ask for it
brushback pitch
vulgarity
insult
affront
design
coat-trailing
shitty stick
power grab
pestering
challenge
provocation
embarrass
rark up
wide
outrage
misempower
misreact
comb someone's hair the wrong way
faggotry
annoy
bug
cheek up
bearbait
harrying
cheek up to
get at
get out of someone's hair
chut pattern
pill
inflammatory
misconduct
get in someone's hair
dick
menace
threat
lash-up
come the raw prawn
fulminate
hustle
tease
terrify
malice
poach
antagonization
cheap shot
fuck you
set someone's teeth on edge
Bad Thing
malicious
make a nuisance of oneself
will-less
blow
affray
irreligiosity
snuff
provocate
incitative
hit out
red flag
enturbulate
victimization
scorched-earth policy
unauthoritatively
infliction
interference
perversion
reeducation
procure
sabo
rouse
insolence
induction
trigger point
blot
visit
draw
bring down
slight
impose
inflict
misbehavior
smear
attention whore
grab
rebuff
stain
disquieting
spot
offensivity
snoot
smirch
involuntary
obstructivism
give curry
give someone ass cancer
furbishing
wide
inflammatory
malicious
will-less
involuntary
unauthoritatively
brushback pitch
vulgarity
insult
affront
design
coat-trailing
shitty stick
power grab
pestering
challenge
provocation
rark up
outrage
faggotry
harrying
pill
threat
lash-up
antagonization
cheap shot
fuck you
Bad Thing
blow
affray
irreligiosity
incitative
red flag
victimization
scorched-earth policy
infliction
interference
perversion
reeducation
insolence
induction
trigger point
blot
slight
misbehavior
smear
grab
rebuff
stain
disquieting
spot
offensivity
smirch
tease
obstructivism
furbishing
ask for it
embarrass
misempower
misreact
comb someone's hair the wrong way
annoy
bug
cheek up
bearbait
cheek up to
rark up
get at
get out of someone's hair
chut pattern
misconduct
get in someone's hair
dick
menace
come the raw prawn
fulminate
hustle
tease
terrify
malice
poach
set someone's teeth on edge
make a nuisance of oneself
snuff
provocate
hit out
enturbulate
procure
sabo
rouse
visit
draw
bring down
impose
inflict
attention whore
snoot
give curry
give someone ass cancer
noun
- Malicious or malevolent intention.
- A plan (with more or less detail) for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system.
- A pattern, as an element of a work of art or architecture.
- The art of designing
- The shape or appearance given to an object, especially one that is intended to make it more attractive.
- The composition of a work of art.
- A specification of an object or process, referring to requirements to be satisfied and thus conditions to be met for them to solve a problem.
- Intention or plot.
verb
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).
adj
- Antagonistic, provocative.
- Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.
- Operating at the side of the playing area.
- Large in scope.
- Having a large physical extent from side to side.
- On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.
noun
adv
verb
- To act suspiciously or irrationally, especially in a way that annoys others.
- To install an electronic listening device or devices in.
- To annoy.
noun
- A problem that needs fixing.
- A manually positioned marker in flight instruments.
- HIV.
- A metal clip attached to the underside of a table, etc. to hold hidden cards, as a form of cheating.
- A limited form of wild card in some variants of poker.
- An asterisk denoting an apprentice jockey's weight allowance.
- Any insect, arachnid, myriapod or entognath.
- A young apprentice jockey.
- A keen enthusiast or hobbyist.
- A concealed electronic eavesdropping or intercept device.
- A trilobite.
- A semi-automated telegraph key.
- An enthusiasm for something; an obsession.
- Any insect, arachnid, or other terrestrial arthropod that is a pest.
- Synonym of union bug.
- Any of various species of marine or freshwater crustaceans; e.g. a Moreton Bay bug, mudbug.
- A contagious illness, or a pathogen causing it.
- A small and usually invisible file (traditionally a single-pixel image) on a World Wide Web page, primarily used to track users.
- A small, usually transparent or translucent image placed in a corner of a television program to identify the broadcasting network or cable channel.
- A small piece of metal used in a slot machine to block certain winning combinations.
- An insect of the order Hemiptera (the “true bugs”).
noun
- Something offensive, unpleasant or nauseous which must be accepted or endured.
- A bullet (projectile).
- An inlet on the coast; a small tidal pool or bay.
- A small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.
- A rounded rectangle indicating the tag or category that an item belongs to.
- A contemptible, annoying, or unpleasant person.
- Contraceptive medication, usually in the form of a pill to be taken by a woman; an oral contraceptive pill.
- A comical or entertaining person.
- A small piece of any substance, for example a ball of fibres formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing. Colloquially known as a bobble, fuzzball, or lint ball.
- Hyponyms: tablet, caplet, capsule, lozenge
- Such an object that is of solid constitution (usually of compressed, bonded powder) rather than a capsule (with a shell containing loose powder or liquid).
verb
verb
- To obtain by illicit or forceful action.
- To con, swindle, or deceive; especially financially.
- To be a prostitute; to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money.
- To put a lot of effort into one's work.
- To rush or hurry.
- To dance the hustle, a disco dance.
- To sell sex; to work as a pimp.
- To bundle; to stow something quickly.
- To work.
- To play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge.
- To push someone roughly; to crowd; to jostle.
noun
verb
- To provoke or disturb; to annoy.
- To separate the fibres of (a fibrous material).
- To poke fun at, either cruelly or affectionately.
- To entice, tempt.
- To show as forthcoming, in the manner of a teaser.
- To comb (originally with teasels) so that the fibres all lie in one direction.
- To manipulate or influence the behavior of, especially by repeated acts of irritation.
- To backcomb.
noun
verb
noun
verb
- To intrude; to interfere; to get involved inappropriately, without welcome.
- To take game or fish illegally.
- To take anything illegally or unfairly.
- To become soft or muddy by being trampled on.
- To cook something in simmering liquid.
- To be cooked in simmering liquid
- To entice (an employee or customer) to switch from a competing company to one's own.
- To make soft or muddy by trampling.
- To trespass on another's property to take fish or game.
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.
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.
adj
verb
- To turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of contempt; hence, to take offence.
- To snuff out; to extinguish; to put out; to kill.
- To inhale through the nose.
- To extinguish a candle or oil-lamp flame by covering the burning end of the wick until the flame is suffocated.
noun
- A form of pornographic film which involves someone actually being murdered.
- Fine-ground or minced tobacco, dry or moistened, intended for use by placing a pinch behind the lip or beneath the tongue; see also snus.
- Finely ground or pulverized tobacco intended for use by being sniffed or snorted into the nose.
- A murder.
- The act of briskly inhaling by the nose; a sniff, a snort.
- The burning part of a candle wick, or the black, burnt remains of a wick (which must be periodically removed).
- Resentment or skepticism expressed by quickly drawing air through the nose; snuffling; sniffling.
- A snort or sniff of fine-ground, powdered, or pulverized tobacco.
noun
- The act of interfering with something, or something that interferes.
- The illegal obstruction of an opponent in some ball games.
- An effect caused by the superposition of two systems of waves.
- In United States patent law, an inter partes proceeding to determine the priority issues of multiple patent applications; a priority contest.
- The interruption of the line between an attacked piece and its defender by sacrificially interposing a piece.
- The situation where a person who knows two languages inappropriately transfers lexical items or structures from one to the other.
- A distortion on a broadcast signal due to atmospheric or other effects.
verb
verb
- To provoke (someone) to action or anger.
- To wake (someone) or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.
- To cause, stir up, excite (a feeling, thought, etc.).
- To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.
- To pull by main strength; to haul.
- To tell off; to criticise.
noun
- An arousal.
- The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse.
- A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
- An official ceremony over drinks.
- Wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.
noun
- An act of inducing.
- Derivation of general principles from specific instances.
- A method of proof of a theorem by first proving it for a specific case (often an integer; usually 0 or 1) and showing that, if it is true for one case then it must be true for the next.
- An act of inducting.
- The process of inducing the birth process.
- The delivery of air to the cylinders of an internal combustion piston engine.
- Generation of an electric current by a varying magnetic field.
- A formal ceremony in which a person is appointed to an office or into military service.
- The process of showing a newcomer around a place where they will work or study.
- Use of rumors to twist and complicate the plot of a play or to narrate in a way that does not have to state truth nor fact within the play.
- Given a group of cells that emits or displays a substance, the influence of this substance on the fate of a second group of cells
verb
- impose something unpleasant
- go to see a place, as for entertainment
- go to certain places as for sightseeing
- pay a brief visit
- come to see in an official or professional capacity
- talk socially without exchanging too much information
- stay with as a guest
- assail
noun
- the act of going to see some person or place or thing for a short time
- a meeting arranged by the visitor to see someone (such as a doctor or lawyer) for treatment or advice
- the act of visiting in an official capacity (as for an inspection)
- the act of going to see some person in a professional capacity
- a temporary stay (e.g., as a guest)
verb
- To provoke or attract (a particular response or reaction).
- To take (air, smoke etc.) into the lungs; to inhale.
- To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
- To take (water) from a well or other source.
- To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball.
- To receive (a salary); to withdraw (money) from a bank etc.
- To elicit information from (someone); to induce (a person) to speak on some subject. (Now frequently in passive.)
- To pull out, unsheathe (a sword, firearm etc.).
- To make (wire) by pulling it through an aperture; to stretch (metal) into a wire.
- To move steadily in a particular direction or into a specific position.
- To extract (a tooth).
- To take or be dealt a playing card from the deck. See also draw out.
- To pull (something) in a particular manner or direction.
- To call forth (something) from a person, to elicit.
- To take or be dealt (a card) from the deck; to have (a particular hand) as a result of this.
- To make a shot that lands gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones.
- To attract (something) by means of a physical force, especially magnetism or gravity; (figurative) to act as an inducement or enticement.
- To come to, towards (a particular moment in time); to approach (a time).
- To produce (a shape, figure, picture etc.) with pencil, crayon, chalk, or other implement.
- To cause (someone) to come to a particular place, condition, or course of action; to attract (a person).
- To conduct (a lottery); to select (the numbers) for a lottery; to win (a prize) in a lottery.
- To depict (something) linguistically; to portray in words.
- To produce a visual representation of (a person or thing) by lines and marks with pencil, pen, paints etc.
- To drag (a person, thing, or part of the body), especially along the ground.
- To move (a part of one's body) in a particular direction.
- To stretch or elongate.
- To deduce or infer (a conclusion); to make (a deduction).
- To draw up, compose (a document).
- To have a draught; to allow air to be passed through in order to allow for combustion.
- To induce (the mind, eyes, attention etc.) to be directed at or focused on something.
- To cause (something); to bring (something) about as a consequence.
- To become contracted; to shrink.
- To pull (a curtain, blinds etc.) open or closed.
- To assume a specific position or attitude.
- To require (a depth of water) for floating.
- To pull back (the string of a bow) in preparation for shooting.
- To pull (one's face, features) out of shape, from emotion etc.
- Of a sail, to fill with wind.
- To select (an item) at random to decide which of a group of people will receive or undergo something; to select (a person) by this process.
- To disembowel (someone); to remove the viscera from (an animal), especially before cooking.
- To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
- To steep; to leave (tea) temporarily in water to allow the flavour to increase.
- To run (a bath).
- To produce an image of something by artistic means; to make drawings.
- To pull (a belt or other item) so that it tightens or wraps around something more closely.
- To take (something) from a particular source, especially of information; to derive.
- To pull (a plough, vehicle etc.); to cause (something) to move forwards by pulling it.
- To extract (juice, fluids etc.) from something by pressure, osmosis or similar.
- To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.
- To consume (power).
noun
- A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
- The act of drawing.
- The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
- Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
- Cannabis.
- The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.
- The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
- A shot that is intended to land gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones; cf. takeout.
- A bag of cannabis.
- Draft in the sense of the flow through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process, possibly adjustable with a damper.
- The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings before time ran out (as distinguished from a tie).
- A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice, fade.
- In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
- A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary cards for a straight and requires a further card to make their flush or straight.
- The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie.
noun
verb
adj
adj
noun
- An acquisition by violent or unjust means.
- A device for withdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven.
- A two- or three-masted vessel used on the Malabar coast.
- A mechanical device that grabs or clutches.
- A sound bite.
- A simple card game.
- A sudden snatch at something.
verb
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
- A nose or snout, especially in derogatory use.
- A language pedant or snob; one who practices linguistic elitism.
- A cylindrical or conical attachment used on a spotlight to restrict spill light.
- An elitist individual; one who looks down upon lower social classes.
- Snout; especially of a dog ("doggo"), cat ("catto"), or snake ("snek").
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