batsman | (noun) (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting | Synonyms: batter, hitter, slugger |
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beats | (noun) a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop) | Synonyms: beat generation, beatniks |
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boatswain | (noun) a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen | Synonyms: bo's'n, bo'sun, bos'n, bosun |
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catsup | (noun) thick spicy sauce made from tomatoes | Synonyms: cetchup, ketchup, tomato ketchup |
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cleats | (noun) shoes with leather or metal projections on the soles | - |
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eats | (noun) informal terms for a meal | Synonyms: chow, chuck, grub |
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fatso | (noun) a rotund individual | Synonyms: butterball, fat person, fatty, roly-poly |
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flats | (noun) footwear (shoes or slippers) with no heel (or a very low heel) | - |
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goatsbeard | (noun) weedy European annual with yellow flowers; naturalized in United States | Synonyms: meadow salsify, shepherd's clock, Tragopogon pratensis |
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goatsfoot | (noun) short-stemmed South African plant with bluish flowers | Synonyms: goat's foot, Oxalis caprina |
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goatskin | (noun) the hide of a goat | - |
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goatsucker | (noun) mainly crepuscular or nocturnal nonpasserine birds with mottled greyish-brown plumage and large eyes; feed on insects | Synonyms: caprimulgid, nightjar |
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groats | (noun) the hulled and crushed grain of various cereals | - |
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heatstroke | (noun) collapse caused by exposure to excessive heat | Synonyms: heat hyperpyrexia |
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lats | (noun) the basic unit of money in Latvia | - |
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matsyendra | (noun) (Hinduism) a religious posture | - |
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patsy | (noun) a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of | Synonyms: chump, fall guy, fool, gull, mark, mug, soft touch, sucker |
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ratsbane | (noun) a white powdered poisonous trioxide of arsenic; used in manufacturing glass and as a pesticide (rat poison) and weed killer | Synonyms: arsenic, arsenic trioxide, arsenous anhydride, arsenous oxide, white arsenic |
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satsuma | (noun) medium-sized largely seedless mandarin orange with thin smooth skin | - |
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(noun) a variety of mandarin orange, known commonly as cold hardy mandarin, Christmas orange, or tangerine | Synonyms: satsuma tree |
seats | (noun) an area that includes places where several people can sit | Synonyms: seating, seating area, seating room |
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shiatsu | (noun) treatment of symptoms by applying pressure with the fingers to specific pressure points on the body | Synonyms: acupressure, G-Jo |
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sweats | (noun) garment consisting of sweat pants and a sweatshirt | Synonyms: sweat suit, sweatsuit, workout suit |
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sweatshirt | (noun) cotton knit pullover with long sleeves worn during athletic activity | - |
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sweatshop | (noun) factory where workers do piecework for poor pay and are prevented from forming unions; common in the clothing industry | - |
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sweatsuit | (noun) garment consisting of sweat pants and a sweatshirt | Synonyms: sweat suit, sweats, workout suit |
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tsatske | (noun) (Yiddish) an inexpensive showy trinket | Synonyms: chachka, tchotchke, tshatshke |
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(noun) (Yiddish) an attractive, unconventional woman | Synonyms: chachka, tchotchke, tchotchkeleh, tshatshke |
tshatshke | (noun) (Yiddish) an inexpensive showy trinket | Synonyms: chachka, tchotchke, tsatske |
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(noun) (Yiddish) an attractive, unconventional woman | Synonyms: chachka, tchotchke, tchotchkeleh, tsatske |
whatsis | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, widget |
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