cheroot | (noun) a cigar with both ends cut flat | - |
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childhood | (noun) the state of a child between infancy and adolescence | Synonyms: puerility |
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(noun) the time of person's life when they are a child | - |
chinook | (noun) large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning | Synonyms: chinook salmon, king salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, quinnat salmon |
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(noun) pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon | Synonyms: chinook salmon, king salmon |
(noun) a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies | Synonyms: chinook wind, snow eater |
chittamwood | (noun) deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa, chittimwood, false buckthorn, shittimwood |
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(noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearberry, bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
(noun) shrubby tree of southern United States having large plumes of feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke | Synonyms: American smokewood, Cotinus americanus, Cotinus obovatus |
chittimwood | (noun) deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa, chittamwood, false buckthorn, shittimwood |
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(noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearberry, bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
chooser | (noun) a person who chooses or selects out | Synonyms: picker, selector |
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citronwood | (noun) wood of a citron tree | - |
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(noun) durable fragrant wood; used in building (as in the roof of the cathedral at Cordova, Spain) | Synonyms: sandarac |
classroom | (noun) a room in a school where lessons take place | Synonyms: schoolroom |
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clawfoot | (noun) a deformity of the foot characterized by an abnormally high arch and hyperextension of the toes which gives the foot the appearance of a claw | Synonyms: pes cavus |
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cloakroom | (noun) a room where coats and other articles can be left temporarily | Synonyms: coatroom |
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(noun) a private lounge off of a legislative chamber | - |
cloveroot | (noun) hairy Eurasian plant with small yellow flowers and an astringent root formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: clover-root, Geum urbanum, herb bennet, wood avens |
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clubfoot | (noun) congenital deformity of the foot usually marked by a curled shape or twisted position of the ankle and heel and toes | Synonyms: talipes |
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clubroom | (noun) a room used for the activities of a club | - |
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coatroom | (noun) a room where coats and other articles can be left temporarily | Synonyms: cloakroom |
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cockatoo | (noun) white or light-colored crested parrot of the Australian region; often kept as cage birds | - |
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cocksfoot | (noun) widely grown stout Old World hay and pasture grass | Synonyms: cockspur, Dactylis glomerata, orchard grass |
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cocoon | (noun) silky envelope spun by the larvae of many insects to protect pupas and by spiders to protect eggs | - |
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cocooning | (noun) retreating to the seclusion of your home (as for privacy or escape) | - |
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cocoswood | (noun) wood of the granadilla tree used for making musical instruments especially clarinets | Synonyms: cocuswood, granadilla wood |
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cocuswood | (noun) wood of the granadilla tree used for making musical instruments especially clarinets | Synonyms: cocoswood, granadilla wood |
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colicroot | (noun) any of several perennials of the genus Aletris having grasslike leaves and bitter roots reputed to cure colic | Synonyms: colic root, crow corn, star grass, unicorn root |
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coltsfoot | (noun) perennial herb with large rounded leaves resembling a colt's foot and yellow flowers appearing before the leaves do; native to Europe but now nearly cosmopolitan; used medicinally especially formerly | Synonyms: Tussilago farfara |
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(noun) tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green round to heart-shaped leaves that become coppery to maroon or purplish in fall | Synonyms: beetleweed, galax, Galax urceolata, galaxy, wandflower |
contrabassoon | (noun) the bassoon that is the largest instrument in the oboe family | Synonyms: contrafagotto, double bassoon |
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coo | (noun) the sound made by a pigeon | - |
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cook | (noun) someone who cooks food | - |
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cookbook | (noun) a book of recipes and cooking directions | Synonyms: cookery book |
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cooker | (noun) a utensil for cooking | - |
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cookery | (noun) the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat | Synonyms: cooking, preparation |
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cookfire | (noun) a fire for cooking | - |
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cookhouse | (noun) the area for food preparation on a ship | Synonyms: caboose, galley, ship's galley |
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(noun) a detached or outdoor shelter for cooking | - |
cookie | (noun) a short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's hard drive when you access the web site | - |
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(noun) any of various small flat sweet cakes | Synonyms: biscuit, cooky |
(noun) the cook on a ranch or at a camp | Synonyms: cooky |
cooking | (noun) the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat | Synonyms: cookery, preparation |
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cookout | (noun) an informal meal cooked and eaten outdoors | - |
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cookstove | (noun) a stove for cooking (especially a wood- or coal-burning kitchen stove) | - |
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cookware | (noun) a kitchen utensil made of material that does not melt easily; used for cooking | Synonyms: cooking utensil |
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cooky | (noun) any of various small flat sweet cakes | Synonyms: biscuit, cookie |
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(noun) the cook on a ranch or at a camp | Synonyms: cookie |
cool | (noun) the quality of being at a refreshingly low temperature | - |
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(noun) great coolness and composure under strain | Synonyms: aplomb, assuredness, poise, sang-froid |
coolant | (noun) a fluid agent (gas or liquid) that produces cooling; especially one used to cool a system by transferring heat away from one part to another | - |
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cooler | (noun) a refrigerator for cooling liquids | Synonyms: ice chest |
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(noun) a cell for violent prisoners | Synonyms: tank |
(noun) an iced drink especially white wine and fruit juice | - |
coolie | (noun) (ethnic slur) an offensive name for an unskilled Asian laborer | Synonyms: cooly |
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cooling | (noun) a mechanism for keeping something cool | Synonyms: cooling system |
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(noun) the process of becoming cooler; a falling temperature | Synonyms: chilling, temperature reduction |
coolness | (noun) the property of being moderately cold | Synonyms: chilliness, nip |
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(noun) a lack of affection or enthusiasm | Synonyms: chilliness, coldness, frigidity, frigidness, iciness |
(noun) fearless self-possession in the face of danger | Synonyms: nervelessness |
(noun) calm and unruffled self-assurance | Synonyms: imperturbability, imperturbableness |
coolwart | (noun) stoloniferous white-flowered spring-blooming woodland plant | Synonyms: false miterwort, false mitrewort, foamflower, Tiarella cordifolia |
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cooly | (noun) (ethnic slur) an offensive name for an unskilled Asian laborer | Synonyms: coolie |
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coon | (noun) North American raccoon | Synonyms: common raccoon, common racoon, Procyon lotor, ringtail |
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(noun) an eccentric or undignified rustic | - |
coondog | (noun) any dog trained to hunt raccoons | - |
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coonhound | (noun) any of several breeds of hound developed for hunting raccoons | - |
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coonskin | (noun) a raccoon cap with the tail hanging down the back | Synonyms: coonskin cap |
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coontie | (noun) small tough woody zamia of Florida and West Indies and Cuba; roots and half-buried stems yield an arrowroot | Synonyms: Florida arrowroot, Seminole bread, Zamia pumila |
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coop | (noun) an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept | Synonyms: cage |
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(noun) a farm building for housing poultry | Synonyms: chicken coop, hencoop, henhouse |
cooper | (noun) a craftsman who makes or repairs wooden barrels or tubs | Synonyms: barrel maker |
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cooperation | (noun) joint operation or action | - |
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(noun) the practice of cooperating | - |
cooperative | (noun) a jointly owned commercial enterprise (usually organized by farmers or consumers) that produces and distributes goods and services and is run for the benefit of its owners | Synonyms: co-op |
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(noun) an association formed and operated for the benefit of those using it | - |
cooperativeness | (noun) the trait of being cooperative | Synonyms: amenability, amenableness |
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cooperator | (noun) an associate in an activity or endeavor or sphere of common interest | Synonyms: collaborator, pardner, partner |
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coordinate | (noun) a number that identifies a position relative to an axis | Synonyms: co-ordinate |
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coordination | (noun) the regulation of diverse elements into an integrated and harmonious operation | - |
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(noun) the skillful and effective interaction of movements | - |
(noun) being of coordinate importance, rank, or degree | - |
(noun) the grammatical relation of two constituents having the same grammatical form | - |
coordinator | (noun) someone whose task is to see that work goes harmoniously | Synonyms: co-ordinator |
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coot | (noun) slate-black slow-flying birds somewhat resembling ducks | - |
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cooter | (noun) large river turtle of the southern United States and northern Mexico | Synonyms: Pseudemys concinna, river cooter |
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cootie | (noun) a parasitic louse that infests the body of human beings | Synonyms: body louse, Pediculus corporis |
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copybook | (noun) a book containing models of good penmanship; used in teaching penmanship | - |
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coralroot | (noun) European bittercress having a knotted white rootstock | Synonyms: Cardamine bulbifera, coral-root bittercress, coralwort, Dentaria bulbifera |
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coralwood | (noun) East Indian tree with racemes of yellow-white flowers; cultivated as an ornamental | Synonyms: Adenanthera pavonina, Barbados pride, coral-wood, peacock flower fence, red sandalwood |
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cordwood | (noun) firewood cut and stacked in cords; wood sold by the cord | - |
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corkwood | (noun) very small deciduous dioecious tree or shrub of damp habitats in southeastern United States having extremely light wood | Synonyms: corkwood tree, Leitneria floridana |
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costusroot | (noun) annual herb of the eastern Himalayas (Kashmir) having purple florets and a fragrant root that yields a volatile oil used in perfumery and for preserving furs | Synonyms: Saussurea costus, Saussurea lappa |
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cottonwood | (noun) any of several North American trees of the genus Populus having a tuft of cottony hairs on the seed | - |
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(noun) American basswood of the Allegheny region | Synonyms: Tilia heterophylla, white basswood |
courtroom | (noun) a room in which a law court sits | Synonyms: court |
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crampoon | (noun) an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing | Synonyms: climber, climbing iron, crampon |
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(noun) a hinged pair of curved iron bars; used to raise heavy objects | Synonyms: crampon |
crapshoot | (noun) playing craps | Synonyms: crap game, crap shooting |
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(noun) a risky and uncertain venture | - |
crapshooter | (noun) a gambler who plays the game of craps | - |
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crinkleroot | (noun) North American herb with pungent scaly or toothed roots | Synonyms: Cardamine diphylla, crinkle-root, crinkle root, Dentaria diphylla, pepper root, toothwort |
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crook | (noun) a long staff with one end being hook shaped | Synonyms: shepherd's crook |
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(noun) someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime | Synonyms: criminal, felon, malefactor, outlaw |
(noun) a circular segment of a curve | Synonyms: bend, turn, twist |
crookback | (noun) a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine | Synonyms: humpback, hunchback |
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crookedness | (noun) having or distinguished by crooks or curves or bends or angles | - |
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(noun) the quality of being deceitful and underhanded | Synonyms: deviousness |
(noun) a tortuous and twisted shape or position | Synonyms: contortion, torsion, tortuosity, tortuousness |
crookneck | (noun) yellow squash with a thin curved neck and somewhat warty skin | Synonyms: crookneck squash, summer crookneck |
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crooner | (noun) a singer of popular ballads | Synonyms: balladeer |
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crooning | (noun) the act of singing popular songs in a sentimental manner | - |
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(noun) singing in a soft low tone | - |
crowfoot | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus | Synonyms: butter-flower, buttercup, butterflower, goldcup, kingcup |
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cuckoo | (noun) any of numerous European and North American birds having pointed wings and a long tail | - |
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(noun) a man who is a stupid incompetent fool | Synonyms: bozo, fathead, goof, goofball, goose, jackass, twat, zany |
cuckooflower | (noun) a bitter cress of Europe and America | Synonyms: Cardamine pratensis, cuckoo flower, lady's smock, meadow cress |
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cuckoopint | (noun) common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum | Synonyms: Arum maculatum, jack-in-the-pulpit, lords-and-ladies |
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cycloolefin | (noun) alkene hydrocarbon which contains a closed ring of carbon atoms, but has no aromatic character. | Synonyms: cycloalkene |
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cyclooxygenase | (noun) either of two related enzymes that control the production of prostaglandins and are blocked by aspirin | Synonyms: Cox |
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darkroom | (noun) a room in which photographs are developed | - |
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daybook | (noun) an accounting journal as a physical object | Synonyms: ledger |
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(noun) a ledger in which transactions have been recorded as they occurred | Synonyms: journal |
deadwood | (noun) someone or something that is unwanted and unneeded | Synonyms: fifth wheel |
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(noun) a branch or a part of a tree that is dead | - |
dessertspoon | (noun) as much as a dessert spoon will hold | Synonyms: dessertspoonful |
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dessertspoonful | (noun) as much as a dessert spoon will hold | Synonyms: dessertspoon |
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devilwood | (noun) small tree of southern United States having panicles of dull white flowers followed by dark purple fruits | Synonyms: American olive, Osmanthus americanus |
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dioon | (noun) any cycad of the genus Dioon; handsome palmlike cycads with robust crowns of leaves and rugged trunks | - |
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disproof | (noun) the act of determining that something is false | Synonyms: falsification, falsifying, refutal, refutation |
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(noun) any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something | Synonyms: falsification, refutation |
dogtooth | (noun) a carved pyramidal ornament; used in 13th century England | - |
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(noun) one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars | Synonyms: canine, canine tooth, cuspid, eye tooth, eyetooth |
(noun) perennial woodland spring-flowering plant; widely cultivated | Synonyms: dog's-tooth violet, dogtooth violet |
dogwood | (noun) a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers | Synonyms: cornel, dogwood tree |
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(noun) hard tough wood of any dogwood of the genus Cornus; resembles boxwood | - |
doob | (noun) trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions; used for lawns and pastures especially in southern United States and India | Synonyms: Bahama grass, Bermuda grass, Cynodon dactylon, devil grass, kweek, scutch grass, star grass |
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doodad | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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doodia | (noun) any fern of the genus Doodia having pinnate fronds with sharply dentate pinnae | Synonyms: rasp fern |
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doodle | (noun) an aimless drawing | Synonyms: scrabble, scribble |
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doodlebug | (noun) the larva of any of several insects | Synonyms: ant lion, antlion |
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(noun) a small jet-propelled winged missile that carries a bomb | Synonyms: buzz bomb, flying bomb, robot bomb, V-1 |
(noun) a small motor vehicle | - |