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quick on one's feet
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tick
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fox
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razorlike
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flyness
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quick on one's feet
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shoot first and ask questions later
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fox
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noun
noun
- Something that is sharp.
- A note that is sharp in a particular key.
- A dishonest person; a cheater.
- Fine particles of husk mixed with coarse particle of flour of cereals; middlings.
- A note that is played a semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed by the symbol ♯.
- A sharp tool or weapon.
- A sharpie (member of Australian gangs of the 1960s and 1970s).
- The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic.
- Part of a stream where the water runs very rapidly.
- A sewing needle with a very slender point, more pointed than a blunt or a between.
- The symbol ♯, placed after the name of a note in the key signature or before a note on the staff to indicate that the note is to be played a semitone higher.
- A hypodermic syringe.
adj
- Higher in pitch than required.
- Intelligent.
- Having an intense, acrid flavour.
- Offensive, critical, or acrimonious.
- Forming a small angle; especially, forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.
- Steep; precipitous; abrupt.
- Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification.
- Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut easily; not obtuse or rounded.
- Illegal or dishonest.
- Higher than usual by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ♯ after the name of the note).
- Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd.
- Tactical; risky.
- Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty.
- Said of as extreme a value as possible.
- Exact, precise, accurate; keen.
- Piercing; keen; severe; painful.
- Stylish or attractive.
- Sudden and intense.
- Observant; alert; acute.
verb
- To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper.
- To raise the pitch of a note half a step making a natural note a sharp.
adv
adj
- Sharp, penetrating.
- Of or pertaining to the nose or to the nasion.
- Having a sound imparted by means of the nose; and specifically, made by lowering the soft palate, in some cases with closure of the oral passage, the voice thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in the consonants m, n, ng.
- Characterized by resonance in the nasal passage.
noun
adj
adj
- Sharp, barbed; not dull.
- Directed negatively at a person or topic.
- Having a relevance to the matter at hand: pertinent, relevant.
- That has a named, but otherwise arbitrary, point (called the basepoint) that remains unchanged during subsequent discussion and is kept track of during all operations.
- In animals, having a coat pattern with points, that is, darkening of the extremities.
adj
adj
- Piercing, sharp.
- Of criticism, remarks, etc.: (potentially) hurtful.
- Of a beverage: half-sized.
- That is used for cutting.
noun
- A section removed from a larger whole.
- The editing of film or other recordings.
- An abridged selection of written work, often intended for performance.
- A leaf, stem, branch, or root removed from a plant and cultivated to grow a new plant.
- The action of the verb to cut.
- The act of cutting one's own skin as a symptom of a mental disorder; self-harm.
- A newspaper clipping.
- An open passage at a level lower than the surrounding terrain, dug for a canal, railway, or road to go through.
- The process of bringing metals to a desired shape by chipping away the unwanted material.
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.
adj
- Sharp and stiff in character.
- Lean, lank.
- Having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner
- Sharp-cornered; pointed.
- Relating or pertaining to an angle or angles.
- Composed of three or more rings attached to a single carbon atom (the rings not all being in the same plane).
- Ungraceful; lacking grace.
- Measured by an angle.
noun
verb
- To make ragged or uneven, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to deface, to mar.
- To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.
- To make a cut at the side of the face.
- To steal.
- To arrest.
- To make a crosscut or cuts on the underside of (the tail of a horse, in order to make the animal carry it higher).
noun
- The point where the wall of the court meets the floor.
- One of the single-stranded DNA segments produced during nick translation.
- Often in the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition, state.
- A police station or prison.
- A small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch.
adj
- Sharp; keen; poignant.
- Equipped with intelligent behaviour (digital/computer technology).
- Good-looking; well dressed; fine; fashionable.
- Cleverly shrewd and humorous in a way that may be rude and disrespectful.
- Exhibiting intellectual knowledge, such as that found in books.
- Sudden and intense.
- Exhibiting social ability or cleverness.
- Causing sharp pain; stinging.
verb
- To cause a smart or sting in.
- To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; be punished severely; to feel the sting of evil.
- To hurt or sting.
noun
verb
- To strike gently; to pat.
- To make a tick or checkmark.
- To go on trust, or credit.
- To work or operate, especially mechanically.
- To add (a bird) to a list of birds that have been seen (or heard).
- To give tick; to trust.
- To make a clicking noise similar to the movement of the hands in an analog clock.
noun
- A mark on any scale of measurement; a unit of measurement.
- Credit, trust.
- The whinchat.
- A bird seen (or heard) by a birdwatcher, for the first time that day, year, trip, etc., and thus added to a list of observed birds.
- A jiffy (unit of time defined by basic timer frequency).
- A short period of time, particularly a second.
- A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida.
- Ticking.
- A periodic increment of damage or healing caused by an ongoing status effect.
- A sheet that wraps around a mattress; the cover of a mattress, containing the filling.
- A relatively quiet but sharp sound generally made repeatedly by moving machinery.
- A mark (✓) made to indicate agreement, correctness or acknowledgement.
verb
- To strike or tap smartly.
- To project quickly; to snap.
- To drive as if by a fillip (noun sense 1); to excite, stimulate, whet.
- To strike, project, or propel with a fillip (that is, a finger released quickly after being pressed against the thumb); to flick.
- To make a fillip (noun sense 1) (with the fingers).
noun
adj
- Sharp; having prominent edges.
- Cool by virtue of being tough, dark, or badass.
- Having some of the forms, such as drapery or the like, too sharply defined.
- On the edge between acceptable and offensive; pushing the boundaries of good taste; risqué.
- Nervous, apprehensive.
- Exhibiting behavior that is disconcerting or alarming, sometimes in an effort to impress or to troll others.
- Creatively challenging; cutting edge; leading edge.
verb
adj
- Sharp, clearly defined.
- Brief and to the point.
- having a refreshing amount of acidity; having less acidity than green wine, but more than a flabby one.
- Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture.
- Quick and accurate.
- Not using fuzzy logic; based on a binary distinction between true and false.
- Dry and cold.
- Possessing a certain degree of firmness and freshness.
noun
verb
- To act slyly or craftily.
- To trick, fool or outwit (someone) by cunning or ingenuity.
- To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.
- To confuse or baffle (someone).
- To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.
- To turn sour; said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.
- To discolour paper. Fox marks are spots on paper caused by humidity. (See foxing.)
- To repair (boots) with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.
noun
- A wedge driven into the split end of a bolt to tighten it.
- A physically attractive man or woman.
- A fox terrier.
- Air-to-air weapon launched.
- A red fox, small carnivore (Vulpes vulpes), related to dogs and wolves, with red or silver fur and a bushy tail.
- A small strand of rope made by twisting several rope-yarns together. Used for seizings, mats, sennits, and gaskets.
- A cunning person.
- A person with reddish brown hair, usually a woman.
- A hidden radio transmitter, finding which is the goal of radiosport.
- The fourteenth Lenormand card.
- The fur of a fox.
- The gemmeous dragonet, a fish, Callionymus lyra, so called from its yellow color.
- Any of numerous species of small wild canids resembling the red fox. In the taxonomy they form the tribe Vulpini within the family Canidae, consisting of nine genera (see the Wikipedia article on the fox).
verb
verb
- To swagger; to act with boldness or bluster (toward).
- To swipe.
- To streak, to color in a swash.
- To wade forcefully through liquid.
- To fall violently or noisily.
- To dash or flow noisily; to splash.
- To swirl through liquid; to swish.
adj
noun
- A long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.
- A smooth stroke; a swish.
- A wet splashing sound.
- The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken.
- A streak or patch.
- A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.
- A swishing noise.
- An oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
verb
- To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
- To clear (a body of water or part thereof) of mines.
- To defeat (a team) in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
- To move something in a long sweeping motion, as a broom.
- To row with one oar to either the port or starboard side.
- To strike with a long stroke.
- To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation.
- To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.
- To travel quickly.
- To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.
- To remove something abruptly and thoroughly.
- To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.
- To search (a place) methodically.
- To draw or drag something over.
- To play a sweep shot.
- To vacuum a carpet or rug.
noun
- Any of several sea chubs in the family Kyphosidae (subfamily Scorpidinae).
- The compass of any turning body or of any motion.
- Violent and general destruction.
- The degree to which an aircraft's wings are angled backwards (or, occasionally, forwards) from their attachments to the fuselage.
- A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.
- A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water.
- A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins.
- A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.
- A single action of sweeping.
- The person who steers a dragon boat.
- A methodical search, typically for bugs (electronic listening devices).
- Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line.
- A rowing style in which each rower rows with oar on either the port or starboard side.
- An expanse or a swath, a strip of land.
- A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.
- In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table.
- A movable template for making moulds, in loam moulding.
- Any of the blades of a windmill.
- A chimney sweep.
- The sweepings of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
- A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
- A throw or takedown that primarily uses the legs to attack an opponent's legs.
verb
- To pull something sharply; to pull something out
- To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
- To pull or twitch sharply.
- To remove feathers from a bird.
- To play a string instrument pizzicato.
- To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
- Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.
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