lash
instigate
stir up
set off
incite
whiplash
exquisite
keen
larrup
larruping
pepper
shellac
warming
flay
larrupping
quick on one's feet
roundhouse
knap
tweak
jab
tart
smack
swipe
slogging
kerslap
lambasting
clobber
brouhaha
clour
pricky
sharpish
pick off
prickingly
dramatic
pluck
lashlike
clapper
pull off
scud
swatting
whip
tortuose
flick
ert
progue
biff
swing
crop
in high dudgeon
great
convulse
thrash
thresh
toss
jactitate
thrash about
thresh about
slash
pick
break
lashing
throbbing
flagellomania
lashwise
skelping
pussy pounding
clarion
flacker
poke
tunk
slap
fell
stripe
tilled
whipcrack
brassy
snap
aprickle
gruffy
pimp slap
smacking
beat
berattle
strap
jolt
slappable
mordacious
gross
back of one's hand
evisceration
exquisite
keen
quick on one's feet
tart
pricky
sharpish
dramatic
lashlike
tortuose
great
throbbing
pussy pounding
tilled
brassy
aprickle
gruffy
slappable
mordacious
gross
smack
prickingly
kerslap
lashwise
fell
larrup
larruping
pepper
shellac
warming
larrupping
knap
jab
swipe
slogging
kerslap
lambasting
roundhouse
clobber
brouhaha
clour
clapper
scud
swatting
whip
pluck
biff
swing
crop
whiplash
tweak
break
lashing
flagellomania
skelping
tunk
smack
slap
whipcrack
pimp slap
smacking
back of one's hand
evisceration
lash
instigate
stir up
set off
incite
whiplash
flay
roundhouse
tweak
pick off
pluck
pull off
flick
ert
progue
convulse
thrash
thresh
toss
jactitate
thrash about
thresh about
slash
pick
knap
whip
clarion
flacker
poke
stripe
snap
beat
berattle
strap
jolt
verb
noun
noun
- A beating; a thrashing.
- A bell pepper, a fruit of the capsicum plant: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in very spicy and mild varieties.
- A randomly-generated value that is added to another value (such as a password) prior to hashing. Unlike a salt, a new one is generated for each value and it is held separately from the value.
- A plant of the family Piperaceae.
- A game used by baseball players to warm up where fielders standing close to a batter rapidly return the batted ball to be hit again
- A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant.
verb
adj
verb
noun
- A punch or kick delivered with an exaggerated sweeping movement.
- A circular prison, especially a small local lockup or station house.
- A prehistoric dwelling typical of northwest Europe in the Iron Age and Bronze Age.
- A circular building in which locomotives are housed.
- The uppermost room or cabin of any note upon the stern of a ship.
- A privy near the bow of a vessel, especially as reserved for officers.
- In the game of pinochle, a meld consisting of a queen and king in each of the four suits.
noun
verb
adv
noun
- A sharp blow; a slap. See also: spank.
- A group of jellyfish.
- The sound of a loud kiss.
- A distinct flavor, especially if slight.
- A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade and often called a fishing smack
- A slight trace of something; a smattering.
- A form of fried potato; a scallop.
- A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.
- Heroin.
verb
- To strike a child (usually on the buttocks) as a form of discipline. (normal U.S. and Canadian term spank)
- To slap or hit someone.
- To have a particular taste; used with of.
- To wetly separate the lips, making a noise, after tasting something or in expectation of a treat.
- To indicate or suggest something; used with of.
- To get the flavor of.
- To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate.
- To make a smacking sound.
noun
- A thumping or beating.
- A bash on say the head, typically with a tool or object rather than with fists.
- Clothing; clothes.
- A paste used by shoemakers to hide the cracks in leather.
- Equipment.
verb
- To hit or bash severely; to seriously harm or damage.
- To overwrite (data) or override (an assignment of a value), often unintentionally or unexpectedly.
intj
noun
- A slapshot
- A clapstick (musical instrument).
- A pounding block.
- A wooden mechanical device used as a scarecrow; bird-scaring rattle, a wind-rattle or a wind-clapper.
- The chattering damsel of a mill.
- An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clanger or tongue.
- The hinged part of a clapperboard, used to synchronise images and soundtrack, or the clapperboard itself.
- One who claps; a person who applauds by clapping the hands.
verb
noun
- A slap; a sharp stroke.
- The drink Irn-Bru.
- A gust of wind.
- A loose formation of small ragged cloud fragments (or fog) not attached to a larger higher cloud layer.
- A swift runner.
- The act of scudding.
- A form of garden hoe.
- Any swimming amphipod.
- A scab on a wound.
- A small flight of larks, or other birds, less than a flock.
- Pornography.
- Clouds or rain driven by the wind.
verb
- To race along swiftly (especially used of clouds).
- To skim flat stones so they skip along the water.
- To hit or slap.
- To speed.
- To run, or be driven, before a high wind with no sails set.
adj
noun
- A whipping motion; a thrashing about.
- A whipper-in.
- A lash; a pliant, flexible instrument, such as a rod (commonly of cane or rattan) or a plaited or braided rope or thong (commonly of leather) used to create a sharp "crack" sound for directing or herding animals.
- A blow administered with a whip.
- A coach driver; a coachman.
- The quality of being whiplike or flexible; suppleness, as of the shaft of a golf club.
- A document distributed weekly to MPs by party whips informing them of upcoming votes in parliament.
- A move in which one player transfers momentum to another.
- The regular status of an MP within a parliamentary party, which can be revoked by the party as a disciplinary measure.
- The same instrument used to strike a person or animal for corporal punishment or torture.
- A mode of personal motorized transportation; an automobile, all makes and models including motorcycles, excluding public transportation.
- A member of a political party who is in charge of enforcing the party's policies in votes; a whipper-in.
- A spring in certain electrical devices for making a circuit
- A wippen, a rocking component in certain piano actions.
- A purchase in which one block is used to gain a 2:1 mechanical advantage.
- Whipped cream.
verb
- To snap back and forth like a whip.
- To bind the end of a rope with twine or other small stuff to prevent its unlaying: fraying or unravelling.
- To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread.
- To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
- To urge into action or obedience.
- To hit with any flexible object.
- To throw or kick an object at a high velocity.
- To move very fast.
- To transfer momentum from one skater to another.
- To mix in a rapid aerating fashion, especially food.
- To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking.
- To move (something) very fast; often with up, out, etc.
- To enforce a member voting in accordance with party policy.
- To hit with a whip.
- To fish a body of water especially by making repeated casts.
- To defeat, as in a contest or game.
- To lash with sarcasm, abuse, etc.
noun
- a sweeping blow or stroke
- 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
- 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
- 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
- hang loosely
- 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
- The lashing end of a whip.
- Tin ore prepared for smelting.
- A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
- A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.
- A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts.
- The foliate part of a finial.
- The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.
- An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.
- An outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
- An entire oxhide.
- A rocky outcrop.
- A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion or for regurgitation; a craw.
- A short haircut.
- The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.
- A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease.
- The act of cropping.
verb
- To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.
- To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
- To cause to bear a crop.
- To beat with a crop, or riding-whip.
- To yield harvest.
- To mow, reap or gather.
- To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
adj
- Impressive or striking.
- Title referring to an important leader.
- Relatively large in scale, size, extent, number (i.e. having many parts or members) or duration (i.e. relatively long); very big.
- Of significant importance or consequence; important.
- Doing or exemplifying (a characteristic or pursuit) on a large scale; active or enthusiastic.
- Much in use; favoured.
- Intensifying a word or expression, used in mild oaths.
- Skilful or adroit.
- Of larger size or more importance than others of its kind.
- Arising from or possessing idealism; admirable; superior; commanding; heroic; illustrious; eminent.
- Very good; excellent; wonderful; fantastic.
- Endowed with extraordinary powers; of exceptional talents or achievements; uncommonly gifted; able to accomplish vast results; remarkable; strong; powerful; mighty; noble.
- Involving more generations than the qualified word implies — as many extra generations as repetitions of the word great (from 1510s).
- Extreme or more than usual.
adv
noun
- A person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim.
- The main division in a pipe organ, usually the loudest division.
- An instance of the word "great" signifying an additional generation in phrases expressing family relationships.
intj
verb
- move or stir about violently
- give a thrashing to; beat hard
- dance the slam dance
- 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
- beat the seeds out of a grain
- beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
noun
verb
- provoke
- select carefully from a group
- look for and gather
- harass with constant criticism
- remove in small bits
- remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits
- pilfer or rob
- pay for something
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
- attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
- hit lightly with a picking motion
- eat intermittently; take small bites of
noun
- the person or thing chosen or selected
- the quantity of a crop that is harvested
- the best people or things in a group
- the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
- a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
- a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material
- a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends
- a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body
- the act of choosing or selecting
noun
- A sharp bit or snaffle.
- The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
- A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- A game won by the receiving player(s).
- An act of escaping.
- The first shot in a game of billiards.
- The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- The start of a horse race.
- A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
verb
- To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- To become deeper at puberty.
- To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- To counter-attack.
- To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- To become audible suddenly.
- To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- To ruin financially.
- To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- To change a steady state abruptly.
- To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- To end the run of (a play).
- To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
- To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- To begin or end.
- To suddenly become.
- To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- To demulsify.
- To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- To arrive.
- To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- To end.
- To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- To B-boy; to breakdance.
verb
- stir by poking
- poke or thrust abruptly
- search or inquire in a meddlesome way
- hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument
- make a hole by poking
noun
- tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous
- someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
- a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases
- a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow)
- (boxing) a blow with the fist
adv
verb
- To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat.
- simple past tense of fall
- To strike down, kill, destroy.
- To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.
noun
- Human skin (now only as a metaphorical use of previous sense).
- The stitching down of a fold of cloth; specifically, the portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat, where the pleats are stitched down.
- An animal skin, hide, pelt.
- A rocky ridge or chain of mountains.
- A wild field or upland moor.
- A cutting-down of timber.
- The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.
- The finer portions of ore, which go through the meshes when the ore is sorted by sifting.
adj
verb
- To lash with a whip or strap.
- To distribute data across several separate physical disks to reduce the time to read and write.
- To mark with stripes.
noun
- A long, relatively straight region against a different coloured background.
- The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces.
- A slash cut into the flesh as a punishment.
- A portion of data distributed across several separate physical disks for the sake of redundancy.
- The start/finish line.
- A long region of a single colour in a repeating pattern of similar regions.
- Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort.
- A long, narrow mark left by striking someone with a whip or stick; a blow with a whip or stick.
- Any of the balls marked with stripes in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the spots.
- A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colours, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.
noun
verb
- To say abruptly or sharply.
- To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension.
- To jump to a fixed position relative to another element.
- To snatch with or as if with the teeth.
- To flash or appear to flash as with light.
- To snap one's fingers: to make a snapping sound, often by pressing the thumb and an opposing finger of the same hand together and suddenly releasing the grip so that the finger hits against the palm; alternatively, by bringing the index finger quickly down onto the middle finger and thumb.
- To cause to move suddenly and smartly.
- To attempt to seize or bite with the teeth, beak, etc.
- To send a visual message through the Snapchat application.
- To cause something to emit a snapping sound, especially by closing it rapidly.
- To take a photograph; to release a camera's shutter (which may make a snapping sound).
- To attempt to seize with eagerness.
- To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack.
- To give way abruptly and loudly.
- To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose.
- To fracture or break apart suddenly.
- To close something using a snap as a fastener.
- To put (a football) in play by a backward pass or handoff from its position on the ground; to hike (a football).
- To speak abruptly or sharply.
- To misfire.
- To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound.
- To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).
adj
noun
- A crisp or pithy quality; epigrammatic point or force.
- A tool used by riveters.
- A tool used by glass-moulders.
- A card game, primarily for children, in which players cry "snap" to claim pairs of matching cards as they are turned up.
- A thin circular cookie or similar baked good.
- A snap bean such as Phaseolus vulgaris.
- Something of no value.
- A quick offhand shot with a firearm; a snap shot.
- A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.
- The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.
- A visual message sent through the Snapchat application.
- A rivet: a scrapbooking embellishment.
- That which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement; hence, a bite, morsel, or fragment; a scrap.
- A small meal, a snack; lunch.
- Something that is easy or effortless.
- A very short period of time (figuratively, the time taken to snap one's fingers), or a task that can be accomplished in such a period.
- A small device resembling a safety pin, used to attach the bait or lure to the line.
- A brief, sudden period of a certain weather; used primarily in the phrase cold snap.
- briskness; vigour; energy; decision
- An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab.
- A backward pass or handoff of a football from its position on the ground that puts the ball in play; a hike.
- The act of snapping the fingers; making a sound by pressing a finger against the thumb and suddenly releasing to strike the hand.
- A fastening device that makes a snapping sound when used.
- A sudden break.
- A photograph; a snapshot.
- A snapper, or snap beetle.
- A newsflash.
- jounce (the fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time), followed by crackle and pop
- A package provided for the application sandboxing system snapd developed by Canonical.
intj
- The cry used in a game of snap when winning a hand.
- "I've got one the same!", "Me too!"
- Ritual utterance used after something is said by two people at exactly the same time.
- Used in place of expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement or news; often used facetiously.
- Ritual utterance of agreement (after the cry in the card game snap).
adj
verb
- glare or strike with great intensity
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
- hit repeatedly
- move rhythmically
- shape by beating
- make a rhythmic sound
- move with a thrashing motion
- sail with much tacking or with difficulty
- stir vigorously
- strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music
- be superior
- avoid paying
- make a sound like a clock or a timer
- move with a flapping motion
- indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks
- move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
- make by pounding or trampling
- produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly
- strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
- beat through cleverness and wit
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- wear out completely
noun
- a regular route for a sentry or policeman
- the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
- the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
- a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations
- a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
- the sound of stroke or blow
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a regular rate of repetition
- a stroke or blow
- the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
adj
verb
- To beat or chastise with a strap; to whip, to lash.
- To fasten or bind with a strap.
- To sharpen by rubbing on a strap; to strop.
noun
- Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use.
- A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine.
- A strip of thick leather used in flogging.
- A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like.
- A championship belt, or by extension, the title.
- An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with one put and two call options on the same security at the same strike price, similar to but more bullish than a straddle.
- The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.
- Synonym of strapline
- A gun, normally a personal firearm such as a pistol or machine pistol.
- A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, used to hone the sharpened edge of a razor; a strop.
- The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.
- A strap worn on the shoulder.
- A piece of rope or metal passing around a block and used for fastening it to anything.
adj
- Highly or conspicuously offensive.
- Lacking refinement; not of high quality.
- Lacking refinement in behaviour or manner; offending a standard of morality.
- Heavy in proportion to one's height; having a lot of excess flesh.
- Seen without a microscope (usually for a tissue or an organ); at a large scale; not detailed.
- Excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts.
- Difficult or impossible to see through.
- Causing disgust.
verb
noun
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