slack
douse
dowse
relent
single
flannel
slacken off
light up
outwear
preen
lay it on thick
sweet-talk
slatternish
palaver
pitch woo
slackard
unharden
shabbify
plotz
slacken
nightswim
overthin
uneven
hump
skiver
mushy
shoal
slob around
emaciate
broken
have seen better days
pratfall
waist-high
sagged
beflatter
dree
thin
sludge
waist-deep
unwrinkle
trump
bust a move
ruck
toot
cobby
collogue
loose
hamble
adulate
skinny
untighten
uplay
lay bare
overflatten
rasguedo
clabber
crumple up
scrawnily
lubricous
blandishingly
balter
sweb
clabbered
fluff up
goosh
spaghetti
uncurl
pintuck
limpidity
attenuate
belly out
hamper
gimp
sluggardize
wallowingly
pile
fatiguingly
humpy
bony
squeeze into
scrawny
underweight
flattenable
elumbated
scraggly
sweem
fluff out
scraggy
drooping
hack
sagging
weedy
crumple
frill
shrivel
boney
droopy
slatternish
slack
mushy
broken
sagged
dree
cobby
lubricous
clabbered
skinny
humpy
bony
scrawny
underweight
flattenable
elumbated
scraggly
scraggy
drooping
sagging
weedy
boney
droopy
waist-high
waist-deep
scrawnily
blandishingly
wallowingly
fatiguingly
slackard
skiver
skinny
rasguedo
limpidity
slack
douse
dowse
relent
single
flannel
slacken off
light up
outwear
preen
lay it on thick
sweet-talk
palaver
pitch woo
unharden
shabbify
plotz
slacken
nightswim
overthin
uneven
hump
shoal
slob around
emaciate
have seen better days
pratfall
beflatter
thin
sludge
unwrinkle
trump
bust a move
ruck
toot
collogue
loose
hamble
adulate
untighten
uplay
lay bare
overflatten
clabber
crumple up
balter
sweb
fluff up
goosh
spaghetti
uncurl
pintuck
attenuate
belly out
hamper
gimp
sluggardize
pile
squeeze into
sweem
fluff out
hack
crumple
frill
shrivel
verb
adj
- Lax.
- Moderately warm.
- Vulgar; sexually explicit, especially in dancehall music.
- Not active or busy, successful, or violent.
- Excess; surplus to requirements.
- Lax; not tense; not firmly extended.
- Lacking diligence or care; not earnest or eager.
- Moderate in speed.
- Weak; not holding fast.
adv
noun
- Unconditional listening attention given by client to patient.
- A temporary speed restriction where track maintenance or engineering work is being carried out at a particular place.
- A tidal marsh or shallow that periodically fills and drains.
- The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it.
- Small coal; coal dust.
- A valley, or small, shallow dell.
verb
- To thin out.
- To take the irregular gait called singlefoot.
- To reduce (a railway) to single track.
- To identify or select one member of a group from the others; generally used with out, either to single out or to single (something) out.
- To get a hit that advances the batter exactly one base.
noun
- A score of one point, awarded when a kicked ball is dead within the non-kicking team's end zone or has exited that end zone.
- A bill valued at $1.
- A 45 RPM vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B.
- A tile that has a different value (i.e. number of pips) at each end.
- A single cigarette.
- A one-way ticket.
- A handful of gleaned grain.
- A popular song released and sold (on any format) nominally on its own though usually having at least one extra track.
- A shot of only one character.
- A score of one run.
- A game with one player on each side, as in tennis.
- One of the reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.
- A floating-point number having half the precision of a double-precision value.
- One who is not married or does not have a romantic partner.
- A hit in baseball where the batter advances to first base.
adj
verb
adj
noun
verb
- To loosen, slacken, or ease off.
- To shock (someone) with a stun gun.
- He saw Mary and his face lit up.
- To light a cigarette, pipe, etc.
- To open fire on a target or group of targets, especially with rockets, a flamethrower etc.
- To illuminate, to bring light to something, to brighten.
- To show an increase in activity or a brightening of mood.
- Smoking in this building is not allowed, so I always step outside to light up.
- To make happy.
- To activate the emergency sirens on a police vehicle in order to pull someone over.
verb
- To flatter.
- To spend time making oneself attractive and admiring one's appearance, e.g. in front of a mirror.
- To trim up, as trees.
- To improve the appearance of; groom; prettify.
- To comb; to make orderly.
- To groom; to trim or dress with the beak, as the feathers.
- To show off, posture, or smarm.
- To pin; fasten.
noun
adj
verb
noun
verb
verb
verb
- To dry-hump.
- To carry (something), especially with some exertion.
- To bend something into a hump.
- To shunt wagons / freight cars over the hump in a hump yard.
- To have sex (with).
noun
- A mound of earth.
- An act of sexual intercourse.
- A bad mood.
- A speed bump or speed hump.
- A wave that forms in front of an operating hovercraft and impedes progress at low speeds.
- A rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel or zebu.
- A painfully boorish person.
- A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine.
noun
- A slacker.
- A truant; one who is absent without permission, especially from school.
- The cutting tool or machine used in splitting leather or skins.
- One who uses a skive (or skives).
- An inferior quality of leather, made of split sheepskin, tanned by immersion in sumac, and dyed, formerly used for hat linings, pocketbooks, bookbinding, etc.
- A skewer.
verb
adj
- Uneven.
- Overpowered; overly powerful; too powerful.
- Dashed; made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
- Disconnected, no longer open or carrying traffic.
- Fractured; having the bone in pieces.
- Badly designed or implemented.
- Fragmented; in separate pieces.
- Five-eighths to seven-eighths obscured by clouds; incompletely covered by clouds.
- Interrupted; not continuous.
- Having no money; bankrupt, broke.
- Not having gone in the way intended; saddening.
- Having periods of silence scattered throughout; not regularly continuous.
- Split or ruptured.
- Grammatically non-standard, especially as a result of being produced by a non-native speaker.
- Breached; violated; not kept.
- Non-functional; not functioning properly.
- Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed.
adv
verb
- To become thin or thinner.
- To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.
- To make thin or thinner.
- To dilute.
noun
- Any food produced or served in thin slices.
- A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete hole.
adj
- Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
- Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head. See fat, shank, toe.
- Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
- Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
- Of low viscosity or low specific gravity.
- Of a route: relatively little used.
- Poor; scanty; without money or success.
- Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
- Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
- Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
adv
verb
noun
adv
verb
- To flatulate.
- To blow a trumpet.
- To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor.
- To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump.
- To play on (a card of another suit) with a trump.
- To supersede.
- To outweigh; be stronger, greater, bigger than or in other way superior to.
noun
- The noise made by an elephant through its trunk.
- Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve.
- The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.
- A playing card of that suit.
- An old card game, almost identical to whist; the game of ruff.
- A card of the major arcana of the tarot.
- Flatulence.
verb
- To become folded.
- To contest the possession of the ball in a ruck.
- To carry a backpack while hiking or marching.
- To crease or fold.
noun
- A contest in games in which the ball is thrown or bounced in the air and two players from opposing teams attempt to give their team an advantage, typically by tapping the ball to a teammate.
- Any one of a ruckman, a ruck rover or a rover; a follower.
- The common mass of people or things; the ordinary ranks.
- A small heifer.
- An argument or fight.
- The situation formed when a player carrying the ball is brought to the ground and one or more members of each side are engaged above the ball, trying to win possession of it; a loose scrum.
- A player who competes in said contests; a ruckman or ruckwoman.
- A rucksack; a large backpack.
- A throng or crowd of people or things; a mass, a pack.
- A crease, a wrinkle, a pucker, as on fabric.
verb
- To flatulate.
- To cause a horn or whistle to make its sound.
- Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
- To see; to spy.
- To stand out, or be prominent.
- To peep; to look narrowly.
- To go on a drinking binge.
- To snort (a recreational drug).
- To make the sound of a horn or whistle.
- To post a message on a Mastodon instance (a self-hosted version of the networking software).
noun
verb
- To make less tight, to loosen.
- Of a grip or hold, to let go.
- To shoot (an arrow).
- To let loose, to free from restraints.
- To unfasten, to loosen.
adj
- Not compact.
- Not fitting closely
- Relaxed.
- Indiscreet.
- Not held or packaged together.
- Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate.
- Not being in the possession of any competing team during a game.
- Not fixed in place tightly or firmly.
- Measured loosely stacked or disorganized (such as of firewood).
- Not under control.
- Having oversteer.
intj
noun
noun
- A skinny being.
- The details or facts; especially, those obtained by gossip or rumor.
- A low-fat serving of coffee.
- A state of nakedness; nudity.
adj
- thin, generally in a negative sense (as opposed to slim, which is thin in a positive sense).
- Naked; nude (chiefly used in the phrase skinny dipping).
- tight-fitting
- Synonym of thin (“type of shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head”)
- Having reduced fat or calories.
verb
verb
verb
noun
verb
- To become thin or fine; to grow less.
- To reduce the amplitude of an electrical, radio, or optical signal.
- To weaken.
- To reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree.
- To rarefy.
- (of a beer) To become less dense as a result of the conversion of sugar to alcohol.
- To reduce the virulence of a bacterium or virus.
- To make thinner, as by physically reshaping, starving, or decaying.
adj
verb
noun
- A wicker or plastic basket specifically for holding laundry (from clothes hamper), as opposed to a covered wicker basket which is a true hamper
- A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.
- A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles or small animals
- A gift basket.
- Articles ordinarily indispensable, but in the way at certain times.
verb
- To limp; to hobble.
- To make underpowered; to limit or restrict the useful effects of.
- To wrap or wind (surround) with another length of yarn or wire in a tight spiral, often by means of a gimping machine, creating 'gimped yarn', etc. Also, generally, to wrap or twist with string or wire. See gimped.
noun
- The plastic cord used in the plaiting and knotting craft Scoubidou (lanyard making); or, the process itself.
- Any coarse or reinforced thread, such as a glazed thread employed in lacemaking to outline designs, or silk thread used as a fishing leader, protected from the bite of fish by a wrapping of fine wire.
- A crippled leg.
- A character or ability that is underpowered.
- A limp or a limping gait.
- A sexual submissive, almost always male, dressed generally in a black leather suit. See Gimp (sadomasochism) in Wikipedia.
- A narrow ornamental fabric or braid of silk, wool, or cotton, often stiffened with metallic wire or coarse cord running through it, used as trimming for dresses, curtains, furniture, etc. Also guimpe.
- A person who is lame due to a crippling of the legs or feet.
- A name-calling word, generally for a person who is perceived to be inept, deficient or peculiar
verb
adv
verb
- To give a pile to; to make shaggy.
- To add something to a great number.
- (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
- To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.
- To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
- To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate
- To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
noun
- A large building, or mass of buildings.
- One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
- The head of an arrow or spear.
- A list or league
- A mass formed in layers.
- A large amount of money.
- A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.
- A beam, pole, or pillar, driven completely into the ground.
- A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
- A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
- Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)
- An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
- A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; a voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
- The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
- A hemorrhoid.
- A funeral pile; a pyre.
- A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
adj
verb
verb
- To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
- 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 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 strike in a frantic movement.
- 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
- To become wrinkled.
- To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back in crimped plaits.
- To make into a frill.
noun
- A substance or material on the edge of something, resembling such a strip of fabric.
- A wrinkled edge to a film.
- A strip of pleated fabric or paper used as decoration or trim.
- Something extraneous or not essential; something purely for show or effect; a luxury.
- The relatively extensive margin seen on the back of the heads of reptiles, with either a bony support or a cartilaginous one.
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