| backsaw | (noun) a handsaw that is stiffened by metal reinforcement along the upper edge | Synonyms: back saw |
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| backscatter | (verb) scatter (radiation) by the atoms of the medium through which it passes | - |
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| backscratcher | (noun) a long-handled scratcher for scratching your back | - |
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| (noun) someone who is willing to trade favors or services for mutual advantage | - |
| backseat | (noun) a seat at the back of a vehicle (especially the seat at the back of an automobile) | - |
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| (noun) a secondary or inferior position or status | - |
| backsheesh | (noun) a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter) | Synonyms: baksheesh, bakshis, bakshish, gratuity, pourboire, tip |
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| backside | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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| (noun) the side of an object that is opposite its front | Synonyms: back end, rear |
| backslap | (verb) display excessive cordiality (towards) | - |
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| backslapper | (noun) someone who demonstrates enthusiastic or excessive cordiality | - |
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| backslide | (verb) drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards | Synonyms: lapse |
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| backslider | (noun) someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior | Synonyms: recidivist, reversionist |
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| backsliding | (noun) a failure to maintain a higher state | Synonyms: lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting |
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| backspace | (noun) the typewriter key used for back spacing | Synonyms: backspace key, backspacer |
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| (verb) hit the backspace key on a computer or typewriter keyboard | - |
| backspacer | (noun) the typewriter key used for back spacing | Synonyms: backspace, backspace key |
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| backspin | (noun) spin (usually of a moving ball) that retards or reverses the forward motion | - |
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| backstage | (adjective) concealed from public view or attention | Synonyms: offstage |
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| (noun) a stage area out of sight of the audience | Synonyms: offstage, wing |
| (adverb) in or to a backstage area of a theater | - |
| (adverb) out of view of the public; behind the scenes | - |
| backstair | (adjective) secret and sly or sordid | Synonyms: backstairs, furtive |
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| backstairs | (adjective) secret and sly or sordid | Synonyms: backstair, furtive |
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| (noun) a second staircase at the rear of a building | - |
| backstay | (noun) a stay that supports the back of something | - |
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| backstitch | (noun) an overlapping stitch made by starting the next stitch at the middle of the preceding one | - |
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| (verb) do backstitches | - |
| backstop | (noun) a precaution in case of an emergency | - |
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| (noun) (baseball) a fence or screen (as behind home plate) to prevent the ball from traveling out of the playing field | - |
| (noun) (baseball) the person who plays the position of catcher | Synonyms: catcher |
| (verb) act as a backstop | - |
| backstroke | (noun) a swimming stroke that resembles the crawl except the swimmer lies on his or her back | - |
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| (verb) swim on one's back | - |
| backstroker | (noun) someone who swims the backstroke | - |
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| backswept | (adjective) used of hair | Synonyms: sweptback |
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| backswimmer | (noun) predaceous aquatic insect that swims on its back and may inflict painful bites | Synonyms: Notonecta undulata |
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| backsword | (noun) a sword with only one cutting edge | - |
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| (noun) a stick used instead of a sword for fencing | Synonyms: fencing stick, singlestick |
| baksheesh | (noun) a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter) | Synonyms: backsheesh, bakshis, bakshish, gratuity, pourboire, tip |
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| bakshis | (noun) a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter) | Synonyms: backsheesh, baksheesh, bakshish, gratuity, pourboire, tip |
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| bakshish | (noun) a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter) | Synonyms: backsheesh, baksheesh, bakshis, gratuity, pourboire, tip |
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| banksia | (noun) any shrub or tree of the genus Banksia having alternate leathery leaves apetalous yellow flowers often in showy heads and conelike fruit with winged seeds | - |
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| beatniks | (noun) a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop) | Synonyms: beat generation, beats |
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| blackseed | (noun) grass native to West Indies but common in southern United States having tufted wiry stems often infested with a dark fungus | Synonyms: carpet grass, smut grass, Sporobolus poiretii |
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| blacksmith | (noun) a smith who forges and shapes iron with a hammer and anvil | - |
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| blacksnake | (noun) blackish racer of the eastern United States that grows to six feet | Synonyms: black racer, Coluber constrictor |
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| (noun) large harmless shiny black North American snake | Synonyms: black rat snake, Elaphe obsoleta, mountain blacksnake, pilot blacksnake |
| blinks | (noun) small Indian lettuce of northern regions | Synonyms: blinking chickweed, Montia lamprosperma, water chickweed |
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| bobbysocks | (noun) a sock that reaches just above the ankle | Synonyms: anklet, anklets, bobbysock |
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| bollocks | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
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| bookseller | (noun) the proprietor of a bookstore | - |
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| bookshelf | (noun) a shelf on which to keep books | - |
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| bookshop | (noun) a shop where books are sold | Synonyms: bookstall, bookstore |
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| bookstall | (noun) a shop where books are sold | Synonyms: bookshop, bookstore |
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| bookstore | (noun) a shop where books are sold | Synonyms: bookshop, bookstall |
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| boondocks | (noun) a remote and undeveloped area | Synonyms: back country, backwoods, hinterland |
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| breakstone | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Saxifraga | Synonyms: rockfoil, saxifrage |
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| bucksaw | (noun) a saw that is set in a frame in the shape of an H; used with both hands to cut wood that is held in a sawbuck | - |
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| buckshee | (adjective) free of charge | - |
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| buckshot | (noun) small lead shot for shotgun shells | Synonyms: bird shot, duck shot |
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| buckskin | (noun) horse of a light yellowish dun color with dark mane and tail | - |
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| (noun) a soft yellowish suede leather originally from deerskin but now usually from sheepskin | - |
| buckskins | (noun) (used in the plural) breeches made of buckskin | - |
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| buttocks | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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| chalkstone | (noun) a deposit of urates around a joint or in the external ear; diagnostic of advanced or chronic gout | Synonyms: tophus |
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| checksum | (noun) a digit representing the sum of the digits in an instance of digital data; used to check whether errors have occurred in transmission or storage | - |
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| clerkship | (noun) the job of clerk | - |
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| clocks | (noun) European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up; often grown for forage | Synonyms: alfilaria, alfileria, Erodium cicutarium, filaree, filaria, pin clover, pin grass, redstem storksbill |
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| clocksmith | (noun) someone whose occupation is making or repairing clocks and watches | Synonyms: clockmaker |
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| cockscomb | (noun) the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds | Synonyms: comb, coxcomb |
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| (noun) a cap worn by court jesters; adorned with a strip of red | Synonyms: coxcomb |
| (noun) a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments | Synonyms: coxcomb |
| (noun) garden annual with featherlike spikes of red or yellow flowers | Synonyms: Celosia argentea cristata, Celosia cristata, common cockscomb |
| cocksfoot | (noun) widely grown stout Old World hay and pasture grass | Synonyms: cockspur, Dactylis glomerata, orchard grass |
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| cockspur | (noun) small spiny West Indian tree | Synonyms: Pisonia aculeata |
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| (noun) widely grown stout Old World hay and pasture grass | Synonyms: cocksfoot, Dactylis glomerata, orchard grass |
| cocksucker | (noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, bastard, dickhead, mother fucker, motherfucker, prick, shit, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
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| (noun) a person who performs fellatio | - |
| cocksure | (adjective) marked by excessive confidence | Synonyms: overconfident, positive |
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| cocksureness | (noun) total certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant | Synonyms: certitude, overconfidence |
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| cookstove | (noun) a stove for cooking (especially a wood- or coal-burning kitchen stove) | - |
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| corkscrew | (noun) a bottle opener that pulls corks | Synonyms: bottle screw |
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| (verb) move in a spiral or zigzag course | Synonyms: spiral |
| cracksman | (noun) a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents | Synonyms: safebreaker, safecracker |
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| crankshaft | (noun) a rotating shaft driven by (or driving) a crank | - |
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| dockside | (noun) the region adjacent to a boat dock | - |
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| folks | (noun) your parents | - |
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| (noun) people in general (often used in the plural) | Synonyms: common people, folk |
| folksong | (noun) a song that is traditionally sung by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture | Synonyms: folk ballad, folk song |
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| folksy | (adjective) very informal and familiar | - |
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| (adjective) belonging to the common people, especially in regard to speech patterns, attitudes, etc. | - |
| gasworks | (noun) the workplace where coal gas is manufactured | - |
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| glassworks | (noun) a workplace where glass is made | - |
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| goldilocks | (noun) early-flowering perennial of southern and southeastern Europe with flower heads resembling those of goldenrod | Synonyms: Aster linosyris, goldilocks aster, Linosyris vulgaris |
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| hacksaw | (noun) saw used with one hand for cutting metal | Synonyms: hack saw, metal saw |
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| hawksbill | (noun) pugnacious tropical sea turtle with a hawk-like beak; source of food and the best tortoiseshell | Synonyms: Eretmochelys imbricata, hawkbill, hawksbill turtle, tortoiseshell turtle |
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| hawkshaw | (noun) someone who is a detective | Synonyms: dick, gumshoe |
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| hijinks | (noun) noisy and mischievous merrymaking | Synonyms: high jinks, high jinx, jinks |
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| hooks | (noun) large strong hand (as of a fighter) | Synonyms: maulers, meat hooks |
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| huckster | (noun) a seller of shoddy goods | Synonyms: cheap-jack |
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| (noun) a person who writes radio or tv advertisements | - |
| (verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: hawk, monger, peddle, pitch, vend |
| (verb) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) | Synonyms: chaffer, haggle, higgle |
| inkstand | (noun) a tray or stand for writing implements and containers for ink | - |
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| (noun) a small well holding writing ink into which a pen can be dipped | Synonyms: inkwell |
| irksome | (adjective) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness | Synonyms: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome |
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| ironworks | (noun) the workplace where iron is smelted or where iron goods are made | - |
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| jacks | (noun) a game in which jackstones are thrown and picked up in various groups between bounces of a small rubber ball | Synonyms: jackstones, knucklebones |
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| jackscrew | (noun) screw-operated jack | Synonyms: screw jack |
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| jacksmelt | (noun) a relatively large silversides of the Pacific coast of North America (known to reach 18 inches in length) | Synonyms: Atherinopsis californiensis |
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| jacksnipe | (noun) American sandpiper that inflates its chest when courting | Synonyms: Calidris melanotos, pectoral sandpiper |
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| (noun) a small short-billed Old World snipe | Synonyms: half snipe, Limnocryptes minima |
| jackstones | (noun) a game in which jackstones are thrown and picked up in various groups between bounces of a small rubber ball | Synonyms: jacks, knucklebones |
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| (noun) game equipment consisting of one of several small six-pointed metal pieces that are picked up while bouncing a ball in the game of jacks | Synonyms: jack |
| jackstraw | (noun) a thin strip of wood used in playing the game of jackstraws | Synonyms: spillikin |
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| jackstraws | (noun) a game in which players try to pick each jackstraw (or spillikin) off of a pile without moving any of the others | Synonyms: spillikins |
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| jinks | (noun) noisy and mischievous merrymaking | Synonyms: high jinks, high jinx, hijinks |
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| jockstrap | (noun) a support for the genitals worn by men engaging in strenuous exercise | Synonyms: athletic supporter, jock, supporter, suspensor |
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| kickshaw | (noun) something considered choice to eat | Synonyms: dainty, delicacy, goody, treat |
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| kicksorter | (noun) scientific instrument consisting of an electronic circuit that permits only voltage pulses of predetermined height to pass | Synonyms: pulse height analyzer |
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| kickstand | (noun) a swiveling metal rod attached to a bicycle or motorcycle or other two-wheeled vehicle; the rod lies horizontally when not in use but can be kicked into a vertical position as a support to hold the vehicle upright when it is not being ridden | - |
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| knucks | (noun) (used in the plural) a small metal weapon; worn over the knuckles on the back of the hand | Synonyms: brass knuckles, brass knucks, knuckle duster, knuckles |
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| larkspur | (noun) any of numerous cultivated plants of the genus Delphinium | - |
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| links | (noun) a golf course that is built on sandy ground near a shore | Synonyms: golf links |
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| linksman | (noun) someone who plays the game of golf | Synonyms: golf player, golfer |
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| locksmith | (noun) someone who makes or repairs locks | - |
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| lockstep | (noun) a manner of marching in file in which each person's leg moves with and behind the corresponding leg of the person ahead | - |
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| (noun) a standard procedure that is followed mindlessly | - |
| lockstitch | (noun) machine stitch in which the top thread interlocks with the bobbin thread | - |
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| marksman | (noun) someone skilled in shooting | Synonyms: crack shot, sharpshooter |
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