knap
rap
knock about
slam
bang
batter
buffet
bash
wallop
whack
wham
whop
leather
crack
chop
clobber
baste
buff
zap
spur
belt
knock
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slashout
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superstrike
slash
tip
tap
rain down
swat
puck
souse
scabbery
slog
blackleggery
swig
jolt
slug
overstrike
power
pound
sideswipe
misstrike
klap
whoop
percuss
punchout
beat
swipe
clout
bitterly
bitingly
thud
dash
lash
piercingly
bitter
pummel
LART
bop
hack
kick
ram
ram down
whale on
tabor
smash
hew
chap
bang away
cudgel
whomp
hammer
fustigate
meet with
ho
hee
boff
clump
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piercingly
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whang
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swat
puck
souse
slog
swig
jolt
slug
overstrike
power
pound
sideswipe
misstrike
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whoop
percuss
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clout
thud
lash
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LART
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tabor
smash
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chap
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cudgel
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whang
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
- strike violently
- to produce a sharp often metallic explosive or percussive sound
- close violently
- move noisily
- have sexual intercourse with
- leap, jerk, bang
noun
- a vigorous blow
- a sudden very loud noise
- a border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the forehead
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- a conspicuous success
adv
verb
verb
verb
- To strike forcefully.
- To change rapidly in register.
- To become debilitated by psychological pressure.
- To form cracks.
- To make a cracking sound.
- To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.
- To make a crack or cracks in.
- To make a sharply humorous comment.
- To open slightly.
- To overcome a security system or component.
- To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.
- To break apart under force, stress, or pressure.
- To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.
- To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure.
- To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
- To tell (a joke).
- To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.
- To solve a difficult problem.
- To cause to make a sharp sound.
- To realize that one is transgender.
- To barely reach, attain to (a measurement, extent).
- To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.
noun
- An attempt at something.
- A sharp, resounding blow.
- The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
- A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
- Vagina.
- The space between the buttocks.
- A narrow opening.
- Any sharp sound.
- A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
- A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
- a meaningful chat.
- Something good-tasting or habit-forming.
- Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
- Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous storytelling; good company.
- The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.
- Business; events; news.
- Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.
adj
verb
adj
noun
verb
noun
noun
- the act of hitting vigorously
- a vigorous blow
- endless loop of flexible material between two rotating shafts or pulleys
- a band to tie or buckle around the body (usually at the waist)
- an elongated region where a specific condition or characteristic is found
- a path or strip (as cut by one course of mowing)
- ammunition (usually of small caliber) loaded in flexible linked strips for use in a machine gun
verb
noun
verb
- To strike violently and randomly
- To strike swiftly and laterally with a hockey stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.
- To create slashes in a garment.
- To criticize cuttingly.
- To swing wildly at the ball.
- To clear land, (particularly forestry) with violent action such as logging or brushfires or (agriculture, uncommon) through grazing.
- To produce a similar wound with a savage strike of a whip.
- To write slash fiction.
- To piss, to urinate.
- To work in wet conditions.
- To reduce sharply.
- To move quickly and violently.
- To crack a whip with a slashing motion.
- To cut with a swift broad stroke of an edged weapon.
noun
- Any similar wide striking motion.
- A hard swift lateral strike with a hockey or lacrosse stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.
- A swampy area; a swamp.
- A clearing in a forest, (particularly) those made by logging, fire, or other violent action.
- Slash fiction.
- A cut or laceration, often deep, made by an edged weapon or whip.
- A deep taper-pointed incision in a plant.
- A piss: an act of urination.
- Female genitalia.
- A wild swinging strike of the bat.
- A swift, broad, cutting stroke made by an edged weapon or whip.
- A sharp reduction.
- A slit in an outer garment exposing a lining or inner garment, usually of a contrasting color or design; any intentional long vertical cut in a garment.
- The slash mark: the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩, sometimes (often proscribed) inclusive of any mark produced by a similar slashing movement of the pen, as the backslash ⟨\⟩.
- A large quantity of watery food such as broth.
- The loose woody debris remaining from a slash, (particularly forestry) the trimmings left while preparing felled trees for removal.
conj
adv
verb
- strike lightly
- cut a female screw thread with a tap
- draw from or dip into to get something
- draw from; make good use of
- tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information
- furnish with a tap or spout, so as to be able to draw liquid from it
- make light, repeated taps on a surface
- walk with a tapping sound
- dance and make rhythmic clicking sounds by means of metal plates nailed to the sole of the dance shoes
- draw (liquor) from a tap
- pierce in order to draw a liquid from
- make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently
noun
- the sound made by a gentle blow
- a gentle blow
- a faucet for drawing water from a pipe or cask
- a small metal plate that attaches to the toe or heel of a shoe (as in tap dancing)
- a tool for cutting female (internal) screw threads
- a plug for a bunghole in a cask
- the act of tapping a telephone or telegraph line to get information
- a light touch or stroke
verb
noun
noun
noun
verb
noun
- a projectile that is fired from a gun
- a unit of mass equal to the mass that accelerates at 1 foot/sec/sec when acted upon by a force of 1 pound; approximately 14.5939 kilograms
- a counterfeit coin
- an idle slothful person
- an amount of an alcoholic drink (usually liquor) that is poured or gulped
- a strip of type metal used for spacing
- any of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell
- (boxing) a blow with the fist
verb
- To hit or kick something forcefully.
- To provide power for (a mechanical or electronic device).
- To enable or provide the impetus for.
adj
noun
- Physical force or strength.
- Control or coercion, particularly legal or political (jurisdiction).
- The people in charge of legal or political power, the government.
- A measure of the rate of doing work or transferring energy.
- The ability to do or undergo something.
- An influential nation, company, or other such body.
- Any of the elementary forms or parts of machines: three primary (the lever, inclined plane, and pulley) and three secondary (the wheel-and-axle, wedge, and screw).
- In Christian angelology, an intermediate level of angels, ranked above archangels, but exact position varies by classification scheme.
- A measure of the effectiveness that a force producing a physical effect has over time. If linear, the quotient of: (force multiplied by the displacement of or in an object) ÷ time. If rotational, the quotient of: (force multiplied by the angle of displacement) ÷ time.
- The strength by which a lens or mirror magnifies an optical image.
- The probability that a statistical test will reject the null hypothesis when the alternative hypothesis is true.
- The ability to affect or influence.
- A product of equal factors (and generalizations of this notion): xⁿ, read as "x to the power of n" or the like, is called a power and denotes the product x⨯x⨯⋯⨯x, where x appears n times in the product; x is called the base and n the exponent.
- Cardinality.
- The ability to coerce, influence, or control.
- Electricity or a supply of electricity.
verb
- To strike hard, usually repeatedly.
- To crush to pieces; to pulverize.
- To eat or drink very quickly.
- To pitch consistently to a certain location.
- To beat strongly or throb.
- To make a jarring noise, as when running.
- To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
- To penetrate sexually, with vigour.
- To advance heavily with measured steps.
noun
- The symbol # (octothorpe, hash, number sign)
- A section of a canal between two adjacent locks.
- A unit of mass equal to 12 troy ounces (≈ 373.242 g). Today, this is a common unit of mass when measuring precious metals, and is little used elsewhere.
- a division inside a fishing stage where cod is cured in salt brine
- The translated name of various non-English units of measure
- Any of various units of currency used in Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan and Syria, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland, Cyprus and Israel.
- The translated name of various non-English units of currency
- Any of various units of currency formerly used in the United States.
- A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc.
- A hard blow.
- The people who work for the pound.
- The unit of currency used in the United Kingdom and its dependencies. It is divided into 100 pence. Symbol £.
- A kind of fishing net, having a large enclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.
- A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals.
- A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of "pound" as a unit of weight.
verb
verb
noun
verb
- To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- To hit; to strike.
- simple past tense of beat
- To rob.
- To indicate by beating or drumming.
- To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- To make a sound when struck.
- To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- To tread, as a path.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- To have sexual intercourse.
- To arrive at a place before someone.
- To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
- To be in agitation or doubt.
adj
- Ugly.
- Having impressively attractive makeup.
- Boring.
- Exhausted.
- Relating to the Beat Generation.
- Dilapidated, beat up.
noun
- A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
- A beatnik.
- A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- A rhythm.
- The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
- A pulsation or throb.
- A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
- A stroke; a blow.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- A precinct.
noun
- Violent strike; a whack.
- The dashboard of a Tumblr user.
- A small quantity of a liquid substance etc.; less than 1/8 of a teaspoon.
- Any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal bar).
- A rushing or violent onset.
- A short run, flight.
- Ostentatious vigor.
- The longer of the two symbols of Morse code.
- A slight admixture.
- A bribe or gratuity; a gift.
- A dashboard.
- A hyphen or minus sign.
verb
- To leave or depart.
- To complete hastily.
- To ruin; to destroy.
- To dishearten; to sadden.
- To sprinkle; to splatter.
- To run quickly or for a short distance.
- To destroy by striking (against).
- To draw or write quickly; jot.
- To throw violently.
intj
verb
- To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.
- To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down.
- To ply the whip; to strike.
- To utter censure or sarcastic language.
- To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
- To scold; or to satirize; to censure with severity.
- Used in phrasal verbs: lash back, lash out.
- To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
- To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.
adj
noun
- The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
- A quick and violent sweeping movement, as of an animal's tail; a swish.
- A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
- An attempt; a go at something.
- In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
- A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough, often given as a punishment.
- A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
- Looseness between fitted parts, either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear).
adv
adj
- marked by strong resentment or cynicism
- very difficult to accept or bear
- harsh or corrosive in tone
- expressive of severe grief or regret
- proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity
- causing a sharp and acrid taste experience
- causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold
noun
- English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft)
- the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth
- the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste
verb
verb
- To strike in a frantic movement.
- To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
- To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
- To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
- To kick (a player) on the shins.
- To swing at a pitched ball.
- To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
- To cheat by using unauthorized modifications.
- To work with something on an intimately technical level.
- To strike an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code.
- To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
- To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
- To gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
- To play hackeysack.
- To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
- To drive a hackney cab.
- To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
- To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
- To cough noisily.
- To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain.
- To accomplish a difficult programming task.
- To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
noun
- A person who frequently canvasses for votes, either directly or by appearing to continuously act with the ulterior motive of furthering their political career.
- An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date; a workaround.
- A try, an attempt.
- The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
- A trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to increase productivity, efficiency, or ease.
- A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
- A hacking blow.
- An improvised device or solution to a problem.
- A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
- A taxicab (hackney cab) driver.
- A hearse.
- A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
- A dry cough.
- A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney coach, now typically a taxicab.
- A kick on the shins in football of any type.
- A tool for chopping.
- A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired.
- The act of striking an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- A board which the falcon's food is placed on; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
- A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
- Time check, as for example upon synchronization of wristwatches.
- A computer programmer who makes quick but inelegant changes to computer code to solve problems or add features.
- A computer programmer, particularly a veteran or someone not immediately expected to be capable of programming.
- A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter, particularly a choppy, ungraceful one that misses the ball such as at a fastball.
- One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
- A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
- An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
- A food-rack for cattle.
- Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
- An untalented writer.
- A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
- An airplane of poor quality or in poor condition.
- An illegal attempt to gain access to a computer network.
- A grating in a mill race.
- Confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment.
- A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work.
- A political agitator.
verb
- strike with the foot
- drive or propel with the foot
- thrash about or strike out with the feet
- kick a leg up
- spring back, as from a forceful thrust
- stop consuming
- make a goal
- express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness
noun
- the act of delivering a blow with the foot
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- the backward jerk of a gun when it is fired
- informal terms for objecting
- the sudden stimulation provided by strong drink (or certain drugs)
- a rhythmic thrusting movement of the legs as in swimming or calisthenics
verb
- collide or strike violently and suddenly
- hit violently
- hit with great force
- break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over
- reduce to bankruptcy
- humiliate or depress completely
- damage or destroy as if by violence
- hit (a tennis ball) in a powerful overhead stroke
- overthrow or destroy (something considered evil or harmful)
- break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow
noun
- a vigorous blow
- a serious collision (especially of motor vehicles)
- a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head
- the act of colliding with something
- a conspicuous success
adv
verb
- To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.
- To hit particularly hard.
- To declare (a person) a defaulter on the stock exchange.
- To ride very fast.
- To make high demands on (a system or service).
- To emphasize a point repeatedly.
- To beat down the price of (a stock), or depress (a market).
- To have hard sex with.
- To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.
- To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
- To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly
noun
- The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.
- The accelerator pedal.
- A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.
- A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.
- The act of using a hammer to hit something.
- The last stone in an end.
- A frisbee throwing style in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown above the head.
- Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.
- One who, or that which, smites or shatters.
- A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
- In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.
verb
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