HANGMAN SOLVER

adv

1. (archaic) In the rear; a distance behind.
2. (archaic) Towards the back or rear; backwards.
3. (nautical) Backward against the mast; said of the sails when pressed by the wind from the "wrong" (forward) side, or of a ship when its sails are set that way.
4. By surprise; startled; dumbfounded. (see usage)

noun

1. (obsolete) An abacus.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of abaca

adv

1. in the sunshine; basking.

noun

1. (India) A wine seller; one who is subject to the abkari tax.

noun

1. Any of the genus Akebia of five species of flowering plant in the family Lardizabalaceae.

noun

1. A Central and Eastern European coffee cake flavored with orange rind, rum, almonds, and raisins.

noun

1. (Cambridge University, with "the") The backyard of the University.
2. plural of back

verb

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

noun

1. Alternative spelling of baccy

adj

1. (slang) High on cannabis.
2. That has been cooked by baking.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bake

verb

1. (UK dialectal, Northern England) alternative past participle of bake; baked.

noun

1. A person who bakes and sells bread, cakes and similar items.
2. A portable oven for baking.
3. An apple suitable for baking.

noun

1. plural of bake

verb

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

Proper noun

1. An ancient city and centre of Buddhism, Islam, and Zoroastrianism and capital of Bactria.
2. One of the 34 provinces in Afghanistan, Balkh Province.

noun

1. plural of balk

verb

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

adj

1. Refusing to proceed or cooperate.

noun

1. plural of bank

verb

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

adj

1. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Hilly; sloping.

noun

1. A child's blanket.

noun

1. plural of bark

verb

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

adj

1. (of a tree) Having bark.
2. Prone to bark, to make the sound of a dog.
3. Sounding like the bark of a dog.

verb

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

noun

1. A wax-resist method of dyeing fabric.

verb

1. To dye fabric using the wax-resist method.

noun

1. (British spelling) Alternative spelling of balk

noun

1. plural of beak

verb

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

adj

1. (of a gesture) Made using a beak; (of a sound) produced through a beak.
2. Beak-like: resembling a beak.
3. Beaked: having a beak.
4. Having a nose which resembles a beak.

noun

1. plural of beck

Noun

1. A placeholder name used to refer to a (usually white) woman held in contempt by the speaker.

noun

1. Alternative form of beka

noun

1. A koi carp with black markings on white, red or yellow skin.

noun

1. plural of berk

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bike

noun

1. (cycling) A cyclist.
2. A person whose lifestyle is centered on motorcycles, sometimes a member of a motorcycle club.

noun

1. plural of bike

verb

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

noun

1. (slang, Australia) A motorcyclist who is a member of a club; a biker.

verb

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

noun

1. (US, informal, childish) A baby's pacifier.
2. (informal, childish) A stuffed animal, pillow, blanket, or toy that a small child is more attached to than any other, and often sleeps with.
3. A high hop that a rabbit may perform when happy.

verb

1. (intransitive, rabbit behavior) To perform a high hop, as when happy.

noun

1. plural of birk

noun

1. plural of bisk

adj

1. (Ireland, informal) Overcrowded.
2. (Ireland, now derogatory) Protestant, often with the implication of being militantly pro-British or anti-Catholic. (Compare blackmouth ("Presbyterian").)
3. (US) Belonging to or descended from any of various sub-Saharan African ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin.
4. (board games, chess) Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set (in chess the set used by the player who moves second) (often regardless of the pieces' actual colour).
5. (card games, of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red (“of the hearts or diamonds suit”)
6. (chiefly historical) Designated for use by those ethnic groups (as described above).
7. (of a place, etc) Without light.
8. (of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
9. (of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
10. (of objects, markets, etc) Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
11. (politics) Anarchist; of or pertaining to anarchism.
12. (politics) Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
13. (sometimes capitalized) Belonging to or descended from any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes below.)
14. (typography) Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white (“said of a character or symbol outline, not filled with color”).
15. Bad; evil; ill-omened.
16. Clandestine; relating to a political, military, or espionage operation or site, the existence or details of which is withheld from the general public.
17. Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.
18. Foul; dirty, soiled.
19. Having one or more features (hair, fur, armour, clothes, bark, etc) that is dark (or black); in taxonomy, especially: dark in comparison to another species with the same base name.
20. Occult; relating to something (such as mystical or magical knowledge) which is unknown to or kept secret from the general public.

noun

1. (Britain, countable) A type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
2. (US, slang) Marijuana.
3. (baseball, countable) The edge of home plate.
4. (billiards, snooker, pool, countable) The black ball.
5. (countable and uncountable) A black dye or pigment.
6. (countable and uncountable) The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.
7. (countable) A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
8. (countable) Something, or a part of a thing, which is black.
9. (in chess and similar games, countable) The person playing with the black set of pieces.
10. (in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
11. (informal) Blackness, the condition of belonging to or being descended from one of these ethnic groups.
12. (informal, countable) Blackcurrant syrup (in mixed drinks, e.g. snakebite and black, cider and black).
13. (obsolete, countable) A stain; a spot.
14. (sometimes capitalised, countable, often offensive) A member of descendant of any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes.)
15. A dark smut fungus, harmful to wheat.

verb

1. (Britain, transitive) To boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute.
2. (transitive) To apply blacking to (something).
3. (transitive) To make black; to blacken.

adj

1. Bleak, cold; bare, naked.
2. Pale, pallid; wan; sallow; of a sickly hue.
3. Yellow, as butter or cheese.

adj

1. (archaic) White or pale; without colour.
2. (figurative) Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
3. (military) Of ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted.
4. Absolute; downright; sheer.
5. Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.
6. Empty; void; without result; fruitless.
7. Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in
8. Utterly confounded or discomfited.
9. Without expression, usually due to incomprehension.

noun

1. (archaic, historical, obsolete) A small French coin, originally of silver, afterwards of copper, worth 5 deniers; also a silver coin of Henry V current in the parts of France then held by the English, worth about 8 pence .
2. (chemistry) A sample for a control experiment that does not contain any of the analyte of interest, in order to deliberately produce a non-detection to verify that a detection is distinguishable from it.
3. (dominoes) A domino without points on one or both of its divisions.
4. (electric recording) The shaved wax ready for placing on a recording machine for making wax records with a stylus [20th century].
5. (figurative) A vacant space, place, or period; a void [since the 17th century].
6. (firearms) Short for blank cartridge. [since the 19th century].
7. (literature) Blank verse .
8. (now chiefly US) A document, paper, or form with spaces left blank to be filled up at the pleasure of the person to whom it is given (e.g. a blank charter, ballot, form, contract, etc.), or as the event may determine; a blank form .
9. (obsolete) A nonplus [16th century].
10. (slang) Infertile semen.
11. A dash written in place of an omitted letter or word [since the 18th century]
12. A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated [since the 16th century].
13. A space to be filled in on a form or template.
14. An empty form without substance; anything insignificant; nothing at all .
15. An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory [since the 18th century].
16. An unprinted leaf of a book [20th century].
17. Any article of glass on which subsequent processing is required [since the 19th century].
18. Provisional words printed in italics (instead of blank spaces) in a bill before Parliament, being matters of practical detail, of which the final form will be settled in Committee .
19. The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space-bar on a keyboard.
20. The white spot in the centre of a target; hence (figuratively) the object to which anything is directed or aimed, the range of such aim .
21. The ¹ / ₂₃₀₄₀₀ of a grain [17th century].

verb

1. (intransitive) To be temporarily unable to remember.
2. (intransitive) To become blank.
3. (transitive) To make void; to erase.
4. (transitive) To prevent from scoring; for example, in a sporting event.
5. (transitive, aviation, of a control surface) To render ineffective by blanketing with turbulent airflow, such as from aircraft wake or reverse thrust.
6. (transitive, slang) To ignore (a person) deliberately.

adj

1. Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
2. Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.
3. Without color; pale; pallid.

noun

1. A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae.

intj

1. (rare) Alternative form of blech

noun

1. (dialectal) Coalfish (Pollachius virens).
2. (obsolete) A black man.
3. Any black fluid substance, as in blacking for leather, or black grease.
4. Soot, smut.

verb

1. (obsolete, dialect) To blacken.
2. (obsolete, dialect) To defile.

verb

1. (obsolete) To blink.
2. (obsolete) To look.

noun

1. A sawed-off length of something.
2. The brightening or iridescence appearing on silver or gold at the end of the cupelling or refinishing process.

verb

1. (intransitive) Of gold or silver: To exhibit blick.
2. (nonce word, transitive, intransitive) To make, or cause to make, a soft, crisp sound.
3. (transitive) To shine, gleam.

noun

1. (UK, dialect) gleam; glimmer; sparkle
2. (computing) A text formatting feature that causes text to disappear and reappear as a form of visual emphasis.
3. (figuratively) The time needed to close and reopen one's eyes.
4. (nautical) The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; iceblink
5. (sports, in the plural) Boughs cast where deer are to pass, in order to turn or check them.
6. (video games) An ability that allows teleporting, mostly for short distances
7. A glimpse or glance.
8. The act of quickly closing both eyes and opening them again.

verb

1. (Tyneside, obsolete) To glance.
2. (hyperbolic) To perform the smallest action that could solicit a response.
3. (intransitive) To close and reopen both eyes quickly.
4. (science fiction, video games) To teleport, mostly for short distances.
5. (transitive) To close and reopen one's eyes to remove (something) from on or around the eyes.
6. (transitive) To shut out of sight; to evade; to shirk.
7. To flash headlights on a car at.
8. To flash on and off at regular intervals.
9. To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes.
10. To send a signal with a lighting device.
11. To shine, especially with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp.
12. To turn slightly sour, or blinky, as beer, milk, etc.
13. To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.

noun

1. (UK) Solitary confinement.
2. (chemistry) A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
3. (computing) A contiguous range of Unicode code points used to encode characters of a specific type; can be of any size evenly divisible by 16, up to 65,536 (a full plane).
4. (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see cluster).
5. (cricket) A blockhole.
6. (cricket) A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.
7. (cricket) The popping crease.
8. (cricket) The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
9. (cryptography) A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
10. (falconry) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
11. (obsolete) A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.
12. (philately) A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
13. (printing, dated) A piece of hard wood on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted.
14. (programming) A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
15. (rail transport) A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
16. (slang) The human head.
17. (sports) An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
18. (viticulture) A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof.
19. (volleyball) A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
20. A case or frame housing one or more sheaves (pulleys), used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example as part of lifting gear or a sailing ship's rigging. See also block and tackle.
21. A cellblock.
22. A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
23. A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
24. A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
25. A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
26. A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
27. A roughly cuboid building.
28. A section of split logs used as fuel.
29. A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end, forming a cuboid shape.
30. A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
31. A temporary or permanent ban that prevents access to an online account or service, or connection to or from a designated telephone number, IP address, or similar.
32. A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
33. Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
34. Misspelling of bloc.
35. Something that prevents something from passing.
36. The distance from one street to another in a city or suburb that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.

verb

1. (intransitive, cricket) To play a block shot.
2. (programming, intransitive) To wait for some condition to become true.
3. (transitive) To bar (a message or communication), or bar connection with (an online account or service, a designated telephone number, IP address, etc.).
4. (transitive) To bar (someone undesirable) from connecting via telephone, instant messaging, etc., or from accessing an online account or service, or similar.
5. (transitive) To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
6. (transitive) To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
7. (transitive) To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
8. (transitive) To shape or sketch out roughly.
9. (transitive) To stretch or mould (a knitted item, a hat, etc.) into the desired shape.
10. (transitive, cricket) To hit with a block.
11. (transitive, slang, obsolete) To knock (a person's hat) down over their eyes.
12. (transitive, sports) To impede (an opponent or opponent's play).
13. (transitive, theater) To specify the positions and movements of the actors for (a section of a play or film).

noun

1. (Australia, Britain, New Zealand, Ireland, informal) A man who behaves in a particularly laddish or overtly heterosexual manner.
2. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, Ireland) An exemplar of a certain masculine, independent male archetype.
3. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, informal) A fellow, a man; especially an ordinary man, a man on the street.
4. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, naval slang) (A lower deck term for) the captain or executive officer of a warship, especially one regarded as tough on discipline and punishment.
5. (chiefly Quebec, colloquial) An anglophone (English-speaking) man.

verb

1. (dialect, colloquial, informal) simple past tense of blink
2. (intransitive) To blench, blink; turn aside.
3. (transitive, Scotland) To spoil, mismanage.

noun

1. plural of bock

noun

1. plural of boko

noun

1. plural of bonk

verb

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

noun

1. (accounting) Accounting records.
2. plural of book

verb

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

adj

1. (MLE) treacherous, snitchy, not trustworthy
2. (dated) bookish

noun

1. A bird, the little bittern.

noun

1. Alternative form of burek

noun

1. plural of bosk

adj

1. (obsolete, slang) Drunk; inebriated.
2. Bushy, bristling.
3. Caused by trees or shrubs.
4. Having abundant bushes, shrubs or trees.

noun

1. (obsolete) Salty or brackish water.
2. A flaw in cloth.
3. An opening caused by the parting of a solid body; a crack or breach.
4. Barmbrack.

noun

1. (chiefly nautical) The handle of a pump.
2. (engineering) An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine or other motor by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake.
3. (figuratively) Something used to retard or stop some action, process etc.
4. (military) An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
5. (now historical) A type of torture instrument.
6. (obsolete) A cage.
7. (obsolete) The winch of a crossbow.
8. A baker's kneading trough.
9. A carriage for transporting shooting parties and their equipment.ᵂ
10. A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.ᵂ
11. A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, usually by friction (although other resistive forces, such as electromagnetic fields or aerodynamic drag, can also be used); also, the controls or apparatus used to engage such a mechanism such as the pedal in a car.
12. A fern; bracken (Pteridium).
13. A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him.
14. A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after ploughing; a drag.
15. A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.
16. A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.
17. A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.)
18. An enclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.
19. Any fern in the genus Pteris
20. That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.
21. The act of braking, of using a brake to slow down a machine or vehicle

verb

1. (archaic) simple past tense of break
2. (intransitive) To be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking.
3. (intransitive) To operate (a) brake(s).
4. (transitive) To bruise and crush; to knead
5. (transitive) To pulverise with a harrow

adj

1. Overgrown with bracken or brushwood

noun

1. (UK, dialect) Buckwheat.
2. (obsolete, UK, Scotland, dialect, usually in the plural) A sort of bridle with wooden side pieces.
3. (usually in the plural) A metal bridle formerly used as a torture device to hold the head of a scold and restrain the tongue.

verb

1. (Scotland) To prance; to caper.
2. (UK, Scotland, dialect) To hold up and toss the head; applied to horses as spurning the bit.
3. To put someone in the branks.

noun

1. (Britain, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
2. (UK, education) A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
3. (billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards.
4. (computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
5. (computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
6. (dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind.
7. (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
8. (finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
9. (geography, chiefly in the plural) An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
10. (golf) The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
11. (horse racing) The start of a horse race.
12. (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
13. (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
14. (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
15. (music) The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
16. (obsolete, slang) An error.
17. (programming) Short for breakpoint.
18. (snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
19. (soccer) The counter-attack.
20. (surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
21. (tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).
22. A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
23. A rest or pause, usually from work.
24. A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
25. A short holiday.
26. A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
27. A temporary split with a romantic partner.
28. An act of escaping.
29. An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
30. An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
31. The beginning (of the morning).

verb

1. (computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
2. (computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
3. (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
4. (finance, intransitive) Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
5. (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
6. (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
7. (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
8. (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
9. (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
10. (intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
11. (intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
12. (intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to go broke, to become bankrupt.
13. (intransitive, of a fever) To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
14. (intransitive, of a male voice) To become deeper at puberty.
15. (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
16. (intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.
17. (intransitive, of a storm) To begin or end.
18. (intransitive, of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
19. (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
20. (intransitive, of an emulsion) To demulsify.
21. (intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
22. (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
23. (music, slang) To B-boy; to breakdance.
24. (programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
25. (specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
26. (specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
27. (specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
28. (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
29. (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
30. (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
31. (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
32. (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
33. (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
34. (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
35. (transitive) To end (a connection); to disconnect.
36. (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
37. (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
38. (transitive) To ruin financially.
39. (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
40. (transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.
41. (transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
42. (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
43. (transitive, gaming slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
44. (transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
45. (transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
46. (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
47. (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
48. (transitive, obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
49. (transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
50. (transitive, theater) To end the run of (a play).
51. (transitive, with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
52. To turn an animal into a beast of burden.

adj

1. (colloquial, African-American Vernacular, New England, of weather) Extremely cold.

noun

1. (UK, naval, slang) A projectile.
2. (basketball, slang) A shot which misses, particularly one which bounces directly out of the basket because of a too-flat trajectory, as if the ball were a heavier object.
3. (computing slang, figurative) An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.
4. (countable) A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
5. (countable) Something shaped like a brick.
6. (firearms) A carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick.
7. (informal) A power brick; an external power supply consisting of a small box with an integral male power plug and an attached electric cord terminating in another power plug.
8. (poker slang) A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.
9. (slang) A kilogram of cocaine.
10. (slang, dated) A helpful and reliable person.
11. (uncountable) Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material.
12. The colour brick red.

verb

1. (intransitive, slang) To blunder; to screw up.
2. (transitive) To build, line, or form with bricks.
3. (transitive) To make into bricks.
4. (transitive, computing slang) To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick.
5. (transitive, slang) To hit someone or something with a brick.

noun

1. (figurative) The edge or border.
2. The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge.

adj

1. (archaic) Sparkling; fizzy.
2. Abrupt, curt in one's manner or in relation to others.
3. Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action.
4. Full of spirit of life; effervescing.
5. Stimulating or invigorating.

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive, often with "up") To make or become lively; to enliven; to animate.

noun

1. (UK) a male badger.
2. (archaic, possibly obsolete) A brocket, a stag between two and three years old.
3. (obsolete) A dirty, stinking fellow.

adj

1. (archaic, now informal) Broken.
2. (informal) Financially ruined, bankrupt.
3. (informal) Without any money, penniless.
4. (nautical) Demoted, deprived of a commission.
5. (slang) Broke off, rich, wealthy

noun

1. (obsolete) A fragment, remains, a piece broken off.
2. (papermaking) Paper or board that is discarded and repulped during the manufacturing process.

verb

1. (archaic, nonstandard or poetic) past participle of break
2. (obsolete) To act as procurer in love matters; to pimp.
3. To act as a broker; to transact business for another; synonym of broker.
4. simple past tense of break

noun

1. (Sussex, Kent) A water meadow.
2. (Sussex, Kent, in the plural) Low, marshy ground.
3. A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.

verb

1. (transitive, formal, chiefly in the negative) To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To earn; deserve.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To use; enjoy; have the full employment of.

adj

1. (Britain, obsolete or US) Alternative spelling of brusque

noun

1. Buckaroo.
2. Young lad, friend, pal (used in addressing someone).

noun

1. Casual oxford shoes made of buckskin, often white or a neutral colour.
2. plural of buck

verb

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

noun

1. (Britain, slang) A gun.
2. (medicine, informal) Alternative form of Bucky (“a Potter-Bucky diaphragm”)

noun

1. An Indian nose ring usually worn by married women.

noun

1. plural of bulk

verb

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

adj

1. (bodybuilding) Having excess body mass, especially muscle.
2. Being large in size, mass, or volume.
3. Unwieldy.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of bunco

noun

1. plural of bunk

verb

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

noun

1. Alternative form of bunkie (“bunkmate”)

noun

1. A dress made from felt or karakul (the short curly fur of young lambs of the breed of that name), traditionally worn by men of the Caucasus region.
2. An Islamic garment that covers the whole body, which has a net screen covering the eyes so they cannot be seen, and is worn by women.

noun

1. (Britain, slang) Alternative form of berk

verb

1. (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To murder by suffocation.
2. (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To smother; to conceal, hush up, suppress.
3. (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang, historical) To murder for the same purpose as Burke, to kill in order to have a body to sell to anatomists, surgeons, etc.

noun

1. plural of busk

verb

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

adj

1. Alternative form of bosky

noun

1. Alternative form of kebab

noun

1. US spelling of kebab

Proper noun

1. name, a rare modern spelling variant of Caleb.

Proper noun

1. A city in Utah, USA, and county seat of Kane County.

noun

1. plural of kbar

noun

1. (Australia) A hand-held dish consisting of pieces of meat roasted on an upright skewer mixed with fresh vegetables and sauces and rolled up in a round piece of unleavened bread.
2. (Britain) A dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab.
3. (US) A shish kebab or any other food on a skewer.
4. (chemistry) The outward growing portions of a shish kebab structure.
5. (graphical user interface) menu icon of three vertical dots
6. (slang, offensive, ethnic slur) A Muslim, usually of southern European, Middle Eastern, or North African descent.
7. (slang, vulgar, UK) The vulva.
8. A restaurant that sells kebabs

verb

1. (transitive) To roast in the style of a kebab
2. (transitive, slang) To stab or skewer