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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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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boondocks | (noun) a remote and undeveloped area | Synonyms: back country, backwoods, hinterland |
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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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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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folks | (noun) your parents | - |
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(noun) people in general (often used in the plural) | Synonyms: common people, folk |
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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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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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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jinks | (noun) noisy and mischievous merrymaking | Synonyms: high jinks, high jinx, hijinks |
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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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links | (noun) a golf course that is built on sandy ground near a shore | Synonyms: golf links |
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megabucks | (noun) a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit) | Synonyms: big bucks, big money, bundle, pile |
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metalworks | (noun) factory where metal castings are produced | Synonyms: foundry |
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punks | (noun) a youth subculture closely associated with punk rock music in the late 1970s; in part a reaction to the hippy subculture; dress was optional but intended to shock (plastic garbage bags or old school uniforms) and hair was dyed in bright colors (in Mohican haircuts or sometimes spiked in bright plumes) | - |
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saltworks | (noun) a plant where salt is produced commercially | - |
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shucks | (noun) something of little value | Synonyms: damn, darn, hoot, red cent, shit, tinker's dam, tinker's damn |
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(noun) an expression of disappointment or irritation | - |
silks | (noun) the brightly colored garments of a jockey; emblematic of the stable | - |
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slacks | (noun) (used in the plural) pants for casual wear | - |
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spindleshanks | (noun) long thin legs | Synonyms: spindlelegs |
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(noun) a thin person with long thin legs | Synonyms: spindlelegs |
stacks | (noun) storage space in a library consisting of an extensive arrangement of bookshelves where most of the books are stored | - |
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(noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, tons, wads |
steelworks | (noun) a factory where steel is made | Synonyms: steel factory, steel mill, steel plant |
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stocks | (noun) a former instrument of punishment consisting of a heavy timber frame with holes in which the feet (and sometimes the hands) of an offender could be locked | - |
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(noun) a frame for constraining an animal while it is receiving veterinary attention or while being shod | - |
(noun) a frame that supports a boat while it is under construction | - |
talks | (noun) a discussion intended to produce an agreement | Synonyms: dialogue, negotiation |
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thanks | (noun) with the help of or owing to | - |
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(noun) an acknowledgment of appreciation | - |
tiddlywinks | (noun) a game in which players try to flip plastic disks into a cup by pressing them on the side sharply with a larger disk | - |
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trunks | (noun) (used in the plural) trousers that end at or above the knee | Synonyms: short pants, shorts |
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waterworks | (noun) workplace where water is stored and purified and distributed for a community | - |
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(noun) a public utility that provides water | Synonyms: water company |
works | (noun) performance of moral or religious acts | Synonyms: deeds |
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(noun) the internal mechanism of a device | Synonyms: workings |
(noun) buildings for carrying on industrial labor | Synonyms: industrial plant, plant |
(noun) everything available; usually preceded by `the' | Synonyms: full treatment, kit and boodle, kit and caboodle, whole caboodle, whole kit, whole kit and boodle, whole kit and caboodle, whole shebang, whole works |