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struggle bus
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spiny
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scabrous
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gotcha
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bone to pick
gotcha
catch a cold
contend
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enmesh
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get out
come to grips
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flounder
grapple
noun
- A difficult circumstance or problem.
- A type of syllogism of the form "if A is true then B is true; if C is true then D is true; either A or C is true; therefore either B or D is true".
- A circumstance in which a choice must be made between two or more alternatives that seem equally undesirable.
- Offering to an opponent a choice between two (equally unfavorable) alternatives.
verb
- contend with: To try to cope with a difficulty or problem.
- To be in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
- To be in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.
- To believe (something is reasonable) and argue (for it); to advocate.
- To struggle or exert oneself to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.
noun
- A difficult or confounding problem.
- An obviously gay man.
- Something unforgiving and unpleasant.
- A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother.
- A man considered weak, effeminate, timid or pathetic in some way
- A queen.
- Place; situation
- A complaint, especially when the complaint is unjustified.
- A woman.
- Friend.
- A despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, usually a woman.
- A submissive person who does what others want; (prison slang) a man forced or coerced into a homoerotic relationship.
- A queen playing card, particularly the queen of spades in the card game of hearts.
verb
noun
- A difficult or demoralizing situation.
- Any small house or structure or enclosure used to house a dog.
- A structure of small size, similar to a doghouse, but offering useful shelter for a human.
- Any shabby or disreputable establishment.
- Mechanically, an equipment cover with an opening, with a shape resembling a doghouse.
- A traffic signal with five sections: two on the bottom, two in the middle, and one on top.
noun
- Something extremely difficult or unpleasant to deal with.
- A person deserving of pity.
- A sweet wine.
- A man, a fellow, a male friend.
- A contemptible, inconsiderate, overly or arrogantly rude or spiteful person.
- A bastard file.
- A sword that is midway in length between a short-sword and a long sword; also bastard sword.
- An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from syrups that have been boiled several times.
- A large mould for straining sugar.
- A writing paper of a particular size.
- A child who does not know their father.
- A mongrel (biological cross between different breeds, groups or varieties).
- A variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin, fake or counterfeit.
adj
- Spurious, lacking authenticity: counterfeit, fake.
- Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.
- Used in the vernacular name of a species to indicate that it is similar in some way to another species, often (but not always) one of another genus.
- Consisting of one predominant color blended with small amounts of complementary color; used to replicate natural light because of their warmer appearance.
- Of abnormal, irregular or otherwise inferior qualities (size, shape etc).
- Of or like a bastard (bad person).
- Of or like a bastard (illegitimate human descendant).
- Very unpleasant.
- Of or like a mongrel, bastardized creature/cross.
- Imperfect; not spoken or written well or in the classical style; broken.
intj
noun
- A difficulty or predicament.
- Crime, offence, wrongdoing.
- Any of a number of criminal offences incurring similar penalties to the original offence of praemunire.
- The penalty for this offence.
- The offence in English law of bringing suit in or obeying a foreign (especially papal) court or authority, thus challenging the supremacy of the Crown. The offence was created by the Statute of Praemunire 1393 (16 Richard II, chapter 5), and abolished by the Criminal Law Act 1967 (chapter 58).
- The writ charging a person with this offence, the writ of praemunire facias.
verb
noun
- A problem or difficulty with something.
- A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch.
- A sausage.
- A tooth projecting beyond the others; a broken or decayed tooth.
- A goal.
- A misnaged, an opponent to Chassidic Judaism (more likely modern, for cultural reasons).
- A dead tree that remains standing.
- A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk.
- Any sharp protuberant part of an object, which may catch, scratch, or tear other objects brought into contact with it.
- A pulled thread or yarn, as in cloth.
- One of the secondary branches of an antler.
verb
- To obtain or pick up.
- To damage or sink (a vessel) by collision; said of a tree or branch fixed to the bottom of a navigable body of water and partially submerged or rising to just beneath the surface.
- To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.
- To fish by means of dragging a large hook or hooks on a line, intending to impale the body (rather than the mouth) of the target.
- To catch or tear (e.g. fabric) upon a rough surface or projection.
noun
- A difficulty or problem.
- A loan.
- An act of rubbing.
- In the game of crown green bowls, any obstacle by which a bowl is diverted from its normal course.
- Any substance designed to be applied by rubbing.
- A mixture of spices applied to meat before it is barbecued.
verb
- To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; often with up or over.
- To hinder; to cross; to thwart.
- To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure and friction.
- To touch the jack with the bowl.
- To be rubbed against something.
- To rub something against (a second thing).
- To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
noun
noun
- an onerous or difficult concern
- weight to be borne or conveyed
- a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time
- goods carried by a large vehicle
- an amount of alcohol sufficient to intoxicate
- the power output of a generator or power plant
- a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks
- the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents
- electrical device to which electrical power is delivered
verb
- fill or place a load on
- provide (a device) with something necessary
- transfer from a storage device to a computer's memory
- put (something) on a structure or conveyance
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
noun
- A problem or difficult situation.
- Stuff, things.
- Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels; feces.
- The act of shitting.
- Rubbish; worthless matter.
- Anything exceptional or remarkable.
- (in negations) Anything.
- Nonsense; bullshit.
- The smallest amount of concern or consideration.
- A strong rebuke.
- Any recreational drug (e.g. cannabis, heroin, etc.).
- A nasty, despicable person, used particularly of men.
- (the shit) The best of its kind.
intj
- Used for mere emphasis; heck, hey.
- Used to show displeasure or surprise.
- Expression of worry, failure, shock, etc., often at something seen for the first time or remembered immediately before using this term.
adj
verb
adj
noun
- A difficult or unpleasant set of circumstances; a problem.
- A position of employment; a post.
- The combination of circumstances at a given moment; a state of affairs.
- The place in which something is situated; a location.
- Position or status with regard to conditions and circumstances.
- An outfit, garment, or look.
- An individual movie theater.
- The way in which something is positioned vis-à-vis its surroundings.
adv
adj
- Difficult or requiring a lot of effort to do, understand, experience, or deal with.
- In a physical form, not digital.
- Having a high energy (high frequency; short wavelength).
- Of silk: not having had the natural gum boiled off.
- Having a comparatively larger or a ninety-degree angle.
- Containing alcohol.
- Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in colour or shading.
- Made up of parallel rays, producing clearly defined shadows.
- Strong.
- Sexually aroused; having an erect penis.
- Severe, harsh, unfriendly, brutal.
- Unquestionable, unequivocal.
- Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition.
- Tough and muscular.
- High in dissolved chemical salts, especially those of calcium.
- Having the capability of being a permanent magnet by being a material with high magnetic coercivity (compare soft).
- Demanding a lot of effort to endure.
- Far, extreme.
- Velarized or plain, rather than palatalized.
- Of a market: having more demand than supply; being a seller's market.
- Using a manual or physical process, not by means of a software command.
- Hardened; having unusually strong defences.
- Having muscles that are tightened as a result of intense, regular exercise.
- Resistant to pressure.
- hardcore
- Plosive.
- Unvoiced.
noun
verb
- To say with difficulty.
- To become known.
- To leave a vehicle such as a car. (Note: for public transport, get off is more common.)
- To help (someone) leave.
- To spend free time out of the house.
- To remove or eliminate (dirt or stains).
- To come out of a situation; to escape a fate.
- To publish or make available; to disseminate.
- To take (something) from its container or storage place, so as to use or display it.
- To be released, especially from hospital or prison.
- To remove one's money from an investment; to end an investment.
- To leave or escape.
intj
noun
- A problem, dilemma, or complicating factor.
- A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country.
- A unit or container, usually containing edible goods.
- Corporeal object.
- That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.
- A romantic relationship.
- Alternate form of ting.
- One's typical routine, habits, or manner. (Used in possessive constructions.)
- Used after a noun to refer dismissively to the situation surrounding the noun's referent.
- A genuine concept, entity or phenomenon; something that actually exists (often contrary to expectation or belief).
- An individual object or distinct entity.
- That which is favoured; personal preference. (Used in possessive constructions.)
- A living being or creature.
- A penis.
- Whatever can be owned.
- Girl; attractive woman.
- Clothes, possessions or equipment.
- That which matters; the crux.
- A romantic couple.
- A word, symbol, sign, or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity.
verb
prep_phrase
noun
- A difficult situation.
- A jumble of felled timber.
- A large cash prize or money.
- A concentration of surface wood or fuel.
- A large accumulated point bonus, originally awarded after a long set of actions but now often easily available in multiball modes.
- An unexpected windfall or reward.
- A money prize pool which accumulates until the conditions are met for it to be won.
verb
noun
- A difficult situation.
- A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.
- A bright lamp; a spotlight.
- The southern redfish, or red horse (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail.
- The act of spotting or noticing something.
- An official determination of placement.
- A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
- Penalty spot.
- A food fish (Leiostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides.
- A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.
- An autosoliton.
- A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally round in shape.
- A parking space.
- One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist if safety dictates); a spotter.
- Any of various points marked on the table, from which balls are played, in snooker, pool, billiards, etc.
- A pimple, papule or pustule.
- A stain or disfiguring mark.
- A decimal point; point.
- A location or area.
- Any of the balls marked with spots in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the stripes.
- A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
adj
verb
- To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing.
- To retouch a photograph on film to remove minor flaws.
- To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning.
- To place an object at a location indicated by a spot.
- To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist if safety dictates.
- To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.
- To loan a small amount of money to someone.
- To stain; to leave a spot (on).
- To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.
- To position (a locomotive or car) at a predetermined point, e.g., for loading or unloading.
- To position (an aircraft) on the deck of an aircraft carrier ready for launch by catapult.
- To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation.
noun
- A difficult situation.
- A maze-like pattern.
- A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its loops.
- A tangled clump.
- Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
- A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.
- One of a variety of shore birds; red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus).
- A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
- A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).
- A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour. (From the practice of counting the number of knots in the log-line (as it is paid out) in a standard time. Traditionally spaced at one every ¹⁄₁₂₀ of a mile.)
- Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
- The bulbus glandis.
- The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.
- A tightened and contracted part of a muscle that feels like a hard lump under the skin.
- A node.
- A group of people or things.
- A unit of indicated airspeed, calibrated airspeed, or equivalent airspeed, which varies in its relation to the unit of speed so as to compensate for the effects of different ambient atmospheric conditions on aircraft performance.
- In omegaverse fiction, a bulbus glandis-like structure on the penis of a male alpha, which ties him to an omega during intercourse.
- A nautical mile.
- The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
- A protuberant joint in a plant.
- The swelling of the bulbus glandis in members of the dog family, Canidae.
verb
adj
- unfortunate or hard to bear
- very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution
- substantially made or constructed
- violent and lawless
- feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad')
- making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe
noun
- someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing
- an aggressive and violent young criminal
- a cruel and brutal fellow
adj
adj
- Encountering many problems; difficult, troubled; also, in danger or distress.
- In the style of rock music.
- Abounding in, or full of, rocks; consisting of rocks.
- Like a rock; rigid, solid.
- Having a habitat around or on rocks.
- Easily rocked; unstable.
- Of a person: ill, or unsteady (for example, as a result of a shock).
noun
- A difficult situation.
- A forceful dunk.
- balls, bollocks, courage, machismo
- A blockage, congestion, or immobilization.
- A song; a track.
- The tree Acacia acuminata, with fruity-smelling hard timber.
- A play during which points can be scored.
- Luck.
- A difficult situation for a pitcher or defending team.
- An informal event where people brainstorm and collaborate on projects.
- A sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used in jam tarts.
- An informal, impromptu performance or rehearsal.
- Any of several maneuvers requiring wedging of an extremity into a tight space.
- Sexual relations or the contemplation of them.
- That which one particularly prefers, desires, enjoys, or cares about.
verb
- To get something stuck, often (though not necessarily) in a confined space.
- To block or confuse a radio or radar signal by transmitting a more-powerful signal on the same frequency.
- To brusquely force something into a space; to cram, to squeeze.
- To injure a finger or toe by sudden compression of the digit's tip.
- To give up on a date or some other joint endeavour; to stand up, chicken out, jam out.
- To throw a pitch at or near the batter's hands.
- To play music (especially improvisation as a group, or an informal unrehearsed session).
- To cause congestion or blockage. Often used with "up".
- To attempt to score points.
- To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.
- To dunk.
- To render something unable to move.
noun
- A difficult problem.
- Any of several mammalian species of the genus Sus, having cloven hooves, bristles and a nose adapted for digging; especially the domesticated animal Sus domesticus.
- A light pinkish-red colour, like that of a pig (also called pig pink).
- A lead container used for radioactive waste.
- A young swine, a piglet (contrasted with a hog, an adult swine).
- A simple dice game in which players roll the dice as many times as they like, either accumulating a greater score or losing previous points gained.
- The general-purpose M60 machine gun, considered to be heavy and bulky.
- Someone who overeats or eats rapidly and noisily.
- The edible meat of such an animal; pork.
- A dirty or slovenly person.
- A police officer.
- A lecherous or sexist man.
- The mold in which a block of metal is cast.
- A device for cleaning or inspecting the inside of an oil or gas pipeline, or for separating different substances within the pipeline. Named for the pig-like squealing noise made by their progress.
- A very obese person.
- An earthenware hot-water jar to warm a bed; a stone bed warmer
- A block of cast metal.
- earthenware, or an earthenware shard
verb
noun
verb
- To take part in a wrestling match with someone
- To move or lift something with difficulty
- To struggle or strive
- To fight.
- To throw a calf etc in order to brand it
- To contend, with an opponent, by grappling and attempting to throw, immobilize or otherwise defeat him, depending on the specific rules of the contest
adj
- Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.
- Good, superlative, excellent, cool.
- Not covered by funds on account.
- Not suitable or fitting.
- Not appropriate, of manners etc.
- Spoiled, rotten, overripe.
- Bold and daring.
- Malodorous; foul.
- Stop being bad, or you will get a spanking!
- Unfavorable; negative; not good.
- Unskilled; of limited ability; not good.
- Unhealthy; liable to cause health problems.
- Of poor physical appearance.
- False; counterfeit; illegitimate.
- Not behaving; behaving badly; misbehaving; mischievous or disobedient.
- Evil; wicked.
- Severe, urgent.
- Overly promiscuous, licentious.
- Very attractive; hot, sexy.
- Faulty; not functional.
- Sickly, unhealthy, unwell.
adv
noun
- Something that is bad; a harm or evil.
- Error; mistake.
- An item (or kind of item) of merchandise with negative value; an unwanted good.
verb
intj
verb
- To ponder and intensely evaluate a problem; to struggle to deal with.
- To hook and raise with a grapple.
- To climb (whether by means of a grapple and rope, or by hand, etc).
- To fasten, as with a grapple; (by extension) to fix; to join indissolubly.
- To wrestle or tussle.
- To seize something and hold it firmly.
- To use a grapple (for example to attempt to find, hook, and raise a net or cable).
noun
noun
- A potential problem or source of trouble.
- 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.
- An instance of accomplishing a tricky idea or overcoming a difficult obstacle.
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.
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