| affairs | (noun) transactions of professional or public interest | - |
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| (noun) matters of personal concern | Synonyms: personal business, personal matters |
| afters | (noun) a dish served as the last course of a meal | Synonyms: dessert, sweet |
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| airs | (noun) affected manners intended to impress others | Synonyms: pose |
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| arrears | (noun) an unpaid overdue debt | - |
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| (noun) the state of being behind in payments | - |
| backstairs | (noun) a second staircase at the rear of a building | - |
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| balusters | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balustrade, banister, bannister, handrail |
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| bars | (noun) gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden rods supported on uprights | Synonyms: parallel bars |
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| bikers | (noun) originally a British youth subculture that evolved out of the teddy boys in the 1960s; wore black leather jackets and jeans and boots; had greased hair and rode motorcycles and listened to rock'n'roll; were largely unskilled manual laborers | Synonyms: rockers |
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| binoculars | (noun) (plural) an optical instrument designed for simultaneous use by both eyes | Synonyms: field glasses, opera glasses |
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| bitters | (noun) alcoholic liquor flavored with bitter herbs and roots | - |
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| bleachers | (noun) (used in the plural) an outdoor grandstand without a roof; patrons are exposed to the sun as linens are when they are bleached | - |
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| bloomers | (noun) (used in the plural) underpants worn by women | Synonyms: drawers, knickers, pants |
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| boxcars | (noun) (usually plural) an expression used when two dice are thrown and both come up showing six spots | - |
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| boxers | (noun) underpants worn by men | Synonyms: boxershorts, drawers, shorts, underdrawers |
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| breakers | (noun) waves breaking on the shore | Synonyms: breaker, surf |
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| butterfingers | (noun) someone who drops things (especially one who cannot catch a ball) | - |
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| checkers | (noun) a checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces | Synonyms: draughts |
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| churidars | (noun) tight trousers worn by people from the Indian subcontinent (typically with a kameez or kurta) | - |
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| clappers | (noun) (used in the plural) a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance | Synonyms: bones, castanets, finger cymbals |
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| cleaners | (noun) shop where dry cleaning is done | Synonyms: dry cleaners |
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| cleavers | (noun) annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia | Synonyms: catchweed, clivers, Galium aparine, goose grass, spring cleavers |
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| clivers | (noun) annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia | Synonyms: catchweed, cleavers, Galium aparine, goose grass, spring cleavers |
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| cobblers | (noun) a man's testicles | - |
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| (noun) nonsense | - |
| colors | (noun) a flag that shows its nationality | Synonyms: colours |
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| (noun) a distinguishing emblem | Synonyms: colours |
| colours | (noun) a flag that shows its nationality | Synonyms: colors |
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| (noun) a distinguishing emblem | Synonyms: colors |
| crosshairs | (noun) a center of interest | - |
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| definitors | (noun) council in a religious order who provide counsel and assistance to the superiors general and provincial superior of their order. | - |
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| drawers | (noun) (used in the plural) underpants worn by women | Synonyms: bloomers, knickers, pants |
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| (noun) underpants worn by men | Synonyms: boxers, boxershorts, shorts, underdrawers |
| druthers | (noun) the right or chance to choose | Synonyms: preference |
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| flinders | (noun) bits and splinters and fragments | - |
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| followers | (noun) a group of followers or enthusiasts | Synonyms: following |
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| glanders | (noun) a destructive and contagious bacterial disease of horses that can be transmitted to humans | - |
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| headquarters | (noun) the military installation from which a commander performs the functions of command | Synonyms: HQ, military headquarters |
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| (noun) (usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise | Synonyms: central office, home base, home office, main office |
| (noun) (plural) a military unit consisting of a commander and the headquarters staff | - |
| hindquarters | (noun) the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks | Synonyms: croup, croupe, rump |
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| (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
| hipsters | (noun) a youth subculture (mostly from the middle class) originating in San Francisco in the 1960s; advocated universal love and peace and communes and long hair and soft drugs; favored acid rock and progressive rock music | Synonyms: flower people, hippies |
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| honours | (noun) a university degree with honors | Synonyms: honours degree |
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| hours | (noun) a period of time assigned for work | - |
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| (noun) an indefinite period of time | - |
| jitters | (noun) extreme nervousness | Synonyms: heebie-jeebies, screaming meemies |
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| jodhpurs | (noun) (used in the plural) flared trousers ending at the calves; worn with riding boots | Synonyms: jodhpur breeches, riding breeches |
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| knickerbockers | (noun) (used in the plural) trousers ending above the knee | Synonyms: breeches, knee breeches, knee pants, knickers |
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| knickers | (noun) (used in the plural) underpants worn by women | Synonyms: bloomers, drawers, pants |
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| (noun) (used in the plural) trousers ending above the knee | Synonyms: breeches, knee breeches, knee pants, knickerbockers |
| lancers | (noun) a quadrille for 8 or 16 couples | - |
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| leaders | (noun) the body of people who lead a group | Synonyms: leadership |
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| leftovers | (noun) food remaining from a previous meal | - |
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| letters | (noun) the literary culture | - |
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| (noun) scholarly attainment | - |
| limbers | (noun) a channel or gutter on either side of a ship's keelson; carries bilge water into the pump well | - |
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| majors | (noun) the most important league in any sport (especially baseball) | Synonyms: big league, major league |
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| manners | (noun) social deportment | - |
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| maulers | (noun) large strong hand (as of a fighter) | Synonyms: hooks, meat hooks |
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| minors | (noun) a league of teams that do not belong to a major league (especially baseball) | Synonyms: bush league, minor league |
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| numbers | (noun) an illegal daily lottery | Synonyms: numbers game, numbers pool, numbers racket |
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| outdoors | (noun) where the air is unconfined | Synonyms: open, open air, out-of-doors |
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| papers | (noun) writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature) | Synonyms: document, written document |
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| pliers | (noun) a gripping hand tool with two hinged arms and (usually) serrated jaws | Synonyms: pair of pliers, plyers |
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| plyers | (noun) a gripping hand tool with two hinged arms and (usually) serrated jaws | Synonyms: pair of pliers, pliers |
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| quarters | (noun) housing available for people to live in | Synonyms: living quarters |
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| revers | (noun) a lapel on a woman's garment; turned back to show the reverse side | Synonyms: revere |
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| rockers | (noun) originally a British youth subculture that evolved out of the teddy boys in the 1960s; wore black leather jackets and jeans and boots; had greased hair and rode motorcycles and listened to rock'n'roll; were largely unskilled manual laborers | Synonyms: bikers |
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| rounders | (noun) an English ball game similar to baseball | - |
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| scissors | (noun) a wrestling hold in which you wrap your legs around the opponents body or head and put your feet together and squeeze | Synonyms: scissor grip, scissor hold, scissors grip, scissors hold |
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| (noun) a gymnastic exercise performed on the pommel horse when the gymnast moves his legs as the blades of scissors move | - |
| (noun) an edge tool having two crossed pivoting blades | Synonyms: pair of scissors |
| scours | (noun) diarrhea in livestock | - |
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| secateurs | (noun) small pruning shears with a spring that holds the handles open and a single blade that closes against a flat surface | - |
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| shears | (noun) large scissors with strong blades | - |
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| snuffers | (noun) scissors for cropping and holding the snuff of a candlewick | - |
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| splinters | (noun) wood in small pieces or splinters | Synonyms: matchwood |
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| staggers | (noun) a disease of the central nervous system affecting especially horses and cattle; characterized by an unsteady swaying gait and frequent falling | Synonyms: blind staggers |
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| stairs | (noun) a flight of stairs or a flight of steps | Synonyms: steps |
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| summercaters | (noun) (Maine colloquial) temporary summer residents of coastal Maine | - |
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| tears | (noun) the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds) | Synonyms: crying, weeping |
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| trousers | (noun) (usually in the plural) a garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle, covering each leg separately | Synonyms: pair of trousers, pant |
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| underdrawers | (noun) underpants worn by men | Synonyms: boxers, boxershorts, drawers, shorts |
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| upstairs | (noun) the part of a building above the ground floor | - |
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| vapors | (noun) a state of depression | Synonyms: blue devils, blues, megrims, vapours |
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| vapours | (noun) a state of depression | Synonyms: blue devils, blues, megrims, vapors |
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| velours | (noun) heavy fabric that resembles velvet | Synonyms: velour |
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| vespers | (noun) the sixth of the seven canonical hours of the divine office; early evening; now often made a public service on Sundays | Synonyms: evensong |
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| viewers | (noun) the audience reached by television | Synonyms: TV audience, viewing audience |
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| waders | (noun) waterproof hip boots (sometimes extending to the chest) worn by anglers | - |
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| waters | (noun) the serous fluid in which the embryo is suspended inside the amnion | Synonyms: amnionic fluid, amniotic fluid |
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| whiskers | (noun) the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face | Synonyms: beard, face fungus |
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| withers | (noun) the highest part of the back at the base of the neck of various animals especially draft animals | - |
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| years | (noun) a late time of life | Synonyms: age, eld, geezerhood, old age |
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| (noun) a prolonged period of time | Synonyms: age, long time |
| (noun) the time during which someone's life continues | Synonyms: days |