cribbage | (noun) a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two | Synonyms: crib |
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dribble | (noun) the propulsion of a ball by repeated taps or kicks | Synonyms: dribbling |
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(noun) saliva spilling from the mouth | Synonyms: drivel, drool, slobber |
(noun) flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid | Synonyms: drip, trickle |
(verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth | Synonyms: drivel, drool, slabber, slaver, slobber |
(verb) propel | Synonyms: carry |
(verb) let or cause to fall in drops | Synonyms: drip, drop |
(verb) run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream | Synonyms: filter, trickle |
dribbler | (noun) a person who dribbles | Synonyms: driveller, drooler, slobberer |
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(noun) a basketball player who is dribbling the ball to advance it | - |
dribbling | (noun) the propulsion of a ball by repeated taps or kicks | Synonyms: dribble |
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ribband | (noun) a ribbon used as a decoration | Synonyms: riband |
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ribbed | (adjective) furnished or strengthened with ribs | - |
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(adjective) (of the surface) having a rough, riblike texture | Synonyms: costate |
ribbing | (noun) the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances | Synonyms: tantalization, tease, teasing |
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(noun) a framework of ribs | - |
ribbon | (noun) notion consisting of a narrow strip of fine material used for trimming | - |
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(noun) a long strip of inked material for making characters on paper with a typewriter | Synonyms: typewriter ribbon |
(noun) an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event | Synonyms: decoration, laurel wreath, medal, medallion, palm |
(noun) any long object resembling a thin line | Synonyms: thread |
ribbonfish | (noun) marine fish having a long compressed ribbonlike body | - |
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(noun) thin deep-water tropical fish 20 to 30 feet long having a red dorsal fin | Synonyms: king of the herring, oarfish, Regalecus glesne |
ribbonlike | (adjective) long and thin; resembling a ribbon | Synonyms: ribbony |
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ribbonwood | (noun) small tree or shrub of New Zealand having a profusion of axillary clusters of honey-scented paper-white flowers and whose bark is used for cordage | Synonyms: Hoheria populnea, houhere, lacebark |
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(noun) deciduous New Zealand tree whose inner bark yields a strong fiber that resembles flax and is called New Zealand cotton | Synonyms: Plagianthus betulinus, Plagianthus regius, ribbon tree |
ribbony | (adjective) long and thin; resembling a ribbon | Synonyms: ribbonlike |
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scribble | (noun) an aimless drawing | Synonyms: doodle, scrabble |
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(noun) poor handwriting | Synonyms: cacography, scratch, scrawl |
(verb) write down quickly without much attention to detail | Synonyms: scrabble |
(verb) write carelessly | Synonyms: scrawl |
scribbler | (noun) a writer whose handwriting is careless and hard to read | Synonyms: scrawler |
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(noun) informal terms for journalists | Synonyms: penman, scribe |