guppy | (noun) small freshwater fish of South America and the West Indies; often kept in aquariums | Synonyms: Lebistes reticulatus, rainbow fish |
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hiccup | (noun) (usually plural) the state of having reflex spasms of the diaphragm accompanied by a rapid closure of the glottis producing an audible sound; sometimes a symptom of indigestion | Synonyms: hiccough, singultus |
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holdup | (noun) robbery at gunpoint | Synonyms: armed robbery, heist, stickup |
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(noun) the act of delaying; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time | Synonyms: delay |
hookup | (noun) a system of components assembled together for a particular purpose | Synonyms: assemblage |
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(noun) a device providing a connection between a power source and a user | - |
hushpuppy | (noun) deep-fried cornbread ball (southern) | Synonyms: hush puppy |
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ibuprofen | (noun) a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory and analgesic medicine (trade names Advil and Motrin and Nuprin) used to relieve the pain of arthritis and as an antipyretic | Synonyms: Advil, isobutylphenyl propionic acid, Motrin, Nuprin |
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immunosuppressant | (noun) a drug that lowers the body's normal immune response | Synonyms: immune suppressant drug, immunosuppressive, immunosuppressive drug, immunosuppressor |
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immunosuppression | (noun) lowering the body's normal immune response to invasion by foreign substances; can be deliberate (as in lowering the immune response to prevent rejection of a transplanted organ) or incidental (as a side effect of radiotherapy or chemotherapy for cancer) | - |
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immunosuppressive | (noun) a drug that lowers the body's normal immune response | Synonyms: immune suppressant drug, immunosuppressant, immunosuppressive drug, immunosuppressor |
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immunosuppressor | (noun) a drug that lowers the body's normal immune response | Synonyms: immune suppressant drug, immunosuppressant, immunosuppressive, immunosuppressive drug |
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incorruptibility | (noun) the incapability of being corrupted | - |
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incorruption | (noun) characterized by integrity or probity | Synonyms: incorruptness |
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incorruptness | (noun) characterized by integrity or probity | Synonyms: incorruption |
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ingroup | (noun) an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose | Synonyms: camp, clique, coterie, inner circle, pack |
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interrupt | (noun) a signal that temporarily stops the execution of a program so that another procedure can be carried out | - |
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interrupter | (noun) a device for automatically interrupting an electric current | - |
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interruption | (noun) an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity | Synonyms: break, disruption, gap |
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(noun) some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity | Synonyms: break |
(noun) a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something | Synonyms: break, intermission, pause, suspension |
irruption | (noun) a sudden violent entrance; a bursting in | - |
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(noun) a sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition) | Synonyms: eruption, outbreak |
(noun) a sudden sharp increase in the relative numbers of a population | - |
jupati | (noun) a tall Brazilian feather palm with a terminal crown of very large leathery pinnatisect leaves rising from long strong stems used for structural purposes | Synonyms: jupati palm, jupaty, Raffia taedigera |
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jupaty | (noun) a tall Brazilian feather palm with a terminal crown of very large leathery pinnatisect leaves rising from long strong stems used for structural purposes | Synonyms: jupati, jupati palm, Raffia taedigera |
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ketchup | (noun) thick spicy sauce made from tomatoes | Synonyms: catsup, cetchup, tomato ketchup |
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kingcup | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus | Synonyms: butter-flower, buttercup, butterflower, crowfoot, goldcup |
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(noun) swamp plant of Europe and North America having bright yellow flowers resembling buttercups | Synonyms: Caltha palustris, cowslip, marsh marigold, May blob, meadow bright, water dragon |
layup | (noun) a basketball shot made with one hand from a position under or beside the basket (and usually banked off the backboard) | Synonyms: lay-up |
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letup | (noun) a pause during which things are calm or activities are diminished | Synonyms: lull |
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lineup | (noun) (baseball) a list of batters in the order in which they will bat | Synonyms: batting order, card |
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(noun) the schedule of programs for a particular period | - |
(noun) a line of persons arranged by police for inspection or identification | Synonyms: identity parade, police lineup |
linkup | (noun) a fastener that serves to join or connect | Synonyms: link, tie-in, tie |
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lockup | (noun) the act of locking something up to protect it | Synonyms: locking |
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(noun) jail in a local police station | - |
lookup | (noun) an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property | Synonyms: search |
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loupe | (noun) small magnifying glass (usually set in an eyepiece) used by jewelers and horologists | Synonyms: jeweler's loupe |
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lupin | (noun) any plant of the genus Lupinus; bearing erect spikes of usually purplish-blue flowers | Synonyms: lupine |
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lupine | (noun) any plant of the genus Lupinus; bearing erect spikes of usually purplish-blue flowers | Synonyms: lupin |
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lupulin | (noun) Lupulin is a powder separated from the strobiles of common hop. | - |
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lupus | (noun) any of several forms of ulcerative skin disease | - |
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makeup | (noun) cosmetics applied to the face to improve or change your appearance | Synonyms: make-up, war paint |
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(noun) the way in which someone or something is composed | Synonyms: composition, constitution, make-up, physical composition |
(noun) an event that is substituted for a previously cancelled event | Synonyms: make-up |
markup | (noun) detailed stylistic instructions for typesetting something that is to be printed; manual markup is usually written on the copy (e.g. underlining words that are to be set in italics) | - |
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(noun) the amount added to the cost to determine the asking price | - |
marsupial | (noun) mammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carried | Synonyms: pouched mammal |
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marsupium | (noun) an external abdominal pouch in most marsupials where newborn offspring are suckled | - |
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marupa | (noun) tree of the Amazon valley yielding a light brittle timber locally regarded as resistant to insect attack | Synonyms: Simarouba amara |
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matchup | (noun) the pairing of people or things as for comparison or competition | Synonyms: match-up |
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naupathia | (noun) motion sickness experienced while traveling on water | Synonyms: mal de mer, seasickness |
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newsgroup | (noun) an area on a computer network, especially on the internet, devoted to the discussion of a specified topic | - |
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nuptials | (noun) the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed | Synonyms: hymeneals, wedding, wedding ceremony |
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occupancy | (noun) an act of being a tenant or occupant | Synonyms: tenancy |
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(noun) the act of occupying or taking possession of a building | Synonyms: moving in, occupation |
occupant | (noun) someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there | Synonyms: occupier, resident |
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occupation | (noun) the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money | Synonyms: business, job, line, line of work |
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(noun) the act of occupying or taking possession of a building | Synonyms: moving in, occupancy |
(noun) the control of a country by military forces of a foreign power | Synonyms: military control |
(noun) any activity that occupies a person's attention | - |
(noun) the period of time during which a place or position or nation is occupied | - |
occupier | (noun) someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there | Synonyms: occupant, resident |
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(noun) a member of a military force who is residing in a conquered foreign country | - |
oversupply | (noun) the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall | Synonyms: glut, surfeit |
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pauper | (noun) a person who is very poor | - |
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pauperisation | (noun) the act of making someone poor | Synonyms: impoverishment, pauperization |
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pauperism | (noun) a state of extreme poverty or destitution | Synonyms: indigence, need, pauperization, penury |
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pauperization | (noun) the act of making someone poor | Synonyms: impoverishment, pauperisation |
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(noun) a state of extreme poverty or destitution | Synonyms: indigence, need, pauperism, penury |
pickup | (noun) the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places | - |
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(noun) the act of taking aboard passengers or freight | - |
(noun) a light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard | Synonyms: pickup truck |
(noun) an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable | Synonyms: cartridge |
(noun) mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge | Synonyms: pickup arm, tone arm |
(noun) anything with restorative powers | Synonyms: pick-me-up |
(noun) the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration | Synonyms: getaway |
(noun) a warrant to take someone into custody | - |
(noun) a casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships | - |
pileup | (noun) multiple collisions of vehicles | - |
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pluperfect | (noun) a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past | Synonyms: past perfect, past perfect tense, pluperfect tense |
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porcupine | (noun) relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur | Synonyms: hedgehog |
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porcupinefish | (noun) spines become erect when the body is inflated; worldwide in warm waters | Synonyms: Diodon hystrix, porcupine fish |
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porcupines | (noun) meat patties rolled in rice and simmered in a tomato sauce | Synonyms: porcupine ball |
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preoccupancy | (noun) the act of taking occupancy before someone else does | Synonyms: preoccupation |
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(noun) the mental state of being preoccupied by something | Synonyms: absorption, engrossment, preoccupation |
preoccupation | (noun) the act of taking occupancy before someone else does | Synonyms: preoccupancy |
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(noun) the mental state of being preoccupied by something | Synonyms: absorption, engrossment, preoccupancy |
(noun) an idea that preoccupies the mind and holds the attention | - |
presupposition | (noun) the act of presupposing; a supposition made prior to having knowledge (as for the purpose of argument) | - |
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pup | (noun) young of any of various canines such as a dog or wolf | Synonyms: whelp |
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(noun) an inexperienced young person | Synonyms: puppy |
pupa | (noun) an insect in the inactive stage of development (when it is not feeding) intermediate between larva and adult | - |
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pupil | (noun) the contractile aperture in the center of the iris of the eye; resembles a large black dot | - |
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(noun) a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution | Synonyms: educatee, student |
(noun) a young person attending school (up through senior high school) | Synonyms: school-age child, schoolchild |
puppet | (noun) a doll with a hollow head of a person or animal and a cloth body; intended to fit over the hand and be manipulated with the fingers | - |
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(noun) a small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer | Synonyms: marionette |
(noun) a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else | Synonyms: creature, tool |
puppeteer | (noun) one who operates puppets or marionettes | - |
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puppetry | (noun) a stilted dramatic performance (as if by puppets) | - |
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(noun) the art of making puppets and presenting puppet shows | - |
puppy | (noun) a young dog | - |
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(noun) an inexperienced young person | Synonyms: pup |
pushup | (noun) an arm exercise performed lying face to the floor and pushing the body up and down with the arms | Synonyms: press-up |
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quadruped | (noun) an animal especially a mammal having four limbs specialized for walking | - |
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quadruple | (noun) a quantity that is four times as great as another | - |
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(noun) a set of four similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: quadruplet, quartet, quartette |
quadruplet | (noun) a set of four similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: quadruple, quartet, quartette |
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(noun) one of four children born at the same time from the same pregnancy | Synonyms: quad |
(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, four, foursome, IV, Little Joe, quartet, quatern, quaternary, quaternion, quaternity, tetrad |
quadruplicate | (noun) any four copies; any of four things that correspond to one another exactly | - |
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quadrupling | (noun) increase by a factor of four | - |
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quintuple | (noun) a set of five similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: quintet, quintette, quintuplet |
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quintuplet | (noun) a set of five similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: quintet, quintette, quintuple |
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(noun) one of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy | Synonyms: quin, quint |
(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one | Synonyms: 5, cinque, fin, five, fivesome, Little Phoebe, pentad, Phoebe, quint, quintet, V |
quintupling | (noun) increasing by a factor of five | - |
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recuperation | (noun) gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury | Synonyms: convalescence, recovery |
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reduplication | (noun) the act of repeating over and again (or an instance thereof) | Synonyms: reiteration |
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(noun) a word formed by or containing a repeated syllable or speech sound (usually at the beginning of the word) | - |
(noun) the syllable added in a reduplicated word form | - |
(noun) repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next | Synonyms: anadiplosis |
reuptake | (noun) a process of using up or consuming again | Synonyms: re-uptake |
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roundup | (noun) the systematic gathering up of suspects by the police | - |
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(noun) the activity of gathering livestock together so that they can be counted or branded or sold | - |
(noun) a summary list; as in e.g. "a news roundup" | - |
runup | (noun) a substantial increase over a relatively short period of time | Synonyms: run-up |
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rupee | (noun) the basic unit of money in India; equal to 100 paise | Synonyms: Indian rupee |
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(noun) the basic unit of money in Pakistan; equal to 100 paisa | Synonyms: Pakistani rupee |
(noun) the basic unit of money in Mauritius; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Mauritian rupee |
(noun) the basic unit of money in Nepal; equal to 100 paisa | Synonyms: Nepalese rupee |
(noun) the basic unit of money in Seychelles; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Seychelles rupee |
(noun) the basic unit of money in Sri Lanka; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Sri Lanka rupee |
rupiah | (noun) the basic unit of money in Indonesia; equal to 100 sen | - |
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rupture | (noun) the act of making a sudden noisy break | - |
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(noun) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) | Synonyms: breach, break, falling out, rift, severance |
(noun) state of being torn or burst open | - |
rupturewort | (noun) common prostrate Old World herb often used as a ground cover; formerly reputed to cure ruptures | Synonyms: Hernaria glabra |
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sannup | (noun) a married male American Indian | - |
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scaup | (noun) diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill | Synonyms: bluebill, broadbill, scaup duck |
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scauper | (noun) a graver used to scoop out broad areas when engraving wood or metal | Synonyms: scorper |
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screwup | (noun) the complete mismanagement or mishandling of a situation | - |
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scruple | (noun) an ethical or moral principle that inhibits action | - |
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(noun) uneasiness about the fitness of an action (particularly for reasons of ethics, morals or propriety) | Synonyms: misgiving, qualm |
(noun) a unit of apothecary weight equal to 20 grains | - |
scruples | (noun) motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions | Synonyms: conscience, moral sense, sense of right and wrong |
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scrupulousness | (noun) conformity to high standards of ethics or excellence | - |
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(noun) strict attention to minute details | Synonyms: meticulosity, meticulousness, punctiliousness |
scup | (noun) porgy of southern Atlantic coastal waters of North America | Synonyms: southern porgy, southern scup, Stenotomus aculeatus |
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(noun) found in Atlantic coastal waters of North America from South Carolina to Maine; esteemed as a panfish | Synonyms: northern porgy, northern scup, Stenotomus chrysops |
(noun) lean flesh of fish found in warm waters of southern Atlantic coast of the United States | Synonyms: porgy |
(noun) flesh of fish found in colder waters of northern Atlantic coast of the United States | - |
scupper | (noun) drain that allows water on the deck of a vessel to flow overboard | - |
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scuppernong | (noun) amber-green muscadine grape of southeastern United States | - |
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sendup | (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, mockery, parody, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, spoof, takeoff, travesty |
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setup | (noun) an act that incriminates someone on a false charge | Synonyms: frame-up |
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(noun) equipment designed to serve a specific function | Synonyms: apparatus |
(noun) the way something is organized or arranged | - |
sextuplet | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one | Synonyms: 6, Captain Hicks, half a dozen, hexad, sestet, sextet, sise, six, sixer, VI |
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shakeup | (noun) the imposition of a new organization; organizing differently (often involving extensive and drastic changes) | Synonyms: reorganisation, reorganization, shake-up |
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shtup | (noun) slang for sexual intercourse | Synonyms: ass, fuck, fucking, nookie, nooky, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, screw, screwing, shag |
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