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burst out
find oneself
pop up
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pop
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fortune
take by surprise
turn up
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funnily
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event
suddenness
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overtake
Kramer
suddenly
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come out of the woodwork
fortuity
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bam
accident
stroke
on the hop
off guard
occurrent
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nongradual
precipitating
hit the buffers
plunder
blitz out
click
unscripted
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happen along
blow
accidentally
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bechance
abruptly
befall
spur-of-the-moment
proc
contingency
fetch up
twilight zone
luck
switchblade
eventuality
blurt out
irruption
chance
ictic
hazard
inject
unexpectable
outbreak
eruption
semispontaneous
unforeseenly
probability
astounder
emerge
flash
unexpectedly
come forth
eventual
uncommonly
unanticipatedly
whiplash
occurrently
precipitate
wild hair
strike
spontaneously
strangely
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precipitant
abrupt
sharp
occurrent
coincidental
nongradual
precipitating
unscripted
emergent
spur-of-the-moment
ictic
unexpectable
semispontaneous
eventual
unawares
precipitously
sharply
funnily
all at once
suddenly
accidentally
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fortuitously
abruptly
unforeseenly
unexpectedly
uncommonly
unanticipatedly
occurrently
spontaneously
strangely
fortune
suddenty
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suddenness
fortuity
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find oneself
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come to hand
pop
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take by surprise
turn up
show up
overtake
Kramer
spring up
come out of the woodwork
hit the buffers
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click
happen along
blow
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bechance
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proc
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twilight zone
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precipitate
wild hair
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verb
- To suddenly happen or intensify.
- To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.
- To cause to burn; in particular, to burn off excess gas (flare gas).
- To open outward in shape.
- To blaze brightly.
- To shine out with gaudy colours; to be offensively bright or showy.
- To (operate an aircraft to) transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing.
- To suddenly erupt in anger.
- To cause inflammation; to inflame.
noun
- A type of pyrotechnic that produces a brilliant light without an explosion, used to attract attention in an emergency, to illuminate an area, or as a decoy.
- Bell-bottom trousers.
- The transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing.
- A low fly ball that is hit in the region between the infielders and the outfielders.
- A route run by the running back, releasing toward the sideline and then slightly arcing upfield looking for a short pass.
- A breakdance move of someone helicoptering his torso on alternating arms.
- A source of brightly burning light or intense heat.
- A sudden eruption or outbreak; a flare-up.
- The increase in width of most ship hulls with increasing height above the waterline.
- A flame produced by a burn-off of waste gas (flare gas) from a flare tower (or flare stack), typically at an oil refinery.
- A widening of an object with an otherwise roughly constant width.
- An inflammation such as of tendons (tendonitis) or joints (osteoarthritis).
- A sudden bright light.
adj
- Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; by accident, unintentional.
- Occurring sometimes, by chance; occasional.
- Being a double point with two distinct tangent planes in 4-dimensional projective space.
- Adjusted by one or two semitones, in temporary departure from the key signature.
- Pertaining to accident and not essence; thus, inessential; incidental; secondary.
- Nonessential to something's inherent nature (especially in Aristotelian thought).
noun
- Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.
- A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.
- A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note.
- Part of a text that has a mainly structural purpose, such as spelling, punctuation, or capitalization.
verb
- To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, up.
- To come towards, to approach.
- To draw near in time.
- To rise (above the horizon).
- To arrive at the university. (Compare go down, send down.)
- To begin to feel the effects of a recreational drug.
- To appear (before a judge or court).
- To come to attention, present itself; to arrive or appear.
verb
- appear suddenly or unexpectedly; happen unexpectedly
- bulge outward
- hit a pop-fly
- make a sharp explosive noise
- fire a weapon with a loud explosive noise
- cause to make a sharp explosive sound
- put or thrust suddenly and forcefully
- release suddenly
- hit or strike
- drink down entirely
- take drugs, especially orally
- cause to burst with a loud, explosive sound
- burst open with a sharp, explosive sound
adv
noun
- an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk
- a sweet drink containing carbonated water and flavoring
- a sharp explosive sound as from a gunshot or drawing a cork
- music of general appeal to teenagers; a bland watered-down version of rock'n'roll with more rhythm and harmony and an emphasis on romantic love
adj
noun
- The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident.
- Destiny, especially favorable.
- A prediction or set of predictions about a person's future provided by a fortune teller.
- A small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a fortune cookie.
- One's wealth; the amount of money one has, especially if it is vast.
- Good luck.
- A large amount of money.
verb
verb
- To show up; to appear suddenly or unexpectedly.
- To cause to appear; to find by searching, etc.
- To increase the amount of something by means of a control, such as the volume, heat, or light.
- To reposition by rotating, flipping, etc. upwards.
- To party hard, especially when involving alcohol or drugs.
- To belay or make fast a line on a cleat or pin.
adj
- very sudden and in great amount or degree
- (of something seen or heard) clearly defined
- ending in a sharp point
- having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
- marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
- harsh
- having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones
- dangerously steep
- quick and forceful
adv
adj
- keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point
- having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing
- (of a musical note) raised in pitch by one chromatic semitone
noun
noun
noun
- An occurrence; something that happens.
- In the event, he turned out to have what I needed anyway.
- A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.
- A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by an application or the operating system (event listener). When an event occurs an event handler is called which performs a specific task.
- One of several contests that combine to make up a competition.
- An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).
- A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.
- An episode of severe health conditions.
- A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)
noun
- anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause
- (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand
- the maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam
- a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain
- a light touch
- a light touch with the hands
- (golf) the unit of scoring in golf is the act of hitting the ball with a club
- the oarsman nearest the stern of the shell who sets the pace for the rest of the crew
- a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information
- a mark made on a surface by a pen, pencil, or paintbrush
- any one of the repeated movements of the limbs and body used for locomotion in swimming or rowing
- a single complete movement
verb
verb
- To make sense suddenly.
- To press and release (a button on a computer mouse).
- To emit a click.
- To snap the fingers.
- To visit (a web site).
- Of a film, to be successful at the box office.
- To select a software item using, usually, but not always, the pressing of a mouse button.
- To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.
- To navigate by clicking a mouse button.
- To get along well.
- To take (a photograph) with a camera.
- To achieve success in one's career or a breakthrough, often the first time.
intj
noun
- A single instance of content on the Internet being accessed.
- A detent, pawl, or ratchet, such as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion.
- The act of pressing a button on a computer mouse or similar input device, both as a physical act and a reaction in the software.
- A pawl or similar catch.
- The latch of a door.
- The act of making a clicking sound by pressing a finger against the thumb and then releasing to strike the palm; a snap.
- The act of operating a switch, etc., so that it clicks.
- An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.
- A brief, sharp, not particularly loud, relatively high-pitched sound produced by the impact of something small and hard against something hard, such as by the operation of a switch, a lock, or a latch.
- Sound made by a dolphin.
- A limb contortion at the joint, part of vogue dancing.
adj
- Arising unexpectedly, especially if also calling for immediate reaction.
- Having leaves and flowers above the water.
- Having gameplay that arises from its mechanics, rather than a linear storyline.
- Having properties as a whole that are more complex than the properties contributed by each of the components individually.
- Taller than the surrounding vegetation.
- Constituting an emergency.
- Emerging; coming into view or into existence; nascent; new.
noun
verb
- To burst or explode; to occur suddenly
- (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 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.
noun
- 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 sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
- 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
noun
- A possibility; something which may or may not happen. A chance occurrence, especially in finance, unexpected expenses.
- An amount of money which a party to a contract has to pay to the other party (usually the supplier of a major project to the client) if he or she does not fulfill the contract according to the specification.
- The quality of being contingent, of happening by chance.
- A statement which is neither a tautology nor a contradiction.
verb
- To behave or occur in a confusing or unexpected manner.
- To put or place into an indeterminate position; to be in an ambiguous, undetermined, or improper context.
- To cause to daydream or zone out; to cause to lose attention to one's surroundings.
- To experience or perceive something bizarre or fantastic.
noun
noun
- an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
- a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances
- a risk involving danger
- a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible
- the possibility of future success
verb
- be the case by chance
- take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome
- come upon, as if by accident; meet with
adj
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).
noun
- a sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition)
- the sudden occurrence of a violent discharge of steam and volcanic material
- symptom consisting of a breaking out and becoming visible
- (of volcanoes) pouring out fumes or lava (or a deposit so formed)
- a sudden very loud noise
- the emergence of a tooth as it breaks through the gum
verb
- To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
- To send by some startling or sudden means.
- 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 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.
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.
adj
verb
- To make something happen suddenly and quickly.
- To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form.
- To throw an object or person from a great height.
- To act too hastily; to be precipitous.
- To send violently into a certain state or condition.
- To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.
- To have water in the air fall to the ground, for example as rain, snow, sleet, or hail; be deposited as condensed droplets.
- To cause (water in the air) to condense or fall to the ground.
- To fall headlong.
adj
- With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong.
- Moving with excessive speed or haste; overly hasty.
- headlong; falling steeply or vertically.
- Performed very rapidly or abruptly.
- Very steep; precipitous.
noun
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.
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