| ankus | (noun) an elephant goad with a sharp spike and a hook | - |
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| backup | (noun) the act of providing approval and support | Synonyms: backing, championship, patronage |
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| (noun) (computer science) a copy of a file or directory on a separate storage device | Synonyms: computer backup |
| (noun) a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts | Synonyms: accompaniment, musical accompaniment, support |
| (noun) someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult) | Synonyms: backup man, fill-in, relief, reliever, stand-in, substitute |
| (noun) an accumulation caused by clogging or a stoppage | - |
| breakup | (noun) the termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations) | Synonyms: dissolution |
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| (noun) coming apart | Synonyms: detachment, separation |
| bunkum | (noun) unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) | Synonyms: buncombe, bunk, guff, hogwash, rot |
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| checkup | (noun) a thorough physical examination; includes a variety of tests depending on the age and sex and health of the person | Synonyms: health check, medical, medical checkup, medical exam, medical examination |
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| cockup | (noun) something badly botched or muddled | Synonyms: balls-up, ballup, mess-up |
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| fuckup | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, pratfall |
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| (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, botcher, bumbler, bungler, butcher, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
| haiku | (noun) an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines | - |
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| hokum | (noun) a message that seems to convey no meaning | Synonyms: bunk, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality |
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| hookup | (noun) a system of components assembled together for a particular purpose | Synonyms: assemblage |
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| (noun) a device providing a connection between a power source and a user | - |
| karakul | (noun) hardy coarse-haired sheep of central Asia; lambs are valued for their soft curly black fur | Synonyms: broadtail, caracul |
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| khukuri | (noun) a curved steel knife with a razor-sharp edge used in combat by the Gurkhas; has cultural and religious significance in Nepal | - |
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| kudos | (noun) an expression of approval and commendation | Synonyms: congratulations, extolment, praise |
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| kudu | (noun) either of two spiral-horned antelopes of the African bush | Synonyms: koodoo, koudou |
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| kudzu | (noun) fast-growing vine from eastern Asia having tuberous starchy roots and hairy trifoliate leaves and racemes of purple flowers followed by long hairy pods containing many seeds; grown for fodder and forage and root starch; widespread in the southern United States | Synonyms: kudzu vine, Pueraria lobata |
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| kumis | (noun) an alcoholic beverage made from fermented mare's milk; made originally by nomads of central Asia | Synonyms: koumiss |
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| kummel | (noun) liqueur flavored with caraway seed or cumin | - |
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| kumquat | (noun) small oval citrus fruit with thin sweet rind and very acid pulp | - |
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| (noun) any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Fortunella bearing small orange-colored edible fruits with thick sweet-flavored skin and sour pulp | Synonyms: cumquat, kumquat tree |
| kunzite | (noun) a pinkish lilac crystal form of the mineral spodumene that is used as a gemstone | - |
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| kurakkan | (noun) East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient | Synonyms: African millet, coracan, corakan, Eleusine coracana, finger millet, ragee, ragi |
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| kurchee | (noun) tropical Asian tree with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea | Synonyms: conessi, Holarrhena antidysenterica, Holarrhena pubescens, ivory tree, kurchi |
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| kurchi | (noun) tropical Asian tree with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea | Synonyms: conessi, Holarrhena antidysenterica, Holarrhena pubescens, ivory tree, kurchee |
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| kurrajong | (noun) widely distributed tree of eastern Australia yielding a tough durable fiber and soft light attractively grained wood; foliage is an important emergency food for cattle | Synonyms: Brachychiton populneus, currajong |
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| kurrat | (noun) coarse Old World perennial having a large bulb and tall stalk of greenish purple-tinged flowers; widely naturalized | Synonyms: Allium ampeloprasum, Levant garlic, wild leek |
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| kurta | (noun) a loose collarless shirt worn by many people on the Indian subcontinent (usually with a salwar or churidars or pyjama) | - |
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| kuru | (noun) a progressive disease of the central nervous system marked by increasing lack of coordination and advancing to paralysis and death within a year of the appearance of symptoms; thought to have been transmitted by cannibalistic consumption of diseased brain tissue since the disease virtually disappeared when cannibalism was abandoned | - |
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| kurus | (noun) 100 kurus equal 1 lira in Turkey | Synonyms: piaster, piastre |
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| kutch | (noun) tannin extract derived from any of several mangrove barks of Pacific areas | Synonyms: cutch |
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| kuvasz | (noun) long-established Hungarian breed of tall light-footed but sturdy white dog; used also as a hunting dog | - |
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| likuta | (noun) 100 makuta equal 1 zaire in Zaire | - |
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| linkup | (noun) a fastener that serves to join or connect | Synonyms: link, tie-in, tie |
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| lockup | (noun) the act of locking something up to protect it | Synonyms: locking |
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| (noun) jail in a local police station | - |
| lookup | (noun) an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property | Synonyms: search |
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| markup | (noun) detailed stylistic instructions for typesetting something that is to be printed; manual markup is usually written on the copy (e.g. underlining words that are to be set in italics) | - |
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| (noun) the amount added to the cost to determine the asking price | - |
| numskull | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, shithead |
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| oakum | (noun) loose hemp or jute fiber obtained by unravelling old ropes; when impregnated with tar it was used to caulk seams and pack joints in wooden ships | - |
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| pfannkuchen | (noun) puffy mildly sweet lemon-flavored egg mixture sprinkled with confectioners' sugar and served with jam or a wine or fruit sauce | Synonyms: german pancake |
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| pickup | (noun) the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places | - |
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| (noun) the act of taking aboard passengers or freight | - |
| (noun) a light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard | Synonyms: pickup truck |
| (noun) an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable | Synonyms: cartridge |
| (noun) mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge | Synonyms: pickup arm, tone arm |
| (noun) anything with restorative powers | Synonyms: pick-me-up |
| (noun) the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration | Synonyms: getaway |
| (noun) a warrant to take someone into custody | - |
| (noun) a casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships | - |
| puku | (noun) an African antelope closely related to the waterbuck | Synonyms: Adenota vardoni |
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| ruckus | (noun) the act of making a noisy disturbance | Synonyms: commotion, din, ruction, rumpus, tumult |
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| seppuku | (noun) ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society | Synonyms: hara-kiri, harakiri, harikari |
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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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| skulk | (verb) move furtively | - |
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| (verb) avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill | Synonyms: malinger |
| (verb) lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner | Synonyms: lurk |
| 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 |
| (verb) defeat by a lurch | Synonyms: lurch |
| 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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| sodoku | (noun) the form of ratbite fever occurring in the Far East | Synonyms: spirillum fever |
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| stickup | (noun) robbery at gunpoint | Synonyms: armed robbery, heist, holdup |
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| sudoku | (noun) a number puzzle in which the numbers 1 through 9 must be placed into a grid of cells so that each row or column contains only one of each number | - |
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| ukulele | (noun) a small guitar having four strings | Synonyms: uke |
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| wickup | (noun) tall North American perennial with creeping rootstocks and narrow leaves and spikes of pinkish-purple flowers occurring in great abundance in burned-over areas or recent clearings; an important honey plant | Synonyms: Epilobium angustifolium, fireweed, giant willowherb, rosebay willowherb |
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| yakuza | (noun) organized crime in Japan; an alliance of criminal organizations and illegal enterprises | - |
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| (noun) a Japanese gangster | - |
| zikkurat | (noun) a rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians | Synonyms: ziggurat, zikurat |
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| zikurat | (noun) a rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians | Synonyms: ziggurat, zikkurat |
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