baldrick | (noun) a wide (ornamented) belt worn over the right shoulder to support a sword or bugle by the left hip | Synonyms: baldric |
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brick | (noun) rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material | - |
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(noun) a good fellow; helpful and trustworthy | - |
crick | (noun) a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) | Synonyms: kink, rick, wrick |
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derrick | (noun) a simple crane having lifting tackle slung from a boom | - |
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(noun) a framework erected over an oil well to allow drill tubes to be raised and lowered | - |
firebrick | (noun) brick made of fire clay; used for lining e.g. furnaces and chimneys | - |
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goldbrick | (noun) anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless | - |
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(noun) a brick-shaped block that looks like gold but is not | - |
(noun) an idle worthless person | Synonyms: good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goof-off, ne'er-do-well, no-account |
(noun) a soldier who performs his duties without proper care or effort | - |
hayrick | (noun) a stack of hay | Synonyms: haystack, rick |
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limerick | (noun) a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba | - |
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maverick | (noun) an unbranded range animal (especially a stray calf); belongs to the first person who puts a brand on it | - |
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(noun) someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action | Synonyms: rebel |
pinprick | (noun) small puncture (as if made by a pin) | - |
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(noun) a minor annoyance | - |
prick | (noun) the act of puncturing with a small point | Synonyms: pricking |
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(noun) obscene terms for penis | Synonyms: cock, dick, pecker, putz, shaft, tool |
(noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, bastard, cocksucker, dickhead, mother fucker, motherfucker, shit, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
(noun) a depression scratched or carved into a surface | Synonyms: dent, incision, scratch, slit |
rick | (noun) a stack of hay | Synonyms: hayrick, haystack |
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(noun) a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) | Synonyms: crick, kink, wrick |
trick | (noun) a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement | Synonyms: antic, caper, joke, prank, put-on |
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(noun) (card games) in a single round, the sequence of cards played by all the players; the high card is the winner | - |
(noun) an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers | Synonyms: conjuration, conjuring trick, deception, illusion, legerdemain, magic, magic trick, thaumaturgy |
(noun) an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent | - |
(noun) a cunning or deceitful action or device | Synonyms: fast one |
(noun) a prostitute's customer | Synonyms: john, whoremaster, whoremonger |
(noun) a period of work or duty | - |
wrick | (noun) a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) | Synonyms: crick, kink, rick |
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