on-hanger
hooker-on
dependent
hangability
pendulent
hangingly
halter
tagtail
uphang
hang
ketch
overhang
lop
penduline
run up
hang up
drape
hangdoggy
lave
swing
dangle
lean
drop
sagging
droopy
drooping
mishang
chill
unsling
bag
pensile
release
depend
string up
put up
hammock
backfriend
Jeddart justice
aloll
parasite
overslung
beetle
lie about
lie around
wedgitude
foldup
droop
loll
brood
hover
bulk large
antihanging
loom
dangling
Guy Fawkes
chamcha
hang about
mobilelike
hanger
rack
hangoverish
teetotalist
trail
trapped
overbrow
cragfast
pendant
grobble
hangoverlike
hung
thurible
pendent
sling
bog down
antihangover
recline
hang around
bog
dance the hempen jig
go to the scaffold
callowly
gibbet
swingle
wasp around
chokehold
shackle
linger
dependent
pendulent
penduline
hangdoggy
sagging
droopy
drooping
pensile
aloll
overslung
foldup
antihanging
mobilelike
hangoverish
trapped
cragfast
pendant
hangoverlike
hung
pendent
antihangover
hangingly
callowly
on-hanger
hooker-on
hangability
tagtail
hang
ketch
backfriend
Jeddart justice
parasite
wedgitude
drop
dangling
chamcha
hanger
teetotalist
thurible
swing
halter
halter
uphang
ketch
overhang
lop
run up
hang up
drape
lave
swing
dangle
lean
drop
mishang
chill
unsling
bag
release
hang
depend
string up
put up
hammock
beetle
lie about
lie around
droop
loll
brood
hover
bulk large
loom
Guy Fawkes
hang about
rack
trail
overbrow
grobble
sling
bog down
recline
hang around
bog
dance the hempen jig
go to the scaffold
gibbet
swingle
wasp around
chokehold
shackle
linger
noun
adj
- Hanging down.
- Used after a particle (with one or two exceptions), such as those which express questions, subordinate clauses, and negative sentences.
- Relying upon; depending upon.
- Affecting the lower part of the body, such as the legs while standing up, or the back while supine.
- Having a probability that is affected by the outcome of a separate event.
noun
- One who relies on another for support
- An element in phrase or clause structure that is not the head. Includes complements, modifiers and determiners.
- The aorist subjunctive or subjunctive perfective: a form of a verb not used independently but preceded by a particle to form the negative or a tense form. Found in Greek and in the Gaelic languages.
adv
verb
noun
- a rope that is used by a hangman to execute persons who have been condemned to death by hanging
- rope or canvas headgear for a horse, with a rope for leading
- a woman's top that fastens behind the back and neck leaving the back and arms uncovered
- either of the rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects; used for maintaining equilibrium during flight
noun
- The way in which something hangs.
- A mass of hanging material.
- A slackening of motion.
- A grip, understanding.
- He got the hang of it after only two demonstrations.
- A hangout.
- A person that someone hangs out with.
- Cheap processed ham (cured pork), often made specially for sandwiches.
- An instance of ceasing to respond to input.
- A sharp or steep declivity or slope.
- The smallest amount of concern or consideration; a damn.
verb
- To exhibit (an object) by hanging.
- To decorate (something) with hanging objects.
- To kill (someone) by suspension from the neck, usually as a form of execution or suicide.
- To float, as if suspended.
- To attach or cause to stick (a charge or accusation, etc.).
- To loiter; to hang around; to spend time idly.
- To throw a hittable off-speed pitch.
- To remain persistently in one's thoughts.
- To be or remain suspended.
- To veer in one direction.
- To apply (wallpaper or drywall to a wall).
- To prevent from reaching a decision, especially by refusing to join in a verdict that must be unanimous.
- To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of the ground.
- To cause (a piece) to become vulnerable to capture.
- To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect.
- To be vulnerable to capture.
- To be executed by suspension by one's neck from a gallows, a tree, or other raised bar, attached by a rope tied into a noose.
- To stop responding to manual input devices such as the keyboard and mouse.
- To cause (something) to be suspended, as from a hook, hanger, hinges, or the like.
- (used in maledictions) To damn.
- To cause (a program or computer) to stop responding.
verb
noun
- A fatty roll of pubis flab that hangs over one's genitals; a FUPA.
- The volume that tips the balance between the demand and the supply toward demand lagging supply.
- Anything that overhangs or protrudes over its base, such as a wave immediately before breaking, or a protruding cliff or rock wall.
- That portion of the roof structure that extends beyond the exterior walls of a building.
verb
- To string up; to hang.
- To approach (an event or point in time).
- To accumulate (a debt).
- To thrust up, as anything long and slender.
- To make something, usually an item of clothing, very quickly.
- To take to a destination or before an authority.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, up.
- To rise; to swell; to grow; to increase.
- Of a bowler, to run, or walk up to the bowling crease in order to bowl a ball.
- To bring (a flag) to the top of its flag pole.
- To run (towards someone or something); to hasten to a destination.
- To erect hastily, as a building.
verb
- hang loosely
- move in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting
- move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner
- change direction with a swinging motion; turn
- influence decisively
- make a big sweeping gesture or movement
- hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement
- alternate dramatically between high and low values
- live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style
- have a certain musical rhythm
- be a social swinger; socialize a lot
- play with a subtle and intuitively felt sense of rhythm
- engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends
noun
- a state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activity
- mechanical device used as a plaything to support someone swinging back and forth
- a sweeping blow or stroke
- changing location by moving back and forth
- a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
- a jaunty rhythm in music
- the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it
- in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
- a square dance figure; a pair of dancers join hands and dance around a point between them
verb
- To hang outwards.
- To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
- To conceal.
- Followed by against, on, or upon: to rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc.
- To press against.
- To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen.
- To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc.
adj
- Having little fat.
- Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.
- Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.
- Slim; not fleshy.
- Efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean manufacturing".
noun
verb
- hang loosely
- let fall to the ground
- to fall vertically
- go down in value
- fall or descend to a lower place or level
- terminate an association with
- utter with seeming casualness
- stop pursuing or acting
- remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave
- cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow
- lose (a game)
- pay out
- lower the pitch of (musical notes)
- stop associating with
- let or cause to fall in drops
- to remove
- take (a drug, especially LSD), by mouth
- omit (a letter or syllable) in speaking or writing
- leave undone or leave out
- change from one level to another
- fall or sink into a state of exhaustion or death
- grow progressively worse
- give birth; used for animals
noun
- a shape that is spherical and small
- a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid)
- a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
- a steep high face of rock
- a predetermined hiding place for the deposit and distribution of illicit goods (such as drugs or stolen property)
- a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity
- a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background scenery
- a central depository where things can be left or picked up
- the act of dropping something
verb
verb
- To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group.
- To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
- To become hard by rapid cooling.
- To smoke marijuana.
- To discourage, depress.
- To become cold.
- To relax; to lie back.
- To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
noun
- A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
- A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire.
- An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.
- A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness.
- Calmness; equanimity.
- The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.
- An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it..
- A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness.
adj
verb
- To hang like an empty bag.
- To arrest.
- To laugh uncontrollably.
- To take a woman away with one as a romantic or sexual interest.
- To steal.
- To put into a bag.
- To fit with a bag to collect urine.
- To drop away from the correct course.
- To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
- To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
- To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
- To criticise sarcastically.
- To forget, ignore, or get rid of.
- To furnish or load with a bag.
noun
- A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
- One's preference.
- A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, and handbags.
- A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.
- The scrotum.
- A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
- £1000, a grand.
- A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
- An ugly woman.
- A fellow gay man.
- The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
- A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.
- A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.
- A large number or amount.
- First, second, or third base.
- A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.
- A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
- The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
verb
- (of a call) To hang up.
- To set free a chemical substance.
- To let go (of); to cease to hold or contain.
- To make available to the public.
- To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of.
- To set up; to provide with a goal-scoring opportunity
- To free or liberate; to set free.
- To let go, as a legal claim; to discharge or relinquish a right to, as lands or tenements, by conveying to another who has some right or estate in possession, as when the person in remainder releases his right to the tenant in possession; to quit.
- to come out; be out.
- To discharge.
- To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
noun
- The act or manner of ending a sound.
- In the block system, a printed card conveying information and instructions to be used at intermediate sidings without telegraphic stations.
- The giving up of a claim, especially a debt.
- Anything recently released or made available (as for sale).
- A catch on a motor-starting rheostat, which automatically releases the rheostat arm and so stops the motor in case of a break in the field circuit.
- The catch on an electromagnetic circuit breaker for a motor, triggered in the event of an overload.
- The lever or button on a camera that opens the shutter to allow a photograph to be taken
- Orgasm.
- A kind of bridge used in jazz music.
- The distribution of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product; the distribution can be either public or private.
- The process by which a chemical substance is set free.
- The event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked or stuck mechanisms).
- That which is released, untied or let go.
- Liberation from pain or suffering.
verb
- To hang; to mount.
- To set (matter) in capital letters.
- To score; to accumulate scoring. Ellipsis of to put up on the scoreboard..
- To style (the hair) up on the head, instead of letting it hang down.
- To house; to shelter; to take in.
- To cause (wild game) to break cover.
- To present, especially in "put up a fight".
- To cajole or dare (someone) to do (something).
- To build a structure.
- To provide funds in advance.
- To store away.
- To can (food) domestically; to preserve (meat, fruit or vegetables) by sterilizing and storing in a bottle, jar or can.
- To place in a high location.
- To make available; to offer.
- To endure; to put up with; to tolerate.
adj
noun
- A sycophant or hanger-on.
- An organism that lives on or in another organism of a different species, deriving benefit from living on or in that other organism, while not contributing towards that other organism sufficiently to cover the cost to that other organism.
- A person who lives on other people's efforts or expense and gives little or nothing back.
- A climbing plant which is supported by a wall, trellis etc.
- A retainer or companion of an ancient Celtic warrior, who praised him in song or poetry at gatherings; a bard.
- A component of a composite aircraft which is carried aloft and air-launched by a larger carrier aircraft or mother ship to support the primary mission of the carrier.
- Lice, fleas, ticks and mites are widely spread parasites.
verb
adj
noun
verb
verb
verb
noun
- One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman, paper hanger, etc.
- A steep, wooded slope.
- A bridle iron.
- Synonym of spectacular mark
- Hunger and anger, especially when the anger is induced by the hunger.
- A hanging pitch; a pitch (typically a breaking ball or slider) that is poorly executed, hence easy to hit.
- A person who attempts suicide by hanging.
- A short and broad backsword, worn so to hang at the side, especially popular in the 18th century.
- A strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is suspended.
- A clothes hanger.
- A device secured by a bolt and used to attach a carabiner.
verb
- To place in or hang on a rack.
- To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
- To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
- To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
- To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
- To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
- To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
- To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
- To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
- To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
- To torture (someone) on the rack.
- To tend to shear a structure (that is, force it to bend, lean, or move in different directions at different points).
- To strike in the testicles.
- To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
- To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
noun
- A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
- Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
- A distaff.
- A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other
- A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
- A woman's breasts.
- A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
- A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
- A thousand pounds (£1,000), especially if proceeds of crime
- Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
- A bunk.
- A grate on which bacon is laid.
- A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
- Sleep.
- A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
- A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
- A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
- A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.
- A set with a distributive binary operation whose result is unique.
- A fast amble.
- A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.
noun
adj
adj
- Suspended by hanging.
- Of a legislature, lacking a majority political party.
- Having hanging additions or appendages.
- Of a jury, unable to reach a unanimous verdict in a trial.
- Of a computer or similar device, receiving power but not functioning as desired; working very slowly or not at all. The condition is often corrected by rebooting the computer.
- Having a large penis (often preceded by an adverb, e.g. well hung).
verb
- hang loosely or freely; let swing
- hurl as if with a sling
- move with a sling
- hold or carry in a sling
noun
- a highball with liquor and water with sugar and lemon or lime juice
- a plaything consisting of a Y-shaped stick with elastic between the arms; used to propel small stones
- a shoe that has a strap that wraps around the heel
- a simple weapon consisting of a looped strap in which a projectile is whirled and then released
- bandage to support an injured forearm; consisting of a wide triangular piece of cloth hanging from around the neck
verb
- To restrain using shackles; to place in shackles.
- To render immobile or incapable; to inhibit the progress or abilities of.
- To shake, rattle.
noun
- A link for connecting railroad cars; a drawlink or draglink.
- A restraint on one's action, activity, or progress.
- A length of cable or chain equal to 12+¹⁄₂ fathoms or 75 feet, or later to 15 fathoms.
- A U-shaped piece of metal secured with a pin or bolt across the opening, or a hinged metal loop secured with a quick-release locking pin mechanism.
- A fetter-like band worn as an ornament.
- A restraint fit over a human or animal appendage, such as a wrist, ankle or finger; normally used in pairs joined by a chain.
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