HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. (now chiefly South Africa) A village or small town; a town considered provincial.

noun

1. (Scotland) A cigarette butt.
2. (Scotland) The bottom end of something; the human buttocks.

noun

1. Alternative form of doup

noun

1. (architecture) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater.
2. (colloquial) A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.
3. (finance) A dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing.
4. (medicine) An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream.
5. (slang, uncountable) Style; swagger; fashionable and/or expensive clothing.
6. A drop of a liquid.
7. A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.

verb

1. (UK, naval slang, intransitive) To whine or complain consistently; to grumble.
2. (intransitive) To be wet, to be soaked.
3. (intransitive) To fall one drop at a time.
4. (intransitive) To leak slowly.
5. (intransitive, of the weather) To rain lightly.
6. (intransitive, usually with with) To have a superabundance of valuable things.
7. (transitive) To let fall in drops.

noun

1. (American football) A dropped pass.
2. (American football) Short for drop-back.
3. (Ireland, informal) A single measure of whisky.
4. (US, banking, dated) An unsolicited credit card issue.
5. (agriculture) A fruit which has fallen off a tree, etc., or has been knocked off accidentally, rather than picked.
6. (also figuratively) A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape through surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid.
7. (architecture) An ornament resembling a pendant; a gutta.
8. (chiefly Australia, Britain) A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
9. (chiefly Britain) Usually preceded by the: alcoholic spirits in general.
10. (engineering) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
11. (figuratively) A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything.
12. (gambling) The amount of money that a gambler exchanges for chips in a casino.
13. (informal) Only used in get the drop on, have the drop on An advantage.
14. (law enforcement) A trapdoor (“hinged platform”) on a gallows; a gallows itself.
15. (law enforcement) The distance that a person drops when being executed by hanging.
16. (law enforcement, informal) Preceded by the: execution by hanging.
17. (music) A point in a song, usually electronic music such as dubstep, house, trace, or trap, where there is a very noticeable and pleasing change in bass, tempo, and/or overall tone; a climax, a highlight.
18. (nautical) The depth of a (square) sail (generally applied to the courses only); the vertical dimension of a sail.
19. (online gaming, video games) An item made available for the player to pick up from the remains of a defeated enemy.
20. (pharmacology) A dose of liquid medicine in the form of a drop (sense 1).
21. (pharmacology, chiefly in the plural) A liquid medicine that is intended to be administered in drops (sense 1).
22. (pinball) Short for drop target.
23. (rugby) Short for drop kick.
24. (theater) A curtain which falls in front of a theatrical stage; also, a section of (cloth) scenery lowered on to the stage like a curtain.
25. A decline in degree, quality, quantity, or rate.
26. A mechanism for lowering something, such as a machine for lowering heavy weights on to a ship's deck, or a device for temporarily lowering a gas jet, etc.
27. A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, whether openly (as with a mail drop), or secretly or illegally (as in crime or espionage); a drop-off point.
28. A release (of music, a video game, etc).
29. An act of moving downwards under the force of gravity; a descent, a fall.
30. An instance of making a delivery of people, supplies, or things, especially by parachute out of an aircraft (an airdrop), but also by truck, etc.
31. Of men's clothes: the difference between the chest circumference and waist circumference.
32. Of women's clothes: the difference between the bust circumference and hip circumference.
33. Often preceded by a defining word: a small, round piece of hard candy, such as a lemon drop; a lozenge.
34. Short for drop hammer and drop press.
35. The cover mounted on a swivel over a keyhole that rests over the keyhole when not in use to keep out debris, but is swiveled out of the way before inserting the key.
36. The distance below a cliff or other high position through which someone or something could fall; hence, a steep slope.
37. The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
38. Usually preceded by the: relegation from one division to a lower one.

verb

1. (cooking) To cook (food, especially fast food), particularly by lowering into hot oil to deep-fry, or by grilling.
2. (cricket) Of a fielder: to fail to dismiss (a batsman) by accidentally dropping a batted ball that had initially been caught.
3. (intransitive) Of a liquid: to fall in drops or droplets.
4. (intransitive) Of a song or sound: to lower in key, pitch, tempo, or other quality.
5. (intransitive) Of a voice: to lower in timbre, often due to puberty.
6. (intransitive) To collapse in exhaustion or injury; also, to fall dead, or to fall in death.
7. (intransitive) To come to an end (by not being kept up); to lapse, to stop.
8. (intransitive) To decrease, diminish, or lessen in condition, degree, value, etc.
9. (intransitive) To fall behind or to the rear of a group of people, etc., as a result of not keeping up with those at the front.
10. (intransitive) To fall into a particular condition or state.
11. (intransitive) To fall or sink quickly or suddenly to the ground.
12. (intransitive) Usually followed by by, in, or into: of a person: to visit someone or somewhere informally or without a prior appointment.
13. (intransitive, also figuratively) To fall (straight down) under the influence of gravity, like a drop of liquid.
14. (intransitive, computing) To enter a more basic interface.
15. (intransitive, computing, music, television, colloquial) Of a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.: to enter public distribution.
16. (intransitive, gambling) To drop out of the betting.
17. (intransitive, obsolete) To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.
18. (intransitive, physiology, informal) Of the testicles: to hang further away from the body and begin producing sperm due to puberty.
19. (originally US) To (unexpectedly) lose (a competition, game, etc.).
20. (rugby) To score (a goal) by means of a drop kick.
21. (transitive) Of an animal (usually a sheep): to give birth to (young); of a bird: to lay (an egg).
22. (transitive) To cancel or cease to participate in (a scheduled course, event, or project).
23. (transitive) To cease concerning oneself over (someone or something); to have nothing more to do with (a discussion, subject, etc.).
24. (transitive) To cease to include (something), as if on a list; to dismiss, to eject, to expel.
25. (transitive) To dispose or get rid of (something); to lose, to remove.
26. (transitive) To drip (a liquid) in drops or small amounts.
27. (transitive) To let (a letter, etc.) fall into a postbox; hence, to send (a letter, email, or other message) in an offhand manner.
28. (transitive) To lower (a sound, a voice, etc.) in pitch or volume.
29. (transitive) To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot, etc.; to bring down, to shoot down.
30. (transitive) To mention (something) casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
31. (transitive) To move to a lower position; to allow to hang downwards; to lower.
32. (transitive) To reduce; to make smaller.
33. (transitive) To set down (someone or something) from a vehicle; to stop and deliver or deposit (someone or something); to drop off.
34. (transitive, archaic) To cover (something) with or as if with drops, especially of a different colour; to bedrop, to variegate.
35. (transitive, computing) To present the user with a more basic interface.
36. (transitive, computing, music, television, colloquial) To release (a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.) to the public.
37. (transitive, ergative, also figuratively) To let (something) fall; to allow (something) to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on).
38. (transitive, linguistics) To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter, etc.).
39. (transitive, music) To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
40. Especially in drop acid: to swallow (a drug, particularly LSD).
41. To impart (something).
42. To lose, spend, or otherwise part with (money).
43. To pass or use (counterfeit cheques, money, etc.).
44. To perform (rap music).
45. To play (a portion of music) in the manner of a disc jockey.
46. To quickly lower or take down (one's trousers), especially in public.

noun

1. (Northern England) A deep hole in a river bed; a pool.
2. (UK, archaic) A lead counter used in the game of chuck-farthing.
3. (UK, archaic) A thick, ill-shapen piece.
4. (computing) A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program.
5. (computing) An act of dumping, or its result.
6. (historical, Australia, Canada) A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).
7. (marketing) A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold.
8. (mining) A pile of ore or rock.
9. (obsolete) A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
10. (obsolete) An old kind of dance.
11. (slang, often with the verb "take", euphemistic) An act of defecation; a defecating.
12. (usually in the plural) A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency.
13. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
14. A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
15. A storage place for supplies, especially military.
16. Absence of mind; reverie.
17. An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring, or depressing looking place.
18. That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.

verb

1. (transitive) To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants.
2. (transitive) To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it
3. (transitive) To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
4. (transitive) To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.
5. (transitive, Australia) Of a surf wave, to crash a swimmer, surfer, etc., heavily downwards.
6. (transitive, US) To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.
7. (transitive, computing) To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
8. (transitive, computing) To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.
9. (transitive, informal) To end a romantic relationship with.
10. (transitive, obsolete, Scotland) To knock heavily; to stump.

noun

1. (informal) A duplicate.
2. (informal, TikTok) A counterfeit; a fake.
3. (photography) A duplicate of a photographic image.
4. (restaurant industry) A duplicate of an order receipt printed for kitchen staff.
5. A person who has been deceived.

verb

1. (transitive) To duplicate.
2. To swindle, deceive, or trick.

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dup

verb

1. (obsolete) To empty.

noun

1. (fencing) A sharp-pointed dueling sword with a bell-shaped guard, used (with the end blunted) in sport fencing.

noun

1. (historical units of measure) Alternative spelling of ephah

adj

1. (category theory, of a morphism) That is an epimorphism.
2. (colloquial, slang, informal) Extending beyond the usual or ordinary.
3. Momentously heroic; grand in scale or character
4. Of or relating to an epic.

noun

1. (computing) In software development, a large or extended user story.
2. A series of events considered appropriate to an epic.
3. An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity, demigod (heroic epic), other legend or traditional hero.

noun

1. plural of epi

noun

1. (obsolete) An epic.
2. The tuber of any one of several edible species of Perideridia spp.

noun

1. (colloquial) An epileptic shock.
2. (colloquial, by extension) A tantrum or outburst.

noun

1. Alternative letter-case form of EPUB

noun

1. (uncountable) The act or process of learning secret information through clandestine means; espionage.
2. A scout or spy.
3. An act of finding out or observing by spying or looking; an espial or espying.

verb

1. (intransitive, archaic) To observe as a spy, to spy; also, to examine or observe carefully; or to look out or watch.
2. To become aware of (a fact, information, etc.).
3. To find out or observe (someone or something, especially if not easy to see) by spying or looking; to catch sight of; to see; to spot.
4. To observe (someone or something) as a spy; also, to examine or observe (someone or something) carefully; or to look out or watch for.
5. To see (someone or something) without foreplanning or unexpectedly.

noun

1. An expediter; a restaurant worker who prepares food to be taken to tables.
2. An exposition.

noun

1. (fandom slang) A character in a work of fiction who is a stand-in for or knockoff of a character from an unrelated work or of a real person.
2. Contraction of expressway.

noun

1. plural of fip

noun

1. (aviation) A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane, used to increase lift and drag.
2. (obsolete) A blow or slap (especially to the face).
3. (obsolete) A young prostitute.
4. (phonetics) A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound /ɾ/ in the standard American English pronunciation of body.
5. (slang, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) The labia, the vulva.
6. (surgery) A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
7. A controversy, scandal, stir, or upset.
8. A hinged leaf.
9. A side fin of a ray.
10. Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
11. The motion of anything broad and loose, or a sound or stroke made with it.

verb

1. (computing, telecommunications, intransitive) Of a resource or network destination: to be advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.
2. (intransitive) To move loosely back and forth.
3. (transitive) To move (something broad and loose) up and down.

adj

1. (Britain, informal) Having the quality of playfulness, or lacking seriousness of purpose.
2. (informal) Disrespectful, flippant.
3. Sarcastic.

intj

1. (UK, euphemistic) Used to express annoyance, especially when the speaker has made an error.

noun

1. (US, slang) A slingshot.
2. (archaic) A fillip or light blow.
3. (firearms, uncountable) The tendency of a gun's barrel to jerk about at the moment of firing.
4. (informal) The purchase of an asset (usually a house) which is then improved and sold quickly for profit.
5. A complete change of direction, decision, movement etc.
6. A hairstyle popular among boys in the 1960s–70s and 2000s–10s, in which the hair goes halfway down the ears, at which point it sticks out
7. A maneuver which rotates an object end over end.
8. A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron (a "flip dog").

verb

1. (intransitive, US) To turn state's evidence; to agree to testify against one's co-conspirators in exchange for concessions from prosecutors.
2. (intransitive, informal) To switch to another task, etc.
3. (intransitive, slang) To go berserk or crazy.
4. (transitive) To put into a quick revolving motion through a snap of the thumb and index finger.
5. (transitive) To throw so as to turn over.
6. (transitive, US politics) To win a state (or county) won by another party in the preceding elections.
7. (transitive, US) To induce someone to turn state's evidence; to get someone to agree to testify against their co-conspirators in exchange for concessions.
8. (transitive, computing) To invert a bit (binary digit), changing it from 0 to 1 or from 1 to 0.
9. (transitive, finance, slang) To refinance (a loan), accruing additional fees.
10. (transitive, informal) To buy an asset (usually a house), improve it and sell it quickly for profit.
11. (transitive, informal) To hand over or pass along.

adv

1. Right, squarely, flat-out.
2. With a flopping sound.

intj

1. Indicating the sound of something flopping.

noun

1. (computing) Abbreviation of floating-point operation.
2. (computing) One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed.
3. (poker) The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
4. (slang) A flophouse.
5. A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
6. A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop.
7. An incident of a certain type of fall; a plopping down.

verb

1. (intransitive) To fall heavily due to lack of energy.
2. (intransitive) To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; to flap.
3. (intransitive, informal) To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).
4. (intransitive, slang) To stay, sleep or live in a place.
5. (poker, transitive) To have (a hand) using the community cards dealt on the flop.
6. (sports, intransitive) To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)
7. (transitive) To cause to drop heavily.
8. (transitive) To flip; to reverse (an image).

noun

1. plural of fop

noun

1. (informal) Clipping of frappuccino.

verb

1. (nautical) To draw together tightly; to secure by many turns of a lashing.
2. (transitive) To strike or beat.

symbol

1. Abbreviation for the unit of measurement: flux transitions per inch

verb

1. (archaic) to gape; yawn.

noun

1. (UK, dated) An umbrella.

noun

1. (uncommon) An act of gaping; a yawn.
2. (uncountable) A disease in poultry caused by gapeworm in the windpipe, a symptom of which is frequent gaping.
3. (zoology) The maximum opening of the mouth (of a bird, fish, etc.) when it is open.
4. A large opening.
5. The width of an opening.

verb

1. (intransitive) To open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, anger, or surprise.
2. (intransitive) To open wide; to display a gap.
3. (intransitive) To stare in wonder.
4. (intransitive, of a cat) To open the passage to the vomeronasal organ, analogous to the flehming in other animals.
5. (pornography) To depict a dilated anal or vaginal cavity upon penetrative sexual activity.

noun

1. plural of gap

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gap

adj

1. gaping

intj

1. (humorous) The sound of a gasp.

noun

1. (Britain, slang): A draw or drag on a cigarette (or gasper).
2. A short, sudden intake of breath.

verb

1. (intransitive) To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion; to respire with heaving of the breast; to pant.
2. (intransitive) To draw in the breath suddenly, as if from a shock.
3. (transitive) To speak in a breathless manner.
4. To pant with eagerness or excitement; to show vehement desire.

verb

1. (Tyneside) To stare, gape.

noun

1. (Britain) A stupefied or amazed stare.

verb

1. (Chiefly Britain) To stare stupidly or rudely; to gawk.

adj

1. (dated, Scotland and N England) Neat; trim; delicate; slender; handsome; spruce; elegant.

noun

1. (BDSM) A sexual submissive, almost always male, dressed generally in a black leather suit. See Gimp (sadomasochism) in Wikipedia.
2. (dated, chiefly North Eastern US) Gumption
3. (informal) A crippled leg.
4. (informal) A limp or a limping gait.
5. (informal) A person who is lame due to a crippling of the legs or feet.
6. (slang, derogatory) A name-calling word, generally for a person who is perceived to be inept, deficient or peculiar
7. (video games, slang, derogatory) A character or ability that is underpowered.
8. A narrow ornamental fabric or braid of silk, wool, or cotton, often stiffened with metallic wire or coarse cord running through it, used as trimming for dresses, curtains, furniture, etc. Also guimpe.
9. Any coarse or reinforced thread, such as a glazed thread employed in lacemaking to outline designs, or silk thread used as a fishing leader, protected from the bite of fish by a wrapping of fine wire.
10. The plastic cord used in the plaiting and knotting craft Scoubidou (lanyard making); or, the process itself.

verb

1. (dated) To notch or indent; to jag or make jagged; to edge with serrations or grooves.
2. (intransitive, informal) To limp; to hobble.
3. (of yarn, cord, thread, etc.) To wrap or wind (surround) with another length of yarn or wire in a tight spiral, often by means of a gimping machine, creating 'gimped yarn', etc. Also, generally, to wrap or twist with string or wire. See gimped.
4. (transitive, video games, slang) To make underpowered; to limit or restrict the useful effects of.

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gip

noun

1. (informal, countable) A gooey blob of some substance.
2. (informal, uncountable) Any gooey substance.

verb

1. (dialectal or archaic) To stare in amazement.
2. (transitive, archaic) To swallow greedily.
3. (transitive, informal) To apply (a liquid) thickly and messily.

noun

1. (heraldry) Alternative form of golpe

noun

1. (countable, informal, derogatory, dated) A silly, stupid, or boorish person.
2. (informal, usually uncountable) A thick, slimy substance; goo.

verb

1. (informal) To apply a thick, slimy, or goo-like substance.
2. (informal, possibly obsolete) To stare; gawk.

noun

1. A loose mixture of dried fruit, nuts, frequently salt, and sometimes other ingredients; designed as an energy supplement for use while hiking, climbing, canoeing, etc.

name

1. A program which selects lines in a file which match a given pattern.

verb

1. (by extension) To search anything (perhaps a paper document by eye).
2. (computing) To use a program such as grep to search in a file.

noun

1. (archaic except rail transport) A small travelling-bag or gripsack.
2. (chiefly Southern California slang) A long time.
3. (chiefly Southern California slang) A lot of something.
4. (computing, graphical user interface) A visual component on a window etc. enabling it to be resized and/or moved.
5. (dialectal) A small ditch or trench; a channel to carry off water or other liquid; a drain.
6. (figurative) A helpful, interesting, admirable, or inspiring person.
7. (figurative) Assistance; help or encouragement.
8. (figurative) Control, power or mastery over someone or something; a tenacious grasp; a holding fast.
9. (film production) A person responsible for handling equipment on the set.
10. (slang) As much as one can hold in a hand; a handful.
11. A channel cut through a grass verge (especially for the purpose of draining water away from the highway).
12. A device for grasping or holding fast to something.
13. A handle or other place to grip.
14. A hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand.
15. An apparatus attached to a car for clutching a traction cable.
16. Archaic spelling of grippe: Influenza; the flu.

verb

1. (dialectal) To trench; to drain.
2. (transitive) Of an emotion or situation: to have a strong effect upon.
3. (transitive) To firmly hold the attention of.
4. (transitive) To take hold of, particularly with the hand.

intj

1. An indication of (the sound of) an involuntary fear reaction in the form of a swallowing motion.

noun

1. (rare, computing) An unspecified small number of bytes, often two.
2. The sound of swallowing, sometimes indicating fear.
3. The usual amount swallowed.

verb

1. To react nervously by swallowing.
2. To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down in one swallow.

noun

1. (Baltimore, District of Columbia, slang) A weak or soft person.
2. (US, dated) A foolish person.

noun

1. (Ulster) fool; clumsy, awkward person
2. (Ulster) long-legged person
3. (Ulster) silly boy

noun

1. plural of gyp

verb

1. (nonstandard, humorous) Alternative spelling of help
2. (obsolete) Alternative form of holp (“helped”)

noun

1. plural of hap

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hap

noun

1. (New Zealand) A subtribe of an iwi or Maori tribe; the basic political unit within Māori society; a subtribe or extended family.

noun

1. (Scotland) A grain sieve.
2. (colloquial) A harmonica.
3. (music) A musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body
4. Any instrument of the same musicological type.
5. Short for harp seal.

verb

1. (transitive) To play (a tune) on the harp.
2. (transitive) To play on (a harp or similar instrument).
3. (transitive, archaic) To develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon.
4. (usually with on) To repeatedly mention a subject.

noun

1. A clasp, especially a metal strap fastened by a padlock or a pin; also, a hook for fastening a door.
2. A spindle to wind yarn, thread, or silk on.
3. Alternative form of hesp (“measure of linen thread”)
4. An instrument for cutting the surface of grassland; a scarifier.

verb

1. (transitive) To shut or fasten with a hasp.

adv

1. (possibly offensive) very; representing broken English stereotypically or comically attributed to Native Americans

noun

1. (colloquial) A dilapidated place or vehicle.
2. (colloquial) A lot, a large amount
3. (computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
4. (computing) Memory that is dynamically allocated.
5. A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
6. A great number or large quantity of things.
7. A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.

verb

1. (transitive) To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
2. (transitive) To pile in a heap.
3. (transitive) To supply in great quantity.

noun

1. (obsolete) The hip of the dog rose.

intj

1. A cry of distress or an urgent request for assistance

noun

1. (countable) A study aid.
2. (uncountable) Action given to provide assistance; aid.
3. (uncountable) Correction of deficits, as by psychological counseling or medication or social support or remedial training.
4. (usually uncountable) One or more people employed to help in the maintenance of a house or the operation of a farm or enterprise.
5. Documentation provided with computer software, etc. and accessed using the computer.
6. Something or someone which provides assistance with a task.

verb

1. (Hong Kong) To do something on the behalf of someone.
2. (intransitive) To provide assistance.
3. (transitive) To assist (a person) in getting something, especially food or drink at table; used with to.
4. (transitive) To avoid; to prevent; to refrain from; to restrain (oneself). Usually used in nonassertive contexts with can.
5. (transitive) To contribute in some way to.
6. (transitive) To provide assistance to (someone or something).

noun

1. (slang, historical) The gallows.
2. A tall annual herb, Cannabis sativa, native to Asia.
3. Various products of this plant, including fibres and the drug cannabis.

noun

1. (colloquial) A reptile or amphibian.
2. (colloquial) Herpes.

noun

1. (wrestling) A throw in which the wrestler lifts his opponent from the ground, swings him to one side, knocks up his nearer thigh from the back with the knee, and throws him on his back.

verb

1. (wrestling, transitive, intransitive) To throw (an opponent) using this technique.

noun

1. plural of hip

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hip

verb

1. (Southern US, African-American Vernacular, obsolete) Synonym of help
2. (archaic) simple past tense of help

noun

1. (Australia, metonymically, slang, by extension) A jockey.
2. (UK, obsolete) An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.
3. (US, in the plural, metonymically) The game of basketball.
4. (basketball) The rim part of a basketball net.
5. (figurative, usually in the plural) An obstacle that must be overcome in order to proceed.
6. (now chiefly historical) A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; (hence, by extension) a hoop petticoat or hoop skirt.
7. (sports, usually in the plural) A horizontal stripe on the jersey.
8. A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.
9. A circular band of metal, wood, or similar material used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
10. A hoop earring.
11. A quart pot; so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents measured by the distance between the hoops.
12. A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop.
13. A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.
14. The hoopoe.

verb

1. (dated) To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.
2. (dated) To whoop, as in whooping cough.
3. (transitive) To bind or fasten using a hoop.
4. (transitive) To clasp; to encircle; to surround.

noun

1. (Christianity, uncountable) The virtuous desire for future good.
2. (Northern England, Scotland) A hollow; a valley, especially the upper end of a narrow mountain valley when it is nearly encircled by smooth, green slopes; a combe.
3. (Scotland) A small bay; an inlet; a haven.
4. (countable or uncountable) The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
5. (countable) A person or thing that is a source of hope.
6. (countable) The actual thing wished for.
7. A sloping plain between mountain ridges.

verb

1. (intransitive) To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in.
2. (intransitive, transitive) To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might.
3. (transitive, dialectal, nonstandard) To wish.
4. To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes.

noun

1. plural of hop

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hop

noun

1. Abbreviation of hospital.

noun

1. (Britain, slang, with definite article) A bad mood.
2. (animals) A rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel or zebu.
3. (slang) A painfully boorish person.
4. (slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
5. A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine.
6. A mound of earth.
7. A speed bump or speed hump.
8. A wave that forms in front of an operating hovercraft and impedes progress at low speeds.

verb

1. (US, slang, dated) To prepare for a great exertion; to put forth effort.
2. (rail transport) To shunt wagons / freight cars over the hump in a hump yard.
3. (slang, dated) To vex or annoy.
4. (transitive) To bend something into a hump.
5. (transitive, intransitive) To carry (something), especially with some exertion.
6. (transitive, intransitive) To dry-hump.
7. (transitive, intransitive) To have sex (with).

adj

1. (informal) Hyped (“excited”).
2. (slang) Excellent, cool.

noun

1. (marketing) Promotion or propaganda; especially exaggerated claims.
2. (metonymically, slang, dated) A drug addict.
3. (slang) Short for hypodermic needle.
4. Alternative form of hipe (“wrestling move”)

verb

1. (transitive) To promote heavily; to advertise or build up.

noun

1. (informal, in the study of law) A hypothetical case.
2. (informal, zoology) A hypomelanistic snake.
3. (obsolete) Melancholy; a fit of hypochondria; a morbid depression.
4. (photography, informal) Sodium thiosulfate (also called hyposulfite of soda), a photographic fixing agent.
5. (slang) A hypochondriac.
6. (slang) A hypodermic syringe or injection.
7. (slang) A hypoglycaemia attack in a person with diabetes.
8. (slang, finance, Britain) Hypothecation.

verb

1. (intransitive, slang) To have a hypoglycaemia attack.
2. (transitive) To administer a hypodermic injection to.
3. (transitive, economics) To stimulate or boost (the economy) by the injection of cash, such as with quantitative easing
4. (transitive, figuratively) To stimulate or boost, as if by administering a hypodermic injection. (Compare hype.)

noun

1. plural of hyp

adj

1. (grammar) Abbreviation of imperfective.

noun

1. A group of Zulu (or other Bantu) warriors; a detachment of armed men.

noun

1. plural of imp

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of imp

noun

1. A Philippine and Pacific island tree (Intsia bijuga) yielding a valuable brown dye and having a very hard and durable dark wood.

noun

1. A joke or quip.
2. A prank or trick.

verb

1. (intransitive) To jest; play tricks.
2. (obsolete) To have sexual intercourse with.
3. (transitive) To mock; deride.