English words for 'unruly, aggressive behavior; behavior associated with hooligans'
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noun
adj
noun
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang, historical) A young, brash, and impertinent, and possibly violent, troublemaker, especially one who is a gang member; a hooligan.
- (by extension, Australia, slang) A high-spirited person who playfully rebels against authority and conventional norms; a maverick or scamp.
name
- Football (soccer) hooliganism.
- Gout.
- Gambling.
- Depression (especially suicidal).
- Syphilis.
- Laziness; low motivation.
- Bronchitis.
- Haemophilia.
- Sweating sickness.
- Hypochondria.
- Poor industrial relations and the resulting economic weakness.
- Tuberculosis.
- Rickets.
- Masochism, especially a fondness for flagellation.
- Homosexuality.
adj
- (of behaviour) Violent; rude; boisterous
- (of weather) Stormy; turbulent; tempestuous
- (of temper, character, or people) Harsh; austere; hard
- Not neat or regular; irregular, uneven.
- Covered with a rug.
- (of health, physique etc.) Vigorous; robust; hardy
- (of land) Rocky and bare of plantlife.
- Rough with bristly hair; shaggy.
- Broken into sharp or irregular points; uneven; not smooth; rough.
- (of sound, style etc.) Harsh; grating; unpleasant sounding or looking
- (of a person) Strong, sturdy, well-built.
- (of looks, appearance etc.) Sour; surly; frowning; wrinkled
- Having a rug or rugs.
- (computing, of a computer) Designed to reliably operate in harsh usage environments and conditions.
- sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring
- having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface
- very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution
- topographically very uneven
verb
noun
- a disposition to behave aggressively
- Hostile or destructive behavior or actions.
- violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked
- a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack
- the act of initiating hostilities
- deliberately unfriendly behavior
- (libertarianism) The initiation or threat of conflict; coercion.
- The act of initiating hostilities or invasion.
- The practice or habit of launching attacks.
noun
- (soccer) An especially devoted football fan, typically organized and participating in choreographies (including pyrotechnics), often of outwardly intimidating demeanour, but distinguished from a violent hooligan (although overlap between both subcultures is possible)
- (athletics) An ultramarathon.
- An ultraleftist.
- (usually capitalized) Code name used by British codebreakers during World War 2 for decrypted information gained from the enemy.
- (climbing) An ultra-prominent peak.
- An ultranationalist.
- A political extremist, in particular:
- (historical, France) An ultraroyalist.
adj
adj
noun
verb
verb
noun
- Ellipsis of football hooligan.
- (informal, attributive) A young person who causes trouble or violence, typically as a member of a gang or other group.
- A type of fish, an anadromous smelt, Thaleichthys pacificus, found in the North Pacific.
- (slang, US) A member of the United States Coast Guard.
- a cruel and brutal fellow
noun
- rowdy behavior
- used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather
- a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven
- an unpolished unrefined quality
- the quality of being harsh or rough or grating to the senses
- the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion
- harsh or severe speech or behavior
- (US) Roughage; coarse fodder.
- (Scotland) Abundance, especially of food.
- Something that is rough; a rough spot.
- The property of being rough, coarseness.
- (countable, engineering) A measure of how rough something is, such as a surface
adj
- Characterized by aggression; highly combative; prone to behave in a way that involves attacking (especially if unjustly) or arguing.
- (finance) Involving high risk for potentially high reward.
- (especially programming, of a method or process) Exploiting every opportunity to be applied.
- (US, LGBTQ, Black lesbian slang) Female but having a male or masculine gender presentation; butch.
- (pathology, of a tumour or disease) That spreads quickly or extensively; virulent; malignant.
- characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight
- having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends
- tending to spread quickly
noun
noun
adj
- Insistent upon something, not accepting dissent.
- Not frivolous or fallacious; trustworthy; solid; dependable.
- Fixed (in opinion).
- Steadfast, secure, solid (in position)
- Durable, rigid (material state).
- Mentally resistant to hurt or stress.
- strong and sure
- not liable to fluctuate or especially to fall
- possessing the tone and resiliency of healthy tissue
- not subject to revision or change
- securely established
- securely fixed in place
- marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable
- not soft or yielding to pressure
- (of especially a person's physical features) not shaking or trembling
- unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause
verb
- (intransitive) To become firm; stabilise.
- (transitive, colloquial) To grit one's teeth and bear; to push through something unpleasant.
- (transitive) To make firm or strong; fix securely.
- (transitive, UK, slang) To select (a higher education institution) as one's preferred choice, so as to enrol automatically if one's grades match the conditional offer.
- (transitive) To make compact or resistant to pressure; solidify.
- (intransitive, Australia) To shorten (of betting odds).
- (intransitive) To improve after decline.
- make taut or tauter
- become taut or tauter
adv
adj
- undisciplined and unruly
- completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing
- in utter disorder
- Not in order; marked by disorder or disarray.
- Not complying with the restraints of order and law; unruly; lawless.
- (law) Offensive to good morals and public decency.
- Not acting in an orderly way, as the functions of the body or mind.
adv
noun
noun
- (chiefly UK, Australia) Aggressive behaviour; loud, intimidating behaviour that convincingly threatens violence without necessarily actually becoming violent.
- (gaming) Hostile attention from an enemy.
- Aggravation; bother.
- (gaming) A measure of a player's level of belligerence.
- (informal British usage) aggravation or aggression
adj
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Angry.
- (TCGs) Of a player, favoring such decks.
- (British, US, slang) Hardcore, aggressive.
- (colloquial) Aggressive; inclined to attack (including, in video games, without having first been attacked).
- (TCGs) Of a deck, designed for aggressive play that seeks to defeat the opponent in the early stages of the game.
verb
verb
noun
- (Ancient Rome) A person (professional or slave) who entertained the public by engaging in mortal combat with another, or with a wild animal.
- Synonym of heelwalker (“Any of the order Mantophasmatodea of carnivorous, wingless insects that superficially resemble a cross between praying mantises and phasmids.”).
- A professional boxer.
- (by extension) A disputant in a public controversy or debate.
- (ancient Rome) a professional combatant or a captive who entertained the public by engaging in mortal combat
- a professional boxer
adv
- in an aggressive manner
- changing suddenly in direction and degree
- very suddenly and to a great degree
- in a well delineated manner
- Piercingly; keenly; severely; painfully.
- Quickly and alertly.
- Rapidly, abruptly.
- (to describe breathing) Suddenly and intensely like a gasp, but typically as the result of an emotional reaction.
- Steeply; precipitously.
- Stylishly, smartly.
- Precisely, accurately.
- So as to terminate in a sharp point or edge.
- In an intellectually alert and penetrating manner.
- In a strongly distinguishing or differentiating manner; acutely.
- Of speech, sternly, harshly or critically.
- So as to form a sharp, or tight, angle.
verb
- (sports) To behave in a manner that results in a foul.
- (intransitive) To improve, increase, or speed up.
- (intransitive) To restart or resume.
- (transitive and intransitive with on) To meet and seduce somebody for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation.
- (transitive or intransitive) To clean up; to return to an organized state.
- (transitive) To point out the behaviour, habits, or actions of (a person) in a critical manner; used with on.
- (transitive, media) To obtain and publish a story, news item, etc.
- To reach and continue along (a road).
- (transitive) To record; to notch up.
- (transitive) To acquire (something) accidentally; to catch or contract (a disease).
- (transitive) To reduce the despondency of.
- (transitive) To take control (physically) of something.
- (intransitive, of a phone) To receive calls; to function correctly.
- (transitive) To notice, detect or discern; to pick up on.
- (soccer, transitive) To mark, to defend against an opposition player by following them closely.
- (transitive) To collect and detain (a suspect).
- (transitive) To pay for.
- (transitive) To collect an object, especially in passing.
- (transitive) To learn, to grasp; to begin to understand; to realize.
- (transitive) To collect a passenger.
- (US, military, transitive) To promote somebody who was previously passed over.
- (transitive) To lift; to grasp and raise.
- (transitive or intransitive) To answer a telephone.
- (transitive) To receive (a radio signal or the like).
- lift out or reflect from a background
- give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift
- fill with high spirits; fill with optimism
- gather or collect
- register (perceptual input)
- take and lift upward
- perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
- meet someone for sexual purposes
- improve significantly; go from bad to good
- take into custody
- gain or regain energy
- buy casually or spontaneously
- eat by pecking at, like a bird
- get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
- take up by hand
- get in addition, as an increase
noun
noun
- A deliberate, unsportsmanlike, and potentially illegal act of aggression against an opponent.
- (by extension) A remark that unfairly disparages an obvious vulnerability of the target.
- an illegal and unsportsmanlike act of unnecessary violence
- an unnecessarily aggressive and unfair remark directed at a defenseless person
verb
- To be boisterous; to be disorderly.
- Generally, of inanimate objects etc., to make a loud resounding noise.
- (transitive) To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly.
- To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses do when they have a certain disease.
- (figuratively) To proceed vigorously.
- Of animals (especially a lion), to make a loud deep noise.
- To laugh in a particularly loud manner.
- (British Yorkshire, North Midlands, informal) To cry.
- (intransitive) To make a loud, deep cry, especially from pain, anger, or other strong emotion.
- utter words loudly and forcefully
- make a loud noise, as of animal
- emit long loud cries
- make a loud noise, as of wind, water, or vehicles
- act or proceed in a riotous, turbulent, or disorderly way
- laugh unrestrainedly and heartily
noun
adj
- (informal) Having an aggressive spirit; inclined to fight or strive.
- Consisting of scraps; fragmentary; lacking unity or consistency.
- (informal) (Of a fight) characterised by lots of ungainly or wild punches, grabs, wrestling, etc.
- (informal) (Of a sports match) characterised by awkward or clumsy play.
- full of fighting spirit
verb
- (intransitive) To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
- (transitive) To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
- (transitive, music) To press down the string behind a fret.
- (transitive) To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work.
- (transitive, music) # To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).
- (intransitive) To be anxious, to worry.
- (transitive) To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.
- (transitive) To form a pattern on; to variegate.
- (transitive) In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
- (ambitransitive) To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
- (intransitive, brewing, wine) To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.
- (ambitransitive) To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.
- (transitive) To chafe or irritate; to worry.
- To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
- (ambitransitive) To mine by agitating or eating away at (ore in the bank of a river).
- (intransitive) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
- cause annoyance in
- worry unnecessarily or excessively
- provide (a musical instrument) with frets
- become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
- carve a pattern into
- gnaw into; make resentful or angry
- wear away or erode
- cause friction
- remove soil or rock
- be agitated or irritated
- be too tight; rub or press
- decorate with an interlaced design
noun
- Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
- Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
- (rare) A channel or passage created by the sea.
- (Northumbria) A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.
- (mining, in the plural) The worn sides of riverbanks, where ores or stones containing them accumulate after being washed down from higher ground, which thus indicate to miners the locality of veins of ore.
- (music) One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played.
- A channel, a strait; a fretum.
- (heraldry) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
- An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.
- Herpes; tetter (“any of various pustular skin conditions”).
- an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief)
- agitation resulting from active worry
- a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion
- a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch
adj
noun
- (geology) Rock fragments, sand grains, mineral particles, used by water, wind, and ice to abrade a land surface.
- A hard inorganic substance or material consisting in powder or granule form such as sandpaper, pumice, or emery, used for cleaning, smoothing, or polishing.
- a substance that abrades or wears down
noun
noun
- a disposition to behave aggressively
- Hostile or destructive behavior or actions.
- violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked
- a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack
- the act of initiating hostilities
- deliberately unfriendly behavior
- (libertarianism) The initiation or threat of conflict; coercion.
- The act of initiating hostilities or invasion.
- The practice or habit of launching attacks.
noun
- (soccer) An especially devoted football fan, typically organized and participating in choreographies (including pyrotechnics), often of outwardly intimidating demeanour, but distinguished from a violent hooligan (although overlap between both subcultures is possible)
- (athletics) An ultramarathon.
- An ultraleftist.
- (usually capitalized) Code name used by British codebreakers during World War 2 for decrypted information gained from the enemy.
- (climbing) An ultra-prominent peak.
- An ultranationalist.
- A political extremist, in particular:
- (historical, France) An ultraroyalist.
adj
noun
- rowdy behavior
- used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather
- a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven
- an unpolished unrefined quality
- the quality of being harsh or rough or grating to the senses
- the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion
- harsh or severe speech or behavior
- (US) Roughage; coarse fodder.
- (Scotland) Abundance, especially of food.
- Something that is rough; a rough spot.
- The property of being rough, coarseness.
- (countable, engineering) A measure of how rough something is, such as a surface
noun
adj
- Insistent upon something, not accepting dissent.
- Not frivolous or fallacious; trustworthy; solid; dependable.
- Fixed (in opinion).
- Steadfast, secure, solid (in position)
- Durable, rigid (material state).
- Mentally resistant to hurt or stress.
- strong and sure
- not liable to fluctuate or especially to fall
- possessing the tone and resiliency of healthy tissue
- not subject to revision or change
- securely established
- securely fixed in place
- marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable
- not soft or yielding to pressure
- (of especially a person's physical features) not shaking or trembling
- unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause
verb
- (intransitive) To become firm; stabilise.
- (transitive, colloquial) To grit one's teeth and bear; to push through something unpleasant.
- (transitive) To make firm or strong; fix securely.
- (transitive, UK, slang) To select (a higher education institution) as one's preferred choice, so as to enrol automatically if one's grades match the conditional offer.
- (transitive) To make compact or resistant to pressure; solidify.
- (intransitive, Australia) To shorten (of betting odds).
- (intransitive) To improve after decline.
- make taut or tauter
- become taut or tauter
adv
noun
- (chiefly UK, Australia) Aggressive behaviour; loud, intimidating behaviour that convincingly threatens violence without necessarily actually becoming violent.
- (gaming) Hostile attention from an enemy.
- Aggravation; bother.
- (gaming) A measure of a player's level of belligerence.
- (informal British usage) aggravation or aggression
adj
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Angry.
- (TCGs) Of a player, favoring such decks.
- (British, US, slang) Hardcore, aggressive.
- (colloquial) Aggressive; inclined to attack (including, in video games, without having first been attacked).
- (TCGs) Of a deck, designed for aggressive play that seeks to defeat the opponent in the early stages of the game.
verb
verb
noun
- Ellipsis of football hooligan.
- (informal, attributive) A young person who causes trouble or violence, typically as a member of a gang or other group.
- A type of fish, an anadromous smelt, Thaleichthys pacificus, found in the North Pacific.
- (slang, US) A member of the United States Coast Guard.
- a cruel and brutal fellow
noun
- A deliberate, unsportsmanlike, and potentially illegal act of aggression against an opponent.
- (by extension) A remark that unfairly disparages an obvious vulnerability of the target.
- an illegal and unsportsmanlike act of unnecessary violence
- an unnecessarily aggressive and unfair remark directed at a defenseless person
verb
noun
- Ellipsis of football hooligan.
- (informal, attributive) A young person who causes trouble or violence, typically as a member of a gang or other group.
- A type of fish, an anadromous smelt, Thaleichthys pacificus, found in the North Pacific.
- (slang, US) A member of the United States Coast Guard.
- a cruel and brutal fellow
verb
noun
- (Ancient Rome) A person (professional or slave) who entertained the public by engaging in mortal combat with another, or with a wild animal.
- Synonym of heelwalker (“Any of the order Mantophasmatodea of carnivorous, wingless insects that superficially resemble a cross between praying mantises and phasmids.”).
- A professional boxer.
- (by extension) A disputant in a public controversy or debate.
- (ancient Rome) a professional combatant or a captive who entertained the public by engaging in mortal combat
- a professional boxer
verb
- (sports) To behave in a manner that results in a foul.
- (intransitive) To improve, increase, or speed up.
- (intransitive) To restart or resume.
- (transitive and intransitive with on) To meet and seduce somebody for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation.
- (transitive or intransitive) To clean up; to return to an organized state.
- (transitive) To point out the behaviour, habits, or actions of (a person) in a critical manner; used with on.
- (transitive, media) To obtain and publish a story, news item, etc.
- To reach and continue along (a road).
- (transitive) To record; to notch up.
- (transitive) To acquire (something) accidentally; to catch or contract (a disease).
- (transitive) To reduce the despondency of.
- (transitive) To take control (physically) of something.
- (intransitive, of a phone) To receive calls; to function correctly.
- (transitive) To notice, detect or discern; to pick up on.
- (soccer, transitive) To mark, to defend against an opposition player by following them closely.
- (transitive) To collect and detain (a suspect).
- (transitive) To pay for.
- (transitive) To collect an object, especially in passing.
- (transitive) To learn, to grasp; to begin to understand; to realize.
- (transitive) To collect a passenger.
- (US, military, transitive) To promote somebody who was previously passed over.
- (transitive) To lift; to grasp and raise.
- (transitive or intransitive) To answer a telephone.
- (transitive) To receive (a radio signal or the like).
- lift out or reflect from a background
- give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift
- fill with high spirits; fill with optimism
- gather or collect
- register (perceptual input)
- take and lift upward
- perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
- meet someone for sexual purposes
- improve significantly; go from bad to good
- take into custody
- gain or regain energy
- buy casually or spontaneously
- eat by pecking at, like a bird
- get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
- take up by hand
- get in addition, as an increase
noun
verb
- To be boisterous; to be disorderly.
- Generally, of inanimate objects etc., to make a loud resounding noise.
- (transitive) To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly.
- To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses do when they have a certain disease.
- (figuratively) To proceed vigorously.
- Of animals (especially a lion), to make a loud deep noise.
- To laugh in a particularly loud manner.
- (British Yorkshire, North Midlands, informal) To cry.
- (intransitive) To make a loud, deep cry, especially from pain, anger, or other strong emotion.
- utter words loudly and forcefully
- make a loud noise, as of animal
- emit long loud cries
- make a loud noise, as of wind, water, or vehicles
- act or proceed in a riotous, turbulent, or disorderly way
- laugh unrestrainedly and heartily
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
- (transitive) To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
- (transitive, music) To press down the string behind a fret.
- (transitive) To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work.
- (transitive, music) # To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).
- (intransitive) To be anxious, to worry.
- (transitive) To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.
- (transitive) To form a pattern on; to variegate.
- (transitive) In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
- (ambitransitive) To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
- (intransitive, brewing, wine) To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.
- (ambitransitive) To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.
- (transitive) To chafe or irritate; to worry.
- To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
- (ambitransitive) To mine by agitating or eating away at (ore in the bank of a river).
- (intransitive) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
- cause annoyance in
- worry unnecessarily or excessively
- provide (a musical instrument) with frets
- become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
- carve a pattern into
- gnaw into; make resentful or angry
- wear away or erode
- cause friction
- remove soil or rock
- be agitated or irritated
- be too tight; rub or press
- decorate with an interlaced design
noun
- Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
- Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
- (rare) A channel or passage created by the sea.
- (Northumbria) A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.
- (mining, in the plural) The worn sides of riverbanks, where ores or stones containing them accumulate after being washed down from higher ground, which thus indicate to miners the locality of veins of ore.
- (music) One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played.
- A channel, a strait; a fretum.
- (heraldry) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
- An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.
- Herpes; tetter (“any of various pustular skin conditions”).
- an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief)
- agitation resulting from active worry
- a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion
- a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch
adv
- in an aggressive manner
- changing suddenly in direction and degree
- very suddenly and to a great degree
- in a well delineated manner
- Piercingly; keenly; severely; painfully.
- Quickly and alertly.
- Rapidly, abruptly.
- (to describe breathing) Suddenly and intensely like a gasp, but typically as the result of an emotional reaction.
- Steeply; precipitously.
- Stylishly, smartly.
- Precisely, accurately.
- So as to terminate in a sharp point or edge.
- In an intellectually alert and penetrating manner.
- In a strongly distinguishing or differentiating manner; acutely.
- Of speech, sternly, harshly or critically.
- So as to form a sharp, or tight, angle.
adj
noun
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang, historical) A young, brash, and impertinent, and possibly violent, troublemaker, especially one who is a gang member; a hooligan.
- (by extension, Australia, slang) A high-spirited person who playfully rebels against authority and conventional norms; a maverick or scamp.
adj
- (of behaviour) Violent; rude; boisterous
- (of weather) Stormy; turbulent; tempestuous
- (of temper, character, or people) Harsh; austere; hard
- Not neat or regular; irregular, uneven.
- Covered with a rug.
- (of health, physique etc.) Vigorous; robust; hardy
- (of land) Rocky and bare of plantlife.
- Rough with bristly hair; shaggy.
- Broken into sharp or irregular points; uneven; not smooth; rough.
- (of sound, style etc.) Harsh; grating; unpleasant sounding or looking
- (of a person) Strong, sturdy, well-built.
- (of looks, appearance etc.) Sour; surly; frowning; wrinkled
- Having a rug or rugs.
- (computing, of a computer) Designed to reliably operate in harsh usage environments and conditions.
- sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring
- having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface
- very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution
- topographically very uneven
verb
adj
noun
verb
adj
- Characterized by aggression; highly combative; prone to behave in a way that involves attacking (especially if unjustly) or arguing.
- (finance) Involving high risk for potentially high reward.
- (especially programming, of a method or process) Exploiting every opportunity to be applied.
- (US, LGBTQ, Black lesbian slang) Female but having a male or masculine gender presentation; butch.
- (pathology, of a tumour or disease) That spreads quickly or extensively; virulent; malignant.
- characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight
- having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends
- tending to spread quickly
noun
adj
- undisciplined and unruly
- completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing
- in utter disorder
- Not in order; marked by disorder or disarray.
- Not complying with the restraints of order and law; unruly; lawless.
- (law) Offensive to good morals and public decency.
- Not acting in an orderly way, as the functions of the body or mind.
adv
noun
adj
- (informal) Having an aggressive spirit; inclined to fight or strive.
- Consisting of scraps; fragmentary; lacking unity or consistency.
- (informal) (Of a fight) characterised by lots of ungainly or wild punches, grabs, wrestling, etc.
- (informal) (Of a sports match) characterised by awkward or clumsy play.
- full of fighting spirit
adj
noun
- (geology) Rock fragments, sand grains, mineral particles, used by water, wind, and ice to abrade a land surface.
- A hard inorganic substance or material consisting in powder or granule form such as sandpaper, pumice, or emery, used for cleaning, smoothing, or polishing.
- a substance that abrades or wears down