put up to
set up
play for a fool
egg on
trick
put the change on someone
mislead
dumbass
play silly buggers
put-up job
shanghai
feign
fooling
make a monkey out of
cheat out of
pull a fast one
procure
hocus
mousetrap
banter
party piece
gasface
fooler
bamboozle
play the fool
stroke
hose
sucker
practical joke
put-up
stitch up
nonsensify
double-bluff
do the job
toady
dare
outjig
imposition
come the raw prawn
misbehave
deceit
sell
blot
stain
fake out
hooraw
smirch
hoax
stunting
spot
smear
make a fool of
incentively
bind over
make an ass of
humbug
fraud
put-on
fraudulence
monkeyshine
dupery
tricksome
clown
put one over
self-deception
snow job
act the jennet
con
make
hornswoggle
overpersuade
cowboy
act the maggot
tread on someone's toes
wrongdo
double bluff
weasel
slur
venture
dashing hopes
disappointment
escape
toy with
dodging
blag
passport
challenge
fribble
parlour trick
sussy baka
run counter
evasion
go
attempt
jape
make an exhibition of oneself
juggle
tricksome
incentively
trick
dumbass
put-up job
fooling
party piece
fooler
stroke
practical joke
put-up
imposition
deceit
blot
stain
smirch
hoax
stunting
spot
smear
humbug
fraud
put-on
fraudulence
monkeyshine
dupery
self-deception
snow job
cowboy
double bluff
dashing hopes
disappointment
escape
dodging
blag
passport
challenge
parlour trick
sussy baka
evasion
attempt
jape
put up to
set up
play for a fool
egg on
put the change on someone
mislead
play silly buggers
shanghai
feign
make a monkey out of
cheat out of
pull a fast one
procure
hocus
mousetrap
banter
gasface
bamboozle
play the fool
hose
sucker
stitch up
nonsensify
double-bluff
do the job
toady
dare
outjig
come the raw prawn
misbehave
sell
fake out
hooraw
make a fool of
bind over
make an ass of
humbug
clown
put one over
act the jennet
con
make
hornswoggle
overpersuade
act the maggot
tread on someone's toes
wrongdo
weasel
slur
venture
stroke
toy with
fribble
run counter
go
make an exhibition of oneself
juggle
verb
- To trick someone in order to make them do something.
- To cause to happen.
- To level to rise in one part of a body of water, especially a shallow one, because of a storm surge caused by persistent wind.
- To profess openly; to make pretensions.
- To matchmake; to arrange a date between two people.
- To provide the money or other support that someone needs for an important task or activity.
- To arrange logically.
- To cause to take flight; to flush into the air.
- To establish someone in a business or position.
- To gel or harden.
- To trap or ensnare.
- To ready something for use.
- To create a goalscoring opportunity (for).
- To make (someone) proud or conceited (often in passive).
- To ready for use.
- To found; to start (a business, scheme)
- To arrange for an outcome; to tamper or rig.
- To deceive an opponent and capitalize on their reactions with a certain technique or maneuver.
adj
noun
- an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent
- a cunning or deceitful action or device
- a period of work or duty
- a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement
- an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
- a prostitute's customer
- (card games) in a single round, the sequence of cards played by all the players; the high card is the winner
verb
verb
- To force or trick someone to go somewhere or do something against their will or interest, particularly
- To commandeer, hijack, or otherwise (usually wrongfully) appropriate a place or thing.
- To trick a suspect into entering a jurisdiction in which they can be lawfully arrested.
- To press-gang sailors, especially (historical) for shipping or fishing work.
- To hit with a slingshot.
- To transfer a serviceman against their will.
noun
verb
- To trap; to trick or fool (someone) into a bad situation.
- To prevent (the user) from leaving a website by opening another copy when it is closed.
noun
- A website designed to open another copy of itself when the user tries to close the webpage. Frequently used by advertisers and pornographers.
- A slice of bread or toast topped with cheese and then grilled or microwaved.
- An antisubmarine rocket used mainly during World War II by the US Navy and US Coast Guard.
- A device for capturing or killing mice and other rodents.
- Ordinary, everyday cheese.
noun
- A flattering or friendly act, comment, etc., done or made to a person to influence them.
- One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished.
- In Unicode: the formal name of the individual horizontal strikethroughs (as in "A̶").
- The action of hitting the ball with the bat; a shot.
- A masterful or effective action.
- The oblique, slash, or virgule ("/").
- The movement of an oar or paddle through water, either the pull which actually propels the boat, or a single entire cycle of movement including the pull; also, the manner in which such movements are made; a rowing style.
- A beat or throb, as of the heart or pulse.
- An act of striking with a weapon; a blow.
- A single act of striking at the ball with a club; also, at matchplay, a shot deducted from a player's score at a hole as a result of a handicapping system.
- An act causing hurt or death, especially when seen as divine punishment.
- A point awarded to a player in case of interference or obstruction by the opponent.
- A gesture of assurance given as encouragement; specifically (psychoanalysis) in transactional analysis: a (generally positive) reaction expressed to a person which fulfils their desires or needs.
- A line making up a written character; specifically, a Chinese, Japanese, or Korean character.
- A damaging occurrence, especially if sudden; a blow, a calamity.
- A specific combination of movements of the arms and legs which, when repeated, causes the swimmer to advance through the water; also, the manner in which such movements are made; a swimming style.
- A movement of a brush in painting, of a chisel in carving, of a pen, pencil, or such implement in drawing or writing, etc., in one direction; hence, a line or mark made on a surface by such an implement.
- The hitting of a ball with a racket; also, the movement of the racket and arm that produces that impact.
- An act of hitting; a blow, a hit.
- An act, or the sound, of the clapper or hammer of a clock hitting a bell or other striking mechanism; hence, the time when such a strike occurs.
- An act of moving one's hand or an object along a surface in one direction, touching it lightly; a caress.
- A thrust of the penis during sexual intercourse.
- A single movement or thrust of a part (such as a piston) of a machine that moves back and forth; also, the length of this movement.
- A single movement with a tool; also, an impact of a tool on an object.
- The loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted.
- An amount of work; specifically, a large amount of business or work.
- A distinctive expression in a written composition; a touch.
- A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done or produced; also, something accomplished by such an effort; an achievement, a feat.
- The rower who is nearest the stern of the boat, the movement of whose oar sets the rowing rhythm for the other rowers; also, the position in the boat occupied by this rower.
- An individual discharge of lightning, particularly if causing damage.
verb
- To influence (someone) by convincing or flattering them.
- To move one's hand or an object (such as a broom or brush) along (a surface) in one direction, touching it lightly; to caress.
- Chiefly followed by out: to suffer loss of brain function when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted; to have a stroke (noun sense 4).
- Followed by out or through: to draw a line or lines through (text) to indicate that it is deleted; to cancel, to strike or strike out.
- To strike (the water) with one's arms and legs when swimming.
- To swim by making co-ordinated movements with the arms and legs.
- To give assurance to (someone) through encouragement.
- To give a finely fluted surface to (stone) by carving it with a tool.
- To milk (a cow or other animal); especially, to squeeze the teat of (a cow, etc.) to extract the last bit of milk from the udder; to strap (dialectal), to strip.
- Of a rower or a crew: to row at (a rate of a certain number of strokes (“movements of the oar through water”) per minute).
- To draw the horizontal line across the upright part (of the letter t).
- To bring (something) to a certain condition by stroking (sense 1).
- To act as the stroke (“rower who is nearest the stern of the boat, the movement of whose oar sets the rowing rhythm for the other rowers”) of (a boat or its crew).
- To mark (something) with lines or stripes; to stripe.
- To hit or kick (the ball) with a flowing or smooth motion; also, to score (a goal, a point, etc.) by doing so.
- Of a bell or clock: to chime or sound to indicate (the hour, the time, etc.).
verb
- To trick or deceive.
- To break a computer so everything needs to be reinstalled; to wipe all files.
- To spray as if with a hose; to spray in great quantity.
- To deliver using a hose.
- To water or spray with a hose.
- To cause an unfair disadvantage to a player or team through poor officiating; especially, to cause a player or team to lose the game with an incorrect call.
- To provide with hose (garment)
noun
verb
- To fool someone; to take advantage of someone.
- To lure someone.
- To produce suckers; to throw up additional stems or shoots.
- To strip the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers.
- To move or attach oneself by means of suckers.
noun
- The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
- A pipe through which anything is drawn.
- An organ or body part that does the sucking; especially a round structure on the bodies of some insects, frogs, and octopuses that allows them to stick to surfaces.
- Any fish in the family Catostomidae of North America and eastern Asia, which have mouths modified into downward-pointing, suckerlike structures for feeding in bottom sediments.
- A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned.
- A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; formerly used by children as a plaything.
- An animal such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs.
- A suction cup.
- See if you can get that sucker working again.
- A person.
- A thing that works by sucking something.
- A lollipop; a piece of candy which is sucked.
- An undesired stem growing out of the roots or lower trunk of a shrub or tree, especially from the rootstock of a grafted plant or tree.
- A person who is easily deceived, tricked or persuaded to do something; a naive or gullible person.
- A parasite; a sponger.
- Any thing or object.
- A person irresistibly attracted by something specified.
verb
- To prank, trick, or deceive (a person), whether or not malice is intended.
- To join or close by sewing.
- To fabricate (e.g. a legal case).
- To complete arrangements for (a situation), especially clandestinely or prematurely and for one's own benefit.
- To maliciously or dishonestly incriminate someone; to set up (in the sense trap or ensnare)
verb
- To defy or challenge (someone to do something)
- To terrify; to daunt.
- To have enough courage (to do something).
- To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to
- To catch (larks) by producing terror through the use of mirrors, scarlet cloth, a hawk, etc., so that they lie still till a net is thrown over them.
noun
verb
noun
- A trick or deception put or laid on others.
- An unwelcome burden, presence, or obligation.
- The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.
- That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined.
- Arrangement of a printed product’s pages on the printer's sheet so as to have the pages in proper order in the final product.
- A task imposed on a student as punishment.
- A practice of laying hands on a person in a religious ceremony; used e.g. in confirmation and ordination.
noun
- An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.
- The state of being deceitful or deceptive.
- An act of deceiving someone.
- The tort or fraudulent representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or recklessly, or without reasonable grounds for believing its truth and with intent to induce reliance on it; the plaintiff justifiably relies on the deception, to his injury.
verb
- To trick, cheat, or manipulate someone.
- To be sold.
- To promote a particular viewpoint.
- To work as a prostitute.
- To betray for money or other things.
- To promote a product or service.
- To pretend that an opponent's blows or maneuvers are causing legitimate injury; to act.
- To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.
noun
noun
- an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
- a point located with respect to surface features of some region
- a short section or illustration (as between radio or tv programs or in a magazine) that is often used for advertising
- an outstanding characteristic
- a blemish made by dirt
- a small contrasting part of something
- a section of an entertainment that is assigned to a specific performer or performance
- a business establishment for entertainment
- a slight attack of illness
- a small piece or quantity of something
- a mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit)
- a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer
- a playing card with a specified number of pips on it to indicate its value
verb
verb
noun
verb
- To trick or defraud, usually for personal gain.
- To study or examine carefully, especially in order to gain knowledge of; to learn, or learn by heart.
noun
- The conversion of part of a building.
- A fraud; something carried out with the intention of deceiving, usually for personal, often illegal, gain.
- An organized gathering, such as a convention, conference, or congress.
- A convicted criminal, a convict.
- A disadvantage of something, especially when contrasted with its advantages (pros).
- A political conservative.
verb
- compel or make somebody or something to act in a certain way
- engage in
- give certain properties to something
- make or cause to be or to become
- cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
- give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally
- create or manufacture a man-made product
- make, formulate, or derive in the mind
- create by artistic means
- earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- create or design, often in a certain way
- to compose or represent
- reach a goal
- be or be capable of being changed or made into
- make by shaping or bringing together constituents
- perform, produce, or carry out
- make by combining materials and parts
- change from one form into another
- act in a certain way so as to acquire
- charge with a function; charge to be
- achieve a point or goal
- reach a destination, either real or abstract
- institute, enact, or establish
- carry out or commit
- form by assembling individuals or constituents
- organize or be responsible for
- put in order or neaten
- head into a specified direction
- have a bowel movement
- undergo fabrication or creation
- be suitable for
- add up to
- amount to
- constitute the essence of
- appear to begin an activity
- proceed along a path
- reach in time
- gather and light the materials for
- prepare for eating by applying heat
- induce to have sex
- assure the success of
- represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like
- consider as being
- calculate as being
- cause to be enjoyable or pleasurable
- favor the development of
- develop into
- behave in a certain manner
- eliminate urine
noun
noun
- A person who engages in reckless behavior, especially for the purpose of showing off.
- A man who tends free-range cattle, especially in the American West.
- A dishonest and/or incompetent independent tradesman.
- A man who identifies with cowboy culture, including wearing a cowboy hat and being a fan of country and western music.
- A playing card of king rank.
verb
verb
- To engage in clever or devious behavior.
- To gain something for oneself by clever or devious means.
- To achieve by clever or devious means.
noun
- The taxonomic family Mustelidae is also called the weasel family.
- Any of the carnivorous mammals of the genus Mustela, having a slender body, a long tail and usually a light brown upper coat and light-coloured belly.
- The least weasel, Mustela nivalis.
- A devious or sneaky person or animal.
- A type of yarn winder used for counting the yardage of handspun yarn. It most commonly has a wooden peg or dowel that pops up from the gearing mechanism after a certain number of yards have been wound onto the winder.
verb
- To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
- To run together; to articulate poorly.
- To insult or slight.
- To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.
- To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
- To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
noun
- In knitting machines, a device for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
- An insinuation or innuendo.
- An act of running one's words together; poor verbal articulation.
- A mark, stain, or smear; (by extension) a slight occasion of reproach.
- A disparaging insult or slight, particularly one used to denigrate a specific group.
- A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
- The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).
noun
- nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do
- the act of escaping physically
- an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy
- an avoidance of danger or difficulty
- a means or way of escaping
- a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild
- the discharge of a fluid from some container
- a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level
verb
- run away from confinement
- fail to experience
- escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action
- be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by
- remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion
- flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
- issue or leak, as from a small opening
noun
verb
- To obtain (something) for free, particularly by guile or persuasion.
- To obtain confidential information by impersonation or other deception.
- To pick up someone.
- To deceive; to perpetrate a hoax on.
- To obtain something desired, or avoid an undesired outcome, through luck or improvisation; To fluke or get away with something; To wing it.
- To inveigle by persuasion.
intj
adj
noun
- An antagonization or instigation intended to convince a person to perform an action they otherwise would not.
- The act of appealing a ruling or decision of a court of administrative agency.
- A bid to overcome something.
- The act of seeking to remove a judge, arbitrator, or other judicial or semi-judicial figure for reasons of alleged bias or incapacity.
- An act of seeking to have a certain person be declared not legally qualified to vote, made when the person offers their ballot.
- The act of a sentry in halting a person and demanding the countersign, or (by extension) the action of a computer system demanding a password, etc.
- A summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.
- A difficult task, especially one that the person making the attempt finds more enjoyable because of that difficulty.
- An attempt to take possession; a tackle.
- An attempt to have a work of literature restricted or removed from a public library or school curriculum.
- The opening and crying of hounds upon first finding the scent of their game.
- A judge's interest in the result of a case, constituting grounds for them to not be allowed to sit the case (e.g., a conflict of interest).
verb
- To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines).
- To dare (someone).
- To invite (someone) to take part in a competition.
- To be difficult or challenging for.
- To call something into question or dispute.
- To object to the reception of the vote of, e.g. on the ground that the person is not qualified as a voter.
- To take (a final exam) in order to get credit for a course without taking it.
- To make a formal objection to a juror.
- To dispute (something).
noun
- nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do
- a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth
- the deliberate act of failing to pay money
- the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver
verb
- To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something).
- To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like moods or information.)
- To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
- To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
- To be spent or used up.
- To belong (somewhere).
- To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race).
- To make the (specified) sound.
- To fit.
- To urinate or defecate.
- To tend (toward a result).
- To be lost.
- To have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
- I woke up just before the clock went.
- To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
- Let's go halves on this.
- Synonyms: crumble, collapse, disintegrate, give way
- To continuously or habitually be in a state.
- I went at him with a knife.
- To be in general; to be usually; often in comparison to others of the same group.
- To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
- To attend.
- To be sold.
- To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
- Synonyms: become, turn, change into
- To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
- To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
- To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
- To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
- To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
- To sound; to make a noise.
- To leave; to move away.
- To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
- To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
- To come to (a certain condition or state).
- To start; to begin (an action or process).
- To work (through or over), especially mentally.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, see also Thesaurus:defecate
- To attack.
- To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.)
- To date.
- Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
- Synonyms: function, work, operate
- To break down or decay.
- To be accepted.
- We've only gone twenty miles today.
- To be valid.
- To have a certain record.
- To take a turn, especially in a game.
- To be out.
- To resort (to).
- To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
- To yield or weigh.
- Those babies go five tons apiece.
- To be discarded or disposed of.
- To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
- To lead (to a place); to give access to.
- To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
- Anything goes around here.
- Why don’t you go with us?
- Let's go this way for a while.
- To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)
- To fight or attack.
- How long can you go without water?
- To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
- To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
- To collapse or give way, to break apart.
- Expressing encouragement or approval.
- To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
- To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.)
- To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
- To die.
- To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
- To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
- To travel or pass along.
- To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink.
adj
noun
- A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
- An attempt, a try.
- An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
- Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
- The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
- An act; the working or operation.
- A period of activity.
- Synonym: green light
- A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.
- Synonyms: attempt, bash, shot, stab, try
- The act of going.
verb
- To deceive by trick or artifice.
- To manipulate objects, such as balls, clubs, beanbags, rings, etc. in an artful or artistic manner. Juggling may also include assorted other circus skills such as the diabolo, devil sticks, hat, and cigar box manipulation as well.
- To handle or manage many tasks at once.
noun
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