snavel
snead
resnatch
nab
upsnatch
nicker
snaffle
swipe
wrest
fly upon
take hold
take
scramp
yoink
get hold of
snam
grab
foresnatch
crimp
outsnatch
clutch
gaffle
prehend
seize
regrab
flog
rap
sticky fingers
half-inch
snatch
bone
seizing
nick
kipe
boost
chore
apprehended
sapu
gank
grabbing
bag
whip up
snatchable
upsteal
jayhawk
teef
vart
feck
jock
chaw
cop
kite
rob
kife
geach
foreseize
bootjack
snatching
hoist
lift
nobble
pikey
scut
swoop
grabble
catch up
grasp
lay hold of
trussing
yuck
collar
carry away
ensnaringly
rip
recapture
track
pick
swoop up
glom
make away with
apprehend
catch
rifle
slance
kip
fondle
relieve
grabbily
grapple
pinch
gripple
nabber
apprehended
snatchable
trussing
ensnaringly
grabbily
snead
sticky fingers
seizing
grabbing
snatching
recapture
catch
nabber
snavel
resnatch
nab
upsnatch
nicker
snaffle
swipe
wrest
fly upon
take hold
take
scramp
yoink
get hold of
snam
grab
foresnatch
crimp
outsnatch
clutch
gaffle
prehend
seize
regrab
flog
rap
half-inch
snatch
bone
nick
kipe
boost
chore
sapu
gank
bag
whip up
upsteal
jayhawk
teef
vart
feck
jock
chaw
cop
kite
rob
kife
geach
foreseize
bootjack
hoist
lift
nobble
pikey
scut
swoop
grabble
catch up
grasp
lay hold of
yuck
collar
carry away
rip
track
pick
swoop up
glom
make away with
apprehend
rifle
slance
kip
fondle
relieve
grapple
pinch
gripple
verb
verb
- To snatch or steal.
- To make a soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.
- To produce a snigger or suppressed laugh.
noun
- A type of mythological sea creature or sea monster; also, a water sprite; a nix or nixie; a mermaid or merman.
- Pound sterling.
- The cutting lip which projects downward at the edge of a boring bit and cuts a circular groove in the wood to limit the size of the hole that is bored.
- nigger.
- A snigger or suppressed laugh.
- Someone who nicks (steals) something, a thief.
- A soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.
verb
- To steal or snatch.
- To scan or register by sliding (a swipecard etc.) through a reader.
- To strike with a strong blow in a sweeping motion.
- To interact with a touch screen by drawing one's finger rapidly across it.
- To grab or bat quickly.
noun
- A quick grab, bat, or other motion with the hand or paw; a sweep.
- A rough guess; an estimate or swag.
- An attack, insult or critical remark.
- An act of passing a swipecard through a card reader.
- An act of interacting with a touch screen by drawing the finger rapidly across it.
- Poor, weak beer or other inferior alcoholic beverage; rotgut.
- A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat or club.
verb
verb
- To seize or capture.
- To accept (zero or more arguments).
- To remove.
- To go.
- To become; to be affected in a specified way.
- To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
- To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it.
- To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
- To proceed to fill.
- To participate in.
- To let in (water).
- To move into.
- To catch or get possession of (fish or game).
- To assume (a form).
- To go into, through, or along.
- To apply oneself to the study of.
- To deal with.
- To begin to grow after being grafted or planted; to (literally or figuratively) take root, take hold.
- To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game.
- To have sex with.
- To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
- To obtain for use by payment or lease.
- To experience or feel.
- To receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation.
- To carry or lead (something or someone).
- To suffer; to endure (a hardship or damage).
- An intensifier.
- To require.
- To fill, to use up (time or space).
- To avail oneself of.
- To escort or conduct (a person).
- To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
- To receive into some relationship.
- To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
- To catch; to engage.
- To grasp or grip.
- To transport or carry; to convey to another place.
- To submit to; to endure (without ill humor, resentment, or physical failure).
- To exact.
- To receive or acquire (property) by law (e.g. as an heir).
- To remove or end by death; to kill.
- To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
- To believe, to accept the statements of.
- To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
- To lead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching.
- To subtract.
- To bind oneself by.
- To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to.
- To partake of (food or drink); to consume.
- To perform (a role).
- To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
- To assume and undertake the duties of (a job, an office, etc).
- To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
- To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
- To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off.
- To accept and follow (advice, etc).
- To use as a means of transportation.
- To admit (a penis or the penis of) into one’s bodily cavity.
- To obtain or receive regularly by (paid) subscription.
- To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
- To select or choose; to pick.
- To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
- To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.
- To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.
- To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
- To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
- To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
- To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
- To receive (medicine) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest.
- To have the intended effect.
- To regard in a specified way.
- To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc).
- To adopt (select) as one's own.
- To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
- To pass (or attempt to pass) through or around.
- To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
- To adhere or be absorbed properly.
- To have to be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
- To understand (especially in a specified way).
- To have and use one's recourse to.
noun
- A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response to an event.
- An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
- An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective; a statement expressing such a position.
- A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a scene.
- A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
- An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
- The or an act of taking.
- A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
- The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.
- Money that is taken in, (legal or illegal) proceeds, income; (in particular) profits.
- The or a quantity of fish, game animals or pelts, etc which have been taken at one time; catch.
verb
- To grip suddenly; to seize; to clutch.
- To consume something quickly.
- To take the opportunity of.
- To restrain someone; to arrest.
- To make a sudden grasping or clutching motion (at something).
- To grip the attention of; to enthrall or interest.
- To quickly collect or retrieve.
noun
- An acquisition by violent or unjust means.
- A device for withdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven.
- A two- or three-masted vessel used on the Malabar coast.
- A mechanical device that grabs or clutches.
- A sound bite.
- A simple card game.
- A sudden snatch at something.
verb
- To pinch and hold; to seize.
- To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.
- To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
- to hold using a crimp
- To bend or mold leather into shape.
- To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
- To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
- To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.
noun
- One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1854, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.
- A small hold with little surface area.
- The natural curliness of wool fibres.
- Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
- A grip on such a hold.
- A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.
- An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.
verb
noun
- the act of grasping
- a tense critical situation
- a number of birds hatched at the same time
- a collection of things or persons to be handled together
- a woman's strapless purse that is carried in the hand
- a pedal or lever that engages or disengages a rotating shaft and a driving mechanism
- a coupling that connects or disconnects driving and driven parts of a driving mechanism
verb
verb
- take hold of; grab
- take or capture by force
- take possession of by force, as after an invasion
- take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
- seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
- hook by a pull on the line
- affect
- capture the attention or imagination of
verb
verb
- To seize and carry off.
- To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock.
- To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
- To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music.
- To transport out of oneself; to affect with rapture.
- To talk casually; to engage in conversation.
- To utter quickly and sharply.
noun
- A whit; a jot.
- A positive appraisal; a recommendation.
- An appraisal.
- Any of the tokens that passed current for a halfpenny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.
- A charge, whether or not it results in a conviction.
- A lea or skein of yarn that forms the standard length taken from the reel, 80 yards of worsted or 120 yards of silk or cotton.
- Rap music.
- A sharp blow with something hard.
- A casual talk.
- Blame for something.
- A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music.
verb
verb
- To attempt to seize something suddenly.
- To steal.
- To take (a victory) at the last moment.
- To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony.
- To do something quickly in the limited time available.
- To grasp and remove quickly.
noun
- A short period.
- A competitive weightlifting event in which a barbell is lifted from the platform to locked arms overhead in a smooth continuous movement.
- Rapid, uncommanded jerking or oscillation of the ailerons of some aircraft at high Mach numbers, resulting from shock wave formation at transonic speeds.
- A quick grab or catch.
- The vulva.
- A piece of some sound, usually music or conversation.
verb
- To apprehend, steal.
- To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
- To study.
- To have sexual intercourse (with).
- To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
- To nag, especially for an unpaid debt.
- To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.
- To put whalebone into.
- To fertilize with bone.
- To polish boots to a shiny finish.
adj
noun
- One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
- One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
- The wishbone formation.
- A domino or dice.
- A cannabis cigarette; a joint.
- The framework of anything.
- A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
- Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
- An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
- A dollar.
- Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
- An erect penis; a boner.
- A reward.
- A bonefish
- A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
verb
- To steal.
- To make a cut at the side of the face.
- To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.
- To make ragged or uneven, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to deface, to mar.
- 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.
verb
- To steal.
- To lift or push from behind (one who is endeavoring to climb); to push up.
- To give a booster shot to.
- To help or encourage (something) to increase or improve; to assist in overcoming obstacles.
- To amplify; to signal boost.
- To jump-start a vehicle by using cables to connect the battery in a running vehicle to the battery in a vehicle that won't start.
noun
verb
- To steal.
- To arrest.
- To laugh uncontrollably.
- To take a woman away with one as a romantic or sexual interest.
- To put into a bag.
- To fit with a bag to collect urine.
- To hang like an empty bag.
- To drop away from the correct course.
- To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
- To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
- To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
- To criticise sarcastically.
- To forget, ignore, or get rid of.
- To furnish or load with a bag.
noun
- A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
- One's preference.
- A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, and handbags.
- A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.
- The scrotum.
- A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
- £1000, a grand.
- A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
- An ugly woman.
- A fellow gay man.
- The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
- A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.
- A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.
- A large number or amount.
- First, second, or third base.
- A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.
- A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
- The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
verb
verb
noun
- A jockey.
- An enthusiastic athlete or sports fan, especially one with few other interests, often stereotyped as slow-witted person of large size and great physical strength.
- A Scotsman.
- Food; meals.
- A disc jockey.
- A young male athlete (through college age).
- An athletic supporter worn by men to support the genitals especially during sports.
verb
- To steal.
- To adopt.
- To obtain, to purchase (as in drugs), to get hold of, to take.
- To admit, especially to a crime or wrongdoing.
- To earn by bad behavior.
- Of a pimp: to recruit a prostitute into the stable.
- To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.
- To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.
noun
verb
- To steal.
- To tamper with a document or record by increasing the quantity of something beyond its proper amount so that the difference may be unlawfully retained; in particular, to alter a medical prescription for this purpose by increasing the number of pills or other items.
- To pass a (usually concealed) letter or oral message, especially illegally into, within, or out of a prison.
- To write or present (a cheque) on an account with insufficient funds, either to defraud or expecting that funds will become available by the time the cheque clears.
- To move rapidly; to rush.
- To deflect sideways in the water.
- To (cause to) glide in the manner of a kite (“bird”).
- To manipulate like a toy kite; also, usually preceded by an inflection of go: to fly a toy kite.
- To travel by kite, as when kitesurfing.
- To keep ahead of (an enemy) in order to attack repeatedly from a distance, without exposing oneself to danger.
- To cause (something) to move upwards rapidly like a toy kite; also (chiefly US, figuratively) to cause (something, such as costs) to increase rapidly.
noun
- A rider who is good at climbs but less good at descents.
- A measure of weight equivalent to ¹⁄₁₀ deben (about 0.32 ounces or 9.1 grams).
- A lightweight toy or other device, traditionally flat and shaped like a triangle with a segment of a circle attached to its base or like a quadrilateral (see sense 9), carried on the wind and tethered and controlled from the ground by one or more lines.
- An aeroplane or aircraft.
- A bird of the genus Elanus, having thin pointed wings, that preys on rodents and hunts by hovering; also, any bird of related genera in the subfamily Elaninae.
- A spinnaker (“supplementary sail to a mainsail”).
- The stomach; the belly.
- A tethered object which deflects its position in a medium by obtaining lift and drag in reaction with its relative motion in the medium.
- A rapacious person.
- A blank cheque; a fraudulent cheque, such as one issued even though there are insufficient funds to honour it, or one that has been altered without authorization.
- The brill (Scophthalmus rhombus), a type of flatfish.
- A polygon resembling the shape of a traditional toy kite (sense 3): a quadrilateral having two pairs of edges of equal length, the edges of each pair touching each other at one end.
- A bird of prey of the family Accipitridae.
- Any bird of the subfamily Milvinae, with long wings and weak legs, feeding mostly on carrion and spending long periods soaring; specifically, the red kite (Milvus milvus) and the black kite (Milvus migrans).
- A planetary configuration wherein one planet of a grand trine is in opposition to an additional fourth planet.
- Some species in the subfamily Perninae.
- A (usually concealed) letter or oral message, especially one passed illegally into, within, or out of a prison.
- An accommodation bill (“a bill of exchange endorsed by a reputable third party acting as a guarantor, as a favour and without compensation”).
verb
verb
verb
- To steal.
- To extract (code) from a loop construct as part of optimization.
- To rob.
- To be lifted up.
- To lift someone up to be flogged.
- To raise; to lift; to elevate (especially, to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle or pulley, said of a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight).
- To lift a trophy or similar prize into the air in celebration of a victory.
noun
- The position of a flag (on a mast) or of a sail on a ship when lifted up to its highest level.
- The position of a main fore-and-aft topsail on a ship and fore fore-and-aft topsail on a ship.
- The act of hoisting; a lift.
- A hoisting device, such as pulley or crane.
- The triangular vertical position of a flag, as opposed to the flying state, or triangular vertical position of a sail, when flying from a mast.
verb
- To steal.
- To buy a security or other asset previously offered for sale.
- To take (hounds) off the existing scent and move them to another spot.
- To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
- To arrest (a person).
- to cause to move upwards.
- To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
- To lift weights; to weight-lift.
- To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
- To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
- To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.)
- To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise.
- To raise or rise.
- To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
noun
- A rise; a degree of elevation.
- A thief.
- The amount or weight to be lifted.
- The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
- An act of lifting or raising.
- One of the steps of a cone pulley.
- Air.
- Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building.
- That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
- An upward force, such as the force that keeps aircraft aloft.
- An improvement in mood.
- The difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated by lock.
- The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
- Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
- A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
- A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
- The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
- The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
- A liftgate.
verb
- To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.
- To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing.
- To fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive.
- To pass with pomp; to sweep.
- To move swiftly, as if with a sweeping movement, especially to attack something.
- To search the ground for discarded cigarette butts that can be made into new cigarettes.
noun
verb
- To attempt to grab; to grasp at (something).
- To catch fish by reaching into the water with one's hand.
- To pull, lift or dig (something) (out of the ground) by searching with one's hands and fingers.
- To utter inarticulate sounds, often quickly and loudly; to say (something) quickly, idly or foolishly.
- To search with one's hands and fingers; to attempt to grasp something.
- To touch (someone) with one's hands or fingers, sometimes in a sexual way.
- To pick (something or someone) up hastily, roughly or clumsily.
verb
- To seize, capture or detain.
- To bind in conversation.
- To arrest.
- To place a collar on, to fit with one.
- To preempt, control stringently and exclusively.
- To bind (a submissive) to a dominant under specific conditions or obligations.
- To roll up (beef or other meat) and bind it with string preparatory to cooking.
- To grab or seize by the collar or neck.
noun
- A piece of meat from the neck of an animal.
- A curb, or a horizontal timbering, around the mouth of a shaft.
- A collar beam.
- An arrest.
- The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem
- A similar detachable item.
- A trading strategy using options such that there is both an upper limit on profit and a lower limit on loss, constructed through taking equal but opposite positions in a put and a call with different strike prices.
- A decorative band or other fabric around the neckline.
- Of or pertaining to a certain category of professions as symbolized by typical clothing.
- A physical lockout device to prevent operation of a mechanical signal lever.
- The part of an upper garment (shirt, jacket, etc.) that fits around the neck and throat, especially if sewn from a separate piece of fabric.
- A part of harness designed to distribute the load around the shoulders of a draft animal.
- A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with the esophagus.
- A coloured ring round the neck of a bird or mammal.
- A band or chain around an animal's neck, used to restrain and/or identify it.
- Any encircling device or structure.
- An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope to which certain parts of rigging, as dead-eyes, are secured.
- A ring or cincture.
- A chain worn around the neck.
verb
- To steal; to rip off.
- To mock or criticize (someone or something). (often used with on and into)
- To fart.
- To divide or separate the parts of (especially something flimsy, such as paper or fabric), by cutting or tearing; to tear off or out by violence.
- To tear apart; to rapidly become two parts.
- To surf extremely well.
- To get by, or as if by, cutting or tearing.
- To take a "hit" of marijuana.
- To copy data from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc., to a hard drive, portable device, etc.
- To move or act fast; to rush headlong.
- To move quickly and destructively.
- To cut wood along (parallel to) the grain.
noun
- A kind of glissando leading up to the main note to be played.
- A type of strong, rough tide or current.
- Data or audio copied from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc. to a hard drive, portable device, etc.
- A handful of unthreshed grain.
- A comical, embarrassing, or hypocritical event or action.
- A tear (in paper, etc.).
- A black mark given for substandard schoolwork.
- A hit (dose) of marijuana.
- Something ripped off or stolen; a work resulting from plagiarism.
- A wicker basket for fish.
- A rip current: a strong outflow of surface water, away from the shore, that returns water from incoming waves.
- Something unfairly expensive, a rip-off.
- A joyride.
verb
- To tow.
- To create music using tracker software.
- To make sense; to be consistent with known information
- To monitor the movement of a person or object.
- To traverse; to move across.
- To create a musical recording (a track).
- To exhibit good cognitive function.
- To discover the location of a person or object by following traces.
- To make tracks on or to leave in the form of tracks.
- To match the movement or change of a person or object.
- To travel so that a moving object remains in shot.
- To follow the tracks of.
- To move.
- To observe the (measured) state of a person or object over time.
noun
- A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.
- The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree.
- Physical course; way.
- The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc.
- The pitch.
- A road or other similar beaten path.
- The direction and progress of someone or something; path.
- Awareness of something, especially when arising from close monitoring.
- A tract or area, such as of land.
- A song or other relatively short piece of music, on a record, separated from others by a short silence.
- The street, as a prostitute's place of work.
- A circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors.
- A themed set of talks within a conference.
- A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or animal.
- The way or rails along which a train moves.
- Sound stored on a record.
- The physical track on a record.
- A mark left by something that has passed along.
- The racing events of track and field; track and field in general.
verb
- To steal; to pilfer.
- To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.
- To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
- To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
- To screen.
- To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
- To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
- To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
- To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
- To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
- To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
- To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
- To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
- To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
- To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
- To intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.
noun
- Pasture; feed, for animals.
- A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
- A screen.
- A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
- The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.
- A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
- A pickoff.
- A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
- That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
- An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- A choice; ability to choose.
- A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
- A good defensive play by an infielder.
- An interception.
- An anchor.
- That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
verb
- To seize or take (something); to take hold of.
- To be or become aware of (something); to perceive.
- To have a conception of (something); to consider, to regard.
- To understand.
- To be of opinion, believe, or think; to suppose.
- To seize or take (a person) by legal process; to arrest.
- To be apprehensive; to fear.
- To anticipate (something, usually unpleasant); especially, to anticipate (something) with anxiety, dread, or fear; to dread, to fear.
- To acknowledge the existence of (something); to recognize.
- To take hold of (something) with understanding; to conceive (something) in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand.
noun
- Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
- The act of seizing or capturing.
- The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
- A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
- A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
- The game of catching a ball.
- A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
- A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
- A fragment of music or poetry.
- The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
- The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
- A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
- A slight remembrance; a trace.
- A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
- The first contact of an oar with the water.
- A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
- A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
- A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
- The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
- Something which is captured or caught.
verb
- To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).
- To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.
- To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).
- To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or infection.
- To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
- To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
- Of fire, to spread or be conveyed to.
- To be held back or impeded.
- To get pregnant.
- To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce.
- To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
- To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
- To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
- To be hit by something.
- To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).
- To have something be held back or impeded.
- To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
- To travel by means of.
- To become infected by (an illness).
- To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.
- To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
- To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
- To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke.
- To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)
- To charm or entrance.
- To grip or entangle.
- To handle an exception.
- To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.
- To spread by infection or similar means.
- To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).
- To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
- To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).
- To germinate and set down roots.
- To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
- To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
verb
- To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
- To search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder.
- To quickly search through many items (such as papers, the contents of a drawer, a pile of clothing). (See also riffle)
- To move in a flat ballistic trajectory (as a rifle bullet).
- To commit robbery or theft.
- To strip of goods; to rob; to pillage.
- To cause (a projectile, as a rifle bullet) to travel in a flat ballistic trajectory.
- To add a spiral groove to a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight in order to improve range and accuracy.
noun
verb
verb
- To snatch; take up hastily; filch
- To conduct oneself; act
- To perform the kip maneuver.
- To sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or one borne out of necessity.
noun
- The unit of currency in Laos, divided into 100 att, symbol ₭, abbreviation LAK.
- A basic skill or maneuver in artistic gymnastics on the uneven bars, parallel bars, high bar and still rings used, for example, as a way of mounting the bar in a front support position, or achieving a handstand from a hanging position. In its basic form, the legs are swung forward and upward by bending the hips, then suddenly down again, which gives the upward impulse to the body.
- A very untidy house or room.
- A unit of force equal to 1000 pounds-force (lbf) (4.44822 kilonewtons or 4448.22 newtons); occasionally called the kilopound.
- The leather made from such hide; kip leather.
- A place to sleep; a rooming house; a bed.
- A sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill.
- A unit of weight, used, for example, to calculate shipping charges, equal to half a US ton, or 1000 pounds.
- A bundle or set of such hides.
- The untanned hide of a young or small beast, such as a calf, lamb, or young goat.
- Sleep, snooze, nap, forty winks, doze.
- A unit of mass equal to 1000 avoirdupois pounds.
- A piece of flat wood used to throw the coins in a game of two-up.
verb
- take by stealing
- provide physical relief, as from pain
- free someone temporarily from his or her obligations
- grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to
- lessen the intensity of or calm
- save from ruin, destruction, or harm
- relieve oneself of troubling information
- provide relief for
- free from a burden, evil, or distress
- grant exemption or release to
- alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive
verb
- To seize something and hold it firmly.
- To hook and raise with a grapple.
- To ponder and intensely evaluate a problem; to struggle to deal with.
- To climb (whether by means of a grapple and rope, or by hand, etc).
- To fasten, as with a grapple; (by extension) to fix; to join indissolubly.
- To wrestle or tussle.
- To use a grapple (for example to attempt to find, hook, and raise a net or cable).
noun
verb
- To seize; to grip; to bite.
- To squeeze between two objects.
- Of clothing, to be uncomfortably tight in specific spots.
- To arrest or capture.
- To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
- To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
- To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
- To steal, usually something inconsequential.
- To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
- To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
- To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
- To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
noun
- A close compression of anything with the fingers.
- A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
- An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
- An organic herbal smoke additive.
- A magnetic compression of an electrically-conducting filament.
- The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass.
- The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- An arrest.
- A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.
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