English words for 'Synonym of carousel fraud.'
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noun
- (slang) A cheating trick; a fraud.
- A seabird of the genus Larus or of the subfamily Larinae.
- One easily cheated; a dupe.
- Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Cepora.
- (dialectal) A channel made by a stream; a natural watercourse; running water.
- A stupid animal.
- (dialectal) A breach or hole made by the force of a torrent; fissure, chasm.
- a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
- mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs
verb
noun
verb
noun
- A scam or swindle.
- (slang) An act of prostitution.
- A propensity to work hard and get things done; ability to hustle.
- (informal) An activity, especially to achieve a desired goal or make money.
- (prison slang) An activity, such as prostitution or reselling stolen items, that a prisoner uses to earn money in prison.
- A state of busy activity.
- (preceded by a definite article) A type of disco dance, commonly danced to the Van McCoy song The Hustle (1975).
- a rapid active commotion
- a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
verb
- (transitive) To bundle; to stow something quickly.
- (intransitive) To rush or hurry.
- (informal) To be a prostitute; to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money.
- To play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge one.
- (informal) To sell sex; to work as a pimp.
- (informal) To work.
- (informal) To put a lot of effort into one's work.
- To dance the hustle, a disco dance.
- (transitive) To con, swindle, or deceive, especially financially.
- (informal) To obtain by illicit or forceful action.
- (informal) To serve (a clientele) as a prostitute.
- To push someone roughly; to crowd; to jostle.
- sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
- cause to move furtively and hurriedly
- move or cause to move energetically or busily
- get by trying hard
- pressure or urge someone into an action
noun
- (slang) A deliberate swindle or fraud.
- (Australia, slang) A search, conducted by authorities, of a prisoner or a prisoner's cell.
- A scale of values.
- A speed bump.
- An inclined surface that connects two levels; an incline.
- (aviation) A surface inside the air intake of a supersonic aircraft which adjusts in position to allow for efficient shock wave compression of incoming air at a wide range of different Mach numbers.
- (skating) A construction used to do skating tricks, usually in the form of part of a pipe.
- (cricket) A way of hitting a boundary by facing the bat face front and pushing with force to launch the ball. 100% of it done against pace.
- (slang) An act of violent robbery.
- Any of species Allium tricoccum of plants related to the onion; a wild leek.
- A concave bend at the top or cap of a railing, wall, or coping; a romp.
- (aviation) A mobile staircase that is attached to the doors of an aircraft at an airport.
- An interchange, a road that connects a freeway to a surface street or another freeway.
- (Appalachia, derogatory) A worthless person.
- A structure with an inclined surface made for stunts, as for jumping motorcycles or other vehicles.
- (aviation) A large parking area in an airport for aircraft, for loading and unloading or for storage (see also apron and tarmac).
- a movable staircase that passengers use to board or leave an aircraft
- North American perennial having a slender bulb and whitish flowers
- an inclined surface connecting two levels
verb
- (Australia, slang, transitive) To search a prisoner or a prisoner's cell.
- To behave violently; to rage.
- To adapt a piece of iron to the woodwork of a gate.
- (slang, transitive) To swindle or rob violently.
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) change value, often at a steady rate.
- behave violently, as if in state of a great anger
- stand with arms or forelegs raised, as if menacing
- furnish with a ramp
- creep up — used especially of plants
- be rampant
noun
- A con or swindle.
- (slang, UK) An older member of a sporting club, often with old-fashioned or conservative views.
- Anything that blazes or glows, as with heat or flame.
- A person or thing that blazes (marks or cuts a route).
- A semi-formal jacket.
- (slang, US) One who smokes cannabis; a stoner.
- The dish used when cooking directly over the flame of a chafing-dish lamp, or the coals of a brazier.
- lightweight single-breasted jacket; often striped in the colors of a club or school
noun
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) A fraud; a scam.
- The shell or husk, especially of grains (e.g. corn/maize) or nuts (e.g. walnuts).
- (slang) A phony.
- (European folklore) A supernatural and generally malevolent black dog in English folklore.
- material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
verb
- (dialectal, of a horse) To walk at a slow trot.
- (transitive, intransitive, slang) To fool; to hoax.
- (dialectal) To shake; shiver.
- (transitive) To remove (any outer covering).
- (dialectal) To do hurriedly or in a restless way.
- (dialectal) To slither or slip, move about, wriggle.
- (computing, slang, transitive) To remove (an external hard drive or solid-state drive) from its casing so that it can be used inside another device.
- (transitive) To remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.).
- (dialectal) To avoid; baffle, outwit, shirk.
- remove from the shell
- remove the shucks from
noun
- A fraudster who carries out slamming (fraudulent changes to a customer's service).
- One who takes part in slam-dance.
- (slang, usually "the slammer") Jail, prison.
- One who competes in a poetry slam.
- In the game of Pogs, the heavier piece used to strike the stack of counters.
- One who, or that which, slams.
- A tequila cocktail that is slammed onto a surface to induce fizzing.
- (UK, slang) A slam-door train.
- a person who closes things violently
- a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
noun
- Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle.
- An effective, clever or quick way of doing something.
- (card games) A sequence in which each player plays a card and a winning play is determined.
- (nautical) A sailor's spell of work at the helm, usually two hours long.
- A knot, braid, or plait of hair.
- (slang) A customer or client of a prostitute.
- (heraldry) A representation of arms that is drawn as an outline with labels to indicate colors.
- An entertaining difficult physical action.
- (Western Pennsylvania) A daily period of work, especially in shift-based jobs.
- Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank.
- (slang, vulgar) A term of abuse.
- (slang) A sex act, chiefly one performed for payment; an act of prostitution.
- A single element of a magician's (or any variety entertainer's) act; a magic trick.
- (card games) in a single round, the sequence of cards played by all the players; the high card is the winner
- a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement
- a cunning or deceitful action or device
- a prostitute's customer
- an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent
- an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
- a period of work or duty
adj
verb
noun
adj
verb
adj
- Rigged; fraudulently prearranged.
- Repaired.
- (dialectal, informal) Surgically rendered sterile (e.g. spayed, neutered, or castrated).
- Unable to move; unmovable.
- (law, of sound) Recorded on a permanent medium.
- Supplied with what one needs.
- (astrology) Being one of the signs Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius, associated with stability, permanence, and preservation.
- (chemistry) Chemically stable.
- (of a problem) Resolved; corrected.
- Attached; affixed.
- Unlikely to change; stable.
- Unable to change or vary.
- securely placed or fastened or set
- (of a number) having a fixed and unchanging value
- fixed and unmoving
- incapable of being changed or moved or undone; e.g. ‘frozen prices’
verb
noun
- (slang) A cheat, a fraud; an imposition.
- An incising tool that cuts blanks or forms for envelopes, gloves, etc., from leather, paper, or other materials.
- A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding.
- (mining) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein of ore.
- A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp.
- (US, military, slang, uncountable) Information.
- A chisel with a curved blade for cutting or scooping channels, grooves, or holes in wood, stone, etc.
- (slang) An impostor.
- (originally US, colloquial) An act of gouging.
- and edge tool with a blade like a trough for cutting channels or grooves
- the act of gouging
- an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
verb
- (intransitive) To use a gouge.
- (transitive) To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price.
- (transitive) To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge.
- (transitive, intransitive) To dig or scoop (something) out with or as if with a gouge; in particular, to use a thumb to push or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.
- force with the thumb
- make a groove in
- obtain by coercion or intimidation
noun
verb
adj
- fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
- (UK, Ireland, vulgar) Very unpleasant.
- Of or like a bastard (bad person).
- Of or like a mongrel, bastardized creature/cross.
- Spurious, lacking authenticity: counterfeit, fake.
- (of a language) Imperfect; not spoken or written well or in the classical style; broken.
- (theater lighting) 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).
- 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.
- (printing) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.
- Of or like a bastard (illegitimate human descendant).
noun
- derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin
- the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents
- insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous
- (informal) A child who does not know their father.
- A sword that is midway in length between a short-sword and a long sword; also bastard sword.
- (informal) Something extremely difficult or unpleasant to deal with.
- A kind of sweet wine.
- A mongrel (biological cross between different breeds, groups or varieties).
- (vulgar, offensive or derogatory, usually referring specifically to a man) A contemptible, inconsiderate, overly or arrogantly rude or spiteful person.
- A large mould for straining sugar.
- A variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin, fake or counterfeit.
- A writing paper of a particular size.
- An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from syrups that have been boiled several times.
- A bastard file.
- (UK, politics, derogatory) A Eurosceptic Conservative MP, especially in the government of John Major.
- (often preceded by ‘poor’) A suffering person deemed deserving of compassion.
- (endearing or humorous) A man, a fellow, a male friend.
intj
adj
- fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
- Counterfeit or fake; not genuine.
- (computing, slang) Incorrect, useless, or broken.
- (slang) Undesirable or harmful.
- (philately) Of a totally fictitious issue printed for collectors, often issued on behalf of a non-existent territory or country (not to be confused with forgery, which is an illegitimate copy of a genuine stamp).
- Based on false or misleading information or unjustified assumptions.
noun
adj
noun
- something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be
- (football) a deceptive move made by a football player
- a person who makes deceitful pretenses
- (sports) A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.
- Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
- (nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
verb
- speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths
- make a copy of with the intent to deceive
- tamper, with the purpose of deception
- (transitive) To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.
- (nautical) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form, to prevent twisting when running out.
- (transitive) To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
- (music, ambitransitive) To improvise, in jazz.
adj
noun
- a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives
- (informal) A person who assumes an identity or quality other than their own.
- (informal) Anything fraudulent or fake.
- (informal) A person who professes beliefs or opinions that they do not hold.
verb
noun
- (countable, slang) An easy victim for swindling.
- A period of time spent fishing.
- (uncountable) A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
- A cartilaginous fish (class Chondrichthyes).
- (uncountable, slang, sometimes derogatory, sometimes positive) A (feminine) woman. (See also fishy.)
- An instance of seeking something.
- (cartomancy) The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
- (nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
- (countable, poker slang) A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
- (Newfoundland) Cod; codfish.
- A placoderm (paraphyletic class †Placodermi).
- A jawless fish (paraphyletic infraphylum Agnatha).
- (uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.
- (LGBTQ slang, sometimes problematic) A drag queen or transgender woman who looks like a cisgender woman.
- (countable, nautical, military, slang) A torpedo (self-propelled explosive device).
- (prison slang) A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.
- A bony fish (clade Osteichthyes), including tetrapods.
- (Roman Catholicism) An aquatic or semiaquatic animal suitable for consumption during fasting on Fridays during Lent.
- (Jamaica, offensive, derogatory) A male homosexual; a gay man.
- (cellular automata, rare) A spaceship.
- (countable) A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
- A spiny shark (paraphyletic class †Acanthodii)
- (countable, nautical) A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
- any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
- the flesh of fish used as food
verb
- (nautical, transitive) To repair (a spar or mast) by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).
- (intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
- (intransitive, transitive) To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water, or to collect coral or pearls from the bottom of the sea.
- (transitive) To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
- (intransitive) To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
- (nautical, transitive) To hoist the flukes of.
- (fishing, transitive) To use as bait when fishing.
- (transitive) To draw or guide (a wire or cable) by means of fish tape.
- (intransitive, followed by "for" or "around for") To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.
- seek indirectly
- catch or try to catch fish or shellfish
verb
- (British) To swindle; to extort.
- (British, Australia, real estate) To buy a property by bidding more than the price of an existing, accepted offer.
- (British, Australia, real estate) To raise the selling price of something (especially property) after previously agreeing to a lower one.
- (British, Australia) To trump or preempt; to reap the benefit underhandedly from a situation that someone else has worked to create.
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- raise the price of something after agreeing on a lower price
noun
noun
- the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
- a movable barrier used in motor racing; sometimes placed before a dangerous corner to reduce speed as cars pass in single file
- a bridge hand that is void of trumps
- (card games, chiefly bridge) The holding of a hand without trumps, or the hand itself.
- The use of dishonest means or subterfuge to achieve one's (especially political) goals; chicanery, trickery.
- (road transport) A raised area or other obstacle around which vehicles must drive, especially designed to reduce speed.
- (motor racing) A sharp double bend on a racecourse, designed to prevent unsafe speeds; an obstacle creating a curve.
- A quibble, a pedantic or dishonest objection; an act of deception.
verb
noun
- the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
- shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
- the quality of being crafty
- Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.
- Alternative form of gyle.
- (uncountable) Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.
verb
noun
- the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
- reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others
- (countable, chiefly in the plural) singular of shenanigans: a deceitful confidence trick; also, an act of mischief; a prank, a trick; an act of mischievous play, especially by children.
verb
noun
- the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
- verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
- (uncountable) Artifice; the use of one or more stratagems.
- (countable, uncountable) Deception, deceit or underhanded behavior.
- (uncountable) The art of dressing up; imposture, pretense.
noun
- the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
- someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
- weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat
- a deception for profit to yourself
- weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
- (uncountable) The weed cheatgrass.
- (countable) Someone who cheats.
- (card games, uncountable) A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
- (countable) An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.
- (video games, countable) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.
verb
- engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
- be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
- defeat someone through trickery or deceit
- deprive somebody of something by deceit
- (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner; to commit adultery, or to engage in sexual or romantic conduct with a person other than one's partner in contravention of the rules of society or agreement in the relationship.
- (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.
- (informal, intransitive) To disregard self-imposed restrictions or commitments in favour of resting or indulging oneself.
- (transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.
- (transitive) To avoid a seemingly inevitable thing.
noun
- the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
- intentional deception resulting in injury to another person
- a person who makes deceitful pretenses
- something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
- (law) The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.
- The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
- Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved or unlawful gain.
- A person who performs any such trick.
noun
- the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
- a set of clothing (with accessories)
- gear used in fishing
- formation of masts, spars, sails, etc., on a vessel
- a truck consisting of a tractor and trailer together
- gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise
- a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses
- A promiscuous woman.
- (slang) Equipment used for taking recreational drugs.
- (slang, computing) A personal computer, typically one modified for looks.
- The special apparatus used for drilling wells.
- (US) A large truck, especially a semi-trailer truck.
- (algebra, ring theory) An algebraic structure similar to a ring, but without the requirement that every element have an additive inverse.
- (slang) Radio equipment, especially a citizen's band transceiver.
- (nautical) The rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft.
- An imperfectly castrated horse, sheep etc.
- (informal) A costume or an outfit.
- (Northern England, Scotland, dialect) A ridge.
- Special equipment or gear used for a particular purpose.
- (animation) A model outfitted with parameterized controls for animation.
verb
- equip with sails or masts
- manipulate in a fraudulent manner
- connect or secure to
- arrange the outcome of by means of deceit
- (transitive, intransitive, animation) To outfit a model with controls for animation.
- (transitive, manufacturing) To move (a heavy object) with the help of slings, hoists, block and tackle, levers, or similar equipment.
- (transitive) To manipulate something dishonestly for personal gain or discriminatory purposes.
- (transitive) To make or construct something in haste or in a makeshift manner.
- (transitive, informal) To dress or clothe in some costume.
- (transitive, nautical) To equip and fit (a ship) with sails, shrouds, and yards.
verb
- (slang, transitive) To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
- (slang) To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
- (computer graphics, video games, ambitransitive) To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).
- To curtail; to cut short.
- (dialectal, informal) To strike with the hand.
- To fasten with a clip.
- To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
- (slang, transitive) to grab or take stealthily.
- (computer graphics) To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
- To make a clip; to cut a section of video from a film, broadcast, or other longer video.
- To grip tightly.
- (signal processing) To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
- (surgery, transitive) To treat (an aneurysm) by closing it off with a physical clip.
- To hit or strike, especially in passing.
- (slang) To assassinate; to bump off.
- (American football) To perform an illegal tackle, throwing the body across the back of an opponent's leg or hitting him from the back below the waist while moving up from behind unless the opponent is a runner or the action is in close line play.
- run at a moderately swift pace
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- sever or remove by pinching or snipping
- terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent
- attach with a clip
noun
- A short piece of audio (shortened version of audio clip, or alternatively clipping of audio).
- (military, colloquial) A removable magazine of a firearm.
- Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
- A newspaper clipping.
- (uncountable, Geordie) The condition of something, its state.
- (military) A frame containing a number of rounds of ammunition which is intended to be inserted into an internal magazine of a firearm to allow for rapid reloading.
- Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:
- The product of a single shearing of sheep.
- An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
- A section of video taken from a film, broadcast, or other longer video.
- A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; a toe clip or beak.
- (fishing, UK, Scotland) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
- An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace.
- A season's crop of wool.
- (informal) A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)
- a sharp slanting blow
- an article of jewelry that can be clipped onto a hat or dress
- a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun
- the act of clipping or snipping
- an instance or single occasion for some event
- any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together
noun
- (US) A swindler.
- A Sharpie or other brand of felt-tipped marker pen.
- (birdwatching, US) Clipping of sharp-shinned hawk.
- (Australia) A member of a violent, fashionably dressed youth gang of the 1960s and 1970s.
- (US) A long, narrow fishing boat used in shallow waters.
- (US, regional) A knowledgeable fisherman.
- (colloquial) An alert person.
- (birdwatching, Australia, New Zealand) Clipping of sharp-tailed sandpiper.
- a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games
- a shallow-draft sailboat with a sharp prow, flat bottom, and triangular sail; formerly used along the northern Atlantic coast of the United States
- an alert and energetic person
noun
- (slang) Something unfairly expensive, a rip-off.
- (slang) A comical, embarrassing, or hypocritical event or action.
- (chiefly in the plural) A tract of broken water (in a river or stream), particularly one which is not as rough as rapids.
- (slang) A fart.
- (UK, Eton College) A black mark given for substandard schoolwork.
- (Canada, slang) A joyride.
- A tear (in paper, etc.).
- (Scotland) A handful of unthreshed grain.
- Ellipsis of ripsaw (“saw for cutting wood along its grain”).
- (Australia, New Zealand) A rip current: a strong outflow of surface water, away from the shore, that returns water from incoming waves.
- (slang) A hit (dose) of marijuana.
- (computing, slang) Data or audio copied from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc. to a hard drive, portable device, etc.
- (music, informal) A kind of glissando leading up to the main note to be played.
- (demoscene, slang) Something ripped off or stolen; a work resulting from plagiarism.
- a dissolute man in fashionable society
- the act of rending or ripping or splitting something
- a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current
- an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
intj
verb
- (intransitive, surfing, slang) To surf extremely well.
- To move or act fast; to rush headlong.
- (intransitive, figurative) To move quickly and destructively.
- (slang) To take a hit, dose or shot of a drug (such as marijuana) or alcohol.
- (transitive, slang, computing) To copy data from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc., to a hard drive, portable device, etc.
- (transitive) To get by, or as if by, cutting or tearing.
- (woodworking) To cut wood along (parallel to) the grain.
- (transitive, slang, chiefly demoscene) To steal; to rip off.
- (transitive) To divide or separate the parts of (especially something flimsy, such as paper or fabric), by cutting or tearing; to tear off or out by violence.
- (transitive) To remove violently or wrongly.
- (intransitive, slang) To be very good; rock
- (intransitive) To tear apart; to rapidly become two parts.
- (slang) To fart audibly.
- (transitive, sometimes US, slang) To mock or criticize (someone or something). (often used with on and into)
- move precipitously or violently
- tear or be torn violently
- cut (wood) along the grain
- criticize or abuse strongly and violently
- take without the owner's consent
verb
adj
noun
- (in plural as chances) probability; possibility.
- (countable) An opportunity or possibility.
- (countable) The probability of something happening.
- (uncountable) Random occurrence; luck.
- a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances
- a risk involving danger
- an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
- a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible
- the possibility of future success
noun
- (informal) A scam; a fraud or swindle.
- A violinist, or fiddler, in a band.
- (informal) A workaround; a quick and less than perfect solution for some flaw or problem.
- A rack for drying pottery after glazing.
- (figurative) A clown; an unserious person entertaining a group.
- (especially nautical) Any rail or device that prevents items from sliding off a table, stove, etc. in rough water.
- A violin, a small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin, shoulder, chest or on the upper thigh and played with a bow (see also usage notes below).
- (biology) A dock (Rumex pulcher) with leaves supposed to resemble the musical instrument.
- (usually proscribed) Any of various other bowed stringed instruments, particularly those of the violin family when played non-classically.
- (informal) An act of tinkering, playing around, or fidgeting with something.
- A long pole pulled by a draft animal to drag loose straw, hay, etc.
- bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow
intj
verb
- (informal, intransitive) Synonym of tinker (“to make small adjustments or improvements”); see also fiddle with.
- (informal, transitive) To fraudulently manipulate (records, accounts, etc.) in order to cheat or swindle.
- (intransitive) To fidget or play; to fuss; to idly amuse oneself, to act aimlessly, idly, or frivolously, particularly out of nervousness or restlessness; see also fiddle with.
- (intransitive) To play the fiddle or violin, particularly in a folk or country style.
- play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly
- commit fraud and steal from one's employer
- avoid (one's assigned duties)
- play on a violin
- try to fix or mend
- manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination
- play the violin or fiddle
noun
- An illegal scheme for profit; a fraud or swindle; or both coinstantiated.
- (informal) Any industry or enterprise.
- (countable, sports) An implement with a handle connected to a round frame strung with wire, sinew, or plastic cords, and used to hit a ball, such as in tennis or a shuttlecock in badminton.
- A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to allow walking on marshy or soft ground.
- A loud noise.
- (Canada) A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.
- an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit
- a loud and disturbing noise
- a sports implement (usually consisting of a handle and an oval frame with a tightly interlaced network of strings) used to strike a ball (or shuttlecock) in various games
- the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience
verb
verb
- (US, circus slang) To use any means to take the money of participants in a circus gaming attraction.
- To knock an object, usually a ball, away from oneself.
- To avoid by diverting the focus of a discussion.
- (US, baseball, of a batter) To use one's own judgment to aggressively swing at pitches, rather than following a coaches instructions.
noun
- (slang) A cheating trick; a fraud.
- A seabird of the genus Larus or of the subfamily Larinae.
- One easily cheated; a dupe.
- Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Cepora.
- (dialectal) A channel made by a stream; a natural watercourse; running water.
- A stupid animal.
- (dialectal) A breach or hole made by the force of a torrent; fissure, chasm.
- a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
- mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs
verb
noun
verb
noun
- A scam or swindle.
- (slang) An act of prostitution.
- A propensity to work hard and get things done; ability to hustle.
- (informal) An activity, especially to achieve a desired goal or make money.
- (prison slang) An activity, such as prostitution or reselling stolen items, that a prisoner uses to earn money in prison.
- A state of busy activity.
- (preceded by a definite article) A type of disco dance, commonly danced to the Van McCoy song The Hustle (1975).
- a rapid active commotion
- a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
verb
- (transitive) To bundle; to stow something quickly.
- (intransitive) To rush or hurry.
- (informal) To be a prostitute; to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money.
- To play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge one.
- (informal) To sell sex; to work as a pimp.
- (informal) To work.
- (informal) To put a lot of effort into one's work.
- To dance the hustle, a disco dance.
- (transitive) To con, swindle, or deceive, especially financially.
- (informal) To obtain by illicit or forceful action.
- (informal) To serve (a clientele) as a prostitute.
- To push someone roughly; to crowd; to jostle.
- sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
- cause to move furtively and hurriedly
- move or cause to move energetically or busily
- get by trying hard
- pressure or urge someone into an action
noun
- (slang) A deliberate swindle or fraud.
- (Australia, slang) A search, conducted by authorities, of a prisoner or a prisoner's cell.
- A scale of values.
- A speed bump.
- An inclined surface that connects two levels; an incline.
- (aviation) A surface inside the air intake of a supersonic aircraft which adjusts in position to allow for efficient shock wave compression of incoming air at a wide range of different Mach numbers.
- (skating) A construction used to do skating tricks, usually in the form of part of a pipe.
- (cricket) A way of hitting a boundary by facing the bat face front and pushing with force to launch the ball. 100% of it done against pace.
- (slang) An act of violent robbery.
- Any of species Allium tricoccum of plants related to the onion; a wild leek.
- A concave bend at the top or cap of a railing, wall, or coping; a romp.
- (aviation) A mobile staircase that is attached to the doors of an aircraft at an airport.
- An interchange, a road that connects a freeway to a surface street or another freeway.
- (Appalachia, derogatory) A worthless person.
- A structure with an inclined surface made for stunts, as for jumping motorcycles or other vehicles.
- (aviation) A large parking area in an airport for aircraft, for loading and unloading or for storage (see also apron and tarmac).
- a movable staircase that passengers use to board or leave an aircraft
- North American perennial having a slender bulb and whitish flowers
- an inclined surface connecting two levels
verb
- (Australia, slang, transitive) To search a prisoner or a prisoner's cell.
- To behave violently; to rage.
- To adapt a piece of iron to the woodwork of a gate.
- (slang, transitive) To swindle or rob violently.
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) change value, often at a steady rate.
- behave violently, as if in state of a great anger
- stand with arms or forelegs raised, as if menacing
- furnish with a ramp
- creep up — used especially of plants
- be rampant
noun
- A con or swindle.
- (slang, UK) An older member of a sporting club, often with old-fashioned or conservative views.
- Anything that blazes or glows, as with heat or flame.
- A person or thing that blazes (marks or cuts a route).
- A semi-formal jacket.
- (slang, US) One who smokes cannabis; a stoner.
- The dish used when cooking directly over the flame of a chafing-dish lamp, or the coals of a brazier.
- lightweight single-breasted jacket; often striped in the colors of a club or school
noun
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) A fraud; a scam.
- The shell or husk, especially of grains (e.g. corn/maize) or nuts (e.g. walnuts).
- (slang) A phony.
- (European folklore) A supernatural and generally malevolent black dog in English folklore.
- material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
verb
- (dialectal, of a horse) To walk at a slow trot.
- (transitive, intransitive, slang) To fool; to hoax.
- (dialectal) To shake; shiver.
- (transitive) To remove (any outer covering).
- (dialectal) To do hurriedly or in a restless way.
- (dialectal) To slither or slip, move about, wriggle.
- (computing, slang, transitive) To remove (an external hard drive or solid-state drive) from its casing so that it can be used inside another device.
- (transitive) To remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.).
- (dialectal) To avoid; baffle, outwit, shirk.
- remove from the shell
- remove the shucks from
noun
- A fraudster who carries out slamming (fraudulent changes to a customer's service).
- One who takes part in slam-dance.
- (slang, usually "the slammer") Jail, prison.
- One who competes in a poetry slam.
- In the game of Pogs, the heavier piece used to strike the stack of counters.
- One who, or that which, slams.
- A tequila cocktail that is slammed onto a surface to induce fizzing.
- (UK, slang) A slam-door train.
- a person who closes things violently
- a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
noun
- Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle.
- An effective, clever or quick way of doing something.
- (card games) A sequence in which each player plays a card and a winning play is determined.
- (nautical) A sailor's spell of work at the helm, usually two hours long.
- A knot, braid, or plait of hair.
- (slang) A customer or client of a prostitute.
- (heraldry) A representation of arms that is drawn as an outline with labels to indicate colors.
- An entertaining difficult physical action.
- (Western Pennsylvania) A daily period of work, especially in shift-based jobs.
- Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank.
- (slang, vulgar) A term of abuse.
- (slang) A sex act, chiefly one performed for payment; an act of prostitution.
- A single element of a magician's (or any variety entertainer's) act; a magic trick.
- (card games) in a single round, the sequence of cards played by all the players; the high card is the winner
- a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement
- a cunning or deceitful action or device
- a prostitute's customer
- an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent
- an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
- a period of work or duty
adj
verb
noun
adj
verb
noun
- (slang) A cheat, a fraud; an imposition.
- An incising tool that cuts blanks or forms for envelopes, gloves, etc., from leather, paper, or other materials.
- A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding.
- (mining) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein of ore.
- A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp.
- (US, military, slang, uncountable) Information.
- A chisel with a curved blade for cutting or scooping channels, grooves, or holes in wood, stone, etc.
- (slang) An impostor.
- (originally US, colloquial) An act of gouging.
- and edge tool with a blade like a trough for cutting channels or grooves
- the act of gouging
- an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
verb
- (intransitive) To use a gouge.
- (transitive) To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price.
- (transitive) To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge.
- (transitive, intransitive) To dig or scoop (something) out with or as if with a gouge; in particular, to use a thumb to push or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.
- force with the thumb
- make a groove in
- obtain by coercion or intimidation
noun
verb
noun
- (countable, slang) An easy victim for swindling.
- A period of time spent fishing.
- (uncountable) A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
- A cartilaginous fish (class Chondrichthyes).
- (uncountable, slang, sometimes derogatory, sometimes positive) A (feminine) woman. (See also fishy.)
- An instance of seeking something.
- (cartomancy) The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
- (nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
- (countable, poker slang) A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
- (Newfoundland) Cod; codfish.
- A placoderm (paraphyletic class †Placodermi).
- A jawless fish (paraphyletic infraphylum Agnatha).
- (uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.
- (LGBTQ slang, sometimes problematic) A drag queen or transgender woman who looks like a cisgender woman.
- (countable, nautical, military, slang) A torpedo (self-propelled explosive device).
- (prison slang) A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.
- A bony fish (clade Osteichthyes), including tetrapods.
- (Roman Catholicism) An aquatic or semiaquatic animal suitable for consumption during fasting on Fridays during Lent.
- (Jamaica, offensive, derogatory) A male homosexual; a gay man.
- (cellular automata, rare) A spaceship.
- (countable) A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
- A spiny shark (paraphyletic class †Acanthodii)
- (countable, nautical) A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
- any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
- the flesh of fish used as food
verb
- (nautical, transitive) To repair (a spar or mast) by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).
- (intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
- (intransitive, transitive) To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water, or to collect coral or pearls from the bottom of the sea.
- (transitive) To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
- (intransitive) To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
- (nautical, transitive) To hoist the flukes of.
- (fishing, transitive) To use as bait when fishing.
- (transitive) To draw or guide (a wire or cable) by means of fish tape.
- (intransitive, followed by "for" or "around for") To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.
- seek indirectly
- catch or try to catch fish or shellfish
noun
- the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
- a movable barrier used in motor racing; sometimes placed before a dangerous corner to reduce speed as cars pass in single file
- a bridge hand that is void of trumps
- (card games, chiefly bridge) The holding of a hand without trumps, or the hand itself.
- The use of dishonest means or subterfuge to achieve one's (especially political) goals; chicanery, trickery.
- (road transport) A raised area or other obstacle around which vehicles must drive, especially designed to reduce speed.
- (motor racing) A sharp double bend on a racecourse, designed to prevent unsafe speeds; an obstacle creating a curve.
- A quibble, a pedantic or dishonest objection; an act of deception.
verb
noun
- the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
- shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
- the quality of being crafty
- Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.
- Alternative form of gyle.
- (uncountable) Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.
verb
noun
- the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
- reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others
- (countable, chiefly in the plural) singular of shenanigans: a deceitful confidence trick; also, an act of mischief; a prank, a trick; an act of mischievous play, especially by children.
verb
noun
- the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
- verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
- (uncountable) Artifice; the use of one or more stratagems.
- (countable, uncountable) Deception, deceit or underhanded behavior.
- (uncountable) The art of dressing up; imposture, pretense.
noun
- the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
- someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
- weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat
- a deception for profit to yourself
- weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
- (uncountable) The weed cheatgrass.
- (countable) Someone who cheats.
- (card games, uncountable) A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
- (countable) An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.
- (video games, countable) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.
verb
- engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
- be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
- defeat someone through trickery or deceit
- deprive somebody of something by deceit
- (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner; to commit adultery, or to engage in sexual or romantic conduct with a person other than one's partner in contravention of the rules of society or agreement in the relationship.
- (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.
- (informal, intransitive) To disregard self-imposed restrictions or commitments in favour of resting or indulging oneself.
- (transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.
- (transitive) To avoid a seemingly inevitable thing.
noun
- the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
- intentional deception resulting in injury to another person
- a person who makes deceitful pretenses
- something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
- (law) The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.
- The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
- Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved or unlawful gain.
- A person who performs any such trick.
noun
- the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
- a set of clothing (with accessories)
- gear used in fishing
- formation of masts, spars, sails, etc., on a vessel
- a truck consisting of a tractor and trailer together
- gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise
- a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses
- A promiscuous woman.
- (slang) Equipment used for taking recreational drugs.
- (slang, computing) A personal computer, typically one modified for looks.
- The special apparatus used for drilling wells.
- (US) A large truck, especially a semi-trailer truck.
- (algebra, ring theory) An algebraic structure similar to a ring, but without the requirement that every element have an additive inverse.
- (slang) Radio equipment, especially a citizen's band transceiver.
- (nautical) The rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft.
- An imperfectly castrated horse, sheep etc.
- (informal) A costume or an outfit.
- (Northern England, Scotland, dialect) A ridge.
- Special equipment or gear used for a particular purpose.
- (animation) A model outfitted with parameterized controls for animation.
verb
- equip with sails or masts
- manipulate in a fraudulent manner
- connect or secure to
- arrange the outcome of by means of deceit
- (transitive, intransitive, animation) To outfit a model with controls for animation.
- (transitive, manufacturing) To move (a heavy object) with the help of slings, hoists, block and tackle, levers, or similar equipment.
- (transitive) To manipulate something dishonestly for personal gain or discriminatory purposes.
- (transitive) To make or construct something in haste or in a makeshift manner.
- (transitive, informal) To dress or clothe in some costume.
- (transitive, nautical) To equip and fit (a ship) with sails, shrouds, and yards.
noun
- (US) A swindler.
- A Sharpie or other brand of felt-tipped marker pen.
- (birdwatching, US) Clipping of sharp-shinned hawk.
- (Australia) A member of a violent, fashionably dressed youth gang of the 1960s and 1970s.
- (US) A long, narrow fishing boat used in shallow waters.
- (US, regional) A knowledgeable fisherman.
- (colloquial) An alert person.
- (birdwatching, Australia, New Zealand) Clipping of sharp-tailed sandpiper.
- a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games
- a shallow-draft sailboat with a sharp prow, flat bottom, and triangular sail; formerly used along the northern Atlantic coast of the United States
- an alert and energetic person
noun
- (slang) Something unfairly expensive, a rip-off.
- (slang) A comical, embarrassing, or hypocritical event or action.
- (chiefly in the plural) A tract of broken water (in a river or stream), particularly one which is not as rough as rapids.
- (slang) A fart.
- (UK, Eton College) A black mark given for substandard schoolwork.
- (Canada, slang) A joyride.
- A tear (in paper, etc.).
- (Scotland) A handful of unthreshed grain.
- Ellipsis of ripsaw (“saw for cutting wood along its grain”).
- (Australia, New Zealand) A rip current: a strong outflow of surface water, away from the shore, that returns water from incoming waves.
- (slang) A hit (dose) of marijuana.
- (computing, slang) Data or audio copied from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc. to a hard drive, portable device, etc.
- (music, informal) A kind of glissando leading up to the main note to be played.
- (demoscene, slang) Something ripped off or stolen; a work resulting from plagiarism.
- a dissolute man in fashionable society
- the act of rending or ripping or splitting something
- a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current
- an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
intj
verb
- (intransitive, surfing, slang) To surf extremely well.
- To move or act fast; to rush headlong.
- (intransitive, figurative) To move quickly and destructively.
- (slang) To take a hit, dose or shot of a drug (such as marijuana) or alcohol.
- (transitive, slang, computing) To copy data from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc., to a hard drive, portable device, etc.
- (transitive) To get by, or as if by, cutting or tearing.
- (woodworking) To cut wood along (parallel to) the grain.
- (transitive, slang, chiefly demoscene) To steal; to rip off.
- (transitive) To divide or separate the parts of (especially something flimsy, such as paper or fabric), by cutting or tearing; to tear off or out by violence.
- (transitive) To remove violently or wrongly.
- (intransitive, slang) To be very good; rock
- (intransitive) To tear apart; to rapidly become two parts.
- (slang) To fart audibly.
- (transitive, sometimes US, slang) To mock or criticize (someone or something). (often used with on and into)
- move precipitously or violently
- tear or be torn violently
- cut (wood) along the grain
- criticize or abuse strongly and violently
- take without the owner's consent
noun
- (informal) A scam; a fraud or swindle.
- A violinist, or fiddler, in a band.
- (informal) A workaround; a quick and less than perfect solution for some flaw or problem.
- A rack for drying pottery after glazing.
- (figurative) A clown; an unserious person entertaining a group.
- (especially nautical) Any rail or device that prevents items from sliding off a table, stove, etc. in rough water.
- A violin, a small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin, shoulder, chest or on the upper thigh and played with a bow (see also usage notes below).
- (biology) A dock (Rumex pulcher) with leaves supposed to resemble the musical instrument.
- (usually proscribed) Any of various other bowed stringed instruments, particularly those of the violin family when played non-classically.
- (informal) An act of tinkering, playing around, or fidgeting with something.
- A long pole pulled by a draft animal to drag loose straw, hay, etc.
- bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow
intj
verb
- (informal, intransitive) Synonym of tinker (“to make small adjustments or improvements”); see also fiddle with.
- (informal, transitive) To fraudulently manipulate (records, accounts, etc.) in order to cheat or swindle.
- (intransitive) To fidget or play; to fuss; to idly amuse oneself, to act aimlessly, idly, or frivolously, particularly out of nervousness or restlessness; see also fiddle with.
- (intransitive) To play the fiddle or violin, particularly in a folk or country style.
- play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly
- commit fraud and steal from one's employer
- avoid (one's assigned duties)
- play on a violin
- try to fix or mend
- manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination
- play the violin or fiddle
noun
- An illegal scheme for profit; a fraud or swindle; or both coinstantiated.
- (informal) Any industry or enterprise.
- (countable, sports) An implement with a handle connected to a round frame strung with wire, sinew, or plastic cords, and used to hit a ball, such as in tennis or a shuttlecock in badminton.
- A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to allow walking on marshy or soft ground.
- A loud noise.
- (Canada) A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.
- an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit
- a loud and disturbing noise
- a sports implement (usually consisting of a handle and an oval frame with a tightly interlaced network of strings) used to strike a ball (or shuttlecock) in various games
- the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience
verb
noun
- (slang) A cheating trick; a fraud.
- A seabird of the genus Larus or of the subfamily Larinae.
- One easily cheated; a dupe.
- Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Cepora.
- (dialectal) A channel made by a stream; a natural watercourse; running water.
- A stupid animal.
- (dialectal) A breach or hole made by the force of a torrent; fissure, chasm.
- a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
- mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs
verb
verb
- (British) To swindle; to extort.
- (British, Australia, real estate) To buy a property by bidding more than the price of an existing, accepted offer.
- (British, Australia, real estate) To raise the selling price of something (especially property) after previously agreeing to a lower one.
- (British, Australia) To trump or preempt; to reap the benefit underhandedly from a situation that someone else has worked to create.
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- raise the price of something after agreeing on a lower price
noun
verb
- (slang, transitive) To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
- (slang) To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
- (computer graphics, video games, ambitransitive) To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).
- To curtail; to cut short.
- (dialectal, informal) To strike with the hand.
- To fasten with a clip.
- To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
- (slang, transitive) to grab or take stealthily.
- (computer graphics) To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
- To make a clip; to cut a section of video from a film, broadcast, or other longer video.
- To grip tightly.
- (signal processing) To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
- (surgery, transitive) To treat (an aneurysm) by closing it off with a physical clip.
- To hit or strike, especially in passing.
- (slang) To assassinate; to bump off.
- (American football) To perform an illegal tackle, throwing the body across the back of an opponent's leg or hitting him from the back below the waist while moving up from behind unless the opponent is a runner or the action is in close line play.
- run at a moderately swift pace
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- sever or remove by pinching or snipping
- terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent
- attach with a clip
noun
- A short piece of audio (shortened version of audio clip, or alternatively clipping of audio).
- (military, colloquial) A removable magazine of a firearm.
- Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
- A newspaper clipping.
- (uncountable, Geordie) The condition of something, its state.
- (military) A frame containing a number of rounds of ammunition which is intended to be inserted into an internal magazine of a firearm to allow for rapid reloading.
- Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:
- The product of a single shearing of sheep.
- An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
- A section of video taken from a film, broadcast, or other longer video.
- A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; a toe clip or beak.
- (fishing, UK, Scotland) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
- An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace.
- A season's crop of wool.
- (informal) A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)
- a sharp slanting blow
- an article of jewelry that can be clipped onto a hat or dress
- a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun
- the act of clipping or snipping
- an instance or single occasion for some event
- any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together
verb
adj
noun
- (in plural as chances) probability; possibility.
- (countable) An opportunity or possibility.
- (countable) The probability of something happening.
- (uncountable) Random occurrence; luck.
- a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances
- a risk involving danger
- an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
- a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible
- the possibility of future success
verb
- (US, circus slang) To use any means to take the money of participants in a circus gaming attraction.
- To knock an object, usually a ball, away from oneself.
- To avoid by diverting the focus of a discussion.
- (US, baseball, of a batter) To use one's own judgment to aggressively swing at pitches, rather than following a coaches instructions.
adj
- Rigged; fraudulently prearranged.
- Repaired.
- (dialectal, informal) Surgically rendered sterile (e.g. spayed, neutered, or castrated).
- Unable to move; unmovable.
- (law, of sound) Recorded on a permanent medium.
- Supplied with what one needs.
- (astrology) Being one of the signs Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius, associated with stability, permanence, and preservation.
- (chemistry) Chemically stable.
- (of a problem) Resolved; corrected.
- Attached; affixed.
- Unlikely to change; stable.
- Unable to change or vary.
- securely placed or fastened or set
- (of a number) having a fixed and unchanging value
- fixed and unmoving
- incapable of being changed or moved or undone; e.g. ‘frozen prices’
verb
adj
- fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
- (UK, Ireland, vulgar) Very unpleasant.
- Of or like a bastard (bad person).
- Of or like a mongrel, bastardized creature/cross.
- Spurious, lacking authenticity: counterfeit, fake.
- (of a language) Imperfect; not spoken or written well or in the classical style; broken.
- (theater lighting) 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).
- 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.
- (printing) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.
- Of or like a bastard (illegitimate human descendant).
noun
- derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin
- the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents
- insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous
- (informal) A child who does not know their father.
- A sword that is midway in length between a short-sword and a long sword; also bastard sword.
- (informal) Something extremely difficult or unpleasant to deal with.
- A kind of sweet wine.
- A mongrel (biological cross between different breeds, groups or varieties).
- (vulgar, offensive or derogatory, usually referring specifically to a man) A contemptible, inconsiderate, overly or arrogantly rude or spiteful person.
- A large mould for straining sugar.
- A variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin, fake or counterfeit.
- A writing paper of a particular size.
- An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from syrups that have been boiled several times.
- A bastard file.
- (UK, politics, derogatory) A Eurosceptic Conservative MP, especially in the government of John Major.
- (often preceded by ‘poor’) A suffering person deemed deserving of compassion.
- (endearing or humorous) A man, a fellow, a male friend.
intj
adj
- fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
- Counterfeit or fake; not genuine.
- (computing, slang) Incorrect, useless, or broken.
- (slang) Undesirable or harmful.
- (philately) Of a totally fictitious issue printed for collectors, often issued on behalf of a non-existent territory or country (not to be confused with forgery, which is an illegitimate copy of a genuine stamp).
- Based on false or misleading information or unjustified assumptions.
noun
adj
noun
- something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be
- (football) a deceptive move made by a football player
- a person who makes deceitful pretenses
- (sports) A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.
- Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
- (nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
verb
- speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths
- make a copy of with the intent to deceive
- tamper, with the purpose of deception
- (transitive) To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.
- (nautical) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form, to prevent twisting when running out.
- (transitive) To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
- (music, ambitransitive) To improvise, in jazz.
adj
noun
- a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives
- (informal) A person who assumes an identity or quality other than their own.
- (informal) Anything fraudulent or fake.
- (informal) A person who professes beliefs or opinions that they do not hold.
verb
noun
- Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle.
- An effective, clever or quick way of doing something.
- (card games) A sequence in which each player plays a card and a winning play is determined.
- (nautical) A sailor's spell of work at the helm, usually two hours long.
- A knot, braid, or plait of hair.
- (slang) A customer or client of a prostitute.
- (heraldry) A representation of arms that is drawn as an outline with labels to indicate colors.
- An entertaining difficult physical action.
- (Western Pennsylvania) A daily period of work, especially in shift-based jobs.
- Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank.
- (slang, vulgar) A term of abuse.
- (slang) A sex act, chiefly one performed for payment; an act of prostitution.
- A single element of a magician's (or any variety entertainer's) act; a magic trick.
- (card games) in a single round, the sequence of cards played by all the players; the high card is the winner
- a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement
- a cunning or deceitful action or device
- a prostitute's customer
- an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent
- an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
- a period of work or duty