(finance) In a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay one's debts.
Destitute of, or wholly lacking (something once possessed, or something one should possess).
Having been legally declared insolvent.
noun
(UK, law, obsolete) A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.
One who becomes unable to pay his or her debts; an insolvent person.
verb
(transitive) To force into bankruptcy.
bumpkins
bumpkins
noun
plural of bumpkin
chipmunk
chipmunk
noun
A squirrel-like rodent of the genus Tamias, native mainly to North America.
verb
(transitive) To fill (one's mouth or cheeks) with food.
(transitive) To speed up (an audio recording, especially a song), to make the voices high-pitched.
(transitive) To stuff (food) into one's mouth or cheeks, sometimes as part of competitive eating.
duckpins
duckpins
noun
A game played by bowling a small ball at such pins.
plural of duckpin
duckpond
duckpond
noun
A pond that is populated by ducks.
hunkpapa
kerplunk
kerplunk
noun
A thudding or thunking sound.
verb
To make a thudding or thunking sound.
keypunch
keypunch
noun
(computing) A mechanical device whose keys are pressed, individually or in combination, to punch holes in punched cards or paper tape that correspond to particular characters.
(computing) An electric machine with a keyboard that has the same function.
verb
To use such a device or machine
kingcups
kingcups
noun
plural of kingcup
kinipetu
kulpmont
nipmucks
nutpicks
nutpicks
noun
plural of nutpick
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nutpick
pamunkey
penuckle
plucking
plucking
noun
(gerund of pluck) An act in which something is plucked.
(printing) The undesirable situation in which printed ink becomes detached from the paper.
A fragment of something obtained by plucking.
verb
present participle of pluck
plunkers
plunkers
noun
plural of plunker
plunkett
plunking
plunking
noun
A noise that plunks.
verb
present participle of plunk
pookhaun
prankful
prankful
adj
Full of pranks; mischievous.
puckling
pudovkin
pumpkins
pumpkins
noun
plural of pumpkin
pumpknot
punketto
punkiest
punkiest
adj
superlative form of punky: most punky
punkling
punkling
noun
(obsolete) A young strumpet
Someone young associated with the punk movement or music.
punkwood
purkinje
raunpick
reunpack
reunpack
verb
To unpack again.
rounspik
shuckpen
shunpike
shunpike
noun
A side road or route.
verb
To travel by side roads so as to avoid the toll roads or turnpikes.
skalpund
skeppund
skeppund
noun
(historical) An old Swedish unit of weight, equivalent to 374 pounds.
skippund
skippund
noun
Alternative form of skeppund
skunktop
spelunks
spelunks
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of spelunk
spunkier
spunkier
adj
comparative form of spunky: more spunky
spunkies
spunkily
spunkily
adv
in a spunky manner
spunking
spunking
verb
present participle of spunk
sputniks
sputniks
noun
plural of sputnik.
tsukupin
turnpike
turnpike
noun
(Scotland) A winding stairway.
(chiefly US) A toll road, especially a toll expressway.
(mathematical economics) A trajectory on a finite time interval that satisfies an optimality criterion which is associated with a cost function.
(military) A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval de frise.
A frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of animals, but admitting a person to pass between the arms; a turnstile.
A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, until a toll is paid,
verb
To form (a road, etc.) in the manner of a turnpike road, or into a rounded form, as the path of a road.
turnpoke
unpacked
unpacked
adj
(sometimes proscribed) Not yet having had its packing removed. (Especially after still. For more on this use, see http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002171.html)
Having had its packing removed.
Not yet packed.
verb
past participle of unpack
unpacker
unpacker
noun
(computing) A software program that decompresses code or data.
One who, or that which, unpacks.
unparked
unparked
adj
Not having been parked.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of unpark
unpeaked
unpeaked
adj
Not having a peak.
unpecked
unpecked
adj
Not pecked.
unpicked
unpicked
adj
Not having been picked.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of unpick
unpinked
unpinked
adj
Not pinked; of clothing or fabric, not ornamented with holes or scallops.
unpocket
unpocket
verb
(transitive) To remove from a pocket.
unpucker
unpucker
verb
(transitive) To smooth away the puckers or wrinkles of.
unspeaks
unspeaks
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of unspeak
unspoken
unspoken
adj
(sometimes postpositive) Not formally articulated or stated; implicit or understood.
(sometimes postpositive) Not spoken; not said.
verb
past participle of unspeak
upbroken
upbroken
verb
simple past tense and past participle of upbreak
upkindle
upkindle
verb
(poetic) To kindle upward.
uplinked
uplinked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of uplink
upmaking
upmaking
noun
(nautical, historical) Pieces of plank or timber piled on each other as filling up in building, especially between the bilgeways and ship's bottom, preparatory to launching.
(printing, historical) The arrangement of lines into columns or pages.