leaker | (noun) a surreptitious informant | - |
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linebacker | (noun) (American football) the position of a defensive football player who plays close behind the line of scrimmage | Synonyms: line backer |
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(noun) a defensive football player who takes a position close behind the linemen | Synonyms: line backer |
locker | (noun) a storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock | Synonyms: cabinet, storage locker |
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(noun) a trunk for storing personal possessions; usually kept at the foot of a bed (as in a barracks) | Synonyms: footlocker |
(noun) a fastener that locks or closes | - |
looker | (noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: beauty, dish, knockout, lulu, mantrap, peach, ravisher, smasher, stunner, sweetheart |
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(noun) a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind) | Synonyms: spectator, viewer, watcher, witness |
loudspeaker | (noun) electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance | Synonyms: loudspeaker system, speaker, speaker system, speaker unit |
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lumpsucker | (noun) any of several very small lumpfishes | - |
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lurker | (noun) someone waiting in concealment | Synonyms: lurcher, skulker |
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mackerel | (noun) any of various fishes of the family Scombridae | - |
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(noun) flesh of very important usually small (to 18 in) fatty Atlantic fish | - |
maker | (noun) a business engaged in manufacturing some product | Synonyms: manufacturer, manufacturing business |
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(noun) a person who makes things | Synonyms: shaper |
makeready | (noun) final preparation and adjustments | - |
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marker | (noun) some conspicuous object used to distinguish or mark something | - |
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(noun) a writing implement for making a mark | - |
(noun) a distinguishing symbol | Synonyms: mark, marking |
masker | (noun) a participant in a masquerade | Synonyms: masquer, masquerader |
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matchmaker | (noun) someone who arranges (or tries to arrange) marriages for others | Synonyms: marriage broker, matcher |
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merrymaker | (noun) a celebrant who shares in a noisy party | Synonyms: reveler, reveller |
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metalworker | (noun) someone who works metal (especially by hammering it when it is hot and malleable) | Synonyms: smith |
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middlebreaker | (noun) moldboard plow with a double moldboard designed to move dirt to either side of a central furrow | Synonyms: lister, lister plough, lister plow, middle buster |
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milker | (noun) cattle that are reared for their milk | Synonyms: dairy cattle, dairy cow, milch cow, milcher, milk cow |
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mimicker | (noun) someone who mimics (especially an actor or actress) | Synonyms: mimic |
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mineworker | (noun) laborer who works in a mine | Synonyms: miner |
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mocker | (noun) long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds | Synonyms: Mimus polyglotktos, mockingbird |
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(noun) someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision | Synonyms: flouter, jeerer, scoffer |
mockernut | (noun) smooth-barked North American hickory with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard-shelled edible nut | Synonyms: big-bud hickory, black hickory, Carya tomentosa, mockernut hickory, white-heart hickory |
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mockery | (noun) humorous or satirical mimicry | Synonyms: parody, takeoff |
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(noun) showing your contempt by derision | Synonyms: jeer, jeering, scoff, scoffing |
(noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, parody, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty |
moneymaker | (noun) a project that generates a continuous flow of money | Synonyms: cash cow, money-spinner |
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(noun) someone who is successful in accumulating wealth | - |
moniker | (noun) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) | Synonyms: byname, cognomen, nickname, sobriquet, soubriquet |
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motherfucker | (noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, bastard, cocksucker, dickhead, mother fucker, prick, shit, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
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muckraker | (noun) one who spreads real or alleged scandal about another (usually for political advantage) | Synonyms: mudslinger |
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necker | (noun) a lover who necks | - |
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neckerchief | (noun) a kerchief worn around the neck | - |
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needleworker | (noun) someone who does work (as sewing or embroidery) with a needle | - |
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nicker | (noun) the characteristic sounds made by a horse | Synonyms: neigh, whicker, whinny |
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(verb) make a characteristic sound, of a horse | Synonyms: neigh, whicker, whinny |
nightwalker | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: angleworm, crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, red worm, wiggler |
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nitpicker | (noun) someone who makes small and unjustified criticisms | - |
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noisemaker | (noun) a device (such as a clapper or bell or horn) used to make a loud noise at a celebration | - |
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nondrinker | (noun) a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages | Synonyms: abstainer, abstinent |
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nonsmoker | (noun) a passenger car for passengers who want to avoid tobacco smoke | Synonyms: nonsmoking car |
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(noun) a person who does not smoke tobacco | - |
nonworker | (noun) a person who does nothing | - |
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nutcracker | (noun) speckled birds that feed on nuts | - |
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(noun) any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insects | Synonyms: nuthatch |
(noun) a compound lever used to crack nuts open | - |
onlooker | (noun) someone who looks on | Synonyms: looker-on |
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ozokerite | (noun) a waxy mineral that is a mixture of hydrocarbons and occurs in association with petroleum; some varieties are used in making ceresin and candles | Synonyms: ader wax, earth wax, mineral wax, ozocerite |
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pacemaker | (noun) a horse used to set the pace in racing | Synonyms: pacer, pacesetter |
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(noun) an implanted electronic device that takes over the function of the natural cardiac pacemaker | Synonyms: artificial pacemaker |
(noun) a specialized bit of heart tissue that controls the heartbeat | Synonyms: cardiac pacemaker, SA node, sinoatrial node |
(noun) a leading instance in its field | Synonyms: pacesetter |
packer | (noun) a workman employed to pack things into containers | Synonyms: bagger, boxer |
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(noun) a wholesaler in the meat-packing business | Synonyms: meat packer |
(noun) a hiker who wears a backpack | Synonyms: backpacker |
partaker | (noun) someone who has or gives or receives a part or a share | Synonyms: sharer |
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patternmaker | (noun) someone who makes patterns (as for sewing or carpentry or metalworking) | - |
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pawnbroker | (noun) a person who lends money at interest in exchange for personal property that is deposited as security | - |
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peacemaker | (noun) someone who tries to bring peace | Synonyms: conciliator, make-peace, pacifier, reconciler |
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pecker | (noun) bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects | Synonyms: peckerwood, woodpecker |
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(noun) horny projecting mouth of a bird | Synonyms: beak, bill, neb, nib |
(noun) obscene terms for penis | Synonyms: cock, dick, prick, putz, shaft, tool |
peckerwood | (noun) bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects | Synonyms: pecker, woodpecker |
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picker | (noun) someone who gathers crops or fruits etc. | - |
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(noun) a person who chooses or selects out | Synonyms: chooser, selector |
pickerel | (noun) any of several North American species of small pike | - |
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(noun) flesh of young or small pike | - |
pickerelweed | (noun) American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds | Synonyms: pickerel weed, Pontederia cordata, wampee |
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picknicker | (noun) a person who is picnicking | Synonyms: picnicker |
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picnicker | (noun) a person who is picnicking | Synonyms: picknicker |
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placekicker | (noun) (football) a kicker who makes a place kick for a goal | Synonyms: place-kicker |
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placeseeker | (noun) a disparaging term for an appointee | Synonyms: placeman |
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playmaker | (noun) a player in a team sport who leads attacks or maneuvers in such a way that a teammate can score | - |
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plunker | (noun) (baseball) hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenly | Synonyms: plunk |
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poker | (noun) any of various card games in which players bet that they hold the highest-ranking hand | Synonyms: poker game |
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(noun) fire iron consisting of a metal rod with a handle; used to stir a fire | Synonyms: fire hook, salamander, stove poker |
porker | (noun) a pig fattened to provide meat | - |
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powerbroker | (noun) a person who is important by virtue of the people or votes they control | Synonyms: power broker |
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pricker | (noun) an awl for making small holes for brads or small screws | Synonyms: bradawl |
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(noun) a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf | Synonyms: prickle, spikelet, spine, sticker, thorn |
printmaker | (noun) an artist who designs and makes prints | Synonyms: graphic artist |
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provoker | (noun) someone who deliberately foments trouble | Synonyms: firebrand, inciter, instigant, instigator |
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pucker | (noun) an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth) | Synonyms: ruck |
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(verb) to gather something into small wrinkles or folds | Synonyms: cockle, crumple, knit, rumple |
(verb) draw together into folds or puckers | Synonyms: gather, tuck |
(verb) become wrinkled or drawn together | Synonyms: ruck, ruck up |
puckerbush | (noun) evergreen aromatic shrubby tree of southeastern United States having small hard berries thickly coated with white wax used for candles | Synonyms: bay myrtle, Myrica cerifera |
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quackery | (noun) medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings | Synonyms: empiricism |
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(noun) the dishonesty of a charlatan | Synonyms: charlatanism |
quaker | (noun) one who quakes and trembles with (or as with) fear | Synonyms: trembler |
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quicker | (adverb) more quickly | Synonyms: faster |
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racker | (noun) an attendant who puts pool or billiard balls into a rack | - |
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ragpicker | (noun) an unskilled person who picks up rags from trash cans and public dumps as a means of livelihood | - |
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rainmaker | (noun) American Indian medicine man who attempt to make it rain | - |
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(noun) executive who is very successful in bringing in business to his company or firm | - |
ranker | (noun) an enlisted soldier who serves in the ranks of the armed forces | - |
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(noun) a commissioned officer who has been promoted from enlisted status | - |
rebuker | (noun) someone who finds fault or imputes blame | Synonyms: reproacher, reprover, upbraider |
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rocker | (noun) a curved support that permits the supported object to rock to and fro | - |
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(noun) a chair mounted on rockers | Synonyms: rocking chair |
(noun) an ice skate with a curved blade | - |
(noun) a trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold | Synonyms: cradle |
(noun) a teenager or young adult in the 1960s who wore leather jackets and rode motorcycles | - |
(noun) a performer or composer or fan of rock music | Synonyms: rock 'n' roll musician |
(noun) an attendant who rocks a child in a cradle | - |
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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rockery | (noun) a garden featuring rocks; usually alpine plants | Synonyms: rock garden |
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rookery | (noun) a breeding ground for gregarious birds (such as rooks) | - |
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ropemaker | (noun) a craftsman who makes ropes | Synonyms: rope-maker, roper |
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ropewalker | (noun) an acrobat who performs on a rope stretched at some height above the ground | Synonyms: ropedancer |
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rubbernecker | (noun) a person who stares inquisitively | Synonyms: rubberneck |
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safebreaker | (noun) a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents | Synonyms: cracksman, safecracker |
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safecracker | (noun) a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents | Synonyms: cracksman, safebreaker |
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sailmaker | (noun) a maker of sails | - |
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saltshaker | (noun) a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling salt | Synonyms: salt shaker |
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sapsucker | (noun) small American woodpecker that feeds on sap from e.g. apple and maple trees | - |
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scrimshanker | (noun) a shirker | - |
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seeker | (noun) a missile equipped with a device that is attracted toward some kind of emission (heat or light or sound or radio waves) | - |
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(noun) someone making a search or inquiry | Synonyms: quester, searcher |
seersucker | (noun) a light puckered fabric (usually striped) | - |
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shaker | (noun) a container in which something can be shaken | - |
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(noun) a person who wields power and influence | Synonyms: mover and shaker |
sharksucker | (noun) remoras found attached to sharks | Synonyms: Echeneis naucrates |
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shirker | (noun) a person who shirks his work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime) | Synonyms: slacker |
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shirtmaker | (noun) a maker of shirts | - |
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shocker | (noun) a sensational message (in a film or play or novel) | - |
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(noun) a shockingly bad person | - |
shoemaker | (noun) a person who makes or repairs shoes | Synonyms: cobbler |
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shopwalker | (noun) an employee of a retail store who supervises sales personnel and helps with customer problems | Synonyms: floorwalker |
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silverworker | (noun) someone who makes or repairs articles of silver | Synonyms: silver-worker, silversmith |
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sinker | (noun) a pitch that curves downward rapidly as it approaches the plate | - |
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(noun) a weight that sinks (as to hold nets or fishing lines under water) | - |
(noun) a small ring-shaped friedcake | Synonyms: donut, doughnut |
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 |
slacker | (noun) a person who shirks his work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime) | Synonyms: shirker |
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sleepwalker | (noun) someone who walks about in their sleep | Synonyms: noctambulist, somnambulist |
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slicker | (noun) a macintosh made from cotton fabric treated with oil and pigment to make it waterproof | Synonyms: oilskin |
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(noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, trickster |
(noun) a person with good manners and stylish clothing | - |