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game
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caucus race
outsider
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runners and riders
face
choose
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slugfest
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hippodrome
top dog
reign
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ringer
conformity
challenger
in the money
raffle
send-off
start-off
kickoff
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verb
- To accept, or engage in, as a contest.
- To unite in marriage.
- To produce an intersection of data in two or more database tables.
- To come into the company of.
- To come together; to meet.
- To become a member of.
- To connect or combine into one; to put together.
- To enter into association or alliance, to unite in a common purpose.
noun
verb
noun
- any competition
- a contest of speed
- people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock
- (biology) a taxonomic group that is a division of a species; usually arises as a consequence of geographical isolation within a species
- the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
- a canal for a current of water
verb
prep_phrase
adv
prep_phrase
- Of a sporting or other contest: in a state of assured victory for the leading contestant.
- Not being used; temporarily unavailable or suspended; on hold.
- Of an entertainment normally performed on a stage: performed by ice skaters as an ice show.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see on, ice.
noun
- A jousting contest. (countable)
- An attempt at something, such as a tilt at public office.
- A canvas covering for carts, boats, etc.
- Any covering overhead; especially, a tent.
- The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this.
- A thrust, as with a lance.
- A tilt hammer.
- A slope or inclination.
- The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc.
verb
- To slope or incline (something); to slant.
- To point or thrust (a weapon).
- To intentionally let the ball fall down to the drain by disabling flippers and most targets, done as a punishment to the player when the machine is nudged too violently or frequently.
- To play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck or losses).
- To charge (at someone) with a lance.
- To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.
- To be at an angle.
- To point or thrust a weapon at.
- To cover with a tilt, or awning.
noun
- A contest, a struggle.
- A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; a combat, an engagement.
- battle buddy
verb
- To render (land, soil, etc.) fertile or fruitful.
- To feed or nourish (someone or something).
- To join in battle; to contend in fight
- To fight or struggle; to enter into a battle with.
adj
verb
- To earn a given spot in a competition.
- To arrange for or to make (a bet).
- To finish second, especially of horses or dogs.
- To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
- To rank at (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
- To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
- To establish a call (connection by telephone or similar).
- To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
- To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job, or a home for an animal for adoption, etc.
- To place-kick (a goal).
noun
- The position of a contestant in a competition.
- An inhabited area: a village, town, or city.
- Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
- A state of mind.
- The position of first, second, or third at the finish, especially the second position.
- An area of the body, especially the skin.
- An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard.
- A location or position in space.
- Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
- The area one occupies, particularly somewhere to sit.
- A role or purpose; a station.
- A street, sometimes but not always surrounding a public place, square, or plaza of the same name.
- The area where one lives: one's home, formerly (chiefly) country estates and farms.
- A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
- The position as a member of a sports team.
- Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
- An area to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
- Any area of the earth: a region.
verb
- to succeed in (e.g. a contest); to succeed in; to win.
- To adopt or resolve on, especially in a deliberative assembly
- To notionally transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
- To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.
- To have on one's person.
- To have propulsive power; to propel.
- to physically transport (in the general sense, not necessarily by lifting)
- To be pregnant (with).
- To lead or guide.
- To hold the head; said of a horse.
- To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.
- To be disproportionately responsible for a team's success.
- To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, for example a leader or principle
- To be transmitted; to travel.
- To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
- To have a weapon on one's person; to be armed.
- To contain; to comprise; have a particular aspect; to show or exhibit
- To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.
- To adopt (something); take (something) over.
- To stock or supply (something); to have in store.
- To have, hold, possess or maintain (something).
- To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.
- To insult, to diss.
- To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.
- To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.
- To bear a firearm, such as a gun.
- In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in the units in a column to the column immediately to the left in order to be added there.
noun
- A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.
- The distance travelled by the ball when struck, until it hits the ground.
- The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.
- Carried interest.
- The benefit or cost of owning an asset over time.
- A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.
- The sky; cloud-drift.
noun
- An object or activity that is shown in a contest.
- A brief fall of precipitation (spell of rain, or a similar fall of snow, sleet, or cascade).
- A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts.
- A baby shower.
- An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself.
- Used as an intensifying pluralizer or intensifier
- One who shows.
- A quantity of something that has characteristics of a rain shower.
- A bridal shower.
- A shower of shit.
- A man whose penis is close to its full (erect) size when flaccid, or the penis itself.
- A device for bathing by which water is made to fall on the body from a height, either from a tank or by the action of a pump.
verb
noun
- One of several contests that combine to make up a competition.
- In the event, he turned out to have what I needed anyway.
- A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.
- A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by an application or the operating system (event listener). When an event occurs an event handler is called which performs a specific task.
- An occurrence; something that happens.
- An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).
- A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.
- An episode of severe health conditions.
- A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)
noun
- a contestant that you are matched against
- a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other
- a relation of direct opposition
- something inverted in sequence or character or effect
adv
adj
- being directly across from each other; facing
- moving or facing away from each other
- the other one of a complementary pair
- altogether different in nature or quality or significance
- characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed
adj
verb
- To compete extremely well, to trounce the competition.
- To succeed in a big way.
- To display great energy or force.
- To display sexual prowess.
- To behave with wild abandon; to indulge in sex, drugs, and/or alcohol.
- To perform with great energy and flair.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tear, it, up.
noun
- a contestant that you are matched against
- the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with
- the relation between opposed entities
- the act of hostile groups opposing each other
- a body of people united in opposing something
- a direction opposite to another
- an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force)
verb
noun
- A roller derby match.
- A fighting competition.
- A bulge or widening in a musical instrument, such as either of the two characteristic bulges of a guitar.
- An assault (a fencing encounter) at which the score is kept.
- A boxing match.
- A period of something, especially one painful or unpleasant.
prep
adj
verb
- compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others
- maintain or assert
- have an argument about something
- to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation
- succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available
- be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight
adj
noun
- a contest with rules to determine a winner
- a single play of a sport or other contest
- an amusement or pastime
- animal hunted for food or sport
- (tennis) a division of play during which one player serves
- (games) the score at a particular point or the score needed to win
- the flesh of wild animals that is used for food
- a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
- the game equipment needed in order to play a particular game
- your occupation or line of work
- frivolous or trifling behavior
adj
verb
noun
- A political competition; the game of campaigning and one-upmanship to get votes and be elected.
- The competitive process in which a political party selects their candidate, especially presidential; a primary election via caucus.
- A laborious but arbitrary and futile activity; an activity that amounts to running around in a circle, expending great energy but not accomplishing anything.
- A win-win system; a positive system in which everybody wins.
prep_phrase
verb
- To have as an opponent.
- To make the surface of (anything) flat or smooth; to dress the face of (a stone, a casting, etc.); especially, in turning, to shape or smooth the flat (transverse) surface of, as distinguished from the cylindrical (axial) surface.
- To have the front in a certain direction.
- To arrange the products in (a store) so that they are tidy and attractive.
- To be presented or confronted with; to have in prospect.
- To deal with (a difficult situation or person); to accept (facts, reality, etc.) even when undesirable.
- To cause (something) to turn or present a face or front, as in a particular direction.
- To position oneself or itself so as to have one's face closest to (something).
- To have its front closest to, or in the direction of (something else).
- To be the batsman on strike.
- To line near the edge, especially with a different material.
- To cover in front, for ornament, protection, etc.; to put a facing upon.
- To cover with better, or better appearing, material than the mass consists of, for purpose of deception, as the surface of a box of tea, a barrel of sugar, etc.
noun
- A person; the self; (reflexively, objectifying) oneself.
- The front part of the head of a human or other animal, featuring the eyes, nose, and mouth, and the surrounding area.
- A headlining wrestler with a persona embodying heroic or virtuous traits and who is regarded as a "good guy", especially one who is handsome and well-conditioned; a baby face.
- The width of a pulley, or the length of a cog from end to end.
- The mouth.
- The side of the card that shows its value (as opposed to the back side, which looks the same on all cards of the deck).
- One's facial expression.
- A distorted facial expression; an expression of displeasure, insult, etc.
- A familiar or well-known person; a member of a particular scene, such as the music or fashion scene.
- The front surface of a bat.
- The amount expressed on a bill, note, bond, etc., without any interest or discount; face value.
- Shameless confidence; boldness; effrontery.
- Any surface, especially a front or outer one.
- The frontal aspect of something.
- The numbered dial of a clock or watch; the clock face.
- The part of a golf club that hits the ball.
- Public image; outward appearance.
- Presence; sight; front.
- An aspect of the character or nature of someone or something.
- Any of the flat bounding surfaces of a polyhedron; more generally, any of the bounding pieces of a polytope of any dimension.
- The directed force of something.
- Makeup; one's complete facial cosmetic application.
- The head of a lion, shown face-on and cut off immediately behind the ears.
- A typeface.
- A mode of regard, whether favourable or unfavourable; favour or anger.
- Good reputation; standing, in the eyes of others; dignity; prestige. (See lose face, save face).
noun
- A nomination.
- An instance of inclining the head up and down, as to indicate agreement, or as a cursory greeting.
- Approval.
- A reference or allusion to something.
verb
- To signify by a nod.
- To incline the head up and down, as to indicate agreement.
- To allude to something.
- To sway, move up and down.
- To make a mistake by being temporarily inattentive or tired
- To briefly incline the head downwards as a cursory greeting.
- To fall asleep while under the influence of opiates.
- To gradually fall asleep.
- To head; to strike the ball with one's head.
prep_phrase
- Achieving a sufficiently high ranking in a contest to earn money (for oneself, or for those who have placed a bet).
- For an option, having a strike price which makes it profitable to exercise. For a call this is a strike below the market price, or for a put a strike above the market price.
- Possessing money; rich.
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