squeak through
squeak
squeak out
win by a nose
shade
close-run
by the skin of one's teeth
slip through
sweep aside
only just
edge
just
make heavy weather
thread
ease
Hail Mary pass
toehold
scrape
win through
scrape through
pip
squeaker
narrow escape
by a hair's breadth
close shave
close call
trivially
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wedge
win big
let the grass grow under one's feet
barely
narrow margin
narrowness
arm's length
near
slimness
softly, softly, catchee monkey
vainly
strike out looking
essay
near miss
come up from behind
shortfalling
manage
crack
salami technique
scarcely
sneak in
beat out
trail behind
nose
nose out
low-budget
narrow
ooch
outfumble
skip
underachieve
skate by
narrowly
to little avail
undershoot
cut it fine
chanceless
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on the heels of
coaster
narrowing
unsucceeding
close
shit it in
tight
easy
break through
dog it
copout
unlikely
lacune
tap in
baffle
push shit uphill
shortcomer
closure
closing
pip to the post
gapful
inaccessible
rub along
extract
squeeze into
constipated
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dodge
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mod
narrowingly
shame
close-run
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unlikely
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constipated
unaccessible
only just
just
trivially
barely
vainly
scarcely
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to little avail
narrowingly
Hail Mary pass
toehold
squeak
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close shave
close call
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slimness
essay
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shortfalling
salami technique
ooch
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mod
squeak through
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shade
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sweep aside
edge
make heavy weather
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scrape
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pip
fail
wedge
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let the grass grow under one's feet
strike out looking
come up from behind
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crack
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nose
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skip
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skate by
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cut it fine
give out
close
shit it in
break through
dog it
tap in
baffle
push shit uphill
pip to the post
rub along
extract
squeeze into
dodge
outdodge
shame
verb
- To surpass by a narrow margin.
- To shield (someone or something) from light.
- To reduce (a window) so that only its title bar is visible.
- To alter slightly.
- To move slightly from one's normal fielding position.
- To vary or approach something slightly, particularly in color.
- To darken, particularly in drawing.
- To throw shade, to subtly insult someone.
- To shield oneself from light.
noun
- Something that blocks light, particularly in a window.
- A variety of a colour/color, in particular one obtained by adding black (compare tint).
- An aspect that is reminiscent of something.
- A very small degree of a quantity, or variety of meaning
- A ghost or specter; a spirit.
- A subtle variation in a concept.
- A postage stamp showing an obvious difference in colour/color to the original printing and needing a separate catalogue/catalog entry.
- Subtle insults.
- A candle-shade.
- A cover around or above a light bulb, a lampshade.
- Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked.
verb
- To win by a small margin.
- To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
- To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
- To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
- To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
- To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.
- To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
- To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
noun
- A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.
- Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
- The boundary line of a surface.
- An advantage.
- The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe; that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
- The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
- A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
- The point of data production in an organization (the focus of edge computing), as opposed to the cloud.
- A level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax.
- A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
- A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
adv
- By a narrow margin; closely; nearly.
- Only, simply, merely.
- absolutely, positively
- Exactly, precisely, perfectly.
- Moments ago, recently.
- Used to convey a less serious or formal tone
- Used to reduce the force of an imperative; simply.
- Used to show humility.
adj
- Factually right, correct; factual.
- Proper, adequate.
- Morally right; upright, righteous, equitable; fair.
- Rationally right, correct.
noun
verb
intj
verb
- To pass (through a narrow constriction or around a series of obstacles).
- To put thread through.
- To remove the hair using a thread.
- To screw on; to fit the threads of a nut on a bolt.
noun
- A sequence of connections.
- A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark.
- A long, thin and flexible form of material, generally with a round cross-section, used in sewing, weaving or in the construction of string.
- A screw thread.
- A unit of execution, lighter in weight than a process, usually sharing memory and other resources with other threads executing concurrently.
- The line midway between the banks of a stream.
- A continued theme or idea.
- A series of messages, generally grouped by subject, in which all messages except the first are replies to previous messages in the thread.
- Composition; quality; fineness.
verb
- To proceed with little effort.
- To move (something) slowly and carefully.
- To free (something) from pain, worry, agitation, etc.
- To reduce the difficulty of (something).
- To alleviate, assuage or lessen (pain).
- To loosen or slacken the tension on a line.
- To lessen in intensity.
- To give respite to (someone).
noun
- Additional space provided to allow greater movement.
- Release from constraint, obligation, or a constrained position.
- Followed by of or from: release from or reduction of pain, hardship, or annoyance.
- Freedom from pain, hardship, and annoyance, sometimes (derogatory, archaic) idleness, sloth.
- Ability, the means to do something
- Freedom from difficulty.
- Skill, dexterity, facility.
- Freedom from worry and concern; peace; sometimes (derogatory, archaic) indifference.
- Freedom from effort, leisure, rest.
- Freedom from financial effort or worry; affluence.
- Freedom from embarrassment or awkwardness; grace.
verb
- To barely manage to achieve.
- To remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner.
- To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.
- To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow].
- To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.
- To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.
- To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.
- To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.
- To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.
- To express disapprobation of (a play, etc.) or to silence (a speaker) by drawing the feet back and forth upon the floor; usually with down.
noun
- A shave.
- A diminutive of the bend (especially of the bend sinister) which is half its width.
- A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).
- A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.
- An awkward set of circumstances.
- A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.
- A shallow pit dug as a hideout.
- A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.
verb
- To get the better of; to defeat by a narrow margin
- To hit with a gunshot
- To peep, to chirp
- To remove the pips from.
- To make the initial hole during the process of hatching from an egg
noun
- A piece of rhizome with a dormant shoot of the lily of the valley plant, used for propagation
- A spot of light or an inverted V indicative of a return of radar waves reflected from an object; a blip.
- The smallest price increment between two currencies in foreign exchange (forex) trading.
- One of the stylised version of the Bath star worn on the shoulder of a uniform to denote rank, e.g. of a soldier or a fireman.
- Something or someone excellent, of high quality.
- One of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc.
- A spot; a speck.
- One of a series of very short, electronically produced tones, used, for example, to count down the final few seconds before a given time or to indicate that a caller using a payphone needs to make further payment to continue the call.
- Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza.
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verb
- fall short in what is expected
- fail to do something; leave something undone
- be unsuccessful
- disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake
- stop operating or functioning
- be unable
- judge unacceptable
- fail to get a passing grade
- become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close
- prove insufficient
- deteriorate
verb
- To force into a narrow gap.
- To support or secure using a wedge.
- To force or drive with a wedge.
- Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
- To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass.
- To cleave with a wedge.
- To shape into a wedge.
- To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
noun
- A háček.
- The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.
- A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
- A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
- A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas.
- A quantity of money.
- The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
- A wedge tornado.
- A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.
- One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.
- A group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
- One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.
- A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
- A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
- The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
- One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering.
- A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo.
- Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
- A market trend characterized by a contracting range in prices coupled with an upward trend in prices (a rising wedge) or a downward trend in prices (a falling wedge).
noun
adj
- So as barely to avoid or pass injury or loss; close; narrow.
- Physically close.
- Close to anything followed or imitated; not free, loose, or rambling.
- Within the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture.
- Close in time.
- Closely connected or related.
- Close to one's interests, affection, etc.; intimate; dear.
- Approximate, almost.
- On the side nearest to the kerb (the left-hand side if one drives on the left).
noun
prep
verb
adv
verb
- To succeed at an attempt in spite of difficulty.
- To handle or control (a situation, job).
- To direct or be in charge of.
- To achieve (something) without fuss, or without outside help.
- To manage to say; to say while fighting back embarrassment, laughter, etc.
- To train (a horse) in the manège; to exercise in graceful or artful action.
- To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).
noun
verb
- To barely reach, attain to (a measurement, extent).
- To change rapidly in register.
- To become debilitated by psychological pressure.
- To form cracks.
- To make a cracking sound.
- To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.
- To make a crack or cracks in.
- To make a sharply humorous comment.
- To open slightly.
- To overcome a security system or component.
- To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.
- To break apart under force, stress, or pressure.
- To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.
- To strike forcefully.
- To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure.
- To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
- To tell (a joke).
- To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.
- To solve a difficult problem.
- To cause to make a sharp sound.
- To realize that one is transgender.
- To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.
noun
- An attempt at something.
- A sharp, resounding blow.
- The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
- A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
- Vagina.
- The space between the buttocks.
- A narrow opening.
- Any sharp sound.
- A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
- A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
- a meaningful chat.
- Something good-tasting or habit-forming.
- Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
- Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous storytelling; good company.
- The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.
- Business; events; news.
- Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.
adj
verb
- defeat by a narrow margin
- search or inquire in a meddlesome way
- advance the forward part of with caution
- catch the scent of; get wind of
- push or move with the nose
- rub noses
noun
- the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals
- a front that resembles a human nose (especially the front of an aircraft)
- the front or forward projection of a tool or weapon
- a small distance
- a symbol of inquisitiveness
- the sense of smell (especially in animals)
- a natural skill
- a projecting spout from which a fluid is discharged
adj
- Having a small margin or degree.
- Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; distinguished from wide.
- Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
- Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
- Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
- Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
- Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
verb
- To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
- To reduce in width or extent; to contract.
- To convert to a data type that cannot hold as many distinct values.
- To partially lower one's eyelids in a way usually taken to suggest a defensive, aggressive or penetrating look.
- To get narrower.
noun
noun
- A small, low-risk step toward a goal.
- An act of forcing the boat forward by rocking one's body.
- Something that causes pain or discomfort.
- A small amount by which something has moved or changed.
intj
verb
- To move in a small or restricted space; squirm or squeeze.
- To quietly force to move without drama or noticeable disruption.
- To progress or change a little bit or in small increments.
- To exceed a limit by a small amount.
- To move or slide a small amount; scoot; scooch.
- To cry out in pain or discomfort.
- To work toward a goal by using small low-risk steps.
- To propel a boat or sailboard by rocking one's body back and forth.
verb
- To leap about lightly.
- To move by hopping on alternate feet.
- To cause the stylus to jump back to the previous loop of the record's groove, continously repeating that part of the sound, as a result of excessive scratching or wear.
- To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
- To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.
- To place an item in a skip (etymology 2, sense 1).
- To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
- To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
- To have insufficient ink transfer.
- Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
- To jump rope.
- To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.
- To leap lightly over.
noun
- A large open-topped container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents. (see also skep).
- A college servant.
- A skip car.
- The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
- An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.
- A leaping, jumping or skipping movement.
- The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization) and their form of address to him.
- The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
- A wheeled basket used in cotton factories.
- A skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket.
- A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
- A charge of syrup in the pans.
- A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
- skywave propagation
- The captain of a sports team. Also, a form of address by the team to the captain.
- The captain of a bowls team, who directs the team's tactics and rolls the side's last wood, so as to be able to retrieve a difficult situation if necessary.
- A beehive.
- A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
verb
- To run short, come to an end.
- To issue; to distribute.
- To announce (a hymn) to be sung; to read out (the words) for the congregation to sing.
- To complain, sulk, chastise.
- To utter, publish; to announce, proclaim, report.
- To desist.
- To put forth, utter (prayers).
- To break down, get out of order, fail.
- To send forth, emit; to cause to be sent forth.
- To desist through exhaustion of strength or patience.
noun
- One who succeeds while making only a minimal effort.
- A merchant vessel that stays in coastal waters, especially one that travels between ports of the same country.
- A person who uses a sled or toboggan to slide down a slope covered with ice or snow; a sledder, a tobogganist.
- A person who originates from or inhabits a coastal area.
- An itinerant person who shirks work but still seeks food and lodging; a loafer, a sundowner.
- A useless compact disc or DVD, such as one that was burned incorrectly or has become corrupted.
- A cow from the coastal part of Texas.
- A sailor (especially the master or pilot of a vessel) who travels only in coastal waters.
- A small, flat or tray-like object on which a bottle, cup, glass, mug, etc., is placed to protect a table surface from drink spills, heat, or water condensation.
- A sled or toboggan.
verb
- To make (e.g. a gap) smaller.
- To move to a position allowing electricity to flow.
- To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
- To move to a position preventing fluid from flowing.
- To cancel or reverse (a trading position).
- To make a sale.
- To move so that an opening is closed.
- To grapple; to engage in close combat.
- To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
- To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
- To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine.
- To come to an end.
- To put an end to; to conclude; to complete; to finish; to consummate.
- To obstruct (an opening).
- To do the tasks (putting things away, locking doors, etc.) required to prepare a store or other establishment to shut down for the night.
- To turn off; to switch off.
adj
- Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.
- Marked, evident.
- Intimate; well-loved.
- Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
- Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.
- Almost, but not quite (getting to an answer or goal); near
- Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
- At a little distance; near.
- Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
- Hot, humid, with no wind.
- Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
- Narrow; confined.
- Short.
- Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.
noun
- The common staircase in a tenement.
- A cathedral close.
- The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed
- The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy.
- The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
- A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
- An end or conclusion.
- A grapple in wrestling.
- The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
- The time when checkin staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.
- A double bar marking the end.
- A street that ends in a dead end.
adj
- Narrow, such that it is difficult for something or someone to pass through it.
- Using a strategy which involves playing very few hands.
- Fitting close, or too close, to the body.
- Under high tension; taut.
- Unyielding or firm.
- Of a turn, sharp, so that the timeframe for making it is narrow and following it is difficult.
- Lacking holes; difficult to penetrate; waterproof.
- Extraordinarily great or special.
- Not conceding many goals.
- Intimate, close, close-knit.
- A car with understeer, primarily used to describe NASCAR stock cars.
- Of a player, who plays very few hands.
- Intimately friendly.
- Angry or irritated.
- Miserly or frugal.
- Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
- Well-rehearsed and accurate in execution.
- Intoxicated; drunk or acting like being drunk.
- Mean; unfair; unkind.
- Scarce, hard to come by.
- Limited or restricted.
adv
adj
- Requiring little skill or effort.
- Consenting readily to sex.
- Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth.
- Comfortable; at ease.
- Causing ease; giving comfort, or freedom from care or labour.
- Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; compliant.
adv
noun
verb
verb
noun
- An architectural feature designed to confuse enemies or make them vulnerable.
- A device used to dampen the effects of such things as sound, light, or fluid. Specifically, a baffle is a surface which is placed inside an open area to inhibit direct motion from one part to another, without preventing motion altogether.
- A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine.
noun
- approaching a particular destination; a coming closer; a narrowing of a gap
- a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body
- a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive incomplete objects as complete and to close or fill gaps and to perceive asymmetric stimuli as symmetric
- something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- the act of blocking
- termination of operations
verb
verb
- get despite difficulties or obstacles
- remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense
- deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)
- extract by the process of distillation
- separate (a metal) from an ore
- obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action
- take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
- calculate the root of a number
noun
noun
- A moderately difficult route.
- A module (file containing a tracker music sequence).
- A moderator, for example on a discussion forum.
- A 1960s British person who dressed in such a style and was interested in modernism and the modern music of the time; the opposite of a rocker.
- An unconventionally modern style of fashionable dress originating in England in the 1960s, characterized by ankle-length black trenchcoats and sunglasses.
- An end user-created package containing modifications to the look or behaviour of a video game.
- Moderations: university examinations generally taken in the first year.
- A festival of Scottish Gaelic song, arts and culture, akin to the Welsh eisteddfod.
verb
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