strike
fly
jump
drama queen
lash out
descend
inject
burst
ill
explode
rark up
endangering
hit with
convulsive
rush
fret
coup de force
trigger-happy
chimp out
go rogue
kick
look for trouble
cusp
stick the knife in
roughhouse
roar
let loose
stabby
raise Cain
volatile
boil over
egressively
blow
go it blind
besetting
contort
sow dragon's teeth
ask for it
flash
villainy
bacchanalize
awfulize
fool with
menace
hullabaloo
throw
get something over with
affray
bully
play out
slam-bang
slap-bang
run at
pop one's cork
stram
tempt
spit
maraud
assault
prowl
strain a point
voluptuate
go apeshit
switch
break out
hit out
rampage
audacious
wade in
trouble
violently
provocation
drastic
lurch
have blood on one's hands
trigger point
shunt
vamper
mop the floor with someone
lunge
crop up
provokingly
provocatively
victimization
sally out
arrestingly
run around like a chicken with its head cut off
snap
lay for
fray
slash
provocate
round on
rip up
sally forth
kerfuffle
spring up
convulsive
trigger-happy
stabby
volatile
audacious
drastic
egressively
slam-bang
slap-bang
violently
provokingly
provocatively
arrestingly
endangering
coup de force
blow
besetting
villainy
affray
assault
trouble
provocation
lurch
trigger point
lunge
victimization
strike
fly
jump
drama queen
lash out
descend
inject
burst
ill
explode
rark up
hit with
rush
fret
chimp out
go rogue
kick
look for trouble
cusp
stick the knife in
roughhouse
roar
let loose
raise Cain
boil over
go it blind
contort
sow dragon's teeth
ask for it
flash
bacchanalize
awfulize
fool with
menace
hullabaloo
throw
get something over with
bully
play out
run at
pop one's cork
stram
tempt
spit
maraud
prowl
strain a point
voluptuate
go apeshit
switch
break out
hit out
rampage
wade in
have blood on one's hands
shunt
vamper
mop the floor with someone
crop up
sally out
run around like a chicken with its head cut off
snap
lay for
fray
slash
provocate
round on
rip up
sally forth
kerfuffle
spring up
verb
- To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.
- To hit.
- To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
- To create an impression.
- To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
- To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.
- To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
- To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)
- To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.
- To balance (a ledger or account).
- To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).
- To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
- To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.
- To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
- To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
- To impress, seem or appear (to).
- To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
- To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.
- To impinge upon.
- To discover a source of something, often a buried raw material such as ore (especially gold) or crude oil.
- To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
- To touch; to act by appulse.
- To manufacture, as by stamping.
- To make and ratify.
- To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
- To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
- To cause to ignite by friction.
- To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
- To set off on a walk or trip.
- To score a goal.
- To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
- To punish; to afflict; to smite.
- To carry out a violent or illegal action.
- To unfasten, to loosen (chains, bonds, etc.).
- To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions.
noun
- A nibble on the bait by a fish.
- In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
- The strike plate of a door.
- A cancellation postmark.
- An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
- The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
- An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
- A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.
- The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
- The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
- A blow or application of physical force against something.
- A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
- The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth.
- The discovery of a source of something.
- A puddler's stirrer.
verb
- To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly.
- To be in the winged adult stage.
- To hunt with a hawk.
- To travel or proceed very fast; to hasten.
- To be accepted, come about or work out.
- To proceed with great success.
- To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.
- To display (a flag) on a flagpole.
- To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground (verb) and line (verb).
- To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.
adj
noun
- A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power printing press for doing the same work.
- A wing.
- A type of small, light, fast horse-drawn carriage that can be hired for transportation (sometimes pluralised flys).
- Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.
- A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.
- The butterfly stroke (plural is normally flys).
- A strip of material (sometimes hiding zippers or buttons) at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, underpants, bootees, etc.
- Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges).
- A butterfly (combination of four options).
- An act of flying.
- One of the upper screens of a stage in a theatre.
- The person who took the printed sheets from the press.
- A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent.
- The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
- waste cotton
- Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless species), also called true flies.
- A simple dance in which the hands are shaken in the air, popular in the 1960s.
- An exercise that involves wide opening and closing of the arms perpendicular to the shoulders.
- A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest. (also flye)
- Any similar, but not closely related insect, such as a dragonfly or butterfly.
- That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
- In a knitting machine, the piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch..
- The free edge of a flag.
- The horizontal length of a flag.
- A fly ball.
- The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
- Related terms: flyman
- A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
verb
- To attack suddenly and violently.
- To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap.
- To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
- To bore with a jumper.
- To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it.
- To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
- To jump-start a car or other vehicle with a dead battery, as with jumper cables.
- To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
- To cause to jump.
- To employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position to another passing over the position of another piece.
- To engage in sexual intercourse with (a person).
- To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
- To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
- To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.
- To join by a buttweld.
- To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
- To increase sharply, to rise, to shoot up.
- To move to a position (in a queue/line) that is further forward.
- To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.
noun
- An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
- An object which causes one to jump; a ramp.
- An abrupt increase in the height of the surface of a flowing liquid at the location where the flow transitions from supercritical to subcritical, involving an abrupt reduction in flow speed and increase in turbulence.
- A kind of loose jacket for men.
- An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
- A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards).
- A jumping move in a board game.
- An early start or an advantage.
- An effort; an attempt; a venture.
- A change of the path of execution to a different location.
- An instance of propelling oneself upwards.
- A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.
- An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
- An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.
- An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
- A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
- An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
- Synonym of one-night stand (“single evening's performance”)
- The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
verb
- To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.
- To move toward the south, or to the southward.
- To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
- to proceed by generation or by transmission; to happen by inheritance.
- To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of
- to be derived (from)
- To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, for example by falling, flowing, walking, climbing etc.
- To enter mentally; to retire.
- To come down, as from a source, original, or stock
- To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or rank; to lower or abase oneself
- And on the suitors let thy wrath descend.
- To pass from the more general or important to the specific or less important matters to be considered.
verb
- To introduce (something) suddenly or violently.
- To introduce (code) into an existing program or its memory space, often without tight integration and sometimes through a security vulnerability.
- To take or be administered something by means of injection, especially medicine or drugs.
- To administer an injection to (someone or something), especially of medicine or drugs.
- To push or pump (something, especially fluids) into a cavity or passage.
- To introduce or add (something that is different or foreign).
verb
- To interrupt suddenly in a violent or explosive manner; to shatter.
- To cause to break from internal pressure.
- To break from internal pressure.
- To separate (printer paper) at perforation lines.
- To produce as an effect of bursting.
- To erupt; to change state suddenly as if bursting.
- To enter or exit hurriedly and unexpectedly.
noun
verb
noun
- A physical ailment; an illness.
- Harm or injury.
- PCP, phencyclidine.
- Evil; moral wrongfulness.
- Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.
adj
- Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick.
- Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way.
- Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel.
- Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.
- Having an urge to vomit.
- Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard.
adv
verb
- To make a violent or emotional outburst.
- To destroy with an explosion.
- To break (a delimited string of text) into several smaller strings by removing the separators.
- To decompress (data) that was previously imploded.
- To destroy violently or abruptly.
- Of a die, to produce the highest face result and consequently reroll.
- To fly apart with sudden violent force; to blow up, to burst, to detonate, to go off.
- To ejaculate.
- To open all doors and hatches on an automobile.
- To create an exploded view of.
- To increase suddenly.
verb
- To make a swift or sudden attack.
- To run directly at another player in order to block or disrupt play.
- To flow or move forward rapidly or noisily.
- To swiftly attack without warning.
- To play at a faster tempo than one is supposed to or than the other musicians one is playing with, or to inadvertently gradually increase tempo while one is playing.
- To dribble rapidly.
- To hurry; to perform a task with great haste.
- To roquet an object ball to a particular location on the lawn.
- To attempt to join a fraternity or sorority, often involving a hazing or initiation process.
- To cause to move or act with unusual haste.
- To transport or carry quickly.
- To attack (an opponent) with a large swarm of units.
noun
- The merest trifle; a straw.
- A person attempting to join a fraternity or sorority as part of a rush.
- The stem of such plants used in making baskets, mats, the seats of chairs, etc.
- A regulated period of recruitment in fraternities and sororities.
- A roquet in which the object ball is sent to a particular location on the lawn.
- The act of running at another player to block or disrupt play.
- General haste.
- A sudden attack; an onslaught.
- A surge.
- Any of several stiff plants of the genus Juncus, or the family Juncaceae, having hollow or pithy stems and small flowers, and often growing in marshes or near water.
- A sudden forward motion.
- A sudden, brief exhilaration, for instance the pleasurable sensation produced by a stimulant.
- A wick.
- The strategy of attacking an opponent with a large swarm of weak units, rather than spending time developing their abilities.
- A rapid, noisy flow.
adj
verb
- To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
- To be anxious, to worry.
- To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work.
- In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
- To press down the string behind a fret.
- To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.
- To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.
- To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).
- To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
- To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.
- To chafe or irritate; to worry.
- To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
- To form a pattern on; to variegate.
- To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
- To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
noun
- Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
- An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.
- A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.
- The worn sides of riverbanks, where ores or stones containing them accumulate after being washed down from higher ground, which thus indicate to miners the locality of veins of ore.
- A channel or passage created by the sea.
- One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played.
- Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
- Herpes; tetter (“any of various pustular skin conditions”).
- A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
- A channel, a strait; a fretum.
verb
- To begin to behave in an erratic, uncontrolled, dangerous, destructive, or savage way.
- To behave in a very unconventional, independent, uncontrolled, or unauthorized way that ignores rules, norms, or expectations.
- To switch allegiance to, affiliation with, or membership in, a country, political party, employer, club, etc. (for example, as a spy, soldier, politician, employee, club member, etc.).
verb
- To move or push suddenly and violently.
- To direct to a particular place by a blow with the foot or leg.
- To recoil; to push by recoiling.
- To be emphatically excellent.
- To make a sharp jerking movement of the leg, as to strike something.
- To show opposition or resistance.
- To overcome (a bothersome or difficult issue or obstacle); to free oneself of (a problem).
- To reset (a watchdog timer).
- To accelerate quickly with a few pedal strokes in an effort to break away from other riders.
- To eject summarily.
- To reproach oneself for making a mistake or missing an opportunity.
- To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg.
- To attack (a piece) in order to force it to move.
- To die.
- To forcibly remove a participant from an online activity.
- To work a press by impact of the foot on a treadle.
noun
- Something that tickles the fancy; something fun or amusing.
- Any bucking motion of an object that lacks legs or feet.
- A pass played by kicking with the foot.
- The recoil of a gun.
- Synonym of kicker (“backlight positioned at an angle”)
- A hit or strike with the leg, foot or knee.
- The removal of a person from an online activity.
- A stimulation provided by an intoxicating substance.
- The distance traveled by kicking the ball.
- Piquancy.
- A pocket.
- The action of swinging a foot or leg.
- An increase in speed in the final part of a running race.
verb
noun
- A point made by the intersection of two curved lines or curved structures, a common motif in Gothic architecture.
- Any of the pointed parts of a canine tooth or molar.
- A point of transition.
- A flap of a valve of a heart or blood vessel.
- A boundary between zodiacal signs and houses.
- A point of a curve where the curve is continuous but has no derivative, but such that it has a derivative at every nearby point.
- A sharp point or pointed end.
- An important moment when a decision is made that will determine future events.
adj
- Quick to become angry or violent.
- Explosive.
- Temporary or ephemeral.
- Variable or erratic.
- Fickle.
- Whose content is lost when the computer is powered down
- Having its associated memory immediately updated with any changes in value.
- Potentially violent.
- Evaporating or vaporizing readily under normal conditions.
noun
noun
- A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
- Synonym of button (“the punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene”)
- Cocaine.
- An instance of using high-pressure air to empty water from the ballast tanks of a submarine, increasing the submarine's buoyancy and causing it to surface.
- A damaging occurrence.
- Cannabis.
- A mass or display of flowers; a yield.
- An outcrop of quartz from surrounding rock, thought to indicate mineral deposits below.
- A bloom, state of flowering.
- A strong wind.
- The act of striking or hitting.
- A blowjob; fellatio.
- A display of anything brilliant or bright.
- Heroin.
- A chance to catch one's breath.
- A cut made to a sheep's fleece by a shearer using hand-shears.
adj
verb
- (used to express displeasure or frustration) Damn.
- To create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles, to blow glass.
- To flatulate or defecate.
- To produce an air current.
- To fail at something; to mess up; to make a mistake.
- To propel by an air current (or, if under water, a water current), usually with the mouth.
- To fellate; to perform oral sex on (usually a man).
- To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.
- (of a fly) To lay eggs; to breed.
- To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
- To be propelled by an air current.
- To sing.
- To blow from a gun.
- To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
- To make a sound as the result of being blown.
- To clear of contents by forcing air through.
- To cause the sudden destruction of.
- To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
- To direct or move, usually of a person to a particular location.
- To burst or explode; to occur suddenly
- To leave, especially suddenly or in a hurry.
- To suddenly fail destructively.
- To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while feeding.
- To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
- To be very undesirable.
- To leave the Church of Scientology in an unauthorized manner.
- To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
- To recklessly squander.
- To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly destroyed.
verb
- To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
- To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
- To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
- To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
- To burst out into violence.
- To send by some startling or sudden means.
- To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
- To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.)
- To expand (blown glass) into a disc.
- To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
- To expose one's intimate body part or piece of clothing, often momentarily. (Contrast streak.)
- To write to the memory of (an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge).
- To cause to shine briefly or intermittently.
- To perform a flash.
- To be visible briefly.
- To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
- To make visible briefly.
- To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
- To communicate quickly.
adj
- Occurring very rapidly, almost instantaneously.
- Expensive-looking and demanding attention; stylish; showy.
- Having plenty of ready money.
- Liable to show off expensive possessions or money.
noun
- A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood by the ruling class.
- The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
- A pool.
- Pizzazz, razzle-dazzle.
- Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
- A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
- The (intentional or unintentional) exposure of an intimate body part or undergarment in public.
- Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genera Artipe, Deudorix and Rapala.
- A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.
- A brief exposure or making visible (of a smile, badge, etc).
- A form of military insignia.
- A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
- A flashlight; an electric torch.
- The sudden sensation of being "high" after taking a recreational drug.
- A very short amount of time.
- A tattoo flash (example design on paper to give an idea of a possible tattoo).
- A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.
verb
- to put into a state or activity hastily, suddenly, or carelessly
- propel through the air
- move violently, energetically, or carelessly
- to remove
- place or put with great energy
- convey or communicate; of a smile, a look, a physical gesture
- cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation
- put or send forth
- cause to be confused emotionally
- utter with force; utter vehemently
- organize or be responsible for
- make on a potter's wheel
- cause to fall off
- throw (a die) out onto a flat surface
- be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
noun
- the act of throwing (propelling something with a rapid movement of the arm and wrist)
- a single chance or instance
- the maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam
- bedclothes consisting of a lightweight cloth covering (an afghan or bedspread) that is casually thrown over something
- casting an object in order to determine an outcome randomly
verb
intj
noun
- A noisy, blustering, tyrannical person, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome.
- The small scrum in the Eton College field game.
- A standoff between two players from the opposing teams, who repeatedly hit each other's hockey sticks and then attempt to acquire the ball, as a method of resuming the game in certain circumstances. Also called bully-off.
- A hired thug.
- A miner's hammer.
- A sex worker’s minder.
- A companion; mate (male or female).
- A person who is intentionally physically or emotionally cruel to others, especially to those whom they perceive as being vulnerable or of less power or privilege.
- Bully beef.
- Any of various small freshwater or brackishwater fish of the family Eleotridae; sleeper gobies. , Gobiomorphus cotidianus]]
adj
verb
- To utter (something) violently.
- To dig, to spade.
- To use a spit to cook; to attend to food that is cooking on a spit.
- To dig (something) using a spade; also, to turn (the soil) using a plough.
- To impale on a spit; to pierce with a sharp object.
- To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.
- To rap, to utter.
- To plant (something) using a spade.
- (in the form spitting) To spit facts; to tell the truth.
- To emit or expel in a manner similar to evacuating saliva from the mouth.
- To make a spitting sound, like an angry cat.
- To rain or snow slightly.
noun
- An instance of spitting; specifically, a light fall of rain or snow.
- Synonym of slam (“card game”)
- A thin metal or wooden rod on which meat is skewered for cooking, often over a fire.
- A person who exactly resembles someone else (usually in set phrases; see spitting image).
- A generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula.
- Saliva, especially when expectorated.
- The amount of soil that a spade holds; a spadeful.
- The depth to which the blade of a spade goes into the soil when it is used for digging; a layer of soil of the depth of a spade's blade.
noun
- The crime whose action is such an attempt.
- A non-competitive combat between two fencers.
- A violent onset or attack with physical means, for example blows, weapons, etc.
- A violent verbal attack, for example with insults, criticism, and the like
- An act that causes someone to apprehend imminent bodily harm (such as brandishing a weapon).
- An attempt to commit battery: a violent attempt, or willful effort with force or violence, to do hurt to another, but without necessarily touching the person, such as by raising a fist in a threatening manner, or by striking at the person and missing.
- The tort whose action is such an act.
verb
verb
- To get angry suddenly; to quickly or unreasonably become enraged.
- To trim.
- To change places, tasks, etc.
- To take on the opposite role (leader vs. follower) in a partner dance.
- To exchange.
- To swing or whisk.
- To change (something) to the specified state using a switch.
- To be swung or whisked.
- To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; generally with off, from, etc.
- To whip or hit with a switch.
- To shift to another circuit.
adj
- Pertaining to skiing backwards.
- Pertaining to riding with the front and back feet swapped round compared to one's normal position.
noun
- A system of specialized relays, computer hardware, or other equipment which allows the interconnection of a calling party's telephone line with any called party's line.
- A variant of crazy eights where one card, such as an ace, reverses the direction of play.
- A separate mass or tress of hair, or of some substance (such as jute) made to resemble hair, formerly worn on the head by women.
- A command line notation allowing specification of optional behavior.
- Synonym of rute.
- A movable section of railroad track which allows the train to be directed down one of two destination tracks; (set of) points.
- A device to turn electric current on and off or direct its flow.
- A mechanism within DNA that activates or deactivates a gene.
- A change or exchange.
- One who is willing to take either a submissive or a dominant role in a sexual relationship.
- A networking device connecting multiple wires, allowing them to communicate simultaneously, when possible. Compare to the less efficient hub device that solely duplicates network packets to each wire.
- A slender woody plant stem used as a whip; a thin, flexible rod, associated with corporal punishment in the United States.
- A programming construct that takes different actions depending on the value of an expression.
noun
- A violent occurrence or event.
- A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
- A fault or interruption in a stratum.
- A malfunction.
- Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
- Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
- Wife. Clipping of trouble and strife.
- A distressing or dangerous situation.
verb
verb
- To cause to move (suddenly), as by pushing or shoving; to give a (sudden) start to.
- To have a minor collision, especially in a motor car.
- To move data in memory to a physical disk.
- To divert the flow of a body fluid.
- To carry on arbitrage between the London stock exchange and provincial stock exchanges.
- To provide with a shunt.
- To divert to a less important place, position, or state.
- To move a train from one track to another, or to move carriages, etc. from one train to another.
- To divert electric current by providing an alternative path.
noun
- A switch on a railway used to move a train from one track to another.
- An act of moving (suddenly), as due to a push or shove.
- An abnormal passage between body channels.
- The shifting of the studs on a projectile from the deep to the shallow sides of the grooves in its discharge from a shunt gun.
- A passage between body channels constructed surgically as a bypass; a tube inserted into the body to create such a passage.
- A minor collision between vehicles.
- A connection used as an alternative path between parts of an electrical circuit.
verb
- To cause to move suddenly and smartly.
- To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension.
- To say abruptly or sharply.
- To jump to a fixed position relative to another element.
- To snatch with or as if with the teeth.
- To flash or appear to flash as with light.
- To snap one's fingers: to make a snapping sound, often by pressing the thumb and an opposing finger of the same hand together and suddenly releasing the grip so that the finger hits against the palm; alternatively, by bringing the index finger quickly down onto the middle finger and thumb.
- To attempt to seize or bite with the teeth, beak, etc.
- To send a visual message through the Snapchat application.
- To cause something to emit a snapping sound, especially by closing it rapidly.
- To take a photograph; to release a camera's shutter (which may make a snapping sound).
- To attempt to seize with eagerness.
- To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack.
- To give way abruptly and loudly.
- To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose.
- To fracture or break apart suddenly.
- To close something using a snap as a fastener.
- To put (a football) in play by a backward pass or handoff from its position on the ground; to hike (a football).
- To speak abruptly or sharply.
- To misfire.
- To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound.
- To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).
intj
- The cry used in a game of snap when winning a hand.
- "I've got one the same!", "Me too!"
- Ritual utterance used after something is said by two people at exactly the same time.
- Used in place of expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement or news; often used facetiously.
- Ritual utterance of agreement (after the cry in the card game snap).
noun
- A crisp or pithy quality; epigrammatic point or force.
- A tool used by riveters.
- A tool used by glass-moulders.
- A card game, primarily for children, in which players cry "snap" to claim pairs of matching cards as they are turned up.
- A thin circular cookie or similar baked good.
- A snap bean such as Phaseolus vulgaris.
- Something of no value.
- A quick offhand shot with a firearm; a snap shot.
- A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.
- The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.
- A visual message sent through the Snapchat application.
- A rivet: a scrapbooking embellishment.
- That which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement; hence, a bite, morsel, or fragment; a scrap.
- A small meal, a snack; lunch.
- Something that is easy or effortless.
- A very short period of time (figuratively, the time taken to snap one's fingers), or a task that can be accomplished in such a period.
- A small device resembling a safety pin, used to attach the bait or lure to the line.
- A brief, sudden period of a certain weather; used primarily in the phrase cold snap.
- briskness; vigour; energy; decision
- An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab.
- A backward pass or handoff of a football from its position on the ground that puts the ball in play; a hike.
- The act of snapping the fingers; making a sound by pressing a finger against the thumb and suddenly releasing to strike the hand.
- A fastening device that makes a snapping sound when used.
- A sudden break.
- A photograph; a snapshot.
- A snapper, or snap beetle.
- A newsflash.
- jounce (the fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time), followed by crackle and pop
- A package provided for the application sandboxing system snapd developed by Canonical.
adj
verb
- To make an assault or attack; also, to create a disturbance; to brawl, to fight.
- To force or make (a path, way, etc.) through.
- To rub.
- Often followed by away, off, or out: to frighten or scare (someone or something) away.
- Of a person's mental strength, nerves, temper, etc.: to become exhausted or worn out.
- To assail or attack (someone or something); to drive (someone or something) away by attacking.
- To become unravelled or worn; to unravel.
- To be afraid or frightened; to fear.
- Of a deer: to rub (its antlers or head) against a tree, etc., to remove the velvet from antlers or to mark territory; also, to rub its antlers against (a tree, etc.) for that purpose.
- Of a deer: to rub its antlers against a tree, etc., to remove the velvet or to mark territory.
- To alarm or frighten (someone or something).
- To chase (someone or something) away; to disperse.
- To rub or wear away (something); to cause (something made of strands twisted or woven together, such as cloth or rope) to unravel through friction; also, to irritate (something) through chafing or rubbing; to chafe.
noun
verb
- To move quickly and violently.
- To strike swiftly and laterally with a hockey stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.
- To create slashes in a garment.
- To criticize cuttingly.
- To swing wildly at the ball.
- To clear land, (particularly forestry) with violent action such as logging or brushfires or (agriculture, uncommon) through grazing.
- To produce a similar wound with a savage strike of a whip.
- To write slash fiction.
- To piss, to urinate.
- To work in wet conditions.
- To reduce sharply.
- To strike violently and randomly
- To crack a whip with a slashing motion.
- To cut with a swift broad stroke of an edged weapon.
adv
conj
noun
- A hard swift lateral strike with a hockey or lacrosse stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.
- A swampy area; a swamp.
- A clearing in a forest, (particularly) those made by logging, fire, or other violent action.
- Slash fiction.
- A cut or laceration, often deep, made by an edged weapon or whip.
- A deep taper-pointed incision in a plant.
- A piss: an act of urination.
- Female genitalia.
- A wild swinging strike of the bat.
- A swift, broad, cutting stroke made by an edged weapon or whip.
- A sharp reduction.
- A slit in an outer garment exposing a lining or inner garment, usually of a contrasting color or design; any intentional long vertical cut in a garment.
- The slash mark: the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩, sometimes (often proscribed) inclusive of any mark produced by a similar slashing movement of the pen, as the backslash ⟨\⟩.
- Any similar wide striking motion.
- A large quantity of watery food such as broth.
- The loose woody debris remaining from a slash, (particularly forestry) the trimmings left while preparing felled trees for removal.
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