skag | (noun) street names for heroin | Synonyms: big H, hell dust, nose drops, scag, smack, thunder |
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skank | (noun) a rhythmic dance to reggae music performed by bending forward and extending the hands while bending the knees | - |
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(noun) any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant | Synonyms: crud, filth |
skate | (noun) large edible rays having a long snout and thick tail with pectoral fins continuous with the head; swim by undulating the edges of the pectoral fins | - |
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(noun) sports equipment that is worn on the feet to enable the wearer to glide along and to be propelled by the alternate actions of the legs | - |
skateboard | (noun) a board with wheels that is ridden in a standing or crouching position and propelled by foot | - |
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skateboarder | (noun) someone who skates on a skateboard | - |
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skateboarding | (noun) the sport of skating on a skateboard | - |
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skater | (noun) someone who skates | - |
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skating | (noun) the sport of gliding on skates | - |
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skedaddle | (noun) a hasty flight | - |
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skeet | (noun) the sport of shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled upward in such a way as to simulate the flight of a bird | Synonyms: skeet shooting, trapshooting |
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skeg | (noun) a brace that extends from the rear of the keel to support the rudderpost | - |
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skein | (noun) coils of worsted yarn | - |
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skeleton | (noun) the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape | Synonyms: frame, skeletal frame, underframe |
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(noun) the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal | Synonyms: frame, skeletal system, systema skeletale |
(noun) a scandal that is kept secret | Synonyms: skeleton in the closet, skeleton in the cupboard |
(noun) something reduced to its minimal form | - |
skep | (noun) a domed beehive made of twisted straw | - |
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(noun) a large round wicker basket (used on farms) | - |
skepful | (noun) the quantity a skep can hold | - |
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skeptic | (noun) someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs | Synonyms: doubter, sceptic |
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skepticism | (noun) doubt about the truth of something | Synonyms: disbelief, incredulity, mental rejection, scepticism |
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(noun) the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge | Synonyms: agnosticism, scepticism |
sketch | (noun) preliminary drawing for later elaboration | Synonyms: study |
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(noun) short descriptive summary (of events) | Synonyms: resume, survey |
(noun) a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine | Synonyms: cartoon |
(noun) a brief literary description | Synonyms: vignette |
sketchbook | (noun) a book containing sheets of paper on which sketches can be drawn | Synonyms: sketch block, sketch pad |
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sketcher | (noun) an implement for sketching | - |
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(noun) someone who draws sketches | - |
sketchiness | (noun) incompleteness of details | - |
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skewer | (noun) a long pin for holding meat in position while it is being roasted | - |
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skewness | (noun) an oblique or slanting asymmetry | Synonyms: lopsidedness |
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ski | (noun) narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used in pairs for gliding over snow | - |
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skiagram | (noun) a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays) | Synonyms: radiogram, radiograph, shadowgraph, skiagraph |
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skiagraph | (noun) a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays) | Synonyms: radiogram, radiograph, shadowgraph, skiagram |
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skiagraphy | (noun) the process of making a radiograph; producing an image on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light | Synonyms: radiography |
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skibob | (noun) a vehicle resembling a bicycle but having skis instead of wheels; the rider wears short skis for balancing | - |
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skid | (noun) an unexpected slide | Synonyms: sideslip, slip |
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(noun) one of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects | - |
(noun) a restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation | Synonyms: brake shoe, shoe |
skidder | (noun) a tractor used to haul logs over rough terrain | - |
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(noun) a worker who uses a skid to move logs | - |
(noun) a person who slips or slides because of loss of traction | Synonyms: slider, slipper |
skidpan | (noun) a paved surface on which cars can be made to skid so that drivers can practice controlling them | - |
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skier | (noun) someone who skis | - |
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skiff | (noun) any of various small boats propelled by oars or by sails or by a motor | - |
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skiffle | (noun) a style of popular music in the 1950s; based on American folk music and played on guitars and improvised percussion instruments | - |
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skiing | (noun) a sport in which participants must travel on skis | - |
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skill | (noun) ability to produce solutions in some problem domain | Synonyms: science |
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(noun) an ability that has been acquired by training | Synonyms: accomplishment, acquirement, acquisition, attainment |
skillessness | (noun) Lack of skill; ineptness. | - |
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skillet | (noun) a pan used for frying foods | Synonyms: frying pan, frypan |
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skilletfish | (noun) clingfish with typical skillet shape | Synonyms: Gobiesox strumosus, skillet fish |
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skillfulness | (noun) the state of being cognitively skillful | - |
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skilly | (noun) a thin porridge or soup (usually oatmeal and water flavored with meat) | - |
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skim | (noun) reading or glancing through quickly | Synonyms: skimming |
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(noun) a thin layer covering the surface of a liquid | - |
skimmer | (noun) gull-like seabird that flies along the surface of the water with an elongated lower mandible immersed to skim out food | - |
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(noun) a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown | Synonyms: boater, leghorn, Panama, Panama hat, sailor, straw hat |
(noun) a cooking utensil used to skim fat from the surface of liquids | - |
(noun) a rapid superficial reader | - |
skimming | (noun) the act of removing floating material from the surface of a liquid | - |
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(noun) failure to declare income in order to avoid paying taxes on it | - |
(noun) the act of brushing against while passing | Synonyms: grazing, shaving |
(noun) reading or glancing through quickly | Synonyms: skim |
skimpiness | (noun) Of a garment, the property of being very small, light, or revealing. | Synonyms: scantiness |
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skin | (noun) body covering of a living animal | Synonyms: hide, pelt |
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(noun) an outer surface (usually thin) | - |
(noun) a bag serving as a container for liquids; it is made from the hide of an animal | - |
(noun) a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch | Synonyms: cutis, tegument |
(noun) the rind of a fruit or vegetable | Synonyms: peel |
(noun) a member of any of several British or American groups consisting predominantly of young people who shave their heads; some engage in white supremacist and anti-immigrant activities and this leads to the perception that all skinheads are racist and violent | Synonyms: skinhead |
(noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldhead, baldpate, baldy, skinhead |
(noun) a person's skin regarded as their life | - |
skincare | (noun) care for the skin | Synonyms: skin care |
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skinflint | (noun) a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend | Synonyms: churl, niggard, scrooge |
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skinful | (noun) a quantity of alcoholic drink sufficient to make you drunk | - |
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skinhead | (noun) a member of any of several British or American groups consisting predominantly of young people who shave their heads; some engage in white supremacist and anti-immigrant activities and this leads to the perception that all skinheads are racist and violent | Synonyms: skin |
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(noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldhead, baldpate, baldy, skin |
skinheads | (noun) a youth subculture that appeared first in England in the late 1960s as a working-class reaction to the hippies; hair was cropped close to the scalp; wore work-shirts and short jeans (supported by suspenders) and heavy red boots; involved in attacks against Asians and football hooliganism | Synonyms: bootboys |
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skink | (noun) alert agile lizard with reduced limbs and an elongated body covered with shiny scales; more dependent on moisture than most lizards; found in tropical regions worldwide | Synonyms: scincid, scincid lizard |
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skinner | (noun) a person who prepares or deals in animal skins | - |
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(noun) a worker who drives mules | Synonyms: mule driver, mule skinner, muleteer |
skinniness | (noun) the bodily property of lacking flesh | Synonyms: scrawniness |
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skinny | (noun) confidential information about a topic or person | - |
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skip | (noun) a mistake resulting from neglect | Synonyms: omission |
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(noun) a gait in which steps and hops alternate | - |
skipjack | (noun) oceanic schooling tuna of considerable value in Pacific but less in Atlantic; reaches 75 pounds; very similar to if not the same as oceanic bonito | Synonyms: Euthynnus pelamis, skipjack tuna |
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(noun) medium-sized tuna-like food fish of warm Atlantic and Pacific waters; less valued than tuna | Synonyms: Atlantic bonito, Sarda sarda |
(noun) able to right itself when on its back by flipping into the air with a clicking sound | Synonyms: click beetle, snapping beetle |
skipper | (noun) the naval officer in command of a military ship | Synonyms: captain |
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(noun) an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship | Synonyms: captain, master, sea captain |
(noun) a student who fails to attend classes | - |
skirl | (noun) the sound of (the chanter of) a bagpipe | - |
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skirmish | (noun) a minor short-term fight | Synonyms: brush, clash, encounter |
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skirmisher | (noun) someone who skirmishes (e.g., as a member of a scouting party) | - |
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skirret | (noun) an Asiatic herb cultivated in Europe for its sweet edible tuberous root | Synonyms: Sium sisarum |
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skirt | (noun) a garment hanging from the waist; worn mainly by girls and women | - |
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(noun) cloth covering that forms the part of a garment below the waist | - |
(noun) informal terms for a (young) woman | Synonyms: bird, chick, dame, doll, wench |
(noun) (Fungi) a remnant of the partial veil that in mature mushrooms surrounds the stem like a collar | Synonyms: annulus |
skit | (noun) a short theatrical episode | - |
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skittishness | (noun) characterized by nervousness and quickness to take fright | Synonyms: restiveness |
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skittle | (noun) a bowling pin of the type used in playing ninepins or (in England) skittles | Synonyms: ninepin, skittle pin |
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skittles | (noun) a bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins | Synonyms: ninepins |
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skivvies | (noun) (used in the plural) men's underwear consisting of cotton undershirt and underpants | - |
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skivvy | (noun) a female domestic servant who does all kinds of menial work | Synonyms: slavey |
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skua | (noun) gull-like jaeger of northern seas | Synonyms: bonxie |
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skulduggery | (noun) verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way | Synonyms: hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skullduggery, slickness, trickery |
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skulker | (noun) someone waiting in concealment | Synonyms: lurcher, lurker |
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(noun) someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity | Synonyms: malingerer, shammer |
skulking | (noun) evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated | Synonyms: malingering |
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skull | (noun) the bony skeleton of the head of vertebrates | - |
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skullcap | (noun) rounded brimless cap fitting the crown of the head | - |
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(noun) the dome of the skull | Synonyms: calvaria |
(noun) a herbaceous plant of the genus Scutellaria which has a calyx that, when inverted, resembles a helmet with its visor raised | Synonyms: helmetflower |
skullduggery | (noun) verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way | Synonyms: hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, slickness, trickery |
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skunk | (noun) American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae | Synonyms: polecat, wood pussy |
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(noun) street names for marijuana | Synonyms: dope, gage, grass, green goddess, locoweed, Mary Jane, pot, sens, sess, smoke, weed |
(noun) a defeat in a game where one side fails to score | Synonyms: shutout |
(noun) a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible | Synonyms: bum, crumb, dirty dog, git, lowlife, puke, rat, rotter, scum bag, scumbag, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot |
skunkbush | (noun) deciduous shrub of California with unpleasantly scented usually trifoliate leaves and edible fruit | Synonyms: Rhus trilobata, squaw-bush, squawbush |
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skunkweed | (noun) tall herb of the Rocky Mountains having sticky leaves and an offensive smell | Synonyms: Polemonium viscosum, skunk-weed |
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sky | (noun) the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth | - |
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skybox | (noun) an elevated box for viewing events at a sports stadium | - |
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skycap | (noun) a porter who helps passengers with their baggage at an airport | - |
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skydiver | (noun) a person who jumps from a plane and performs various gymnastic maneuvers before pulling the parachute cord | - |
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skydiving | (noun) performing acrobatics in free fall before pulling the ripcord of a parachute | - |
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skyhook | (noun) a hook that is imagined to be suspended from the sky | - |
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(noun) helicopter carrying a reel of steel cable that can be used to lift and transport heavy objects | - |
skylark | (noun) brown-speckled European lark noted for singing while hovering at a great height | Synonyms: Alauda arvensis |
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skylight | (noun) a window in a roof to admit daylight | Synonyms: fanlight |
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skyline | (noun) the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet | Synonyms: apparent horizon, horizon, sensible horizon, visible horizon |
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(noun) the outline of objects seen against the sky | - |
skyrocket | (noun) sends a firework display high into the sky | Synonyms: rocket |
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(noun) propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon | Synonyms: rocket |
skysail | (noun) the sail above the royal on a square-rigger | - |
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skyscraper | (noun) a very tall building with many stories | - |
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skywalk | (noun) an elevated walkway between buildings (usually enclosed) | - |
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skyway | (noun) a designated route followed by airplanes in flying from one airport to another | Synonyms: air lane, airway, flight path |
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skywriting | (noun) writing formed in the sky by smoke released from an airplane | - |
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