English words for 'dance the skank'
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noun
- A dance performed to ska, dub, or reggae music.
- a rhythmic dance to reggae music performed by bending forward and extending the hands while bending the knees
- any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant
- Anything that is particularly foul, unhygienic or unpleasant.
- The act of cheating a person.
- (derogatory, slang) A lewd and disreputable person, often female, especially an unattractive person with an air of tawdry promiscuity.
- (music) A style of rhythmic guitar strumming in ska, reggae, and punk.
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- dance the slam dance
- strike violently
- close violently
- throw violently
- (transitive, sports slang) To defeat or overcome in a match.
- To compete in a poetry slam.
- (transitive, ergative) To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise.
- (transitive, sex, slang, vulgar) To perform coitus upon forcefully; to rail.
- (transitive, ergative) To put in or on a particular place with force and loud noise. (Often followed by a preposition such as down, against or into.)
- (transitive) To drink off, to drink quickly.
- (intransitive, bridge) To make a slam bid.
- (ambitransitive, drugs, slang) To inject intravenously; shoot up.
- (transitive, colloquial, originally US) To speak badly of; to criticize forcefully.
- (intransitive) To strike against suddenly and heavily.
- (basketball) To dunk forcefully, to slam dunk.
- (transitive, card games) To defeat (opponents at cards) by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.
- (ambitransitive) To strike forcefully with some implement.
- (informal, US) To occupy and busy with a high workload.
- (transitive, telecommunications) To move a customer from one service provider to another without their consent.
- (transitive, slang) To strike and take the life of or at least incapacitate for some time.
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- an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge
- the noise made by the forceful impact of two objects
- a forceful impact that makes a loud noise
- (countable, sports) Winning all (or all but one) of the available, major or specified events in a given year or sports season.
- (uncountable, UK, dialect) The yellow iron silicate produced in alum works as a waste product.
- A card game, played all at once without separate turns, in which players attempt to get rid of their cards as quickly as possible according to certain rules.
- (countable, bridge) A bid of six (small slam) or seven (grand slam) in a suit or no trump.
- (countable, tennis) One of the competitions of the yearly Grand Slam events.
- (countable, card games) Losing or winning all the tricks in a game.
- (music, uncountable) A subgenre of death metal with elements of hardcore punk focusing on midtempo rhythms, breakdowns and palm-muted riffs.
- A slambook.
- (countable, colloquial, US) An insult.
- (countable) The shock and noise produced by violently closing a door or other object.
- (countable) A sudden impact or blow.
- A poetry slam.
- (countable, basketball) A slam dunk.
verb
- dance the slam dance
- move or stir about violently
- beat the seeds out of a grain
- give a thrashing to; beat hard
- beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
- beat so fast that (the heart's) output starts dropping until (it) does not manage to pump out blood at all
- move data into and out of core rather than performing useful computation
- (computing) In computer architecture, to cause or undergo poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.
- (software) To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.
- To beat mercilessly.
- To defeat utterly.
- To thresh.
- To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
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- an instrumental version of the blues (especially for piano)
- (skydiving, informal) A large, organised skydiving event.
- (informal, US) A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril cavity.
- (informal) A style of swing dance.
- (slang, ethnic slur, offensive) A black person.
- (informal) Any relatively energetic dance to pop or rock music.
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- dance the shag
- To chase after; especially, to chase after and return (a ball) hit usually out of play.
- (transitive) To make hairy or shaggy; to roughen.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, intransitive, slang, vulgar) To have sex.
- (India, transitive, slang, vulgar) To masturbate.
- (dance, uncommon) To perform the dance called the shag.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, transitive, slang, vulgar) To have sex with.
- (intransitive) To shake, wiggle around.
noun
- a fabric with long coarse nap
- a lively dance step consisting of hopping on each foot in turn
- slang for sexual intercourse
- a strong coarse tobacco that has been shredded
- a matted tangle of hair or fiber
- Coarse shredded tobacco.
- (West Country) Friend; mate; buddy.
- (slang, vulgar) An act of sex.
- Any of several species of sea birds in the family Phalacrocoracidae (cormorant family), especially a common shag or European shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis), found on European and African coasts.
- (slang, vulgar) A casual sexual partner.
- (often attributive) A deliberately messy, shaggy hairstyle.
- (dance, sometimes capitalized) A swing dance.
- Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc.
- A type of rough carpet pile.
- (Northwestern Ontario) A fundraising dance in honour of a couple engaged to be married.
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- (dance) A march of Cuban origin in four-four time in which people form a chain, each holding the hips of the person in front of them; in each bar, dancers take three shuffle steps and then kick alternate legs outwards at the beat; the chain weaves around the place and allows new participants to join the back of the chain.
- (music) A tall, narrow, single-headed Cuban hand drum of African origin.
- music composed for dancing the conga
- a Latin American dance of 3 steps and a kick by people in single file
verb
- To dance.
- (transitive, nautical) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
- (intransitive) To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
- (intransitive, slang) To be confrontational.
- (intransitive) To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
- (transitive) To set, as the foot.
- (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To depart.
- (transitive) To advance a process gradually, one step at a time.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move mentally; to go in imagination.
- (intransitive) To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.
- place (a ship's mast) in its step
- put down or press the foot, place the foot
- move with one's feet in a specific manner
- treat badly
- measure (distances) by pacing
- shift or move by taking a step
- walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified manner
- furnish with steps
- move or proceed as if by steps into a new situation
- cause (a computer) to execute a single command
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- (colloquial) A stepchild.
- (glassblowing) The button joining a glass's stem to its foot.
- Stepping (style of dance)
- (machines) One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.
- (nautical) A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specifically, a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.
- (in the plural) A walk; passage.
- A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
- An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
- Proceeding; measure; action; act.
- (in the plural) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
- The part of a spade, digging stick or similar tool that a digger's foot rests against and presses on when digging; an ear, a foot-rest.
- (kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
- (slang, primarily Netherlands) Kick scooter.
- A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
- A gait; manner of walking.
- (machines) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
- The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.
- A small space or distance.
- (colloquial) A stepsibling.
- A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a ladder.
- A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
- (programming) A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
- (music) The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
- a sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance
- a musical interval of two semitones
- the distance covered by a step
- a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface
- relative position in a graded series
- support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway
- any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
- the sound of a step of someone walking
- the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down
- a short distance
- a solid block joined to the beams in which the heel of a ship's mast or capstan is fixed
noun
- lively dancing (usually to ragtime music) with much shaking of the shoulders and hips
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- an abnormal wobble in a motor vehicle (especially in the front wheels)
- (rare) A sleeveless chemise.
- An abnormal vibration, especially in the wheels of a vehicle.
- A dance that was popular in the 1920s.
- A dance move involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately.
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- dance a shimmy
- tremble or shake
- (intransitive, video games) To move across a narrow ledge, either by hanging from it or by strafing on it along the wall.
- (intransitive, rare) To shake the body as if dancing the shimmy.
- (dance) To perform a shimmy (dance movement involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately).
- To climb something (e.g. a pole) gradually (e.g. using alternately one's arms then one's legs).
- (intransitive) To vibrate abnormally, as a broken wheel.
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- A town in South Australia.
- A community in Nova Scotia, Canada.
- The capital city of West Virginia, United States and the county seat of Kanawha County; perhaps after Charles Clendenin, the father of an early settler.
- A city, the county seat of Mississippi County, Missouri; after either nearby Charles Prairie or the city in South Carolina.
- A suburb of Dundee, City of Dundee council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO3532).
- A town in Vermont; after a naval battle near the city in South Carolina; the town's early settlers were naval officers.
- A surname.
- A town in New York; after Charles Van Epps, an early settler.
- A coastal village south of Westport, West Coast, New Zealand.
- A town in Utah; after Charles Shelton, an early settler.
- A village in Angus council area, Scotland; after Charles Henderson, proprietor of the village's land before its formation (OS grid ref NO3845).
- A neighborhood of Staten Island, New York; after Charles Kreischer, son of Balthasar Kreischer, after whom the town was previously named (as Kreischerville).
- A city, the county seat of Charleston County, South Carolina; after Charles II of England.
- A city in Tennessee.
- A city in Arkansas, and one of the two county seats of Franklin County.
- A city, the county seat of Coles County, Illinois; after Charles Morton, its first postmaster.
- A town in Maine; after Charles Vaughan, an early settler.
- A city in Mississippi, and one of the two county seats of Tallahatchie County.
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- an early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940)
- (countable, Oxbridge slang) A party hosted by a college's JCR or MCR.
- (uncountable, music) A style of improvised jazz from the 1940s.
- (slang, offensive) A promiscuous woman, especially in the context of having a high body count or giving fellatio to many men.
- (countable) A casual party with dancing; a disco.
- (colloquial, onomatopoeia) A very light smack, blow or punch.
- (slang, countable) A good, catchy song; a song that makes one want to dance.
- (slang, offensive) A woman presenting herself online in a manner thought of as being immodest, usually to generate views or income through social media or subscription content platforms.
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- The music for this dance.
- A tambourine dove (Turtur tympanistria).
- A kind of Provençal dance.
- A percussion instrument consisting of a small, usually wooden, hoop closed on one side with a drum frame and featuring jingling metal disks on the tread; it is most often held in the hand and shaken rhythmically; by extension, any frame drum.
- a shallow drum with a single drumhead and with metallic disks in the sides
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- dance a clog dance
- fill to excess so that function is impaired
- impede with a clog or as if with a clog
- become or cause to become obstructed
- impede the motion of, as with a chain or a burden
- coalesce or unite in a mass
- (intransitive) To perform a clog dance.
- To block or slow passage through (often with 'up').
- To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
- (law) To enforce a mortgage lender right that prevents a borrower from exercising a right to redeem.
- To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
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- a dance performed while wearing shoes with wooden soles; has heavy stamping steps
- footwear usually with wooden soles
- any object that acts as a hindrance or obstruction
- A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
- A blockage.
- (UK, colloquial) A shoe of any type.
- A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
- That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.
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- popular dance music (especially in the late 1970s); melodic with a regular bass beat; intended mainly for dancing at discotheques
- a public dance hall for dancing to recorded popular music
- (countable, slightly dated) Clipping of discotheque (“nightclub for dancing”).
- (US, law, informal) discovery (pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered)
- (uncountable, music) A genre of dance music that was popular in the 1970s, characterized by elements of soul music with a strong Latin-American beat and often accompanied by pulsating lights.
- (British) A dance, a social gathering where dancing is the main activity.
- (US, law, informal) discovery (materials revealed to the opposing party during the pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered)
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- dance a waltz
- (intransitive, transitive, usually with in, into, around, etc.) To move briskly and unhesitatingly, especially in an inappropriately casual manner, or when unannounced or uninvited.
- (intransitive, transitive) To dance the waltz (with).
- (informal) To accomplish a task with little effort.
- (transitive) To move with fanfare.
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- To dance the hustle, a disco dance.
- (transitive) To bundle; to stow something quickly.
- (intransitive) To rush or hurry.
- (informal) To be a prostitute; to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money.
- To play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge one.
- (informal) To sell sex; to work as a pimp.
- (informal) To work.
- (informal) To put a lot of effort into one's work.
- (transitive) To con, swindle, or deceive, especially financially.
- (informal) To obtain by illicit or forceful action.
- (informal) To serve (a clientele) as a prostitute.
- To push someone roughly; to crowd; to jostle.
- sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
- cause to move furtively and hurriedly
- move or cause to move energetically or busily
- get by trying hard
- pressure or urge someone into an action
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- A scam or swindle.
- (slang) An act of prostitution.
- A propensity to work hard and get things done; ability to hustle.
- (informal) An activity, especially to achieve a desired goal or make money.
- (prison slang) An activity, such as prostitution or reselling stolen items, that a prisoner uses to earn money in prison.
- A state of busy activity.
- (preceded by a definite article) A type of disco dance, commonly danced to the Van McCoy song The Hustle (1975).
- a rapid active commotion
- a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
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- a jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s
- Synonym of diddley bow (“type of stringed instrument”).
- (dance) An uptempo jazz or swing dance which embellishes on the two-step pattern and frequently incorporates acrobatic style swing steps.
- (colloquial) A nervous or jittery person.
- (jazz) A jazz musician or aficionado.
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- a show involving artistic dancing
- a notation used by choreographers
- the representation of dancing by symbols as music is represented by notes
- (uncountable) The dance steps, sequences or styles peculiar to a work, group, performance or institution.
- (by extension) The art of creating and arranging sequences of movement for performances of any kind, such as in fight choreography.
- The representation of these movements by a series of symbols.
- (uncountable) The art of creating, arranging and recording the dance movements of a work, such as a ballet.
- The notation used to construct this record.
- (by extension, figurative) The art of creating and arranging any activities that involve social coordination or orchestration.
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- A shade of red-violet.
- (music, dance) A form of lively flamenco music and dance that has many regional variations (e.g. fandango de Huelva), some of which have their own names (e.g. malagueña, granadina).
- (figurative, colloquial) An unknown entity or contraption.
- An extravaganza; an instance of lavish and fantastical events or behavior.
- A gathering for dancing; a ball.
- (euphemistic) Vagina.
- A confusion; a chaotic collection.
- a provocative Spanish courtship dance in triple time; performed by a man and a woman playing castanets
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- (dance) A lively Scottish country dance.
- An act of moving the limbs or body with violent movements, especially in a dance.
- (figuratively) An attempt, a try.
- A party, especially a dance party.
- A short romantic, oftentimes sexual, relationship.
- An act of throwing, often violently.
- An act or period of unrestrained indulgence, enthusiasm, or both.
- a usually brief attempt
- a brief indulgence of your impulses
- the act of flinging
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- (intransitive, somewhat literary) To move (oneself) abruptly or violently; to rush or dash.
- (intransitive, somewhat literary) To utter abusive language; to sneer.
- (transitive) To throw with violence or quick movement; to hurl.
- throw or cast away
- indulge oneself
- throw with force or recklessness
- move in an abrupt or headlong manner
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- lively dancing (usually to ragtime music) with much shaking of the shoulders and hips
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- an abnormal wobble in a motor vehicle (especially in the front wheels)
- (rare) A sleeveless chemise.
- An abnormal vibration, especially in the wheels of a vehicle.
- A dance that was popular in the 1920s.
- A dance move involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately.
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- dance a shimmy
- tremble or shake
- (intransitive, video games) To move across a narrow ledge, either by hanging from it or by strafing on it along the wall.
- (intransitive, rare) To shake the body as if dancing the shimmy.
- (dance) To perform a shimmy (dance movement involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately).
- To climb something (e.g. a pole) gradually (e.g. using alternately one's arms then one's legs).
- (intransitive) To vibrate abnormally, as a broken wheel.
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- A dance performed to ska, dub, or reggae music.
- a rhythmic dance to reggae music performed by bending forward and extending the hands while bending the knees
- any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant
- Anything that is particularly foul, unhygienic or unpleasant.
- The act of cheating a person.
- (derogatory, slang) A lewd and disreputable person, often female, especially an unattractive person with an air of tawdry promiscuity.
- (music) A style of rhythmic guitar strumming in ska, reggae, and punk.
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- The music for this dance.
- A tambourine dove (Turtur tympanistria).
- A kind of Provençal dance.
- A percussion instrument consisting of a small, usually wooden, hoop closed on one side with a drum frame and featuring jingling metal disks on the tread; it is most often held in the hand and shaken rhythmically; by extension, any frame drum.
- a shallow drum with a single drumhead and with metallic disks in the sides
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- a show involving artistic dancing
- a notation used by choreographers
- the representation of dancing by symbols as music is represented by notes
- (uncountable) The dance steps, sequences or styles peculiar to a work, group, performance or institution.
- (by extension) The art of creating and arranging sequences of movement for performances of any kind, such as in fight choreography.
- The representation of these movements by a series of symbols.
- (uncountable) The art of creating, arranging and recording the dance movements of a work, such as a ballet.
- The notation used to construct this record.
- (by extension, figurative) The art of creating and arranging any activities that involve social coordination or orchestration.
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- (dance) A lively Scottish country dance.
- An act of moving the limbs or body with violent movements, especially in a dance.
- (figuratively) An attempt, a try.
- A party, especially a dance party.
- A short romantic, oftentimes sexual, relationship.
- An act of throwing, often violently.
- An act or period of unrestrained indulgence, enthusiasm, or both.
- a usually brief attempt
- a brief indulgence of your impulses
- the act of flinging
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- (intransitive, somewhat literary) To move (oneself) abruptly or violently; to rush or dash.
- (intransitive, somewhat literary) To utter abusive language; to sneer.
- (transitive) To throw with violence or quick movement; to hurl.
- throw or cast away
- indulge oneself
- throw with force or recklessness
- move in an abrupt or headlong manner
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- a jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s
- Synonym of diddley bow (“type of stringed instrument”).
- (dance) An uptempo jazz or swing dance which embellishes on the two-step pattern and frequently incorporates acrobatic style swing steps.
- (colloquial) A nervous or jittery person.
- (jazz) A jazz musician or aficionado.
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- A dance performed to ska, dub, or reggae music.
- a rhythmic dance to reggae music performed by bending forward and extending the hands while bending the knees
- any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant
- Anything that is particularly foul, unhygienic or unpleasant.
- The act of cheating a person.
- (derogatory, slang) A lewd and disreputable person, often female, especially an unattractive person with an air of tawdry promiscuity.
- (music) A style of rhythmic guitar strumming in ska, reggae, and punk.
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- dance the slam dance
- strike violently
- close violently
- throw violently
- (transitive, sports slang) To defeat or overcome in a match.
- To compete in a poetry slam.
- (transitive, ergative) To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise.
- (transitive, sex, slang, vulgar) To perform coitus upon forcefully; to rail.
- (transitive, ergative) To put in or on a particular place with force and loud noise. (Often followed by a preposition such as down, against or into.)
- (transitive) To drink off, to drink quickly.
- (intransitive, bridge) To make a slam bid.
- (ambitransitive, drugs, slang) To inject intravenously; shoot up.
- (transitive, colloquial, originally US) To speak badly of; to criticize forcefully.
- (intransitive) To strike against suddenly and heavily.
- (basketball) To dunk forcefully, to slam dunk.
- (transitive, card games) To defeat (opponents at cards) by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.
- (ambitransitive) To strike forcefully with some implement.
- (informal, US) To occupy and busy with a high workload.
- (transitive, telecommunications) To move a customer from one service provider to another without their consent.
- (transitive, slang) To strike and take the life of or at least incapacitate for some time.
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- an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge
- the noise made by the forceful impact of two objects
- a forceful impact that makes a loud noise
- (countable, sports) Winning all (or all but one) of the available, major or specified events in a given year or sports season.
- (uncountable, UK, dialect) The yellow iron silicate produced in alum works as a waste product.
- A card game, played all at once without separate turns, in which players attempt to get rid of their cards as quickly as possible according to certain rules.
- (countable, bridge) A bid of six (small slam) or seven (grand slam) in a suit or no trump.
- (countable, tennis) One of the competitions of the yearly Grand Slam events.
- (countable, card games) Losing or winning all the tricks in a game.
- (music, uncountable) A subgenre of death metal with elements of hardcore punk focusing on midtempo rhythms, breakdowns and palm-muted riffs.
- A slambook.
- (countable, colloquial, US) An insult.
- (countable) The shock and noise produced by violently closing a door or other object.
- (countable) A sudden impact or blow.
- A poetry slam.
- (countable, basketball) A slam dunk.
verb
- dance the slam dance
- move or stir about violently
- beat the seeds out of a grain
- give a thrashing to; beat hard
- beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
- beat so fast that (the heart's) output starts dropping until (it) does not manage to pump out blood at all
- move data into and out of core rather than performing useful computation
- (computing) In computer architecture, to cause or undergo poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.
- (software) To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.
- To beat mercilessly.
- To defeat utterly.
- To thresh.
- To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
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- an instrumental version of the blues (especially for piano)
- (skydiving, informal) A large, organised skydiving event.
- (informal, US) A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril cavity.
- (informal) A style of swing dance.
- (slang, ethnic slur, offensive) A black person.
- (informal) Any relatively energetic dance to pop or rock music.
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- dance the shag
- To chase after; especially, to chase after and return (a ball) hit usually out of play.
- (transitive) To make hairy or shaggy; to roughen.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, intransitive, slang, vulgar) To have sex.
- (India, transitive, slang, vulgar) To masturbate.
- (dance, uncommon) To perform the dance called the shag.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, transitive, slang, vulgar) To have sex with.
- (intransitive) To shake, wiggle around.
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- a fabric with long coarse nap
- a lively dance step consisting of hopping on each foot in turn
- slang for sexual intercourse
- a strong coarse tobacco that has been shredded
- a matted tangle of hair or fiber
- Coarse shredded tobacco.
- (West Country) Friend; mate; buddy.
- (slang, vulgar) An act of sex.
- Any of several species of sea birds in the family Phalacrocoracidae (cormorant family), especially a common shag or European shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis), found on European and African coasts.
- (slang, vulgar) A casual sexual partner.
- (often attributive) A deliberately messy, shaggy hairstyle.
- (dance, sometimes capitalized) A swing dance.
- Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc.
- A type of rough carpet pile.
- (Northwestern Ontario) A fundraising dance in honour of a couple engaged to be married.
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- (dance) A march of Cuban origin in four-four time in which people form a chain, each holding the hips of the person in front of them; in each bar, dancers take three shuffle steps and then kick alternate legs outwards at the beat; the chain weaves around the place and allows new participants to join the back of the chain.
- (music) A tall, narrow, single-headed Cuban hand drum of African origin.
- music composed for dancing the conga
- a Latin American dance of 3 steps and a kick by people in single file
verb
- To dance.
- (transitive, nautical) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
- (intransitive) To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
- (intransitive, slang) To be confrontational.
- (intransitive) To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
- (transitive) To set, as the foot.
- (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To depart.
- (transitive) To advance a process gradually, one step at a time.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move mentally; to go in imagination.
- (intransitive) To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.
- place (a ship's mast) in its step
- put down or press the foot, place the foot
- move with one's feet in a specific manner
- treat badly
- measure (distances) by pacing
- shift or move by taking a step
- walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified manner
- furnish with steps
- move or proceed as if by steps into a new situation
- cause (a computer) to execute a single command
noun
- (colloquial) A stepchild.
- (glassblowing) The button joining a glass's stem to its foot.
- Stepping (style of dance)
- (machines) One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.
- (nautical) A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specifically, a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.
- (in the plural) A walk; passage.
- A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
- An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
- Proceeding; measure; action; act.
- (in the plural) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
- The part of a spade, digging stick or similar tool that a digger's foot rests against and presses on when digging; an ear, a foot-rest.
- (kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
- (slang, primarily Netherlands) Kick scooter.
- A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
- A gait; manner of walking.
- (machines) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
- The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.
- A small space or distance.
- (colloquial) A stepsibling.
- A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a ladder.
- A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
- (programming) A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
- (music) The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
- a sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance
- a musical interval of two semitones
- the distance covered by a step
- a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface
- relative position in a graded series
- support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway
- any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
- the sound of a step of someone walking
- the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down
- a short distance
- a solid block joined to the beams in which the heel of a ship's mast or capstan is fixed
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noun
name
- A town in South Australia.
- A community in Nova Scotia, Canada.
- The capital city of West Virginia, United States and the county seat of Kanawha County; perhaps after Charles Clendenin, the father of an early settler.
- A city, the county seat of Mississippi County, Missouri; after either nearby Charles Prairie or the city in South Carolina.
- A suburb of Dundee, City of Dundee council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO3532).
- A town in Vermont; after a naval battle near the city in South Carolina; the town's early settlers were naval officers.
- A surname.
- A town in New York; after Charles Van Epps, an early settler.
- A coastal village south of Westport, West Coast, New Zealand.
- A town in Utah; after Charles Shelton, an early settler.
- A village in Angus council area, Scotland; after Charles Henderson, proprietor of the village's land before its formation (OS grid ref NO3845).
- A neighborhood of Staten Island, New York; after Charles Kreischer, son of Balthasar Kreischer, after whom the town was previously named (as Kreischerville).
- A city, the county seat of Charleston County, South Carolina; after Charles II of England.
- A city in Tennessee.
- A city in Arkansas, and one of the two county seats of Franklin County.
- A city, the county seat of Coles County, Illinois; after Charles Morton, its first postmaster.
- A town in Maine; after Charles Vaughan, an early settler.
- A city in Mississippi, and one of the two county seats of Tallahatchie County.
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noun
- an early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940)
- (countable, Oxbridge slang) A party hosted by a college's JCR or MCR.
- (uncountable, music) A style of improvised jazz from the 1940s.
- (slang, offensive) A promiscuous woman, especially in the context of having a high body count or giving fellatio to many men.
- (countable) A casual party with dancing; a disco.
- (colloquial, onomatopoeia) A very light smack, blow or punch.
- (slang, countable) A good, catchy song; a song that makes one want to dance.
- (slang, offensive) A woman presenting herself online in a manner thought of as being immodest, usually to generate views or income through social media or subscription content platforms.
noun
- lively dancing (usually to ragtime music) with much shaking of the shoulders and hips
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- an abnormal wobble in a motor vehicle (especially in the front wheels)
- (rare) A sleeveless chemise.
- An abnormal vibration, especially in the wheels of a vehicle.
- A dance that was popular in the 1920s.
- A dance move involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately.
verb
- dance a shimmy
- tremble or shake
- (intransitive, video games) To move across a narrow ledge, either by hanging from it or by strafing on it along the wall.
- (intransitive, rare) To shake the body as if dancing the shimmy.
- (dance) To perform a shimmy (dance movement involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately).
- To climb something (e.g. a pole) gradually (e.g. using alternately one's arms then one's legs).
- (intransitive) To vibrate abnormally, as a broken wheel.
verb
- dance a clog dance
- fill to excess so that function is impaired
- impede with a clog or as if with a clog
- become or cause to become obstructed
- impede the motion of, as with a chain or a burden
- coalesce or unite in a mass
- (intransitive) To perform a clog dance.
- To block or slow passage through (often with 'up').
- To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
- (law) To enforce a mortgage lender right that prevents a borrower from exercising a right to redeem.
- To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
noun
- a dance performed while wearing shoes with wooden soles; has heavy stamping steps
- footwear usually with wooden soles
- any object that acts as a hindrance or obstruction
- A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
- A blockage.
- (UK, colloquial) A shoe of any type.
- A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
- That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.
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verb
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- popular dance music (especially in the late 1970s); melodic with a regular bass beat; intended mainly for dancing at discotheques
- a public dance hall for dancing to recorded popular music
- (countable, slightly dated) Clipping of discotheque (“nightclub for dancing”).
- (US, law, informal) discovery (pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered)
- (uncountable, music) A genre of dance music that was popular in the 1970s, characterized by elements of soul music with a strong Latin-American beat and often accompanied by pulsating lights.
- (British) A dance, a social gathering where dancing is the main activity.
- (US, law, informal) discovery (materials revealed to the opposing party during the pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered)
verb
- dance a waltz
- (intransitive, transitive, usually with in, into, around, etc.) To move briskly and unhesitatingly, especially in an inappropriately casual manner, or when unannounced or uninvited.
- (intransitive, transitive) To dance the waltz (with).
- (informal) To accomplish a task with little effort.
- (transitive) To move with fanfare.
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- To dance the hustle, a disco dance.
- (transitive) To bundle; to stow something quickly.
- (intransitive) To rush or hurry.
- (informal) To be a prostitute; to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money.
- To play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge one.
- (informal) To sell sex; to work as a pimp.
- (informal) To work.
- (informal) To put a lot of effort into one's work.
- (transitive) To con, swindle, or deceive, especially financially.
- (informal) To obtain by illicit or forceful action.
- (informal) To serve (a clientele) as a prostitute.
- To push someone roughly; to crowd; to jostle.
- sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
- cause to move furtively and hurriedly
- move or cause to move energetically or busily
- get by trying hard
- pressure or urge someone into an action
noun
- A scam or swindle.
- (slang) An act of prostitution.
- A propensity to work hard and get things done; ability to hustle.
- (informal) An activity, especially to achieve a desired goal or make money.
- (prison slang) An activity, such as prostitution or reselling stolen items, that a prisoner uses to earn money in prison.
- A state of busy activity.
- (preceded by a definite article) A type of disco dance, commonly danced to the Van McCoy song The Hustle (1975).
- a rapid active commotion
- a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
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noun
- a jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s
- Synonym of diddley bow (“type of stringed instrument”).
- (dance) An uptempo jazz or swing dance which embellishes on the two-step pattern and frequently incorporates acrobatic style swing steps.
- (colloquial) A nervous or jittery person.
- (jazz) A jazz musician or aficionado.
verb
noun
- A shade of red-violet.
- (music, dance) A form of lively flamenco music and dance that has many regional variations (e.g. fandango de Huelva), some of which have their own names (e.g. malagueña, granadina).
- (figurative, colloquial) An unknown entity or contraption.
- An extravaganza; an instance of lavish and fantastical events or behavior.
- A gathering for dancing; a ball.
- (euphemistic) Vagina.
- A confusion; a chaotic collection.
- a provocative Spanish courtship dance in triple time; performed by a man and a woman playing castanets