| smack | (noun) the act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand | Synonyms: slap, smacking |
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| (noun) an enthusiastic kiss | Synonyms: smooch |
| (noun) street names for heroin | Synonyms: big H, hell dust, nose drops, scag, skag, thunder |
| (noun) a sailing ship (usually rigged like a sloop or cutter) used in fishing and sailing along the coast | - |
| (noun) the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: flavor, flavour, nip, relish, sapidity, savor, savour, tang |
| (noun) a blow from a flat object (as an open hand) | Synonyms: slap |
| (adverb) directly | Synonyms: bang, bolt, slap, slapdash |
| (verb) press (the lips) together and open (the lips) noisily, as in eating | - |
| (verb) kiss lightly | Synonyms: peck |
| (verb) deliver a hard blow to | Synonyms: thwack |
| (verb) have a distinctive or characteristic taste | Synonyms: taste |
| (verb) have an element suggestive (of something) | Synonyms: reek, smell |
| smacker | (noun) a loud kiss | - |
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| (noun) a very powerful blow with the fist | - |
| smacking | (noun) the act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand | Synonyms: slap, smack |
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| smokestack | (noun) a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated | Synonyms: stack |
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| snack | (noun) a light informal meal | Synonyms: bite, collation |
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| (verb) eat a snack; eat lightly | Synonyms: nosh |
| snacker | (noun) someone who eats lightly or eats snacks between meals | Synonyms: nosher |
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| softback | (noun) a book with paper covers | Synonyms: paper-back book, paperback, paperback book, soft-cover, soft-cover book, softback book |
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| soundtrack | (noun) sound recording on a narrow strip of a motion picture film | - |
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| spackle | (noun) powder (containing gypsum plaster and glue) that when mixed with water forms a plastic paste used to fill cracks and holes in plaster | Synonyms: spackling compound |
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| stack | (noun) a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated | Synonyms: smokestack |
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| (noun) a storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO) | Synonyms: push-down storage, push-down store |
| (noun) a list in which the next item to be removed is the item most recently stored (LIFO) | Synonyms: push-down list, push-down stack |
| (noun) an orderly pile | - |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, tidy sum, wad |
| (verb) arrange in stacks | Synonyms: heap, pile |
| (verb) load or cover with stacks | - |
| (verb) arrange the order of so as to increase one's winning chances | - |
| stacked | (adjective) arranged in a stack | - |
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| (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: bosomy, busty, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, voluptuous, well-endowed |
| stacker | (noun) a laborer who builds up a stack or pile | - |
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| stacks | (noun) storage space in a library consisting of an extensive arrangement of bookshelves where most of the books are stored | - |
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| (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, tons, wads |
| steeplejack | (noun) someone who builds or maintains very tall structures | - |
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| stickleback | (noun) small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research | Synonyms: prickleback |
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| straightjacket | (noun) a garment similar to a jacket that is used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent person | Synonyms: straitjacket |
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| straitjacket | (noun) a garment similar to a jacket that is used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent person | Synonyms: straightjacket |
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| (noun) anything immaterial that severely hinders or confines | - |
| supplejack | (noun) walking stick made from the wood of an American tropical vine | - |
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| swayback | (adjective) having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses) | Synonyms: dipped, lordotic, swaybacked |
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| swaybacked | (adjective) having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses) | Synonyms: dipped, lordotic, swayback |
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| sweptback | (adjective) used of hair | Synonyms: backswept |
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| (adjective) (especially of aircraft wings) angled rearward from the point of attachment | - |
| tack | (noun) sailing a zigzag course | - |
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| (noun) (nautical) the act of changing tack | Synonyms: tacking |
| (noun) a short nail with a sharp point and a large head | - |
| (noun) gear for a horse | Synonyms: saddlery, stable gear |
| (noun) (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind | Synonyms: mainsheet, sheet, shroud, weather sheet |
| (noun) the heading or position of a vessel relative to the trim of its sails | - |
| (verb) reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) | Synonyms: alternate, flip-flop, flip, interchange, switch |
| (verb) fasten with tacks | - |
| (verb) sew together loosely, with large stitches | Synonyms: baste |
| (verb) fix to; attach | Synonyms: append, hang on, tack on, tag on |
| (verb) create by putting components or members together | Synonyms: assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack together |
| (verb) turn into the wind | Synonyms: wear round |
| tacker | (noun) a hand-held machine for driving staples home | Synonyms: staple gun, staplegun |
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| (noun) a sewer who fastens a garment with long loose stitches | Synonyms: baster |
| (noun) a worker who fastens things by tacking them (as with tacks or by spotwelding) | - |
| tackiness | (noun) tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar | Synonyms: cheapness, sleaze, tat |
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| (noun) the property of being cohesive and sticky | Synonyms: cohesiveness, glueyness, gluiness, gumminess, ropiness, viscidity, viscidness |
| tacking | (noun) (nautical) the act of changing tack | Synonyms: tack |
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| (noun) a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together | Synonyms: baste, basting, basting stitch |
| tackle | (noun) (American football) grasping an opposing player with the intention of stopping by throwing to the ground | - |
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| (noun) (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage, typically opposite one of the offensive guards | - |
| (noun) gear consisting of ropes etc. supporting a ship's masts and sails | Synonyms: rigging |
| (noun) gear used in fishing | Synonyms: fishing gear, fishing rig, fishing tackle, rig |
| (noun) the person who plays offensive or defensive tackle on a football team | - |
| (verb) seize and throw down an opponent player, who usually carries the ball | - |
| (verb) put a harness | Synonyms: harness |
| (verb) accept as a challenge | Synonyms: take on, undertake |
| tackler | (noun) a football player who tackles the ball carrier | - |
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| tacky | (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
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| (adjective) (of a glutinous liquid such as paint) not completely dried and slightly sticky to the touch | - |
| tailback | (noun) (American football) the position of the offensive back on a football team who lines up farthest from the line of scrimmage | - |
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| (noun) (American football) the person who plays tailback | - |
| tamarack | (noun) medium-sized larch of Canada and northern United States including Alaska having a broad conic crown and rust-brown scaly bark | Synonyms: American larch, black larch, Larix laricina |
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| throwback | (adjective) characteristic of an atavist | Synonyms: atavistic |
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| (noun) a reappearance of an earlier characteristic | Synonyms: atavism, reversion |
| (noun) an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism | Synonyms: atavist |
| thumbtack | (noun) a tack for attaching papers to a bulletin board or drawing board | Synonyms: drawing pin, pushpin |
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| (verb) fasten with thumbtacks | - |
| thwack | (noun) a hard blow with a flat object | - |
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| (verb) deliver a hard blow to | Synonyms: smack |
| ticktack | (noun) system of signalling by hand signs used by bookmakers at racetracks | - |
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| (verb) make a sound like a clock or a timer | Synonyms: beat, tick, ticktock |
| ticktacktoe | (noun) a game in which two players alternately put crosses and circles in one of the compartments of a square grid of nine spaces; the object is to get a row of three crosses or three circles before the opponent does | Synonyms: noughts and crosses, tic-tac-toe, tick-tack-toe, ticktacktoo, tit-tat-toe |
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| ticktacktoo | (noun) a game in which two players alternately put crosses and circles in one of the compartments of a square grid of nine spaces; the object is to get a row of three crosses or three circles before the opponent does | Synonyms: noughts and crosses, tic-tac-toe, tick-tack-toe, ticktacktoe, tit-tat-toe |
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| tieback | (noun) a device (as a decorative loop of cord or fabric) for holding or drawing something back | Synonyms: pullback |
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| tintack | (noun) tack or small nail of tinned iron | - |
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| toastrack | (noun) a rack for holding slices of toast | - |
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| touchback | (noun) (American football) a play in which the opposing team has kicked the football into your end zone | - |
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| track | (noun) the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track | Synonyms: running |
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| (noun) any road or path affording passage especially a rough one | Synonyms: cart track, cartroad |
| (noun) a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll | Synonyms: rail, rails, runway |
| (noun) a pair of parallel rails providing a runway for wheels | - |
| (noun) a groove on a phonograph recording | - |
| (noun) (computer science) one of the circular magnetic paths on a magnetic disk that serve as a guide for writing and reading data | Synonyms: data track |
| (noun) a course over which races are run | Synonyms: racecourse, racetrack, raceway |
| (noun) an endless metal belt on which tracked vehicles move over the ground | Synonyms: caterpillar track, caterpillar tread |
| (noun) evidence pointing to a possible solution | Synonyms: lead, trail |
| (noun) a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc | Synonyms: cut |
| (noun) a line or route along which something travels or moves | Synonyms: course, path |
| (verb) make tracks upon | - |
| (verb) go after with the intent to catch | Synonyms: chase, chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tag, tail, trail |
| (verb) travel across or pass over | Synonyms: cover, cross, cut across, cut through, get across, get over, pass over, traverse |
| (verb) carry on the feet and deposit | - |
| (verb) observe or plot the moving path of something | - |
| trackable | (adjective) capable of being traced or tracked | Synonyms: traceable |
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| trackball | (noun) an electronic device consisting of a rotatable ball in a housing; used to position the cursor and move images on a computer screen | - |
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| tracked | (adjective) having tracks | - |
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| tracker | (noun) someone who tracks down game | - |
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| tracking | (noun) the pursuit (of a person or animal) by following tracks or marks they left behind | Synonyms: trailing |
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| tracklayer | (noun) a workman who lays and repairs railroad tracks | Synonyms: platelayer |
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| trackless | (adjective) having no tracks | - |
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| (adjective) lacking pathways | Synonyms: pathless, roadless, untracked, untrod, untrodden |
| unacknowledged | (adjective) not recognized or admitted | - |
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| (adjective) not openly acknowledged | - |
| unattackable | (adjective) immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with | Synonyms: impregnable, inviolable, secure, strong, unassailable |
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| unbacked | (adjective) unsupported by other people | Synonyms: single-handed, unassisted |
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| unpack | (verb) remove from its packing | Synonyms: take out |
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| unpackaged | (adjective) not packaged or put into packets | - |
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| unshackled | (adjective) not bound by shackles and chains | Synonyms: unchained, unfettered, untied |
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| untracked | (adjective) lacking pathways | Synonyms: pathless, roadless, trackless, untrod, untrodden |
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| wackily | (adverb) in a mildly insane manner | Synonyms: balmily, daftly, dottily, nuttily |
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| wacko | (noun) a person who is regarded as eccentric or mad | Synonyms: nutter, whacko |
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| wacky | (adjective) ludicrous, foolish | Synonyms: goofy, silly, whacky, zany |
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| (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, whacky |
| wetback | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Mexican descent | Synonyms: greaser, taco |
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| whack | (noun) the act of hitting vigorously | Synonyms: belt, knock, rap, whang |
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| (noun) the sound made by a sharp swift blow | - |
| (verb) strike hard | Synonyms: wallop, wham, whop |
| whacked | (adjective) (British informal) exhausted or worn out | - |
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| whacker | (noun) something especially big or impressive of its kind | Synonyms: whopper |
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| whacking | (adjective) (British informal) enormous | - |
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| (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: beating, drubbing, lacing, licking, thrashing, trouncing |
| (adverb) to an abnormal extent | - |
| whacko | (noun) a person who is regarded as eccentric or mad | Synonyms: nutter, wacko |
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| whacky | (adjective) ludicrous, foolish | Synonyms: goofy, silly, wacky, zany |
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| (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky |
| wingback | (noun) (American football) the position of the offensive back who lines up behind or outside the end | - |
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| (noun) (football) the person who plays wingback | - |
| wisecrack | (noun) witty remark | Synonyms: crack, quip, sally |
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| (verb) make a comment, usually ironic | - |
| wrack | (noun) dried seaweed especially that cast ashore | - |
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| (noun) growth of marine vegetation especially of the large forms such as rockweeds and kelp | Synonyms: sea wrack |
| (noun) the destruction or collapse of something | Synonyms: rack |
| (verb) smash or break forcefully | Synonyms: bust up, wreck |
| yack | (noun) noisy talk | Synonyms: cackle, chatter, yak, yakety-yak |
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| (verb) talk incessantly and tiresomely | Synonyms: jaw, rattle on, yack away, yap away |
| zwieback | (noun) slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown and hard and crisp | Synonyms: Brussels biscuit, rusk, twice-baked bread |
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