HANGMAN SOLVER

adj

1. (comparable, phonetics) Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
2. (predicative) Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
3. At or near the rear.
4. In arrears; overdue.
5. Moving or operating backward.
6. Not current.
7. Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.

adv

1. (not comparable) In a reciprocal manner; in return.
2. (not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place.
3. (postpositive) Earlier, ago.
4. Away from someone or something; at a distance.
5. Away from the front or from an edge.
6. In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
7. In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
8. In a manner that impedes.
9. So as shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
10. So as to reverse direction and return.
11. To a later point in time. See also put back.
12. Towards, into or in the past.

noun

1. (figurative) The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
2. (figuratively) Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
3. (mining) The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
4. (nautical) The keel and keelson of a ship.
5. (obsolete) That part of the body that bears clothing. (Now used only in the phrase clothes on one's back.)
6. (printing) The inside margin of a page.
7. (slang, uncountable) Effort, usually physical.
8. (slang, uncountable) Large and attractive buttocks.
9. (sports) In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
10. (swimming) Clipping of backstroke.
11. A ferryboat.
12. A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
13. A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
14. A support or resource in reserve.
15. Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
16. Area behind, such as the backyard of a house.
17. That which is farthest away from the front.
18. The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
19. The edge of a book which is bound.
20. The part of something that goes last.
21. The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
22. The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
23. The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
24. The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
25. The spine and associated tissues.

postp

1. Before now; ago.

verb

1. (MLE, transitive) To draw from behind the back [+accusative = a knife etc.] (as also back out).
2. (Nigeria, transitive) To carry an infant on one's back.
3. (UK, of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
4. (intransitive) To go in the reverse direction.
5. (law, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
6. (nautical, of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
7. (nautical, of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
8. (nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
9. (transitive) To push or force backwards.
10. (transitive) To support.
11. (transitive, obsolete) To get upon the back of; to mount.
12. (transitive, obsolete) To place or seat upon the back.
13. To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
14. To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
15. To row backward with (oars).
16. To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.

noun

1. (Norfolk, Northern English dialect) A stream or small river.
2. A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, especially as a call or command.
3. A vat.
4. Obsolete form of beak.

verb

1. (archaic) To nod or motion with the head.

noun

1. A strong dark beer brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for spring consumption.

noun

1. (African-American Vernacular, dated, dance) Synonym of buck dance.
2. (Britain, obsolete) A fop or dandy.
3. (Scotland) The beech tree.
4. (South Africa, informal) A rand (currency unit).
5. (UK, dialect) The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.
6. (US) An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
7. (US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, informal) A dollar (one hundred cents).
8. (US, dated, derogatory) A black or Native American man.
9. (US, slang) One hundred.
10. (by extension in the US, in certain metaphors or phrases) Blame; responsibility; scapegoating; finger-pointing.
11. (by extension, Australia, South Africa, US, informal) Money.
12. (dated) An object of various types, placed on a table to indicate turn or status; such as a brass object, placed in rotation on a US Navy wardroom dining table to indicate which officer is to be served first, or an item passed around a poker table indicating the dealer or placed in the pot to remind the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.
13. (dated, slang) A kind of large marble in children's games.
14. (finance) One million dollars.
15. (informal, rare) A euro.
16. A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
17. A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting.
18. A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret and shad.
19. A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork.
20. A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
21. Clipping of buckshot.
22. Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
23. Synonym of mule (“type of cocktail with ginger ale etc.”)
24. The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.

verb

1. (chiefly Ireland, humorous or euphemistic) To fuck.
2. (electronics) To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage.
3. (forestry) To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
4. (intransitive) To bend; buckle.
5. (intransitive) To copulate, as bucks and does.
6. (intransitive, by extension) To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.
7. (intransitive, by extension) To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.
8. (intransitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt to dislodge or throw a rider or pack.
9. (mining) To break up or pulverize, as ores.
10. (riveting) To press a reinforcing device (bucking bar) against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb vibration and increase expansion.
11. (transitive, by extension) To overcome or shed (e.g., an impediment or expectation), in pursuit of a goal; to force a way through despite (an obstacle); to resist or proceed against.
12. (transitive, military) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists of tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
13. (transitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
14. To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.
15. To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.

noun

1. A discordant note.
2. A squawk.
3. An act of defecation.
4. Excrement.
5. Rubbish.

verb

1. (Australian slang) To laugh.
2. (US, slang) To kill.
3. (brass instrument technique) To incorrectly play a note by hitting a partial other than the one intended.
4. (intransitive) To defecate.
5. (of a bird) To squawk.
6. (transitive) To defecate (on); to shit.

noun

1. (pyrotechnics) A multi-shot fireworks assembly comprising several tubes, each with a fireworks effect, lit by a single fuse.
2. (slang) A buttock, especially one that is exceptionally plump.
3. (slang) A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake.
4. (slang) Money.
5. A block of any of various dense materials.
6. A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
7. A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
8. A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.
9. Used to describe the doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too.

verb

1. (UK, dialect, obsolete, intransitive) To cackle like a goose.
2. (intransitive) Of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard.
3. (transitive) Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.
4. (transitive) To form into a cake, or mass.

adj

1. Resembling cake in texture.

noun

1. A pointed projection on a horseshoe to prevent its slipping.
2. A spike on the sole of a boot to prevent slipping, particularly used in logging

verb

1. (possibly dated) Alternative spelling of caulk
2. To copy (a drawing) by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt stylus or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held.
3. To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper plate hard against the lower and so fill the crevice.

noun

1. (obsolete) A noxious or corroding worry.
2. (obsolete) The state of being filled with worry.

verb

1. (intransitive) To labor anxiously.
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To be filled with worry, solicitude, or troubles.
3. (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To bring worry, vexation, or anxiety.
4. Pronunciation spelling of caulk.
5. See cark it.

noun

1. (obsolete) A casket; a small box for jewels.
2. A large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks.
3. Obsolete form of casque (“visorless helmet”).

verb

1. To put into a cask.

noun

1. (mineralogy) An opaque, compact variety of barite, or heavy spar.

noun

1. (slang) Pronunciation spelling of cock (in the sense of penis).
2. Alternative form of cauk

noun

1. (nautical) the brass bearing in the sheave of a block
2. A wooden dowel.
3. Obsolete spelling of coke (coal fuel)

verb

1. To unite (timbers etc.) by means of tenons or dowels in the edges or face.

intj

1. (slang) Expression of annoyance.

name

1. (obsolete) A corruption of the word God, used in oaths.

noun

1. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, derogatory, slang) A stupid, obnoxious or contemptible person.
2. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, derogatory, slang, uncountable) Nonsense; rubbish; a fraud.
3. (Southern US, where it is now rare and dated; and African-American Vernacular, where it is still sometimes used) Vulva, vagina.
4. (colloquial, vulgar) The penis.
5. (curling) The circle at the end of the rink.
6. (dated, often humorous) A chief person; a leader or master, or (formerly, now obsolete) a leading thing.
7. (informal) Shuttlecock.
8. (slang, Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania) A man; a fellow, especially as a term of address.
9. A boastful tilt of one's head or hat.
10. A cock pigeon.
11. A male fish, especially a salmon or trout.
12. A rooster: a male gallinaceous bird, especially a male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus).
13. A small conical pile of hay.
14. A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.
15. A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.
16. Abbreviation of cock-boat, a type of small boat.
17. The bridge piece that affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.
18. The crow of a cock, especially the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.
19. The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism.
20. The indicator of a balance.
21. The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle.
22. The style or gnomon of a sundial.

verb

1. (Britain, transitive, slang) To copulate with; (by extension, as with fuck) to mess up, to damage, to destroy.
2. (intransitive) To be prepared to be triggered by having the cock lifted.
3. (intransitive, dated) To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing.
4. (intransitive, dated) To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation.
5. (transitive) To erect; to turn up.
6. (transitive) To form into piles.
7. (transitive) To turn or twist something upwards or to one side; to lift or tilt (e.g. headwear) boastfully.
8. (transitive, intransitive) To lift the cock of a firearm or crossbow; to prepare (a gun or crossbow) to be fired.
9. (transitive, obsolete) To make a nestle-cock of, to pamper or spoil (a child).

noun

1. (US, chiefly Southern US, informal) Alternative letter-case form of Coke (any soft drink, regardless of type).
2. (countable, informal) Alternative letter-case form of Coke (a serving of cola-based soft drink, especially Coca-Cola).
3. (informal, slang, uncountable) Cocaine.
4. (uncountable) Solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven; used principally as a fuel and in the production of steel and formerly as a domestic fuel.
5. (uncountable, informal) Alternative letter-case form of Coke (cola-based soft drink, especially Coca-Cola).

verb

1. (especially automotive, astronautics) To add deleterious carbon deposits as a byproduct of combustion.
2. (intransitive) To turn into coke.
3. (transitive) To produce coke from coal.

adj

1. Resembling or containing coke (coal residue).

noun

1. (US, dated) A hairstyle involving the chemical straightening and styling of kinky hair.
2. (slang) A nose, especially a large one.
3. Alternative spelling of conch
4. The shelf- or bracket-shaped fruiting body of a bracket fungus (also called a shelf fungus), i.e. a mushroom growing off a tree trunk.

verb

1. (US, dated) To chemically straighten tightly curled hair.
2. (colloquial, often with out) To become unconscious.
3. (colloquial, often with out) To fail or show signs of failing, cease operating, break down.
4. (slang) To hit, especially on the head.

noun

1. (cooking) A person who prepares food.
2. (cooking) The degree or quality of cookedness of food
3. (cooking) The head cook of a manor house
4. (slang) A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
5. (slang) One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
6. A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.

verb

1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) To throw.
2. (intransitive) To be cooked.
3. (intransitive, figuratively) To be uncomfortably hot.
4. (intransitive, jazz, slang) To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)
5. (intransitive, music, slang) To play music vigorously.
6. (obsolete, rare, intransitive) To make the noise of the cuckoo.
7. (slang) To execute by electric chair.
8. (transitive or intransitive) To prepare food for eating by heating it, often combining with other ingredients.
9. (transitive, slang) To hold on to a grenade briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
10. To concoct or prepare.
11. To tamper with or alter; to cook up.

adj

1. (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) Having the property of a head over heels rotation.

noun

1. (botany) The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water.
2. (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) An aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes heels over head, with the board overhead.
3. (uncountable) The bark of the cork oak, which is very light and porous and used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material.
4. A bottle stopper made from this or any other material.
5. An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.
6. The cork oak, Quercus suber.

verb

1. (fishing) To position one's drift net just outside of another person's net, thereby intercepting and catching all the fish that would have gone into that person's net.
2. (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) To perform such a maneuver.
3. (transitive) To blacken (as) with a burnt cork.
4. (transitive) To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.
5. (transitive, Australia) To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma.
6. (transitive, baseball) To tamper with (a bat) by drilling out part of the head and filling the cavity with cork or similar light, compressible material.
7. To fill with cork.
8. To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.

noun

1. (derogatory, slang) A weakling.
2. (derogatory, slang) One who meekly and submissively acts against their own interests, or those of their own race, gender, class, religion, etc.
3. (slang) A cuckold or (uncommon) cuckquean.

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To punish (someone) by putting them in a cucking stool.
2. (slang, transitive) To cuckold, to be sexually unfaithful towards.
3. (slang, transitive) To turn into a cuckold or cuckquean, to cheat with the partner of (someone).
4. (slang, transitive, derogatory) To fool and thus lower the status of, to exploit the trust or tolerance of (to one's own benefit and the other's disadvantage); to make into a cuck (one who acts against their own interests).
5. (slang, transitive, derogatory) To weaken or emasculate.

noun

1. (informal) A cucumber.

noun

1. A marine cod-like fish in the ling family Lotidae, Brosme brosme.

noun

1. (aviation) A main aeroplane surface, especially of a biplane or multiplane.
2. (card games) A pack or set of playing cards.
3. (card games, by extension) A set of cards owned by each individual player and from which they draw when playing.
4. (colloquial) The floor.
5. (journalism) A headline consisting of one or more actual lines of text.
6. (nautical) The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks.
7. (obsolete) A heap or store.
8. (slang) A folded paper used for distributing illicit drugs.
9. (theater) The stage.
10. A set of slides for a presentation.
11. Any raised flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop.
12. Short for tape deck.

verb

1. (card games) To cause a player to run out of cards to draw, usually making them lose the game.
2. (informal) To knock someone to the floor, especially with a single punch.
3. (transitive) To cover; to overspread.
4. (transitive, sometimes with out) To decorate (something).
5. (transitive, sometimes with out) To dress (someone) up, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance.
6. (uncommon) To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.

noun

1. (countable and uncountable, vulgar, slang) The penis.
2. (countable, Britain, US, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang, derogatory) A highly contemptible person; a jerk.
3. (countable, obsolete) A male person.
4. (countable, slang) A detective, esp. the one who works in police, a police officer.
5. (dated, US, slang) A detective.
6. (obsolete) A declaration.
7. (uncountable, US, Canada, vulgar, slang, uncommon) Absolutely nothing.
8. (uncountable, vulgar, slang) Sexual intercourse with a man.

num

1. (Cumbria) Ten, in Cumbrian sheep counting.

verb

1. (transitive, slang, vulgar) To mistreat or take advantage of somebody (often with around or up).
2. (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.

noun

1. (computing, graphical user interface) A toolbar that provides the user with a way of launching applications, and switching between running applications.
2. (electronics) A device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance such as a laptop computer (in this case, referred to as a docking station), or a mobile telephone, for providing the necessary electrical charge for its autonomy, or as a hardware extension for additional capabilities.
3. (nautical) A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port.
4. (obsolete) The buttocks or anus.
5. (theater) Short for scene-dock.
6. A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.
7. A leather case to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.
8. A section of a hotel or restaurant.
9. A structure attached to shore for loading and unloading vessels.
10. An act of docking; joining two things together.
11. Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially bitter dock (Rumex obtusifolius), and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.
12. Part of a courtroom where the accused sits.
13. The body of water between two piers.
14. The fleshy root of an animal's tail.
15. The part of the tail which remains after the tail has been docked.
16. The place of arrival and departure of a train in a railway station.

verb

1. (astronautics) To move a spaceship into its dock/berth under its own power.
2. (cooking) To pierce with holes, as pricking pastry or dough with a fork to prevent excessive rising in the oven.
3. (intransitive) To land at a harbour.
4. (intransitive, sex) To engage in the sexual practice of docking (where the tip of one participant's penis is inserted into the foreskin of the other participant).
5. (transitive) To cut off a section of an animal's tail, to practise a caudectomy.
6. (transitive) To cut off, bar, or destroy.
7. (transitive) To place (an electronic device) in its dock.
8. (transitive) To reduce (wages); to deduct from.
9. (transitive, computing) To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place.
10. To join two moving items.

noun

1. (Midlands) Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).
2. (UK, slang, obsolete) A faggot; a meatball made from offal.
3. (US) A cairn used to mark a trail.
4. (caving) A cave passage containing water with low, or no, airspace.
5. (cricket) A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (short for duck's egg, since the digit "0" is round like an egg.)
6. (finance, slang, dated) Synonym of lame duck (“one who cannot fulfil their contracts”)
7. (in the plural) Trousers made of such material.
8. (medicine) A long-necked medical urinal for men.
9. (slang) A playing card with the rank of two.
10. (uncountable) The flesh of a duck used as food.
11. A building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related.
12. A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games.
13. A term of endearment; pet; darling.
14. A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth.
15. An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.
16. One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve.
17. Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.

verb

1. (intransitive) To bow.
2. (intransitive) To enter a place for a short moment.
3. (intransitive) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.
4. (intransitive) To quickly lower the head or body, often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
5. (transitive) To evade doing something.
6. (transitive) To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
7. (transitive) To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
8. (transitive) To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.

noun

1. (UK dialectal) One of the four stomachs of a ruminating animal; rumen; paunch.

verb

1. (UK, Cockney, vulgar) Pronunciation spelling of fuck.

noun

1. (Scotland) The greater or larger part.
2. Effect, value; vigor.

verb

1. (Ireland, slang) To steal.
2. (euphemistic, chiefly Ireland) Alternative form of fuck

adv

1. (vulgar, colloquial) Used as an intensifier for the words "yes" and "no".

intj

1. (strongly vulgar) A semi-voluntary vocalization in place of a gasp.
2. (vulgar, colloquial) Expressing dismay or discontent.
3. (vulgar, colloquial) Expressing surprise.

noun

1. (vulgar, colloquial) A highly contemptible person.
2. (vulgar, colloquial) A sexual partner, especially a casual one.
3. (vulgar, colloquial) An act of sexual intercourse.
4. (vulgar, colloquial) The smallest amount of concern or consideration.

particle

1. (vulgar, slang, especially African-American Vernacular) Used as a shortened form of various common interrogative phrases.

verb

1. (Singapore, vulgar, military slang) To scold.
2. (colloquial, vulgar, intransitive) To be very good, to rule, go hard.
3. (colloquial, vulgar, transitive, Ireland, Britain, Scotland) To throw, to lob something. (angrily)
4. (vulgar, colloquial) To defraud, deface, or otherwise treat badly.
5. (vulgar, colloquial) To put in an extremely difficult or impossible situation.
6. (vulgar, colloquial) Used in a phrasal verb: fuck with (“to play with, to tinker”).
7. (vulgar, colloquial, intransitive) To have sexual intercourse; to copulate.
8. (vulgar, colloquial, often derogatory) Used to express great displeasure with, or contemptuous dismissal of, someone or something.
9. (vulgar, colloquial, transitive) To have sexual intercourse with.
10. (vulgar, colloquial, transitive) To insert one's penis, a dildo, or other object, into a person or a specified orifice or cleft sexually; to penetrate.
11. (vulgar, colloquial, usually followed by up) To break, to destroy.
12. (vulgar, transitive, comedy) To make a joke at one's expense; to make fun of in an embarrassing manner.

noun

1. (archaic, derogatory, poetic) Fool; idiot; imbecile.
2. Scorn; derision; contempt.

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) To jeer; to show contempt for.

noun

1. (slang) An unpleasant sticky substance; goo, gunk.
2. The hybrid offspring of a goose and a duck

noun

1. (UK, student politics, derogatory) A person who frequently canvasses for votes, either directly or by appearing to continuously act with the ulterior motive of furthering their political career.
2. (baseball) A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter, particularly a choppy, ungraceful one that misses the ball such as at a fastball.
3. (colloquial) A trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to increase productivity, efficiency, or ease.
4. (computing, slang) A computer programmer who makes quick but inelegant changes to computer code to solve problems or add features.
5. (computing, slang) A computer programmer, particularly a veteran or someone not immediately expected to be capable of programming.
6. (computing, slang) A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
7. (computing, slang) An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date; a workaround.
8. (computing, slang) An illegal attempt to gain access to a computer network.
9. (computing, slang) An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
10. (curling) The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
11. (derogatory) A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
12. (derogatory) One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
13. (derogatory) Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
14. (derogatory, authorship) An untalented writer.
15. (falconry) A board which the falcon's food is placed on; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
16. (figuratively) A try, an attempt.
17. (ice hockey) The act of striking an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
18. (informal) An improvised device or solution to a problem.
19. (military, slang) An airplane of poor quality or in poor condition.
20. (now chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney coach, now typically a taxicab.
21. (obsolete) A mattock or a miner's pickaxe.
22. (obsolete) A procuress.
23. (obsolete) A writer who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
24. (politics, slightly derogatory) A political agitator.
25. (slang) A taxicab (hackney cab) driver.
26. (slang, military) Time check, as for example upon synchronization of wristwatches.
27. (uncountable, slang, naval) Confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment.
28. A dry cough.
29. A food-rack for cattle.
30. A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
31. A grating in a mill race.
32. A hacking blow.
33. A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
34. A hearse.
35. A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired.
36. A kick on the shins in football of any type.
37. A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work.
38. A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
39. A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
40. A tool for chopping.

verb

1. (baseball) To swing at a pitched ball.
2. (computing) To accomplish a difficult programming task.
3. (computing) To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain.
4. (computing, slang, transitive) To work with something on an intimately technical level.
5. (dated) To make common or cliched; to vulgarise.
6. (equestrianism) To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
7. (falconry) To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
8. (ice hockey) To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
9. (ice hockey) To strike an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
10. (intransitive) To cough noisily.
11. (intransitive, video games) To cheat by using unauthorized modifications.
12. (obsolete) To live the life of a drudge or hack.
13. (soccer and rugby) To kick (a player) on the shins.
14. (transitive) To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
15. (transitive) To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
16. (transitive, colloquial, by extension) To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
17. (transitive, slang, computing) To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code.
18. (transitive, slang, computing, by extension) To gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
19. To drive a hackney cab.
20. To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
21. To play hackeysack.
22. To strike in a frantic movement.
23. To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
24. To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
25. To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.

intj

1. (euphemistic) Hell.

noun

1. (obsolete) A door, especially one partly of latticework.
2. (weaving) An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.
3. A bend or winding of a stream.
4. A latticework contrivance for catching fish.
5. A rack for cattle to feed at.
6. The bolt or latch of a door.

noun

1. (derogatory) An awkward, naive, clumsy and/or rude country person.

verb

1. To hiccup.

noun

1. (card games) The last card turned up in the game of faro.
2. A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region; often applied to all Rhenish wines.
3. Debt.
4. Installment purchase.
5. Meat from that part of a food animal.
6. Pawn, obligation as collateral for a loan.
7. Prison.
8. The tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped, such as a horse, pig or dog.

verb

1. (US) To bother; to pester; to annoy incessantly.
2. (transitive) To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.
3. (transitive, colloquial) To leave with a pawnbroker as security for a loan.
4. To cough while the vomit reflex is triggered; to gag.
5. To produce mucus from coughing or clearing one's throat.

noun

1. (Ultimate Frisbee) A long throw, generally at least half a field in length.
2. (dialect) A person's hip.
3. (skiing, snowboarding) A drop or jump off a cliff or cornice.

verb

1. (dated) To haggle in trading.
2. (intransitive, Ultimate Frisbee) To make a long throw with the frisbee; to start a point by making such a throw.
3. (mountain biking) To attempt a particularly big jump or drop, often haphazardly.
4. (mountain biking) To make a maneuver in a clumsy or poorly planned way.
5. (transitive, Ultimate Frisbee) To throw a frisbee a long distance.
6. (transitive, informal) To throw or chuck.
7. (transitive, whitewater kayaking) To paddle off a waterfall or to boof a big drop.
8. To throw one's body in the air, possibly in a way that is ungraceful or lacks skill.
9. To throw oneself off a large jump or drop.

adj

1. (informal) Excessively sentimental.
2. (informal) Unpleasantly sticky; yucky; disgusting.
3. (informal) Unwell or upset; in a bad state of mind or health.

adj

1. (Australia) Tired, disillusioned; fed up (with).

noun

1. (Canada, US, colloquial) A lumberjack.
2. (India, historical, slang) A sepoy.
3. (UK, regional, now rare, historical) A measure of liquid corresponding to a quarter of a pint.
4. (US) A jackrabbit.
5. (US) A torch or other light used in hunting to attract or dazzle game at night.
6. (apparently does not occur standalone for the genus per se) Plant of the genus Emex, also considered synonymous to Rumex, if not then containing two species lesser jack and little jack for Emex spinosa syn. Rumex spinosus, Australian English three-corner jack and prickly jack for Emex australis syn. Rumex hypogaeus.
7. (bowls) A small, typically white, ball used as the target ball in bowls; a jack-ball.
8. (card games, originally colloquial) The lowest court card in a deck of standard playing cards, ranking between the 10 and queen, with an image of a knave or pageboy on it.
9. (chiefly US) A male ass, especially when kept for breeding.
10. (chiefly capitalized) A name applied to a hypothetical or typical man.
11. (colloquial) A sailor.
12. (colloquial) Plant in the genus Arisaema, also known as Jack-in-the-pulpit, and capitalized Jack.
13. (colloquial) Spadix of a plant (also capitalized Jack).
14. (colloquial, euphemistic) Nothing, jack shit.
15. (countable, now chiefly US) A man, a fellow; a typical man; men in general.
16. (cricket, slang) The eleventh batsman to come to the crease in an innings.
17. (electronics) A switch for a jack plug, a jackknife switch; (more generally) a socket used to connect a device to a circuit, network etc.
18. (games) A small, six-pointed playing piece used in the game of jacks.
19. (mining, now rare) A wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting.
20. (nautical) A small ship's flag used as a signal or identifying device; a small flag flown at the bow of the vessel.
21. (nautical, now rare, historical) A jack crosstree.
22. (now historical, regional) A pitcher or other vessel for holding liquid, especially alcoholic drink; a black-jack.
23. (now rare) A manual laborer.
24. (obsolete) A grating device used to separate and guide the threads in a warping machine; a heck box.
25. (obsolete) A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves a carding machine, in the preparation of yarn.
26. (obsolete) A support for wood being sawn; a sawhorse or sawbuck.
27. (obsolete, slang) A fake coin designed to look like a sovereign.
28. (slang) A policeman or detective; (Australia) a military policeman.
29. (slang, Appalachians) A smooth often ovoid large gravel or small cobble in a natural water course.
30. (slang, baseball) A home run.
31. (slang, chiefly US) Money.
32. A coarse mediaeval coat of defence, especially one made of leather.
33. A device for turning a spit; a smokejack or roasting jack.
34. A device used to hold a boot by the heel, to assist in removing the boot.
35. A large California rockfish, the bocaccio, Sebastes paucispinis.
36. A mechanical device used to raise and (temporarily) support a heavy object, now especially to lift one side of a motor vehicle when (e.g.) changing a tyre.
37. A pike, especially when young.
38. Any of the marine fish in the family Carangidae.
39. Any of various levers for raising or lowering the sinkers which push the loops down on the needles in a knitting machine or stocking frame.
40. Each of a series of blocks in a harpsichord or the earlier virginal, communicating the action of the key to the quill; sometime also, a hopper in a modern piano.
41. Mangifera caesia, related to the mango tree.
42. The edible fruit of the Asian tree (Artocarpus heterophyllus); also the tree itself.
43. The related tree Mangifera caesia.

verb

1. (colloquial, vulgar) To jack off, to masturbate.
2. (intransitive) To dance by moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion.
3. (transitive) To physically raise using a jack.
4. (transitive) To raise or increase.
5. (transitive, colloquial) To steal something, typically an automobile.
6. (transitive, slang, baseball) To hit (the ball) hard; especially, to hit (the ball) out of the field, producing a home run.
7. To increase the potency of an alcoholic beverage similarly to distillation by chilling it to below the freezing point of water, removing the water ice crystals that form, and leaving the still-liquid alcoholic portion.

noun

1. (Britain, slang, derogatory) A Scotsman.
2. (US, dated computing slang, in combination) A specialist computer programmer.
3. (US, slang) A young male athlete (through college age).
4. (US, slang, derogatory) An enthusiastic athlete or sports fan, especially one with few other interests, often stereotyped as slow-witted person of large size and great physical strength.
5. (informal) A jockey.
6. (slang) A disc jockey.
7. (slang, archaic) A common man.
8. (slang, rare, dated) The penis.
9. An athletic supporter worn by men to support the genitals especially during sports.

verb

1. (slang) to humiliate
2. (slang) to masturbate
3. (slang) to steal

noun

1. Abbreviation of kilocalorie.

noun

1. (Isle of Man) animal dung
2. (dialectal) The cow parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris).

verb

1. (intransitive) To heave or retch as if to vomit.

noun

1. (Internet) The removal of a person from an online activity.
2. (colloquial) Something that tickles the fancy; something fun or amusing.
3. (figuratively) Any bucking motion of an object that lacks legs or feet.
4. (film, television) Synonym of kicker (“backlight positioned at an angle”)
5. (informal) A pocket.
6. (soccer) A pass played by kicking with the foot.
7. (soccer) The distance traveled by kicking the ball.
8. (uncountable and countable) Piquancy.
9. A hit or strike with the leg, foot or knee.
10. A stimulation provided by an intoxicating substance.
11. An increase in speed in the final part of a running race.
12. The action of swinging a foot or leg.
13. The recoil of a gun.

verb

1. (chess, transitive) To attack (a piece) in order to force it to move.
2. (computing, transitive) To reset (a watchdog timer).
3. (intransitive) To make a sharp jerking movement of the leg, as to strike something.
4. (intransitive) To show opposition or resistance.
5. (intransitive, Internet) To forcibly remove a participant from an online activity.
6. (intransitive, cycling) To accelerate quickly with a few pedal strokes in an effort to break away from other riders.
7. (of a firearm) To recoil; to push by recoiling.
8. (printing, historical) To work a press by impact of the foot on a treadle.
9. (reflexive, informal) To reproach oneself for making a mistake or missing an opportunity.
10. (slang, intransitive) To be emphatically excellent.
11. (transitive) To direct to a particular place by a blow with the foot or leg.
12. (transitive) To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg.
13. (transitive, slang) To overcome (a bothersome or difficult issue or obstacle); to free oneself of (a problem).
14. (with "off" or "out") To eject summarily.
15. To move or push suddenly and violently.

Noun

1. thousand lines of code
   Here n is an estimate of how many thousands of lines of code will be inspected. – Glen W. Russell, Experience with Inspection in Ultralarge-Scale Developments (Bell-Northern Research, 1991)

Noun

1. of: a list of phrases obtained by searching a corpus, each containing the node (or word of interest) and its surrounding cotext.

noun

1. (obsolete) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.
2. A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want.
3. Archaic form of lakh.

verb

1. (intransitive) To be short (of or for something).
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To be in want.
3. (obsolete) To see the deficiency in (someone or something); to find fault with, to malign, reproach.
4. (transitive, stative) To be without, to need, to require.

noun

1. (colloquial) A small amount; a whit.
2. (colloquial) A stroke or blow.
3. (informal) A rate of speed. (Always qualified by good, fair, or a similar adjective.)
4. (music) A short motif.
5. (slang) An act of cunnilingus.
6. A place where animals lick minerals from the ground.
7. A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue.
8. A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream.
9. An instance of earning money fast, usually by illegal means, thus a heist, drug deal etc.; mostly used in phrasal verbs: hit a lick, hit licks
10. The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.
11. The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.

verb

1. (colloquial) To beat with repeated blows.
2. (colloquial) To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight.
3. (colloquial) To do anything partially.
4. (colloquial) To overcome.
5. (of flame, waves etc.) To lap.
6. (transitive) To lap; to take in with the tongue.
7. (transitive) To stroke with the tongue.

noun

1. (Scotland, law, historical) A quantity of meal, the perquisite of a mill-servant.
2. (computing, by extension) A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.
3. (firearms) The firing mechanism.
4. (rugby) A player in the scrum behind the front row, usually the tallest members of the team.
5. A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
6. A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
7. A place impossible to get out of, as by a lock.
8. A segment of a canal or other waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels.
9. A small quantity of straw etc.
10. A tuft or length of hair, wool, etc.
11. Complete control over a situation.
12. Something sure to be a success.
13. Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.

verb

1. (Internet, transitive) To modify (a thread) so that users cannot make new posts in it.
2. (Internet, transitive, Wikimedia jargon) To prevent a page from being edited by other users.
3. (intransitive) To be capable of becoming fastened in place.
4. (intransitive) To become fastened in place.
5. (intransitive, break dancing) To freeze one's body or a part thereof in place.
6. (intransitive, rugby) To play in the position of lock.
7. (transitive) To fasten with a lock.
8. (transitive) To intertwine or dovetail.
9. To furnish (a canal) with locks.
10. To raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
11. To seize (e.g. the sword arm of an antagonist) by turning one's left arm around it, to disarm them.

noun

1. (video games, computing) The results of a random number generator.
2. A superstitious feeling that brings fortune or success.
3. Something that happens to someone by chance, a chance occurrence, especially a favourable one.
4. Success.

verb

1. (intransitive, informal) To find something through good fortune; used with into, on, onto or upon.

noun

1. (Britain) A raincoat or mackintosh.
2. (slang) An individual skilled in the art of seduction using verbal skills.
3. An element of a ship's superstructure which places the function of a ship's mast on its exhaust stack, adding the skeletal supporting structure to the smokestack to support the mast's complement of functions.

verb

1. (slang) To act as pimp; to pander.
2. (slang) To seduce or flirt with.

noun

1. (Scotland) Alternative form of make (“halfpenny”)

adj

1. (slang) Easy.

noun

1. (offensive slang) A Catholic, particularly of Irish descent.
2. (offensive slang) an Irishman

adj

1. Imitation, not genuine; fake.

noun

1. (software engineering) A mockup or prototype; particularly, ellipsis of mock object., as used in unit testing.
2. A practice exam set by an educating institution to prepare students for an important exam.
3. An imitation, usually of lesser quality.
4. Mockery, the act of mocking.

verb

1. (rare) To create an artistic representation of.
2. (software engineering, transitive) To create a mockup or prototype of.
3. To make fun of, especially by mimicking; to taunt.
4. To mimic, to simulate.
5. To tantalise, and disappoint the hopes of.

noun

1. (Scotland, slang) Heroin.
2. (obsolete, derogatory) Money.
3. (poker) The pile of discarded cards.
4. (slang) Semen.
5. Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.
6. Grub, slop, swill
7. Slimy mud, sludge.
8. Soft (or slimy) manure.

verb

1. (Australia, informal) To vomit.
2. (poker, colloquial) To pass, to fold without showing one's cards, often done when a better hand has already been revealed.
3. To do a dirty job.
4. To manure with muck.
5. To shovel muck.

noun

1. (anatomy) The part of the body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals.
2. (architecture) The gorgerin of a capital.
3. (botany) The slender tubelike extension atop an archegonium, through which the sperm swim to reach the egg.
4. (engineering) A reduction in size near the end of an object, formed by a groove around it.
5. (figurative) A person's life.
6. (firearms) The small part of a gun between the chase and the swell of the muzzle.
7. (folklore) A shapeshifting water spirit in Germanic mythology and folklore; a nix.
8. (geology) A volcanic plug, solidified lava filling the vent of an extinct volcano.
9. (informal, MLE, slang) A falsehood; a lie.
10. (music) The extension of any stringed instrument on which a fingerboard is mounted
11. A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts.
12. The constriction between the root and crown of a tooth.
13. The corresponding part in some other anatomical contexts.
14. The part of a shirt, dress etc., which fits a person's neck.
15. The tapered part of a bottle toward the opening.

verb

1. (chiefly US) To make love; to intently kiss or cuddle; to canoodle.
2. To decrease in diameter.
3. To drink rapidly.
4. To hang by the neck; strangle; kill, eliminate.

noun

1. (Britain, New Zealand, colloquial) Often in the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition, state.
2. (Britain, law enforcement, slang) A police station or prison.
3. (Internet) Clipping of nickname.
4. (archaic) A nix or nixie (“water spirit”).
5. (cricket) A small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch.
6. (genetics) One of the single-stranded DNA segments produced during nick translation.
7. (now rare) A particular place or point considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.
8. (printing, dated) A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution.
9. (real tennis, squash, racquetball) The point where the wall of the court meets the floor.

verb

1. (transitive) To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.
2. (transitive) To make ragged or uneven, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to deface, to mar.
3. (transitive, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To steal.
4. (transitive, Britain, law enforcement, slang) To arrest.
5. (transitive, cricket) To hit the ball with the edge of the bat and produce a fine deflection.
6. (transitive, gaming) To throw or turn up (a number when playing dice); to hit upon.
7. (transitive, mining) To make a cut at the side of the face.
8. (transitive, obsolete) To fit into or suit, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.
9. (transitive, obsolete) To give or call (someone) by a nickname; to style.
10. (transitive, rare) To make a crosscut or cuts on the underside of (the tail of a horse, in order to make the animal carry it higher).
11. (transitive, sometimes figurative) To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.

noun

1. (archery) The notch at the rear of an arrow that fits on the bowstring.
2. (nautical) The upper fore corner of a boom sail or trysail.
3. Either of the two grooves in a bow that hold the bowstring.
4. Misspelling of knock.

verb

1. (transitive) To cut a nock in (usually in an arrow's base or the tips of a bow).
2. (transitive) To fit an arrow against the bowstring of a bow or crossbow. (See also notch (verb).)

noun

1. (medicine) An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.
2. (roller derby) The largest group of blockers from both teams skating in close proximity.
3. (rugby) The forwards in a rugby team (eight in Rugby Union, six in Rugby League) who with the opposing pack constitute the scrum.
4. (slang) A loose, lewd, or worthless person.
5. (snooker, pool) A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
6. A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back, but also a load for an animal, a bale.
7. A bundle of sheet iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
8. A flock of knots.
9. A full set of playing cards
10. A group of Cub Scouts.
11. A group of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
12. A group of people associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.
13. A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
14. A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack
15. A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
16. A shook of cask staves.
17. A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together.
18. The assortment of playing cards used in a particular game.

verb

1. (intransitive) To depart in haste; – generally with off or away.
2. (intransitive) To form a compact mass, especially in order for transportation.
3. (intransitive) To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.
4. (intransitive) To put together for morally wrong purposes; to join in cahoots.
5. (intransitive, LGBT, of a drag king, trans man, etc.) To wear an object, such as a prosthetic penis, inside one’s trousers to appear more male or masculine.
6. (intransitive, of animals) To gather together in flocks, herds, schools or similar groups of animals.
7. (intransitive, rugby, of the forwards in a rugby team) To play together cohesively, specially with reference to their technique in the scrum.
8. (transitive) To bring together or make up unfairly, in order to secure a certain result.
9. (transitive) To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; especially, to send away peremptorily or suddenly; – sometimes with off. See pack off.
10. (transitive) To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.
11. (transitive) To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into.
12. (transitive) To load with a pack
13. (transitive) To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack
14. (transitive) To make impervious, such as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without allowing air, water, or steam inside.
15. (transitive) To wrap in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings.
16. (transitive, US, chiefly Western US) To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (on the backs of men or animals).
17. (transitive, card games) To sort and arrange (the cards) in the pack to give oneself an unfair advantage
18. (transitive, figurative) to load; to encumber.
19. (transitive, historical) To combine (telegraph messages) in order to send them more cheaply as a single transmission.
20. (transitive, slang) To carry weapons, especially firearms, on one's person.
21. (transitive, sports, slang) To block a shot, especially in basketball.

noun

1. (UK, slang, obsolete) Food.
2. A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
3. A small kiss.
4. An act of striking with a beak.
5. Discoloration caused by fungus growth or insects.
6. Misspelling of pec.
7. One quarter of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts.

verb

1. (rare) To type in general.
2. (regional) To throw.
3. (transitive) To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument.
4. (transitive, intransitive) To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird).
5. To do something in small, intermittent pieces.
6. To kiss briefly.
7. To lurch forward; especially, of a horse, to stumble after hitting the ground with the toe instead of the flat of the foot.
8. To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up.
9. To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick movements.
10. To type by searching for each key individually.

noun

1. (American football) An interception.
2. (Australia) Pasture; feed, for animals.
3. (art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
4. (baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
5. (baseball) A pickoff.
6. (basketball) A screen.
7. (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
8. (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
9. (nautical, slang) An anchor.
10. (obsolete) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
11. (printing, dated) A particle of ink or paper embedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face, and causing a spot on a printed sheet.
12. (weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.
13. A choice; ability to choose.
14. A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
15. A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
16. A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
17. A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
18. That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.

verb

1. (American football, informal) To intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.
2. (basketball) To screen.
3. (cricket) To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.
4. (dated) To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin.
5. (music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
6. (obsolete) To throw; to pitch.
7. (transitive) To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
8. (transitive, intransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
9. To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
10. To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
11. To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
12. To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
13. To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
14. To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
15. To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
16. To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
17. To steal; to pilfer.
18. To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.

noun

1. A pus-filled swelling on the surface on the skin caused by an eruptive disease.
2. Any pit, especially one formed as a scar

verb

1. To scar or mark with pits

noun

1. (Ireland, rural) billy goat
2. (chiefly Canada) An object shaped like a puck.
3. (computing) A pointing device with a crosshair.
4. (hurling, camogie) A penalty shot.
5. (ice hockey) A hard rubber disc; any other flat disc meant to be hit across a flat surface in a game.
6. (now rare) A mischievous or hostile spirit.
7. (trampoline, gymnastics) A body position between the pike and tuck positions, with knees slightly bent and folded in; open tuck.

verb

1. (chiefly Ireland) To hit, strike.

noun

1. (Britain, slang) A thousand pounds (£1,000), especially if proceeds of crime
2. (algebra) A set with a distributive binary operation whose result is unique.
3. (billiards, snooker) A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
4. (climbing, caving) A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
5. (climbing, slang) A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
6. (historical) A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
7. (mechanical engineering) A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.
8. (mechanical engineering, rail transport) A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.
9. (nautical) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
10. (nautical, by extension, slang, uncountable) Sleep.
11. (nautical, slang) A bunk.
12. (obsolete) A wreck; destruction.
13. (obsolete) A young rabbit, or its skin.
14. (slang, vulgar) A woman's breasts.
15. A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
16. A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
17. A distaff.
18. A fast amble.
19. A grate on which bacon is laid.
20. A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other
21. A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
22. Alternative form of arak
23. Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
24. Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.

verb

1. (billiards, snooker, pool) To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
2. (brewing) To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
3. (figurative) To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
4. (firearms) To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
5. (firearms) To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
6. (mining) To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
7. (nautical) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
8. (of a horse) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
9. (slang, transitive) To strike in the testicles.
10. (structural engineering) To tend to shear a structure (that is, force it to bend, lean, or move in different directions at different points).
11. To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
12. To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
13. To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
14. To place in or hang on a rack.
15. To torture (someone) on the rack.

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To think.
2. (transitive or intransitive, archaic) To make account of; to care for; to heed, regard, consider.
3. (transitive or intransitive, archaic, dialectal) To concern, to be important or earnest.

noun

1. (US) A stack of wood, especially cut to a regular length; also used as a measure of wood, typically four by eight feet.
2. (military, derogatory and demeaning) A brand new (naive) boot camp inductee.
3. Straw, hay etc. stored in a stack for winter fodder, commonly protected with thatch.

verb

1. To heap up (hay, etc.) in ricks.
2. To slightly sprain or strain the neck, back, ankle etc.

noun

1. (Britain, uncountable) A type of confectionery made from sugar in the shape of a stick, traditionally having some text running through its length.
2. (CB radio slang) A crystal used to control the radio frequency.
3. (South Africa, slang, derogatory) An Afrikaner.
4. (US poker slang) An extremely conservative player who is willing to play only the very strongest hands.
5. (US, baseball, slang) A mistake.
6. (US, basketball, slang) A basketball.
7. (US, slang) A crystallized lump of crack cocaine.
8. (US, slang) An unintelligent person, especially one who repeats mistakes.
9. (chiefly British) A boulder or large stone; or (US, Canada) a smaller stone; a pebble.
10. (countable) Distaff.
11. (curling) Synonym of stone.
12. (figuratively) Something that is strong, stable, and dependable; a person who provides security or support to another.
13. (geology) Any natural material with a distinctive composition of minerals.
14. (informal, cricket) A cricket ball, especially a new one that has not been softened by use
15. (rock paper scissors) A closed hand (a handshape resembling a rock), that beats scissors and loses to paper. It beats lizard and loses to Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
16. (slang) A precious stone or gem, especially a diamond.
17. (uncountable) The flax or wool on a distaff.
18. (uncountable) The naturally occurring aggregate of solid mineral matter that constitutes a significant part of the earth's crust.
19. A large hill or island having no vegetation.
20. A lump or cube of ice.
21. A mass of stone projecting out of the ground or water.
22. A style of music characterized by basic drum-beat, generally 4/4 riffs, based on (usually electric) guitar, bass guitar, drums, and vocals.
23. An act of rocking; a rocking motion; a sway.
24. Archaic form of roc (mythical bird)
25. The huss or rock salmon.
26. The striped bass.

verb

1. (intransitive) To do well or to be operating at high efficiency.
2. (intransitive) To play, perform, or enjoy rock music, especially with a lot of skill or energy.
3. (intransitive) To sway one's body as a stim.
4. (intransitive) To sway or tilt violently back and forth.
5. (intransitive, slang) To be very favourable or skilful; excel; be fantastic.
6. (intransitive, stative) to be cool.
7. (slang, transitive, euphemistic) to make love to or have sex with.
8. (transitive and intransitive) To move gently back and forth.
9. (transitive and intransitive, of ore etc.) To be washed and panned in a cradle or in a rocker.
10. (transitive) To cause to shake or sway violently.
11. (transitive) To disturb the emotional equilibrium of; to distress; to greatly impact (most often positively).
12. (transitive) To do something with excitement yet skillfully.
13. (transitive) To thrill or excite, especially with rock music.
14. (transitive) To wear (a piece of clothing, outfit etc.) successfully or with style; to carry off (a particular look, style).

noun

1. (colloquial) An argument or fight.
2. (now rare) Either of a ruckman or a ruck rover, but not a rover.
3. (rugby union) The situation formed when a player carrying the ball is brought to the ground and one or more members of each side are engaged above the ball, trying to win possession of it; a loose scrum.
4. (slang, especially military) A rucksack; a large backpack.
5. A contest in games in which the ball is thrown or bounced in the air and two players from opposing teams attempt to give their team an advantage, typically by tapping the ball to a teammate.
6. A crease, a wrinkle, a pucker, as on fabric.
7. A player who competes in said contests; a ruckman or ruckwoman.
8. A small heifer.
9. A throng or crowd of people or things; a mass, a pack.
10. Any one of a ruckman, a ruck rover or a rover; a follower.
11. Obsolete form of roc.
12. The common mass of people or things; the ordinary ranks.

verb

1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) To cower or huddle together; to squat; to sit, as a hen on eggs.
2. (intransitive) To become folded.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To act as a ruck in a stoppage in Australian rules football.
4. (transitive) To crease or fold.
5. (transitive, rugby union) To contest the possession of the ball in a ruck.
6. To carry a backpack while hiking or marching.

noun

1. (American football) A successful tackle of the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage. See verb sense⁴ below.
2. (baseball) One of the square bases anchored at first base, second base, or third base.
3. (colloquial, US) Bed (either literally or figuratively); usually as hit the sack or in the sack. See also sack out.
4. (dated) (also sacque) A kind of loose-fitting gown or dress with sleeves which hangs from the shoulders, such as a gown with a Watteau back or sack-back, fashionable in the late 17th to 18th century; or, formerly, a loose-fitting hip-length jacket, cloak or cape.
5. (dated) A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.
6. (dated) A variety of light-colored dry wine from Spain or the Canary Islands; also, any strong white wine from southern Europe; sherry.
7. (informal) Dismissal from employment, or discharge from a position, usually as give (someone) the sack or get the sack. See verb sense⁵ below.
8. (uncountable) Loot or booty obtained by pillage.
9. (uncountable) The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.
10. (vulgar, slang) The scrotum.
11. A bag; especially a large bag of strong, coarse material for storage and handling of various commodities, such as potatoes, coal, coffee; or, a bag with handles used at a supermarket, a grocery sack; or, a small bag for small items, a satchel.
12. Dated form of sac (“pouch in a plant or animal”).
13. The amount a sack holds; also, an archaic or historical measure of varying capacity, depending on commodity type and according to local usage; an old English measure of weight, usually of wool, equal to 13 stone (182 pounds), or in other sources, 26 stone (364 pounds).

verb

1. (American football) To tackle the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage, especially before he is able to throw a pass.
2. (informal, transitive) To discharge from a job or position; to fire.
3. Alternative spelling of sac (“sacrifice”)
4. To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
5. To plunder or pillage, especially after capture; to obtain spoils of war from.
6. To put in a sack or sacks.

adj

1. (obsolete) barren; unprofitable

adj

1. (agriculture) Failing to sustain adequate harvests of crop, usually specified.
2. (colloquial) In bad taste.
3. (colloquial) Mentally unstable, disturbed.
4. (less common in the UK) In poor health; ill.
5. (slang) Very good, excellent, awesome, badass.
6. Having an urge to vomit.
7. In poor condition.
8. Tired of or annoyed by something.

noun

1. (Britain, Australia, colloquial) Vomit.
2. (Britain, colloquial) (especially in the phrases on the sick and on long-term sick) Any of various current or former benefits or allowances paid by the Government to support the sick, disabled or incapacitated.

verb

1. (colloquial) To vomit.
2. (obsolete except in dialect, intransitive) To fall sick; to sicken.
3. (rare) Alternative spelling of sic

adj

1. (slang, dated) Extremely successful.

intj

1. The sound of a punch or powerful blow.

noun

1. (Internet slang) A sock puppet.
2. (aviation, informal) Ellipsis of windsock..
3. (computing, networking) Abbreviation of socket.
4. (firearms, informal) Ellipsis of gun sock..
5. (slang) A violent blow; a punch.
6. A cat's or dog's lower leg that is a different color (usually white) from the color pattern on the rest of the animal.
7. A knitted or woven covering for the foot.
8. A ploughshare.
9. A shoe worn by Greco-Roman comedy actors.

verb

1. (slang, transitive) To hit or strike violently; to deliver a blow to.
2. (slang, transitive) To throw.

noun

1. (Canada) A weak, self-pitying person; a person who refuses to go along with others, especially out of spite; a crybaby or sore loser.
2. (slang, dated) A short drink, especially a dram of spirits.
3. (slang, uncountable, sometimes considered vulgar) Badness or mediocrity.
4. (uncount) The ability to suck; suction.
5. (uncountable) Milk drawn from the breast.
6. (vulgar) An act of fellatio.
7. A part of a river towards which strong currents converge making navigation difficult.
8. A sycophant, especially a child.
9. An indrawing of gas or liquid caused by suction.
10. An instance of drawing something into one's mouth by inhaling.

verb

1. (chiefly Canada, US, intransitive, stative, slang, sometimes considered vulgar) To be inferior or objectionable: a general term of disparagement, sometimes used with at to indicate a particular area of deficiency.
2. (intransitive) To perform such an action; to feed from a breast or teat.
3. (transitive) To extract, draw in (a substance) from or out of something.
4. (transitive) To pull (something) in a given direction, especially without direct contact.
5. (transitive) To put the mouth or lips to (a breast, a mother etc.) to draw in milk.
6. (transitive) To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast).
7. (transitive) To work the lips and tongue on (an object) to extract moisture or nourishment; to absorb (something) in the mouth.
8. (transitive, archaic) To inhale (air), to draw (breath).
9. (transitive, slang, vulgar) To perform fellatio.

noun

1. (colloquial) That which is tacky; something cheap and gaudy.
2. (figurative) A direction or course of action, especially a new one.
3. (law, Scotland and Northern England) A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease.
4. (manufacturing, construction, chemistry) The stickiness of a compound, related to its cohesive and adhesive properties.
5. (nautical) A course or heading that enables a sailing vessel to head upwind.
6. (nautical) A rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners of the courses when the vessel is close-hauled; also, a rope employed to pull the lower corner of a studding sail to the boom.
7. (nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between these maneuvers when working to windward; a board.
8. (nautical) The lower corner on the leading edge of a sail relative to the direction of the wind.
9. (nautical) The maneuver by which a sailing vessel turns its bow through the wind so that the wind changes from one side to the other.
10. (obsolete) A peculiar flavour or taint.
11. (obsolete) Confidence; reliance.
12. (sewing) A loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth.
13. A small nail with a flat head.
14. A stain; a tache.
15. A thumbtack.
16. Any of the various equipment and accessories worn by horses in the course of their use as domesticated animals.
17. Food generally; fare, especially of the bread kind.
18. That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix.

verb

1. (nautical) To maneuver a sailing vessel so that its bow turns through the wind, i.e. the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other.
2. To add something as an extra item.
3. To nail with a tack (small nail with a flat head).
4. To place the tack on a horse; often paired with "up".
5. To sew/stitch with a tack (loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth).
6. to tack (something) onto (something)

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Ireland) A mark (✓) made to indicate agreement, correctness or acknowledgement.
2. (UK, colloquial) Credit, trust.
3. (birdwatching) A bird seen (or heard) by a birdwatcher, for the first time that day, year, trip, etc., and thus added to a list of observed birds.
4. (colloquial) A short period of time, particularly a second.
5. (computing) A jiffy (unit of time defined by basic timer frequency).
6. (obsolete, place names) A goat.
7. (ornithology) The whinchat.
8. (uncountable) Ticking.
9. (video games) A periodic increment of damage or healing caused by an ongoing status effect.
10. A mark on any scale of measurement; a unit of measurement.
11. A relatively quiet but sharp sound generally made repeatedly by moving machinery.
12. A sheet that wraps around a mattress; the cover of a mattress, containing the filling.
13. A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida.

verb

1. (birdwatching, transitive) To add (a bird) to a list of birds that have been seen (or heard).
2. (informal, intransitive) To work or operate, especially mechanically.
3. (intransitive) To go on trust, or credit.
4. (transitive) To give tick; to trust.
5. To make a clicking noise similar to the movement of the hands in an analog clock.
6. To make a tick or checkmark.
7. To strike gently; to pat.

noun

1. (used in conjunction with tick) A clicking sound similar to one made by the hands of a clock.

verb

1. To produce such a sound.

noun

1. (Britain, dated, school slang, India) Food, especially snack food.
2. (archaic) A rapier, a sword.
3. (diving) A curled position, with the shins held towards the body.
4. (medicine, surgery) A plastic surgery technique to remove excess skin.
5. (music, piano, when playing scales on piano keys) The act of keeping the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over it to continue playing keys that are outside the thumb.
6. (nautical) The afterpart of a ship, immediately under the stern or counter, where the ends of the bottom planks are collected and terminate by the tuck-rail.
7. (sewing) A fold in fabric that has been stitched in place from end to end, as to reduce the overall dimension of the fabric piece.
8. A curled position.
9. An act of tucking; a pleat or fold.
10. The beat of a drum.

verb

1. (LGBT, of a drag queen, trans woman, etc.) To conceal one’s penis and testicles, as with a gaff or by fastening them down with adhesive tape.
2. (aviation) Ellipsis of Mach tuck.
3. (ergative) To fit neatly.
4. (intransitive, often with "in" or "into") To eat; to consume.
5. (transitive) To pull or gather up (an item of fabric).
6. (transitive) To push into a snug position; to place somewhere safe or somewhat hidden.
7. (when playing scales on piano keys) To keep the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over it to continue playing keys that are outside the thumb.
8. To curl into a ball; to fold up and hold one's legs.
9. To full, as cloth.
10. To sew folds; to make a tuck or tucks in.

adj

1. (originally African-American Vernacular, slang) Annoyingly or disappointingly bad, in various senses; lousy, cringy, uncool, messed up.

noun

1. (UK, Liverpudlian) A friendly term of address.
2. (dated, disco-era drug slang) PCP, phencyclidine (as also whack).
3. An eccentric; an oddball; a weirdo.

adj

1. (Britain, dialect, derogatory, chiefly Yorkshire) Alive; lively; full of life; active; bustling; nimble; quick.
2. (Britain, dialect, derogatory, chiefly Yorkshire, of inanimate objects) resistant to being put to use, stiff, stubborn (as for example a rope or a screw).

noun

1. (Britain, dialect, chiefly East Anglia and Essex) A farm, especially a dairy farm.
2. (Britain, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire) A maggot.
3. (Britain, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire) The growing part of a plant nearest to the roots.
4. (Britain, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire, horticulture) (Usually plural) The parts of weed roots that remain viable in the ground after inadequate digging prior to cultivation.
5. (Britain, obsolete, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire) Liveliness; life.
6. (curling) A narrow opening in the field, flanked by other players' stones.
7. (curling) A shot where the played stone touches a stationary stone just enough that the played stone changes direction.
8. (now dialectal) A corner of the mouth or eye.
9. (slang, euphemistic) The penis.
10. A bundle, twist, braid, or woven strip of cord, fabric, fibre, or other porous material in a candle, oil lamp, kerosene heater, or the like, that draws up liquid fuel, such as melted tallow, wax, or the oil, delivering it to the base of the flame for conversion to gases and burning; any other length of material burned for illumination in small successive portions.
11. Any piece of porous material that conveys liquid by capillary action, such as a strip of gauze placed in a wound to serve as a drain.

verb

1. (curling) To strike (a stone) obliquely; to strike (a stationary stone) just enough that the played stone changes direction.
2. (intransitive, of a liquid) To traverse (i.e. be conveyed by capillary action) through a wick or other porous material, as water through a sponge. Usually followed by through.
3. (transitive) To convey or draw off (liquid) by capillary action.

noun

1. (England, dialectal, possibly obsolete) An oak.
2. (UK, thieves slang, obsolete) A watch (timepiece).
3. Alternative form of yak (“chatter; talk”)

verb

1. Alternative form of yak (“talk; vomit”)

noun

1. A laugh, especially a loud or hearty one.

verb

1. To laugh, especially loudly or uproariously

intj

1. Uttered to indicate disgust usually toward an objectionable taste or odour.

noun

1. (uncountable) Something disgusting.
2. The sound made by a whole-hearted laugh.

verb

1. (euphemistic) fuck.
2. (often followed by "up") To laugh or joke.
3. To say "yuck"; to express disgust.
4. To vomit or gag;
5. To yank or grab.

noun

1. (Australia) A six-month or six-year prison sentence.
2. (Australia) Sixpence.
3. (Australia, rare) Five cents.