related instructions.
- A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.
- A linear data structure in which items inserted are removed in reverse order (the last item inserted is the first one to be removed).
verb
- To deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).
- To place (aircraft) into a holding pattern.
- To collect precious metal in the form of various small objects such as coins and bars.
- To operate cumulatively.
- To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner.
- To crash; to fall.
- To take all the money another player currently has on the table.
- To have excessive ink transfer.
- To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.
verb
- hit against; come into sudden contact with
- cause to move by striking
- deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument
- reach a destination, either real or abstract
- affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely
- hit with a missile from a weapon
- encounter by chance
- cause to experience suddenly
- make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
- drive something violently into a location
- reach a point in time, or a certain state or level
- produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments
- hit the intended target or goal
- pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to
noun
- (baseball) when a batter strikes a picthed ball into fair territory and arrives safely on base (without an error or a fielder's choice being made by the defense)
- the act of contacting one thing with another
- a conspicuous success
- (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together
- a dose of a narcotic drug
- a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate
- a connection made via the internet to another website
verb
- To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered.
- To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of or that.
- To experience.
- To understand or have a grasp of through experience or study.
- To be or become aware or cognizant.
- To be able to play or perform (a song or other piece of music).
- To be aware of; to be cognizant of.
- To recognize as the same (as someone or something previously encountered) after an absence or change.
- To have knowledge; to have information, be informed.
noun
verb
- hit against; come into sudden contact with
- deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon
- have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
- make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target
- indicate (a certain time) by striking
- affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely
- stop work in order to press demands
- touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
- attain
- produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments
- cause to form (an electric arc) between electrodes of an arc lamp
- find unexpectedly
- produce by ignition or a blow
- remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
- cause to experience suddenly
- drive something violently into a location
- occupy or take on
- disassemble a temporary structure, such as a tent or a theatrical set
- form by stamping, punching, or printing
- smooth with a strickle
- pierce with force
- hook by a pull on the line
- arrive at after reckoning, deliberating, and weighing
noun
- a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions
- an attack that is intended to seize or inflict damage on or destroy an objective
- a gentle blow
- a score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first ball
- (baseball) a pitch that the batter swings at and misses, or that the batter hits into foul territory, or that the batter does not swing at but the umpire judges to be in the area over home plate and between the batter's knees and shoulders
- a conspicuous success
noun
- A thing that is awkward or difficult to understand or do.
- A wicked or naughty person, or one who harbors reckless, spirited energy, especially in a mischievous way; usually said of a young child.
- A barren, unproductive and unused area.
- A Tasmanian devil.
- A printer's assistant. Also (India) "a poltergeist that haunts printing works".
- A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper.
- A fictional image of a man, usually red or orange in skin color; with a set of horns on his head, a pointed goatee and a long tail and carrying a pitchfork; that represents evil and portrayed to children in an effort to discourage bad behavior.
- A person, especially a man; used to express a particular opinion of him, usually in the phrases poor devil and lucky devil.
- A dust devil.
- A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc.
- An endurance event where riders who fall behind are periodically eliminated.
- An evil creature, the objectification of a hostile and destructive force.
- The bad part of the conscience; the opposite to the angel.
- Hell.
name
verb
- To work as a ‘devil’; to work for a lawyer or writer without fee or recognition.
- To prepare a sidedish of shelled halved boiled eggs to whose extracted yolks are added condiments and spices, which mixture then is placed into the halved whites to be served.
- To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil.
- To annoy or bother.
- To grill with cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper.
- To finely grind cooked ham or other meat with spices and condiments.
noun
- A fight or brawl; or, a challenge or incitement to fight.
- A type of hardcore dance in which a person violently clears a space for himself and appears to be ready to fight those around him, while making violent and erratic movements with his body.
- A fall, indicating defeat.
- A slam dunk.
- A performance by a rapper or DJ that is intended to be particularly hardcore or intense.
- A weapon planted at a crime scene in order to mislead investigation, especially in situations where deadly force would only have been justified if the victim were armed. Also an untraceable weapon kept in readiness for such use.
noun
- a short vivid experience
- a sudden intense burst of radiant energy
- a momentary brightness
- a sudden brilliant understanding
- a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
- a gaudy outward display
- a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate
- a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story
- a bright patch of color used for decoration or identification
- a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph
verb
- gleam or glow intermittently
- appear briefly
- display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously
- make known or cause to appear with great speed
- run or move very quickly or hastily
- expose or show briefly
- protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal
- emit a brief burst of light
adj
noun
- Something difficult (e.g. a given puzzle) or unpleasant (e.g. negative review, nasty letter).
- Something of poor quality.
- Any of several species of large Antarctic petrels which feed on blubber and carrion and have an offensive odour, such as the giant fulmar.
- One who stinks.
- A chemist.
- A hot day.
- A contemptible person or thing.
verb
- To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
- To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.
- To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
- To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
- To steal; to pilfer.
- To screen.
- To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
- To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
- To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
- To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
- To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
- To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
- To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
- To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
- To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
- To intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.
noun
- Pasture; feed, for animals.
- A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
- A screen.
- A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
- The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.
- A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
- A pickoff.
- A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
- That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
- An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- A choice; ability to choose.
- A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
- A good defensive play by an infielder.
- An interception.
- An anchor.
- That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
verb
- To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
- To gather for a formal or social discussion; to hold a meeting.
- To touch or hit something while moving.
- To converge and finally touch or intersect.
- To respond to (an argument etc.) with something equally convincing; to refute.
- To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.
- To satisfy; to comply with.
- To come face to face with someone by arrangement.
- To get acquainted with someone.
- To play a match.
- To balance or come out correct.
- To come together in conflict.
- To adjoin, be physically touching.
- To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
noun
- The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.
- A meeting.
- A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.
- A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.
- A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.
noun
- A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion
- Someone who flirts a lot or enjoys flirting; a flirtatious person.
- A tentative or brief, passing engagement with something.
- A brief shower (of rain or snow).
- An act of flirting.
verb
- To blurt out.
- To throw (something) with a jerk or sudden movement; to fling.
- To play at courtship; to talk with teasing affection, to insinuate sexual attraction in a playful (especially conversational) way.
- To experiment, or tentatively engage, with; to become involved in passing with.
- To dart about; to move with quick, jerky motions.
adj
noun
- Something unpleasant and difficult.
- Someone who is particularly impressive, especially athletically or physically.
- A monstrously unusual and dangerous animal.
- Any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates, especially large or dangerous four-footed ones.
- Anything regarded as larger or more powerful than one of its normal size or strength.
- A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.
- A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal.
- A sex offender.
- A thing or matter, especially a difficult or unruly one.
adj
verb
noun
- A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
- Synonym of button (“the punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene”)
- Cocaine.
- An instance of using high-pressure air to empty water from the ballast tanks of a submarine, increasing the submarine's buoyancy and causing it to surface.
- A damaging occurrence.
- Cannabis.
- A mass or display of flowers; a yield.
- An outcrop of quartz from surrounding rock, thought to indicate mineral deposits below.
- A bloom, state of flowering.
- A strong wind.
- The act of striking or hitting.
- A blowjob; fellatio.
- A display of anything brilliant or bright.
- Heroin.
- A chance to catch one's breath.
- A cut made to a sheep's fleece by a shearer using hand-shears.
verb
- (used to express displeasure or frustration) Damn.
- To create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles, to blow glass.
- To flatulate or defecate.
- To produce an air current.
- To fail at something; to mess up; to make a mistake.
- To propel by an air current (or, if under water, a water current), usually with the mouth.
- To fellate; to perform oral sex on (usually a man).
- To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.
- (of a fly) To lay eggs; to breed.
- To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
- To be propelled by an air current.
- To sing.
- To blow from a gun.
- To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
- To make a sound as the result of being blown.
- To clear of contents by forcing air through.
- To cause the sudden destruction of.
- To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
- To direct or move, usually of a person to a particular location.
- To burst or explode; to occur suddenly
- To leave, especially suddenly or in a hurry.
- To suddenly fail destructively.
- To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while feeding.
- To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
- To be very undesirable.
- To leave the Church of Scientology in an unauthorized manner.
- To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
- To recklessly squander.
- To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly destroyed.
adj
noun
- the act of disturbing something or someone; setting something in motion
- activity that is a malfunction, intrusion, or interruption
- an unhappy and worried mental state
- a disorderly outburst or tumult
- a noisy fight
- (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
- electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication
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