| alfresco | (adjective) in the open air | Synonyms: open-air |
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| (adverb) outside a building | Synonyms: out of doors, outdoors, outside |
| arco | (adjective) (of instruments in the violin family) to be played with the bow | - |
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| barbasco | (noun) West Indian shrub or small tree having leathery saponaceous leaves and extremely hard wood | Synonyms: Jacquinia keyensis, joewood |
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| basuco | (noun) low-grade cocaine mixed with coca paste and cannabis | - |
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| bronco | (noun) an unbroken or imperfectly broken mustang | Synonyms: bronc, broncho |
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| bunco | (noun) a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property | Synonyms: bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, hustle, sting |
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| (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
| calico | (adjective) made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned | - |
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| (adjective) having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly | Synonyms: motley, multi-color, multi-colored, multi-colour, multi-coloured, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured |
| (noun) coarse cloth with a bright print | - |
| churrigueresco | (adjective) having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation | Synonyms: baroque, churrigueresque |
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| cisco | (noun) important food fish of cold deep lakes of North America | Synonyms: Coregonus artedi, lake herring |
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| (noun) cold-water fish caught in Lake Superior and northward | Synonyms: lake herring |
| coco | (noun) tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics | Synonyms: coco palm, cocoa palm, coconut, coconut palm, coconut tree, Cocos nucifera |
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| deco | (noun) a style of design that was popular in the 1920s and 1930s; marked by stylized forms and geometric designs adapted to mass production | Synonyms: art deco |
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| disco | (noun) a public dance hall for dancing to recorded popular music | Synonyms: discotheque |
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| (noun) popular dance music (especially in the late 1970s); melodic with a regular bass beat; intended mainly for dancing at discotheques | Synonyms: disco music |
| (verb) dance to disco music | - |
| fiasco | (noun) a sudden and violent collapse | Synonyms: debacle |
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| flamenco | (noun) a style of dancing characteristic of the Andalusian Gypsies; vigorous and rhythmic with clapping and stamping of feet | Synonyms: gypsy dancing |
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| (noun) guitar music composed for dancing the flamenco | - |
| fresco | (noun) a durable method of painting on a wall by using watercolors on wet plaster | - |
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| (noun) a mural done with watercolors on wet plaster | - |
| (verb) paint onto wet plaster on a wall | - |
| guanaco | (noun) wild llama | Synonyms: Lama guanicoe |
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| icaco | (noun) plum-shaped whitish to almost black fruit used for preserves; tropical American | Synonyms: coco plum, cocoa plum |
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| (noun) small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit | Synonyms: Chrysobalanus icaco, coco plum, coco plum tree, cocoa plum |
| junco | (noun) small North American finch seen chiefly in winter | Synonyms: snowbird |
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| loco | (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, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| magnifico | (noun) a person of distinguished rank or appearance | - |
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| medico | (noun) a licensed medical practitioner | Synonyms: doc, doctor, Dr., MD, physician |
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| (noun) a student in medical school | Synonyms: medical student |
| morocco | (noun) a soft pebble-grained leather made from goatskin; used for shoes and book bindings etc. | - |
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| pachuco | (noun) a Mexican-American teenager who belongs to a neighborhood gang and who dresses in showy clothes | - |
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| politico | (noun) a person active in party politics | Synonyms: pol, political leader, politician |
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| portico | (noun) a porch or entrance to a building consisting of a covered and often columned area | - |
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| recco | (noun) reconnaissance (by shortening) | Synonyms: recce, reccy |
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| rococo | (adjective) having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation | - |
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| (noun) fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and architecture that originated in France in the 18th century | - |
| sirocco | (noun) a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand | Synonyms: dust storm, duster, sandstorm |
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| stucco | (noun) a plaster now made mostly from Portland cement and sand and lime; applied while soft to cover exterior walls or surfaces | - |
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| (verb) coat with stucco | - |
| (verb) decorate with stucco work | - |
| tabasco | (noun) very hot red peppers; usually long and thin; some very small | Synonyms: red pepper |
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| taco | (noun) a tortilla rolled cupped around a filling | - |
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| (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Mexican descent | Synonyms: greaser, wetback |
| telco | (noun) a public utility that provides telephone service | Synonyms: phone company, phone service, telephone company, telephone service |
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| tobacco | (noun) leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion | Synonyms: baccy |
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| (noun) aromatic annual or perennial herbs and shrubs | Synonyms: tobacco plant |
| touraco | (noun) large brightly crested bird of Africa | Synonyms: turaco, turacou, turakoo |
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| turaco | (noun) large brightly crested bird of Africa | Synonyms: touraco, turacou, turakoo |
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| unco | (adverb) to a remarkable degree or extent | Synonyms: notably, remarkably, unusually |
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| zydeco | (noun) music of southern Louisiana that combines French dance melodies with Caribbean music and blues | - |
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