backstroker | (noun) someone who swims the backstroke | - |
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bialystoker | (noun) flat crusty-bottomed onion roll | Synonyms: bialy |
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booker | (noun) someone who engages a person or company for performances | Synonyms: booking agent |
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breaststroker | (noun) someone who swims the breaststroke | - |
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broker | (noun) a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission | Synonyms: agent, factor |
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(verb) act as a broker | - |
choker | (noun) a high tight collar | Synonyms: neck ruff, ruff, ruffle |
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(noun) necklace that fits tightly around a woman's neck | Synonyms: collar, dog collar, neckband |
(noun) someone who kills by strangling | Synonyms: garroter, garrotter, strangler, throttler |
(noun) an unfortunate person who is unable to perform effectively because of nervous tension or agitation | - |
cooker | (noun) a utensil for cooking | - |
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hogchoker | (noun) useless as food; in coastal streams from Maine to Texas and Panama | Synonyms: Trinectes maculatus |
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hooker | (noun) a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets | Synonyms: floozie, floozy, hustler, slattern, street girl, streetwalker |
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(noun) (rugby) the player in the middle of the front row of the scrum who tries to capture the ball with the foot | - |
(noun) a golfer whose shots typically curve left (for right-handed golfers) | - |
joker | (noun) a playing card that is usually printed with a picture of a jester | - |
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(noun) an inconspicuous clause in a document or bill that affects its meaning in a way that is not immediately apparent | - |
(noun) a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes | Synonyms: jokester |
(noun) a person who does something thoughtless or annoying | Synonyms: turkey |
looker | (noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: beauty, dish, knockout, lulu, mantrap, peach, ravisher, smasher, stunner, sweetheart |
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(noun) a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind) | Synonyms: spectator, viewer, watcher, witness |
nonsmoker | (noun) a passenger car for passengers who want to avoid tobacco smoke | Synonyms: nonsmoking car |
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(noun) a person who does not smoke tobacco | - |
onlooker | (noun) someone who looks on | Synonyms: looker-on |
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pawnbroker | (noun) a person who lends money at interest in exchange for personal property that is deposited as security | - |
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poker | (noun) any of various card games in which players bet that they hold the highest-ranking hand | Synonyms: poker game |
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(noun) fire iron consisting of a metal rod with a handle; used to stir a fire | Synonyms: fire hook, salamander, stove poker |
powerbroker | (noun) a person who is important by virtue of the people or votes they control | Synonyms: power broker |
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provoker | (noun) someone who deliberately foments trouble | Synonyms: firebrand, inciter, instigant, instigator |
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smoker | (noun) a passenger car for passengers who wish to smoke | Synonyms: smoking car, smoking carriage, smoking compartment |
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(noun) a party for men only (or one considered suitable for men only) | Synonyms: stag party |
(noun) a person who smokes tobacco | Synonyms: tobacco user |
snooker | (noun) a form of pool played with 15 red balls and six balls of other colors and a cue ball | - |
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(verb) leave one's opponent unable to take a direct shot | - |
(verb) fool or dupe | - |
stockbroker | (noun) an agent in the buying and selling of stocks and bonds | - |
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stoker | (noun) a mechanical device for stoking a furnace | - |
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(noun) a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship) | Synonyms: fireman |