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Verb

  1. (transitive) To procrastinate.
  2. (transitive) To delay (a task, event, etc.).
  3. (transitive) To distract; to disturb the concentration of.
  4. (transitive) To cause to dislike; to discourage (from doing).
  5. (transitive, archaic) To take off (something worn).

Adjective

  1. offended, repulsed
  2. daunted or fazed

Verb

  1. A phrase used when playing a prank regarding flatulence, in which someone is asked to pull the finger of the person playing the prank, who simultaneously flatulates so as to suggest a causal relationship between the pulling of the finger and the ensuing expulsion of gas.

Verb

  1. (archaic) to court
  2. to make love
  3. to flatter

Prepositional phrase

  1. (British, slang) Out seeking a sexual partner.

Noun

  1. Some unspecified hour in the early morning (implies an unpleasant time to be awake)

Adjective

  1. Alternative spelling of nickel and dime

Verb

  1. Alternative spelling of nickel and dime

Interjection

  1. (slang, British) Indicates incredulous disapproval, contradiction or disbelief.

Noun

  1. (boxing) An unfair or illegal blow that lands below the opponent’s waist; a groin attack.
  2. (figurative, by extension) Any attack that is considered unfair or unscrupulous.

Verb

  1. (transitive) To hit or knock (something), intentionally or accidentally, so that it falls.
  2. (transitive) To demolish.
  3. (transitive) At an auction, to declare (something) sold with a blow from the gavel.
  4. (transitive, informal) To reduce the price of.
  5. To drink fast.
  6. (transitive, usually passive voice) To disassemble for shipment.

Verb

  1. Alternative form of go south

Adverb

  1. Tumbling upside down.
  2. At top speed; frantically.
  3. Hopelessly smitten.

Noun

  1. (cricket) the score of zero runs after getting out on the first ball faced

Verb

  1. (intransitive) To explode.
  2. (intransitive) To fire, especially accidentally.
  3. (intransitive) To explode metaphorically; to become very angry.
  4. (intransitive) To begin clanging or making noise.
  5. (intransitive) To depart; to leave.
  6. (intransitive, UK, Australia) To putrefy or become inedible, or to become unusable in any way.
  7. (transitive) To like less.
  8. (intransitive) To pass off; to take place; to be accomplished.
  9. (slang) To ejaculate.

Verb

  1. (UK, Australia, New Zealand) Get busy with; become occupied with; become immersed in.
  2. (UK) To start eating.
  3. (Australia) To criticise someone; tell off; to get angry at; to attack.

Verb

  1. (intransitive) To be punished for doing something illegal or prohibited.
  2. (intransitive) To fall into difficulty.
  3. (slang, euphemistic, usually said of an unmarried woman) To become pregnant; to make pregnant.

Noun

  1. (slang) The entire amount.

Adverb

  1. (slang) To the maximum extent.

Verb

  1. (historical) On a pirate ship, to walk off a plank of wood into the ocean. Used as a method of killing.
  2. (figuratively) To be forced to resign from a position in an organization.

Verb

  1. (transitive) To set a flow of fluid or gas running by rotating a tap or valve.
  2. (transitive) To power up, to put into operation, to start, to activate (an appliance, light, mechanism, functionality etc.).
  3. (intransitive, of a device) To start operating; to power up, to become on.
  4. (transitive) To fill with enthusiasm; to intoxicate, give pleasure to ( + to an object of interest or excitement).
  5. (transitive) To sexually arouse.
  6. (transitive, slang) To cause to take up drugs, especially hallucinogens.
  7. (intransitive) To violently rebel against; to suddenly attack (this is the intransitive verb turn, with on functioning as a preposition not as an adverbial particle).
  8. (intransitive) To depend upon; to pivot around, to have as a central subject (this is the intransitive verb turn, with on functioning as a preposition not as an adverbial particle).

Verb

  1. To place a thumb upon the tip of the nose, typically with the fingers spread and while simultaneously wiggling one's fingers, in a gesture of disrespect.
  2. (figuratively) To act disrespectfully, especially by flouting the object of disrespect.

Verb

  1. (intransitive, British, slang, idiomatic) To ridicule or mock.

Verb

  1. (slang, chiefly US) to finish off, to beat
  2. (slang, chiefly US) to beg; to borrow money from

Noun

  1. (baseball) The statistic of the number of outs a defensive player directly caused.

Adjective

  1. Taking offense; indignant.

Verb

  1. (transitive) To place outside or eject.
  2. (transitive) To produce.
  3. (transitive) To injure a part of the body, especially a joint.
  4. (transitive) To inconvenience or disturb someone, such as by moving in or requesting assistance.
  5. (transitive) To extinguish (a flame or light).
  6. (transitive) To eliminate from a competition.
  7. (slang, intransitive) To consent to sex.
  8. (baseball) To cause a player on the offense to be out, especially of men on base.
  9. (cricket) To cause a batsman (a player on the batting team) to be dismissed or out.
  10. To sail away, to depart.

Verb

  1. to retreat from a position
  2. to move backwards
  3. to withdraw from an undertaking
  4. to pull something back or apart

Noun

  1. Incomprehensible language.
  2. A language game akin to pig Latin.
  3. A game of jump rope with two ropes and frequently two jumpers.
  4. (colloquial) Sex using a condom and the contraceptive pill at the same time.

Noun

  1. (informal) A long way, a great distance.

Verb

  1. (transitive) To cause to take place.
  2. (transitive) To accomplish, achieve.

Adverb

  1. Slowly and steadily. Without rushing.

Verb

  1. (intransitive) To cause controversy, or raise a disturbance.

Pronoun

  1. (collectively) All; everyone.
  2. (separately) Each one.

Verb

  1. (transitive) To discredit or condemn (someone or something, such as a position) by attacking someone or something associated.

Verb

  1. (of a projectile) To fail to hit the target.
  2. (figurative) To fail to achieve the intended result.

Noun

  1. Time period between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. of a day.
  2. (figuratively) Any easy job, especially one with a short working day.

Noun

  1. A general guideline, rather than a strict rule; an approximate measure or means of reckoning based on experience or common knowledge.
  2. (attributive, usually hyphenated) Approximated, guesstimated.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Beyond consideration.

Noun

  1. A parade featuring a progression of people wearing comic and grotesque costumes.
  2. A rhetorical device employing a series of progressively more terrible results following from an act.

Noun

  1. (programming) A problem dealing with how to treat the initial or boundary values of a discrete problem.

Proper noun

  1. The most sacred place within a sacred building.
  2. (informal, humorous) One's private retreat, inner sanctum.

Adverb

  1. With extreme reluctance.

Noun

  1. The subjective perception and judgement of the person seeing or considering something.

Proper noun

  1. (Christianity) Eucharist
  2. (Christianity) The Last Supper at Passover of Jesus with his disciples.

Proper noun

  1. (Christianity) The Passover meal that Jesus ate with his disciples on the night before his death.

Noun

  1. An artistic representation of this event.

Proper noun

  1. (Christianity) Jesus Christ
  2. (Rastafari) the emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia

Adverb

  1. (set phrase, focus) mostly, generally; with few exceptions

Prepositional phrase

  1. (US, colloquial) In any set of circumstances whatsoever.

Verb

  1. (intransitive, euphemistic) alternative form of take the mickey, usually considered more polite.

Verb

  1. (intransitive) Alternative form of take the mickey

Verb

  1. (transitive) To make a mess of; to untidy, disorder, soil, or muss.
  2. (transitive) To cause a problem with; to introduce an error or mistake in; to make muddled or confused; spoil; ruin.
  3. (transitive) To botch, bungle; to perform poorly on.
  4. (intransitive) To make a mistake; to do something incorrectly; to perform poorly.
  5. (transitive) To cause (another person) to make unwanted mistakes in a given task, usually through distraction or obnoxious behavior.
  6. (transitive) To damage; injure.
  7. (transitive, slang) To manhandle; beat up; rough up.
  8. (transitive, slang) To discombobulate, utterly confuse, or confound psychologically; to throw into a state of mental disarray.

Verb

  1. (transitive, slang, British) To fire (an employee); to terminate the employment of.

Verb

  1. To betray a constituent or charge out of self-serving interests or desperation.

Verb

  1. (intransitive, dated) To perform a requisite task despite obstacles.
  2. (intransitive, dated) To perform a requisite task without having been informed specifically by what method to do so.

Adjective

  1. Alternative form of bone-dry

Verb

  1. (intransitive) Alternative form of carry the message to Garcia

Noun

  1. The moment of God's final judgement on Earth.
  2. (by extension) A time that will never come; forever.

Verb

  1. to accept a situation whether one agrees with it or not.

Noun

  1. On the point of crying due to strong emotion, either happy or sad.

Adverb

  1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see one,‎ at a time.

Noun

  1. An actor who stands upstage, forcing the other actors to face him and turn their backs to the audience, in order to draw more attention to himself.

Noun

  1. An innocent person (usually a female) crushed by life's adversities.

Noun

  1. Unhappy married life.

Noun

  1. Something to be suspicious of.

Noun

  1. (US, colloquial) A substantial quantity of something.

Phrase

  1. Feeling self-satisfied.

Noun

  1. Something stealthy or that occurs without warning.

Verb

  1. (transitive) To illuminate, to bring light to something, to brighten.
  2. (transitive) To show an increase in activity or a brightening of mood.
  3. (intransitive) To light a cigarette, pipe, etc.
  4. (transitive) To make happy.
  5. (transitive, slang) To open fire on a target or group of targets.
  6. (chiefly US, transitive, slang) To shock (someone) with a stun gun.

Verb

  1. (transitive) To clarify by reviewing mentally.
  2. (transitive) To arrange.
  3. (transitive) To fix, as a problem.
  4. (transitive) To organise or separate into groups, as a collection of items, so as to make tidy.
  5. (transitive) To separate from the remainder of a group; often construed with from.
  6. (transitive, British, slang) To attack physically.
  7. (UK, slang) To provide (somebody) with a necessity, or a solution to a problem.

Verb

  1. (transitive) To power down, to put out of operation, to deactivate (an appliance, light, mechanism, functionality etc.).
  2. (transitive) To rotate a tap or valve so as to interrupt the outflow of liquid or gas.
  3. (transitive) To repulse, disgust, or discourage.
  4. (intransitive) To leave a road; to exit.

Verb

  1. (intransitive) To reverse direction and retrace one's steps.
  2. To return to a previous state of being.
  3. (transitive) To prevent or refuse to allow passage or progress.
  4. (transitive) To adjust to a previous setting.
  5. (transitive) To fold something back; to fold down.
  6. (obsolete, transitive) To give back; to return.

Verb

  1. (intransitive) To show up; to appear suddenly or unexpectedly.
  2. (transitive) To cause to appear; to find by searching, etc.
  3. (transitive) To increase the amount of something by means of a control, such as the volume, heat, or light.
  4. (transitive) To reposition by rotating, flipping, etc. upwards.
  5. (transitive, nautical) To belay or make fast a line on a cleat or pin.
  6. (intransitive, slang) To party hard, especially when involving alcohol or drugs.

Noun

  1. A stroke of good luck.

Noun

  1. (law, narcotics) The particular (usually illicit) substance that a person is addicted to.
  2. The best-choice medication to treat a particular medical problem.

Verb

  1. (intransitive) To show impatience or frustration when delayed.

Noun

  1. (slang) A drug addiction.
  2. (slang) Withdrawal symptoms.

Verb

  1. (ice hockey) To retain possession of the puck by skillful skating and stickhandling without attempting to score, as a deliberate tactic intended to use up time.
  2. (chiefly Canada, by extension) To proceed slowly at an activity in order to use up time; to stall for time.

Noun

  1. A large amount of activity and work, usually in a noisy surrounding.