| airsick | (adjective) experiencing motion sickness | Synonyms: air sick, carsick, seasick |
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| bailiwick | (noun) a branch of knowledge | Synonyms: discipline, field, field of study, study, subject, subject area, subject field |
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| (noun) the area over which a bailiff has jurisdiction | - |
| baldrick | (noun) a wide (ornamented) belt worn over the right shoulder to support a sword or bugle by the left hip | Synonyms: baldric |
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| benedick | (noun) a newly married man (especially one who has long been a bachelor) | Synonyms: benedict |
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| billystick | (noun) a short stout club used primarily by policemen | Synonyms: baton, billy, billy club, nightstick, truncheon |
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| bluetick | (noun) a very fast American hound; white mottled with bluish grey | - |
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| bootlick | (verb) try to gain favor by cringing or flattering | Synonyms: fawn, kotow, kowtow, suck up, toady, truckle |
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| brainsick | (adjective) affected with madness or insanity | Synonyms: crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged |
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| breadstick | (noun) a crisp stick-shaped roll; often served with soup | Synonyms: bread-stick |
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| brick | (noun) rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material | - |
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| (noun) a good fellow; helpful and trustworthy | - |
| (verb) To stop working (of an electronic device) | - |
| broomstick | (noun) the handle of a broom | Synonyms: broom handle |
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| candlestick | (noun) a holder with sockets for candles | Synonyms: candle holder |
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| candlewick | (noun) the wick of a candle | - |
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| (noun) loops of soft yarn are cut to give a tufted pattern | - |
| carsick | (adjective) experiencing motion sickness | Synonyms: air sick, airsick, seasick |
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| chick | (noun) young bird especially of domestic fowl | Synonyms: biddy |
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| (noun) informal terms for a (young) woman | Synonyms: bird, dame, doll, skirt, wench |
| chopstick | (noun) one of a pair of slender sticks used as oriental tableware to eat food with | - |
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| click | (noun) depression of a button on a computer mouse | Synonyms: mouse click |
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| (noun) a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward | Synonyms: detent, dog, pawl |
| (noun) a stop consonant made by the suction of air into the mouth (as in Bantu) | Synonyms: suction stop |
| (noun) a short light metallic sound | Synonyms: chink, clink |
| (verb) become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions | Synonyms: come home, dawn, fall into place, get across, get through, penetrate, sink in |
| (verb) make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens | Synonyms: clack, cluck |
| (verb) produce a click | - |
| (verb) cause to make a snapping sound | Synonyms: flick, snap |
| (verb) move or strike with a noise | Synonyms: snap |
| (verb) make a clicking or ticking sound | Synonyms: tick |
| (verb) click repeatedly or uncontrollably | Synonyms: chatter |
| cottonwick | (noun) of warm Atlantic waters | Synonyms: Haemulon malanurum |
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| cowlick | (noun) a tuft of hair that grows in a different direction from the rest of the hair and usually will not lie flat | - |
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| crick | (noun) a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) | Synonyms: kink, rick, wrick |
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| (verb) twist (a body part) into a strained position | - |
| dabchick | (noun) small European grebe | Synonyms: little grebe, Podiceps ruficollis |
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| derrick | (noun) a simple crane having lifting tackle slung from a boom | - |
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| (noun) a framework erected over an oil well to allow drill tubes to be raised and lowered | - |
| detick | (verb) free (a pet) of ticks | - |
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| dick | (noun) obscene terms for penis | Synonyms: cock, pecker, prick, putz, shaft, tool |
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| (noun) someone who is a detective | Synonyms: gumshoe, hawkshaw |
| dipstick | (noun) a graduated rod dipped into a container to indicate the fluid level | - |
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| downtick | (noun) a transaction in the stock market at a price below the price of the preceding transaction | - |
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| dropkick | (noun) (football) kicking (as for a field goal) in which the football is dropped and kicked as it touches the ground | - |
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| (verb) make the point after a touchdown with a dropkick | Synonyms: drop-kick |
| (verb) drop and kick (a ball) as it touches the ground, as for a field goal | Synonyms: drop-kick |
| drumstick | (noun) a stick used for playing a drum | - |
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| (noun) the lower joint of the leg of a fowl | - |
| fiddlestick | (noun) a bow used in playing the violin | Synonyms: violin bow |
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| firebrick | (noun) brick made of fire clay; used for lining e.g. furnaces and chimneys | - |
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| flick | (noun) a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement | Synonyms: film, motion-picture show, motion picture, movie, moving-picture show, moving picture, pic, picture, picture show |
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| (noun) a short stroke | - |
| (noun) a light sharp contact (usually with something flexible) | - |
| (verb) remove with a flick (of the hand) | - |
| (verb) touch or hit with a light, quick blow | - |
| (verb) cause to make a snapping sound | Synonyms: click, snap |
| (verb) throw or toss with a quick motion | Synonyms: jerk |
| (verb) twitch or flutter | Synonyms: riffle, ruffle |
| (verb) cause to move with a flick | Synonyms: flip |
| (verb) flash intermittently | Synonyms: flicker |
| (verb) look through a book or other written material | Synonyms: flip, leaf, riff, riffle, thumb |
| (verb) shine unsteadily | Synonyms: flicker |
| gearstick | (noun) a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears | Synonyms: gear lever, gearshift, shifter |
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| gimmick | (noun) any clever maneuver | Synonyms: device, twist |
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| (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
| (noun) a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident | Synonyms: catch |
| goldbrick | (noun) anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless | - |
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| (noun) a brick-shaped block that looks like gold but is not | - |
| (noun) an idle worthless person | Synonyms: good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goof-off, ne'er-do-well, no-account |
| (noun) a soldier who performs his duties without proper care or effort | - |
| (verb) avoid (one's assigned duties) | Synonyms: fiddle, shirk, shrink from |
| (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
| greensick | (adjective) of or pertaining to or suffering from chlorosis | Synonyms: chlorotic |
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| haick | (noun) an outer garment consisting of a large piece of white cloth; worn by men and women in northern Africa | Synonyms: haik |
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| hayrick | (noun) a stack of hay | Synonyms: haystack, rick |
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| heartsick | (adjective) without or almost without hope | Synonyms: despondent |
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| (adjective) full of sorrow | Synonyms: brokenhearted, heartbroken |
| hick | (adjective) awkwardly simple and provincial | Synonyms: bumpkinly, rustic, unsophisticated |
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| (noun) a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture | Synonyms: bumpkin, chawbacon, hayseed, rube, yahoo, yokel |
| homesick | (adjective) longing to return home | - |
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| icepick | (noun) pick consisting of a steel rod with a sharp point; used for breaking up blocks of ice | Synonyms: ice pick |
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| joystick | (noun) a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane | Synonyms: control stick, stick |
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| (noun) a manual control consisting of a vertical handle that can move freely in two directions; used as an input device to computers or to devices controlled by computers | - |
| kick | (noun) the act of delivering a blow with the foot | Synonyms: boot, kicking |
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| (noun) a rhythmic thrusting movement of the legs as in swimming or calisthenics | Synonyms: kicking |
| (noun) the sudden stimulation provided by strong drink (or certain drugs) | - |
| (noun) informal terms for objecting | Synonyms: beef, bitch, gripe, squawk |
| (noun) the backward jerk of a gun when it is fired | Synonyms: recoil |
| (noun) the swift release of a store of affective force | Synonyms: bang, boot, charge, flush, rush, thrill |
| (verb) express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness | Synonyms: complain, kvetch, plain, quetch, sound off |
| (verb) make a goal | - |
| (verb) stop consuming | Synonyms: give up |
| (verb) strike with the foot | - |
| (verb) drive or propel with the foot | - |
| (verb) spring back, as from a forceful thrust | Synonyms: kick back, recoil |
| (verb) thrash about or strike out with the feet | - |
| (verb) kick a leg up | - |
| klick | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles) | Synonyms: kilometer, kilometre, km |
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| lick | (noun) touching with the tongue | Synonyms: lap |
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| (noun) (boxing) a blow with the fist | Synonyms: biff, clout, poke, punch, slug |
| (noun) a salt deposit that animals regularly lick | Synonyms: salt lick |
| (verb) find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of | Synonyms: figure out, puzzle out, solve, work, work out |
| (verb) take up with the tongue | Synonyms: lap, lap up |
| (verb) pass the tongue over | Synonyms: lap |
| (verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: bat, clobber, cream, drub, thrash |
| lightstick | (noun) A portable rod used for illumination. | - |
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| limerick | (noun) a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba | - |
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| lipstick | (noun) makeup that is used to color the lips | Synonyms: lip rouge |
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| (verb) apply lipstick to | - |
| (verb) form by tracing with lipstick | - |
| lovesick | (adjective) languishing because of love | - |
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| mahlstick | (noun) a long stick that a painter uses to support the hand holding the brush | Synonyms: maulstick |
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| matchstick | (noun) a short thin stick of wood used in making matches | - |
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| maulstick | (noun) a long stick that a painter uses to support the hand holding the brush | Synonyms: mahlstick |
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| maverick | (adjective) independent in behavior or thought | Synonyms: irregular, unorthodox |
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| (noun) an unbranded range animal (especially a stray calf); belongs to the first person who puts a brand on it | - |
| (noun) someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action | Synonyms: rebel |
| medick | (noun) any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves | Synonyms: medic, trefoil |
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| meterstick | (noun) a rule one meter long (usually marked off in centimeters and millimeters) | Synonyms: metrestick |
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| metrestick | (noun) a rule one meter long (usually marked off in centimeters and millimeters) | Synonyms: meterstick |
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| niblick | (noun) an iron with considerable loft | Synonyms: nine iron |
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| nick | (noun) a small cut | Synonyms: notch, snick |
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| (noun) (British slang) a prison | - |
| (noun) an impression in a surface (as made by a blow) | Synonyms: dent, ding, gouge |
| (verb) mate successfully; of livestock | - |
| (verb) divide or reset the tail muscles of | - |
| (verb) cut a nick into | Synonyms: chip |
| (verb) cut slightly, with a razor | Synonyms: snick |
| nightstick | (noun) a short stout club used primarily by policemen | Synonyms: baton, billy, billy club, billystick, truncheon |
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| nitpick | (verb) be overly critical; criticize minor details | - |
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| nonstick | (adjective) (of surfaces especially of cooking utensils) permitting easy removal of adherent food particles | - |
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| nudnick | (noun) (Yiddish) someone who is a boring pest | Synonyms: nudnik |
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| peachick | (noun) a young peafowl | Synonyms: pea-chick |
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| pick | (noun) the act of choosing or selecting | Synonyms: choice, option, selection |
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| (noun) a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body | - |
| (noun) a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends | Synonyms: pickax, pickaxe |
| (noun) a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material | - |
| (noun) the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving | Synonyms: filling, weft, woof |
| (noun) a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument | Synonyms: plectron, plectrum |
| (noun) the person or thing chosen or selected | Synonyms: choice, selection |
| (noun) the best people or things in a group | Synonyms: cream |
| (noun) the quantity of a crop that is harvested | Synonyms: picking |
| (verb) remove in small bits | - |
| (verb) remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits | Synonyms: clean |
| (verb) select carefully from a group | - |
| (verb) harass with constant criticism | Synonyms: blame, find fault |
| (verb) eat intermittently; take small bites of | Synonyms: nibble, piece |
| (verb) hit lightly with a picking motion | Synonyms: beak, peck |
| (verb) look for and gather | Synonyms: cull, pluck |
| (verb) attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example | Synonyms: break up |
| (verb) pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion | Synonyms: pluck, plunk |
| (verb) provoke | - |
| (verb) pay for something | Synonyms: foot |
| (verb) pilfer or rob | - |
| pinprick | (noun) small puncture (as if made by a pin) | - |
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| (noun) a minor annoyance | - |
| politick | (verb) engage in political activities | - |
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| prick | (noun) the act of puncturing with a small point | Synonyms: pricking |
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| (noun) obscene terms for penis | Synonyms: cock, dick, pecker, putz, shaft, tool |
| (noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, bastard, cocksucker, dickhead, mother fucker, motherfucker, shit, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
| (noun) a depression scratched or carved into a surface | Synonyms: dent, incision, scratch, slit |
| (verb) make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn | Synonyms: prickle |
| (verb) deliver a sting to | Synonyms: bite, sting |
| (verb) stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick | Synonyms: goad |
| (verb) to cause a sharp emotional pain | - |
| (verb) to stick up | Synonyms: cock up, prick up |
| (verb) cause a stinging pain | Synonyms: sting, twinge |
| (verb) cause a prickling sensation | Synonyms: prickle |
| quick | (adjective) moving quickly and lightly | Synonyms: agile, nimble, spry |
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| (adjective) easily aroused or excited | Synonyms: warm |
| (adjective) accomplished rapidly and without delay | Synonyms: speedy |
| (adjective) hurried and brief | Synonyms: fast, flying |
| (adjective) apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity | Synonyms: ready |
| (adjective) performed with little or no delay | Synonyms: immediate, prompt, straightaway |
| (noun) any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail) | - |
| (adverb) with little or no delay | Synonyms: promptly, quickly |
| redbrick | (adjective) of or relating to British universities founded in the late 19th century or the 20th century | Synonyms: red-brick |
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| retick | (verb) sew | Synonyms: tick |
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| rick | (noun) a stack of hay | Synonyms: hayrick, haystack |
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| (noun) a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) | Synonyms: crick, kink, wrick |
| (verb) twist suddenly so as to sprain | Synonyms: sprain, turn, twist, wrench, wrick |
| (verb) pile in ricks | - |
| rollick | (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, romp, run around, skylark, sport |
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| schtick | (noun) (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention | Synonyms: schtik, shtick, shtik |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning | Synonyms: schtik, shtick, shtik |
| (noun) (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating | Synonyms: schtik, shtick, shtik |
| (noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece | Synonyms: schtik, shtick, shtik |
| seasick | (adjective) experiencing motion sickness | Synonyms: air sick, airsick, carsick |
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| shtick | (noun) (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtik |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtik |
| (noun) (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtik |
| (noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtik |
| sick | (adjective) affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function | Synonyms: ill |
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| (adjective) shockingly repellent; inspiring horror | Synonyms: ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre |
| (adjective) having a strong distaste from surfeit | Synonyms: disgusted, fed up, sick of, tired of |
| (adjective) affected with madness or insanity | Synonyms: brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, unbalanced, unhinged |
| (adjective) deeply affected by a strong feeling | - |
| (adjective) (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble | Synonyms: pale, pallid, wan |
| (adjective) feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit | Synonyms: nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sickish |
| (noun) people who are sick | - |
| (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
| sidekick | (noun) a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities | Synonyms: brother, buddy, chum, crony, pal |
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| singlestick | (noun) a stick used instead of a sword for fencing | Synonyms: backsword, fencing stick |
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| slapstick | (adjective) characterized by horseplay and physical action | - |
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| (noun) acoustic device consisting of two paddles hinged together; used by an actor to make a loud noise without inflicting injury when striking someone | - |
| (noun) a boisterous comedy with chases and collisions and practical jokes | - |
| slick | (adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily |
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| (adjective) having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; being of a smooth, soft and lustrous quality, resembling silk | Synonyms: satiny, silken, silklike, silky, sleek |
| (adjective) having only superficial plausibility | Synonyms: glib, pat |
| (adjective) made slick by e.g. ice or grease | - |
| (adjective) superficially impressive, but lacking depth and attention to the true complexities of a subject | Synonyms: facile, neat |
| (noun) a trowel used to make a surface slick | - |
| (noun) a film of oil or garbage floating on top of water | - |
| (noun) a slippery smoothness | Synonyms: slickness, slip, slipperiness |
| (noun) a magazine printed on good quality paper | Synonyms: glossy, slick magazine |
| (verb) give a smooth and glossy appearance | Synonyms: sleek down, slick down |
| (verb) make slick or smooth | Synonyms: sleek |
| slipstick | (noun) analog computer consisting of a handheld instrument used for rapid calculations; have been replaced by pocket calculators | Synonyms: slide rule |
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| snick | (noun) a small cut | Synonyms: nick, notch |
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| (noun) a glancing contact with the ball off the edge of the cricket bat | - |
| (verb) cut slightly, with a razor | Synonyms: nick |
| (verb) hit a glancing blow with the edge of the bat | - |
| spick | (adjective) completely neat and clean | Synonyms: immaculate, speckless, spic-and-span, spic, spick-and-span, spotless |
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| (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for persons of Latin American descent | Synonyms: spic, spik |
| stick | (noun) threat of a penalty | - |
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| (noun) an implement consisting of a length of wood | - |
| (noun) a long thin implement resembling a length of wood | - |
| (noun) marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking | Synonyms: joint, marijuana cigarette, reefer, spliff |
| (noun) a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane | Synonyms: control stick, joystick |
| (noun) a long implement (usually made of wood) that is shaped so that hockey or polo players can hit a puck or ball | - |
| (noun) informal terms for the leg | Synonyms: peg, pin |
| (noun) a rectangular quarter pound block of butter or margarine | - |
| (noun) a small thin branch of a tree | - |
| (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stupefy, vex |
| (verb) saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous | Synonyms: sting |
| (verb) stick to firmly | Synonyms: adhere, bind, bond, hold fast, stick to |
| (verb) come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation | Synonyms: adhere, cleave, cling, cohere |
| (verb) put, fix, force, or implant | Synonyms: deposit, lodge, wedge |
| (verb) pierce or penetrate or puncture with something pointed | - |
| (verb) pierce with a thrust using a pointed instrument | - |
| (verb) fasten with an adhesive material like glue | - |
| (verb) fasten with or as with pins or nails | - |
| (verb) fasten into place by fixing an end or point into something | - |
| (verb) cover and decorate with objects that pierce the surface | - |
| (verb) be in a certain place and not leave | Synonyms: persist, remain, stay, stay put, stick around |
| (verb) be loyal to | Synonyms: adhere, stand by, stick by |
| (verb) endure | - |
| (verb) be a devoted follower or supporter | Synonyms: adhere |
| (verb) be or become fixed | - |
| thick | (adjective) not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions | - |
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| (adjective) relatively dense in consistency | - |
| (adjective) abounding; having a lot of | - |
| (adjective) (used informally) associated on close terms | Synonyms: buddy-buddy, chummy |
| (adjective) having component parts closely crowded together | Synonyms: dense |
| (adjective) hard to pass through because of dense growth | Synonyms: dense |
| (adjective) (of darkness) densely dark | Synonyms: deep |
| (adjective) having a short and solid form or stature | Synonyms: compact, heavyset, stocky, thickset |
| (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: blockheaded, boneheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
| (adjective) spoken as if with a thick tongue | Synonyms: slurred |
| (noun) the location of something surrounded by other things | Synonyms: midst |
| (adverb) in quick succession | Synonyms: thickly |
| (adverb) with a thick consistency | Synonyms: thickly |
| tick | (noun) any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals | - |
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| (noun) a light mattress | - |
| (noun) a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc. | Synonyms: check, check mark |
| (noun) a metallic tapping sound | Synonyms: ticking |
| (verb) put a check mark on or near or next to | Synonyms: check, check off, mark, mark off, tick off |
| (verb) sew | Synonyms: retick |
| (verb) make a clicking or ticking sound | Synonyms: click |
| (verb) make a sound like a clock or a timer | Synonyms: beat, ticktack, ticktock |
| toothpick | (noun) pick consisting of a small strip of wood or plastic; used to pick food from between the teeth | - |
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| trick | (noun) a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement | Synonyms: antic, caper, joke, prank, put-on |
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| (noun) (card games) in a single round, the sequence of cards played by all the players; the high card is the winner | - |
| (noun) an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers | Synonyms: conjuration, conjuring trick, deception, illusion, legerdemain, magic, magic trick, thaumaturgy |
| (noun) an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent | - |
| (noun) a cunning or deceitful action or device | Synonyms: fast one |
| (noun) a prostitute's customer | Synonyms: john, whoremaster, whoremonger |
| (noun) a period of work or duty | - |
| (verb) deceive somebody | Synonyms: flim-flam, fob, fox, play a joke on, play a trick on, play tricks, pull a fast one on |
| unpick | (verb) become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of | Synonyms: unknot, unravel, unscramble, untangle |
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| (verb) undo (the stitches) of (a piece of sewing) | - |
| uptick | (noun) a transaction in the stock market at a price above the price of the preceding transaction | - |
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| walkingstick | (noun) any of various mostly tropical insects having long twiglike bodies | Synonyms: stick insect, walking stick |
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| wick | (noun) a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame | Synonyms: taper |
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| (noun) any piece of cord that conveys liquid by capillary action | - |
| wrick | (noun) a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) | Synonyms: crick, kink, rick |
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| (verb) twist suddenly so as to sprain | Synonyms: rick, sprain, turn, twist, wrench |
| yardstick | (noun) a ruler or tape that is three feet long | Synonyms: yard measure |
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| (noun) a measure or standard used for comparison | - |