get one's hooks into
scram
scramb
clapperclaw
grab at
claw
grabbing
reaching
pawing
grabble
in someone's boots
walk in someone's shoes
pull
uncus
pawn
nudging
reach
dontopedalogy
knep
ungular
beat into a cocked hat
bay window
push-penny
potbelly
corporation
pot
tummy
claut
at one's fingers' ends
clawful
draw
ungual
scratch
footnail
kick one's feet up
shoegaze
throw a monkey wrench into the works
clawed
lay down one's weapons
haul
pulling
pathomechanically
pick at
pull at
clawlike
onychotillomania
pluck at
octopus
pick
onychophagy
unguiferous
nip
resoling
beclawed
tugging
handnail
sheathe
lift a finger
scuff
stretch
unguiculated
knead
dactylar
hunch
unguiculate
scrabble
outreaching
nip at
toe
put one's foot in it
outreach
handicraftsmanship
poke
chiropodous
press
grasping
hooking
spurning
stick one's foot in one's mouth
toe-dip
jab
dig
pawer
pignoration
head to foot
feel around
sneaking
thetatron
clawy
splatter
head to tail
ungular
ungual
clawed
clawlike
unguiferous
beclawed
unguiculated
dactylar
unguiculate
chiropodous
clawy
pathomechanically
head to foot
head to tail
grabbing
reaching
pawing
pull
uncus
pawn
nudging
dontopedalogy
bay window
push-penny
potbelly
corporation
pot
tummy
clawful
footnail
shoegaze
haul
pulling
onychotillomania
onychophagy
resoling
tugging
handnail
reach
scuff
stretch
knead
outreaching
outreach
handicraftsmanship
grasping
hooking
spurning
jab
dig
pawer
pignoration
sneaking
thetatron
get one's hooks into
scram
scramb
clapperclaw
grab at
claw
grabble
walk in someone's shoes
reach
knep
beat into a cocked hat
claut
draw
scratch
kick one's feet up
throw a monkey wrench into the works
lay down one's weapons
pick at
pull at
pluck at
octopus
pick
nip
sheathe
lift a finger
hunch
scrabble
nip at
toe
put one's foot in it
poke
press
stick one's foot in one's mouth
toe-dip
feel around
splatter
verb
- To scratch (something) with claws or fingernails; to claw.
- Of a nuclear reactor or some other thing: to shut down, usually because of an emergency.
- To leave in a hurry; to go away.
- To shut down (a nuclear reactor or, by extension, some other thing) for safety reasons, usually because of an emergency.
noun
verb
- To use the claws to seize, to grip.
- To use the claws to climb.
- To scratch or to tear at.
- To perform a claw catch.
- To move with one's fingertips.
noun
- The pincer (chela) of a crustacean or other arthropod.
- A curved, pointed horny nail on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.
- A mechanical device resembling a claw, used for gripping or lifting.
- A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, such as the base of petals of the pink.
- The act of catching a ball overhand.
- A human fingernail, particularly one extending well beyond the fingertip.
- A foot equipped with such.
verb
- To attempt to grab; to grasp at (something).
- To pull, lift or dig (something) (out of the ground) by searching with one's hands and fingers.
- To catch fish by reaching into the water with one's hand.
- To utter inarticulate sounds, often quickly and loudly; to say (something) quickly, idly or foolishly.
- To search with one's hands and fingers; to attempt to grasp something.
- To touch (someone) with one's hands or fingers, sometimes in a sexual way.
- To pick (something or someone) up hastily, roughly or clumsily.
prep_phrase
noun
- An act of pulling (applying force toward oneself).
- The act of drinking; a mouthful or swig of a drink.
- The situation where a client sends out a request for data from a server, as in server pull, pull technology
- A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended path.
- Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope.
- An attractive force which causes motion towards the source.
- Appeal or attraction (e.g. of a movie star).
- A single impression from a handpress.
- A journey made by rowing.
- A proof sheet.
- An injury resulting from a forceful pull on a limb, etc.; a strain.
- An advantage over somebody; a means of influencing.
- The power to influence someone or something; sway, clout.
- A type of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the on side; a pull shot.
verb
- To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.)
- To obtain (a permit) from a regulatory authority.
- To row.
- To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.
- To do or perform.
- To score a certain number of points in a sport.
- To attract or net; to pull in.
- To pull out from a yard or station; to leave.
- To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force.
- To achieve by rowing on a rowing machine.
- To pluck or pick (flowers, fruit etc.).
- To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck.
- To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
- To hold back, and so prevent from winning.
- To remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability.
- To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.
- To persuade (someone) to have sex with one: to be 'on the pull' - looking for a sexual partner.
- To retrieve or generate for use.
- To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward or away from some location or target.
- To take a swig or mouthful of drink.
- To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).
- To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned.
intj
noun
- An instance of pawning something.
- A gallery.
- Someone who is being manipulated or used to some end.
- A pawnshop; pawnbroker.
- The state of being held as security for a loan, or as a pledge.
- The most numerous chess piece, or a similar piece in a similar game. In chess, each side starts with eight; moves are only forward, and attacks are only diagonally or en passant.
verb
verb
- To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held, so as to touch, strike, grasp, etc.
- To continue living until or up to (a certain age).
- To arrive at a particular destination.
- To stretch out the hand.
- To arrive at a particular destination, especially to join someone; to meet up.
- To strain after something; to make (sometimes futile or pretentious) efforts.
- To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.
- To make contact with.
- To connect with (someone) on an emotional level, making them receptive of (one); to get through to (someone).
- To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
- To arrive at (a place) by effort of any kind.
- To extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut.
- To strike or touch.
- To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another person; to hand over.
- To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
- To extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously (past, beyond, above, from etc. something).
noun
- The act of stretching or extending; extension.
- A stretch of a watercourse which can be sailed in one reach (in the previous sense). An extended portion of water; a stretch; a straightish portion of a stream, river, or arm of the sea extending up into the land, as from one turn to another. By extension, the adjacent land.
- An extended portion or area of land or water.
- Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
- Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled.
- The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
- A level stretch of a watercourse, as between rapids in a river or locks in a canal. (examples?)
- The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity.
- The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.
- The distance traversed between tacks.
- The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown.
- An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch.
noun
- slang for a paunch
- metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep; often has a handle and lid
- a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
- the quantity contained in a pot
- a container in which plants are cultivated
- (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
- the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker)
- a resistor with three terminals, the third being an adjustable center terminal; used to adjust voltages in radios and TV sets
- street names for marijuana
verb
prep_phrase
verb
- To pull (something) in a particular manner or direction.
- To take (air, smoke etc.) into the lungs; to inhale.
- To provoke or attract (a particular response or reaction).
- To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
- To take (water) from a well or other source.
- To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball.
- To receive (a salary); to withdraw (money) from a bank etc.
- To elicit information from (someone); to induce (a person) to speak on some subject. (Now frequently in passive.)
- To pull out, unsheathe (a sword, firearm etc.).
- To make (wire) by pulling it through an aperture; to stretch (metal) into a wire.
- To move steadily in a particular direction or into a specific position.
- To extract (a tooth).
- To take or be dealt a playing card from the deck. See also draw out.
- To call forth (something) from a person, to elicit.
- To take or be dealt (a card) from the deck; to have (a particular hand) as a result of this.
- To make a shot that lands gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones.
- To attract (something) by means of a physical force, especially magnetism or gravity; (figurative) to act as an inducement or enticement.
- To come to, towards (a particular moment in time); to approach (a time).
- To produce (a shape, figure, picture etc.) with pencil, crayon, chalk, or other implement.
- To cause (someone) to come to a particular place, condition, or course of action; to attract (a person).
- To conduct (a lottery); to select (the numbers) for a lottery; to win (a prize) in a lottery.
- To depict (something) linguistically; to portray in words.
- To produce a visual representation of (a person or thing) by lines and marks with pencil, pen, paints etc.
- To drag (a person, thing, or part of the body), especially along the ground.
- To move (a part of one's body) in a particular direction.
- To stretch or elongate.
- To deduce or infer (a conclusion); to make (a deduction).
- To draw up, compose (a document).
- To have a draught; to allow air to be passed through in order to allow for combustion.
- To induce (the mind, eyes, attention etc.) to be directed at or focused on something.
- To cause (something); to bring (something) about as a consequence.
- To become contracted; to shrink.
- To pull (a curtain, blinds etc.) open or closed.
- To assume a specific position or attitude.
- To require (a depth of water) for floating.
- To pull back (the string of a bow) in preparation for shooting.
- To pull (one's face, features) out of shape, from emotion etc.
- Of a sail, to fill with wind.
- To select (an item) at random to decide which of a group of people will receive or undergo something; to select (a person) by this process.
- To disembowel (someone); to remove the viscera from (an animal), especially before cooking.
- To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
- To steep; to leave (tea) temporarily in water to allow the flavour to increase.
- To run (a bath).
- To produce an image of something by artistic means; to make drawings.
- To pull (a belt or other item) so that it tightens or wraps around something more closely.
- To take (something) from a particular source, especially of information; to derive.
- To pull (a plough, vehicle etc.); to cause (something) to move forwards by pulling it.
- To extract (juice, fluids etc.) from something by pressure, osmosis or similar.
- To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.
- To consume (power).
noun
- A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
- The act of drawing.
- The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
- Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
- Cannabis.
- The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.
- The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
- A shot that is intended to land gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones; cf. takeout.
- A bag of cannabis.
- Draft in the sense of the flow through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process, possibly adjustable with a damper.
- The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings before time ran out (as distinguished from a tie).
- A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice, fade.
- In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
- A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary cards for a straight and requires a further card to make their flush or straight.
- The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie.
verb
- To dig or scrape (a person's skin) with claws or fingernails in self-defense or with the intention to injure.
- To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws, etc.
- to get such scratches
- To mark a surface with a sharp object, thereby leaving a scratch (noun).
- To produce a distinctive sound on a turntable by moving a vinyl record back and forth while manipulating the crossfader (see also scratching).
- To irritate someone's skin with one's unshaven beard when kissing.
- To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation; to cause itching.
- To commit a foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
- To write or draw hastily or awkwardly; scrawl.
- To cross out, strike out, strike through some text on a page.
- To dig or excavate with the claws.
- To announce one's non-participation in a race or sports event part of a larger sports meeting that they were previously signed up for, usually in lieu of another event at the same meeting.
- Hence, to remove, ignore, or delete.
noun
- An act of scratching the skin to alleviate an itch or irritation.
- Money.
- A feed, usually a mixture of a few common grains, given to chickens.
- A horse withdrawn from a race prior to the start.
- Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of horses which have been used where it is very wet or muddy.
- A scratch wig.
- A genre of Virgin Islander music, better known as fungi.
- A technical error of touching or surpassing the starting mark prior to the official start signal in the sporting events of long jump, discus, hammer throw, shot put, and similar. Originally the starting mark was a scratch on the ground but is now a board or precisely indicated mark.
- A starting line (originally and simply, a line scratched in the ground), as in boxing.
- Scrawled or illegible handwriting; chicken scratch.
- The last riders to depart in a handicap race.
- A disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching.
- A foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
- An injury.
adj
- Hastily assembled, arranged or constructed, from whatever materials are to hand, with little or no preparation
- For or consisting of preliminary or tentative, incomplete, etc. work.
- Relating to a scratchpad, a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for testing or temporary use.
- (of a player) Of a standard high enough to play without a handicap, i.e. to compete without the benefit of a variation in scoring based on ability.
noun
noun
- An act of hauling or pulling, particularly with force; a (violent) pull or tug.
- An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish, illegal loot, or items purchased on a shopping trip.
- The distance over which something is hauled or transported, especially if long.
- A bundle of many threads to be tarred.
- Four goals scored by one player in a game.
verb
- To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
- To steer (a vessel) closer to the wind.
- Of the wind: to shift fore (more towards the bow).
- To haul ass (“go fast”).
- To drag, to pull, to tug.
- Followed by up: to summon to be disciplined or held answerable for something.
- To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
- To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.
- To draw or pull something heavy.
verb
- To put (or attempt to put) one's fingers, hands or arms in many things or places at roughly the same time.
- To behave like an octopus.
- To hunt and catch octopuses.
- To grow in use vastly beyond what was originally intended.
- To spread out in long arms or legs in many directions.
- To plug a large number of devices into a single electric outlet.
noun
- An organization that has many powerful branches controlled from the centre.
- Any of several marine molluscs of the family Octopodidae, having no internal or external protective shell or bone (unlike the nautilus, squid and cuttlefish) and eight arms each covered with suckers.
- The flesh of these marine molluscs eaten as food.
verb
- To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
- 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 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 seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
- 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 squeeze or pinch.
- To annoy, as by nipping.
- To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.
- To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
- To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
- To taunt.
- To benumb [e.g., cheeks, fingers, nose] by severe cold.
- To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
noun
- A hamburger.
- A more or less gradual thinning out of a stratum.
- Briskly cold weather.
- A playful bite.
- A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
- A small quantity of something edible or a potable liquor.
- A nipple, usually of a woman.
- A pinch with the nails or teeth.
- A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching
- A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
- A short turn in a rope.
- The place of intersection where one roll touches another
- A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
adj
noun
- the act of physically reaching or thrusting out
- a large and unbroken expanse or distance
- a straightaway section of a racetrack
- exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent
- extension to or beyond the ordinary limit
- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
- the capacity for being stretched
adj
verb
- occupy a large, elongated area
- extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
- extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
- become longer by being stretched and pulled
- make long or longer by pulling and stretching
- lie down comfortably
- pull in opposite directions
- extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance
- extend one's body or limbs
noun
verb
- To mix thoroughly; form into a homogeneous compound.
- To treat or form as if by kneading; to beat.
- To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; especially, to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, the materials of bread, cake, etc.
- Of cats, to make an alternating pressing motion with the two front paws.
verb
- To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust against (someone).
- To raise (one's shoulders) (while lowering one's head or bending the top of one's body forward); to curve (one's body) forward (sometimes followed by up).
- To thrust a hump or protuberance out of (something); to crook, as the back.
- To bend the top of one's body forward while raising one's shoulders.
- To walk (somewhere) while hunching one's shoulders.
- To have a hunch, or make an intuitive guess.
noun
verb
- To touch or reach with the toes; to come fully up to.
- To furnish (a stocking, etc.) with a toe.
- To touch, tap or kick with the toes.
- To mishit a golf ball with the toe of the club.
- To fasten (a piece) by driving a fastener at a near-45-degree angle through the side (of the piece) into the piece to which it is to be fastened.
noun
- An advanced form of ballet primarily for the females, dancing ballet primarily using a Pointe shoe.
- An equivalent part in an animal.
- The upper end of the bit (cutting edge) of an axehead; as opposed to the heel (lower end).
- Each of the five digits on the end of the foot.
- Something resembling a toe, especially at the bottom or extreme end of something.
- An alignment of the wheels of a road vehicle, either positive (toe in), meaning the wheels are closer together at the front than at the back, or negative (toe out), the other way round.
- The journal, or pivot, at the lower end of a revolving shaft or spindle, which rests in a step.
- The long side of an angled cut.
- That part of a shoe or sock covering the toe.
- A lateral projection at one end, or between the ends, of a piece, such as a rod or bolt, by means of which it is moved.
- A projection from the periphery of a revolving piece, acting as a cam to lift another piece.
- cameltoe
verb
- To thrust (something) in a particular direction such as the tongue.
- To notify (another user) of activity on social media or an instant messenger.
- To thrust at with the horns; to gore.
- To stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning.
- To prod or jab with an object such as a finger or a stick.
- To put a poke (device to prevent leaping or breaking fences) on (an animal).
- To rummage; to feel or grope around.
- To penetrate in sexual intercourse.
noun
- An old, worn-out horse.
- An ice cream cone.
- A lazy person; a dawdler.
- 1605, William Camden, Remaines Concerning Brittaine, 1629 edition, Proverbes, page 276
- 1627, Michael Drayton, Minor Poems of Michael Drayton, 1907 edition, poem Nimphidia
- A notification sent to get another user's attention on social media or an instant messenger.
- A hit, especially an extra base hit.
- A sack or bag.
- A stupid or uninteresting person.
- A long, wide sleeve.
- A prod, jab, or thrust.
- 1814, September 4, The Examiner, volume 13, number 349, article French Fashions, page 573
- A poke bonnet.
- 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, page 138
- Pokeweed.
- Slices or cubes of raw fish or other raw seafood, mixed with sesame oil, seaweed, sea salt, herbs, spices, or other flavorful ingredients.
- A device to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences, consisting of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed forward.
verb
- To try to force (something upon someone).
- To hasten, urge onward.
- To lay stress upon.
- To throng, crowd.
- To force into service, particularly into naval service.
- To flatten a selected area of fabric using an iron with an up-and-down, not sliding, motion, so as to avoid disturbing adjacent areas.
- To urge, beseech, entreat.
- To reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth.
- To compress, squeeze.
- To activate a button or key by exerting a downward or forward force on it, and then releasing it.
- To force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly.
- To exert weight or force against, to act upon with force or weight; to exert pressure upon.
- To clasp, hold in an embrace.
- To drive or thrust by pressure, to force in a certain direction.
noun
- A printing machine.
- Pure, unfermented grape juice.
- An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the arms or legs.
- In personology, any environmental factor that arouses a need in the individual.
- An instance of applying pressure; an instance of pressing.
- A publisher.
- The print-based media (both the people and the newspapers).
- A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
- An additional bet in a golf match that duplicates an existing (usually losing) wager in value, but begins even at the time of the bet.
- An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard).
- A device used to apply pressure to an item.
noun
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