<span class="searchmatch">first</span> <span class="searchmatch">and</span> <span class="searchmatch">last</span> (not comparable) (attributive) only This is the <span class="searchmatch">first</span> <span class="searchmatch">and</span> <span class="searchmatch">last</span> time I'm doing this. one <span class="searchmatch">and</span> only <span class="searchmatch">first</span> <span class="searchmatch">and</span> <span class="searchmatch">last</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">firsts</span> <span class="searchmatch">and</span> lasts)...
<span class="searchmatch">firsts</span> <span class="searchmatch">and</span> <span class="searchmatch">lasts</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">first</span> <span class="searchmatch">and</span> <span class="searchmatch">last</span>...
See also: <span class="searchmatch">Last</span>, <span class="searchmatch">läst</span>, <span class="searchmatch">låst</span>, <span class="searchmatch">and</span> læst (Received Pronunciation) enPR: <span class="searchmatch">läst</span>, IPA(key): /<span class="searchmatch">lɑːst</span>/ (General American) enPR: <span class="searchmatch">lăst</span>, IPA(key): /læst/ (Northern...
duration of the roll-call, the commencement <span class="searchmatch">and</span> finish of which are sounded on the bugle, <span class="searchmatch">and</span> are called the <span class="searchmatch">first</span> <span class="searchmatch">and</span> <span class="searchmatch">last</span> ‘posts.’ Taps (US) <span class="searchmatch">first</span> post...
Sport[1]: This was an emphatic performance <span class="searchmatch">and</span> victory, the hosts controlling affairs from pretty much <span class="searchmatch">first</span> to <span class="searchmatch">last</span> in a display that suggested they are genuinely...
<span class="searchmatch">last</span> in <span class="searchmatch">first</span> out (not comparable) (accounting, computing, business) Of or pertaining to any situation where the <span class="searchmatch">last</span> to arrive is the <span class="searchmatch">first</span> to go, or...
10: <span class="searchmatch">First</span> to fail, inevitably, are the airlines. For Flybe, which was already losing money at the rate of £2 million a day, Coronavirus was the <span class="searchmatch">last</span> straw...
<span class="searchmatch">last</span> trumpet From the Bible, Paul's <span class="searchmatch">first</span> letter to the Corinthians: "We shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the <span class="searchmatch">last</span> trump"...
fifty-<span class="searchmatch">first</span> fifty-<span class="searchmatch">first</span> state <span class="searchmatch">first</span> aid <span class="searchmatch">first</span>-aid box <span class="searchmatch">first</span>-aider <span class="searchmatch">first</span> aid kit <span class="searchmatch">first</span>-aid kit <span class="searchmatch">first</span> among equals <span class="searchmatch">first</span> <span class="searchmatch">and</span> foremost <span class="searchmatch">first</span> <span class="searchmatch">and</span> <span class="searchmatch">last</span> <span class="searchmatch">first</span> angle...
See also: <span class="searchmatch">Laster</span> <span class="searchmatch">and</span> <span class="searchmatch">läster</span> From <span class="searchmatch">last</span> + -er. Rhymes: -ɑːstə(ɹ), -æstə(ɹ) <span class="searchmatch">laster</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">lasters</span>) A workman whose business it is to shape boots or shoes...