buff
throw down one's tools
hit
puck
souse
chap
buffet
meet with
batter
knock about
clump
uppercut
whoop
punchout
cockpunch
wallop
whop
wham
whack
strike out looking
sideswipe
LART
fink
rat
blackleg
fan
scab
klap
preventive attack
zap
preventive strike
bang
slam
boink
ding
scabbery
blackleggery
come out
knuckle
omit
blacklegging
kick
boom-boom
crash
thack
crack
leather
frap
boff
beat
whoop ass
punch out
spur
fall aboard of
fist
percuss
knap
rap
pop
turn out
atomize
atomise
slashout
nuke
hew
striking
whap
superstrike
biff
pommel
lash
downstrike
antistrike
pummel
veny
dash
shock
sympathetic strike
sympathy strike
reach
shin
pay home
dunt
sclaff
strikeable
zone
paste
fillip
strikebreaking
baton
striking
antistrike
strikeable
punchout
whack
preventive attack
preventive strike
cockpunch
scabbery
blackleggery
blacklegging
slashout
superstrike
boom-boom
veny
dash
sympathetic strike
sympathy strike
punch out
zone
strikebreaking
buff
throw down one's tools
hit
puck
souse
chap
buffet
meet with
batter
knock about
clump
uppercut
whoop
cockpunch
wallop
whop
wham
whack
strike out looking
sideswipe
LART
fink
rat
blackleg
fan
scab
klap
zap
bang
slam
boink
ding
come out
knuckle
omit
kick
boom-boom
crash
thack
crack
leather
frap
boff
beat
whoop ass
punch out
spur
fall aboard of
fist
percuss
knap
rap
pop
turn out
atomize
atomise
nuke
hew
whap
biff
pommel
lash
downstrike
pummel
shock
reach
shin
pay home
dunt
sclaff
paste
fillip
baton
verb
- To strike.
- To polish and make shiny by rubbing.
- To make a character or an item stronger.
- To modify a medical chart, especially in a dishonest manner.
noun
- Any substance used to dilute (street) drugs in order to increase profits.
- Undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals.
- A military coat made of buff leather.
- A buffalo, or the meat of a buffalo.
- The greyish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat.
- Compressive coupler force that occurs during a slack bunched condition.
- A brownish yellow colour.
- A tool, often one covered with buff leather, used for polishing.
- A person who is very interested in a particular subject.
- An effect that makes a character or item stronger.
- The bare skin.
adj
verb
verb
- To strike against something.
- To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
- To come up to bat.
- To have sex with.
- To attack.
- To affect negatively.
- To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
- To attack, especially amphibiously.
- In blackjack, to deal a card to.
- to work out
- To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
- To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
- To guess; to light upon or discover.
- To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
- To switch on.
- To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.
- To reach or achieve.
- To use; to connect to.
- (of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.
- To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
- To briefly visit.
- To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
- To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.
- To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
adj
pron
noun
- The hit was very slight.
- A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
- A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
- A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
- An approximately correct answer in a test set.
- Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
- An attack on a location, person or people.
- The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
- A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
- A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
- A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
- A collision of a projectile with the target.
- In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
- A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
verb
noun
noun
verb
verb
verb
- take the place of work of someone on strike
- desert one's party or group of friends, for example, for one's personal advantage
- employ scabs or strike breakers in
- give (hair) the appearance of being fuller by using a rat
- catch rats, especially with dogs
- give away information about somebody
noun
- any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse
- someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
- a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
- one who reveals confidential information to the police or other authority
- a pad (usually made of hair) worn as part of a woman's coiffure
verb
- To strike out.
- To dispel by waving a hand-held fan.
- To move or spread in multiple directions from one point, in the shape of a hand-held fan.
- To perform a maneuver that involves flicking the top rear of an old-style gun.
- To slap (a behind, especially).
- To invigorate, like flames when fanned.
- To blow air on (something) by means of a fan (hand-held, mechanical or electrical) or otherwise.
- To apply (the air brake) many times in rapid succession.
- To strike out (a batter).
- To winnow grain.
noun
- A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock mill always in the direction of the wind.
- An electrical or mechanical device for moving air, used for cooling people, machinery, etc.
- Anything resembling a hand-held fan in shape, e.g., a peacock’s tail.
- A person who is fond of something or someone, especially an admirer of a performer or aficionado of a sport.
- An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away.
- The action of fanning; agitation of the air.
- A hand-held device consisting of concertinaed material, or slats of material, gathered together at one end, that may be opened out into the shape of a sector of a circle and waved back and forth in order to move air towards oneself and cool oneself.
- A section of a tree having a finite number of branches
verb
verb
noun
verb
- To hit or strike.
- To make high-pitched sound like a bell.
- To keep repeating; impress by reiteration, with reference to the monotonous striking of a bell.
- To fire or reject.
- To mishit (a golf ball).
- To level up.
- To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking.
- To deduct, as points, from (somebody), in the manner of a penalty; to penalize.
- To dash; to throw violently.
noun
noun
noun
verb
- To go on strike, especially out of solidarity with other workers.
- To express one's opinion openly.
- To make a debut in a new field.
- To come out of the closet.
- To walk onto the field at the beginning of an innings.
- To end up or result.
- To be deducted from.
- To be discovered, be revealed.
- To become visible in the sky as a result of clouds clearing away.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, out.
- To be published, be issued.
verb
- To strike or punch.
- To apply pressure, or rub or massage with one's knuckles.
- To yield.
- To land on the knuckle of a curve of a slope, after a jump off a ramp that precedes the slope.
- To touch one's forehead as a mark of respect.
- To bend the fingers.
noun
- The rounded point where a flat changes to a slope on a piste.
- A cut of meat.
- The curved part of the cushion at the entrance to the pockets on a cue sports table.
- A mechanical joint.
- The kneejoint of a quadruped, especially of a calf; formerly used of the kneejoint of a human being.
- Any of the joints between the phalanges of the fingers.
- A contrivance, usually of brass or iron, and furnished with points, worn to protect the hand, to add force to a blow, and to disfigure the person struck; a knuckle duster.
- A convex portion of a vessel's figure where a sudden change of shape occurs, as in a canal boat, where a nearly vertical side joins a nearly flat bottom.
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
- To hit or strike with force
- To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements, especially overnight.
- To lie down for a long rest, sleep or nap, as from tiredness or exhaustion.
- To give, as a favor.
- To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources to it.
- To collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently.
- To terminate extraordinarily.
- To cause to terminate extraordinarily.
- To experience a period of depression and/or lethargy after a period of euphoria, as after the euphoric effect of a psychotropic drug has dissipated.
- To make a sudden loud noise.
- To severely damage or destroy something by causing it to collide with something else.
- To take a sudden and severe turn for the worse; to rapidly deteriorate.
noun
- A type of rough linen.
- A sudden, intense, loud sound, as made for example by cymbals.
- A group of rhinoceroses.
- An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.
- A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures).
- A sudden decline in any living form's population levels, often leading to extinction.
- A malfunction of computer software or hardware which causes it to shut down or become partially or totally inoperable.
- A comedown from a drug.
adj
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
- 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 strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- 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.
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.
adj
verb
- To throw a called third strike.
- To rule (by an umpire) that a pitch is a called third strike, often done emphatically.
- To extract data from a computer by the use of a keyboard.
- To repeatedly hit a person.
- To hit a person so that they become unconscious (knocked out).
- To leave a workplace.
- To use a punch to remove a piece of material or to remove a piece already scored.
- To eject from an airplane.
- To leave a workplace by punching a timecard.
noun
verb
noun
verb
- To strike with the fist.
- To fist-fuck.
- To close (the hand) into a fist.
- To grip with a fist.
- To break wind.
noun
- The pointing hand symbol ☞.
- The act of breaking wind; fise.
- A puffball.
- The characteristic signaling rhythm of an individual telegraph or CW operator when sending Morse code.
- A hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward.
- The talons of a bird of prey.
- A person's characteristic handwriting.
- A group of men.
- An attempt at something.
verb
verb
noun
verb
- hit or strike
- bulge outward
- hit a pop-fly
- make a sharp explosive noise
- fire a weapon with a loud explosive noise
- cause to make a sharp explosive sound
- appear suddenly or unexpectedly; happen unexpectedly
- put or thrust suddenly and forcefully
- release suddenly
- drink down entirely
- take drugs, especially orally
- cause to burst with a loud, explosive sound
- burst open with a sharp, explosive sound
noun
- an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk
- a sweet drink containing carbonated water and flavoring
- a sharp explosive sound as from a gunshot or drawing a cork
- music of general appeal to teenagers; a bland watered-down version of rock'n'roll with more rhythm and harmony and an emphasis on romantic love
adj
adv
verb
- To leave one's work to take part in a strike.
- To attend; show up.
- To succeed; work out; turn out well.
- To end up; to result.
- To empty for inspection.
- To remove from a mould, bowl etc.
- To put (cattle) out to pasture.
- To get out of bed; get up.
- To convince to vote
- To extinguish a light or other device
- To produce; make.
- To rape; to coerce an otherwise heterosexual individual into performing a homosexual role.
- To convince a person (usually a woman) to become a prostitute.
- To leave a road.
- To refuse service or shelter; to eject or evict.
- To become apparent or known, especially (as) it turns out
noun
verb
- To ply the whip; to strike.
- To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.
- To utter censure or sarcastic language.
- To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
- To scold; or to satirize; to censure with severity.
- To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down.
- 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.
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).
adj
verb
- To strike from above.
- To move downward in a stiking motion.
- To go in a downward direction.
- To arc to ground in a downstrike.
- To dismay, reject, demote, or render lowly.
- To play a stringed instrument with a downward plucking motion.
- To point (finish a joint) by pressing mortar in at the bottom.
- To strike down; to knock down, kill, or cripple.
adv
noun
- A variety of various devices that operates primarily by a downward striking action.
- A downward plucking motion on a stringed instrument.
- A line that is drawn with a downward stroke.
- A blow by a hand or weapon that occurs with a downward striking motion.
- A type of manual typewriter that causes the letters to print on the downstroke of the keys and retract as the key rises.
- A bolt of lightning that touches ground.
- A (usually unintended) branch of current that arcs downward to ground.
- A downstroke; a downward movement that terminates in striking something.
adj
noun
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
- strike with horror or terror
- surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off
- strike with disgust or revulsion
- collide violently
- collect or gather into shocks
- subject to electrical shocks
- inflict a trauma upon
noun
- the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally
- the violent interaction of individuals or groups entering into combat
- a reflex response to the passage of electric current through the body
- (pathology) bodily collapse or near collapse caused by inadequate oxygen delivery to the cells; characterized by reduced cardiac output and rapid heartbeat and circulatory insufficiency and pallor
- an instance of agitation of the earth's crust
- an unpleasant or disappointing surprise
- a pile of sheaves of grain set on end in a field to dry; stalks of Indian corn set up in a field
- a bushy thick mass (especially hair)
- a sudden jarring impact
- a mechanical damper; absorbs energy of sudden impulses
verb
- To strike or touch.
- To continue living until or up to (a certain age).
- To arrive at a particular destination.
- To stretch out the hand.
- To arrive at a particular destination, especially to join someone; to meet up.
- To strain after something; to make (sometimes futile or pretentious) efforts.
- To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.
- To make contact with.
- To connect with (someone) on an emotional level, making them receptive of (one); to get through to (someone).
- To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
- To arrive at (a place) by effort of any kind.
- To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held, so as to touch, strike, grasp, etc.
- To extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut.
- To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another person; to hand over.
- To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
- To extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously (past, beyond, above, from etc. something).
noun
- The act of stretching or extending; extension.
- A stretch of a watercourse which can be sailed in one reach (in the previous sense). An extended portion of water; a stretch; a straightish portion of a stream, river, or arm of the sea extending up into the land, as from one turn to another. By extension, the adjacent land.
- An extended portion or area of land or water.
- Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
- Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled.
- The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
- A level stretch of a watercourse, as between rapids in a river or locks in a canal. (examples?)
- The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity.
- The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.
- The distance traversed between tacks.
- The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown.
- An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch.
noun
- The strike zone.
- A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.
- A given area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc.
- A band or stripe extending around a body.
- A circuit; a circumference.
- Any given region or area of the world.
- Every of the three parts of an ice rink, divided by two blue lines.
- A belt or girdle.
- A defensive scheme where defenders guard a particular area of the court or field, as opposed to a particular opposing player.
- A semicircular area in front of each goal.
- A high-performance phase or period.
- A band or area of growth encircling anything.
- That collection of a domain's DNS resource records, the domain and its subdomains, that are not delegated to another authority.
- The curved surface of a frustum of a sphere, the portion of surface of a sphere delimited by parallel planes.
- A frustum of a sphere.
verb
verb
- To strike or beat someone or something.
- To insert a piece of media (e.g. text, picture, audio, video) previously copied or cut from somewhere else.
- To stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste.
- To defeat decisively or by a large margin.
noun
- One of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry.
- A substance that behaves as a solid until a sufficiently large load or stress is applied, at which point it flows like a fluid
- The mineral substance in which other minerals are embedded.
- A hard lead-containing glass, or an artificial gemstone made from this glass.
- One of pounded foods, such as fish paste, liver paste, or tomato paste.
- One used as an adhesive, especially for putting up wallpapers, etc.
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
verb
noun
- A short stout club used primarily by policemen; a truncheon (UK).
- An object transferred by runners in a relay race.
- A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes.
- The stick of a conductor in musical performances.
- A short vertical lightweight post, not set into the ground, used to separate wires in a fence.
- A bend with the ends cut off, resembling a baton, typically borne sinister, and often used as a mark of cadency, initially for both legitimate and illegitimate children, but later chiefly for illegitimate children,
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