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aback
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adv 1: having the wind against the forward side of the sails;
"the ship came up into the wind with all yards aback"
2: by surprise; "taken aback by the caustic remarks"
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almanac
0
n 1: an annual publication including weather forecasts and other
miscellaneous information arranged according to the
calendar of a given year [syn: almanac, farmer's
calendar]
2: an annual publication containing tabular information in a
particular field or fields arranged according to the calendar
of a given year
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amberjack
0
n 1: any of several amber to coppery fork-tailed warm-water
carangid fishes [syn: amberjack, amberfish]
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ammoniac
0
adj 1: pertaining to or containing or similar to ammonia [syn:
ammoniac, ammoniacal]
n 1: the aromatic gum of the ammoniac plant [syn: ammoniac,
gum ammoniac]
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amnesiac
0
adj 1: suffering from a partial loss of memory [syn: amnesic,
amnesiac]
n 1: a person suffering from amnesia [syn: amnesic,
amnesiac]
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amphibrach
0
n 1: a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed-unstressed
syllables (e.g., `remember')
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anorak
0
n 1: a kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term)
[syn: parka, windbreaker, windcheater, anorak]
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aphrodisiac
0
adj 1: exciting sexual desire [syn: aphrodisiac,
aphrodisiacal, sexy] [ant: anaphrodisiac]
n 1: a drug or other agent that stimulates sexual desire
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applejack
0
n 1: distilled from hard cider
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attack
0
n 1: (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons);
"the attack began at dawn" [syn: attack, onslaught,
onset, onrush]
2: an offensive move in a sport or game; "they won the game with
a 10-hit attack in the 9th inning"
3: intense adverse criticism; "Clinton directed his fire at the
Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack";
"don't give me any flak" [syn: fire, attack, flak,
flack, blast]
4: ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or
situation; "his approach to every problem is to draw up a
list of pros and cons"; "an attack on inflation"; "his plan
of attack was misguided" [syn: approach, attack, plan of
attack]
5: the act of attacking; "attacks on women increased last year";
"they made an attempt on his life" [syn: attack, attempt]
6: a decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase [syn:
attack, tone-beginning]
7: a sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition; "an
attack of diarrhea"
8: the onset of a corrosive or destructive process (as by a
chemical agent); "the film was sensitive to attack by acids";
"open to attack by the elements"
9: strong criticism; "he published an unexpected attack on my
work"
v 1: launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start
warfare with; "Hitler attacked Poland on September 1, 1939
and started World War II"; "Serbian forces assailed Bosnian
towns all week" [syn: attack, assail] [ant: defend]
2: attack in speech or writing; "The editors of the left-leaning
paper attacked the new House Speaker" [syn: attack,
round, assail, lash out, snipe, assault]
3: take the initiative and go on the offensive; "The Serbs
attacked the village at night"; "The visiting team started to
attack" [syn: attack, aggress]
4: attack someone physically or emotionally; "The mugger
assaulted the woman"; "Nightmares assailed him regularly"
[syn: assail, assault, set on, attack]
5: set to work upon; turn one's energies vigorously to a task;
"I attacked the problem as soon as I got out of bed"
6: begin to injure; "The cancer cells are attacking his liver";
"Rust is attacking the metal"
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back
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adv 1: in or to or toward a former location; "she went back to
her parents' house"
2: at or to or toward the back or rear; "he moved back";
"tripped when he stepped backward"; "she looked rearward out
the window of the car" [syn: back, backward, backwards,
rearward, rearwards] [ant: forrad, forrard,
forward, forwards, frontward, frontwards]
3: in or to or toward an original condition; "he went back to
sleep"
4: in or to or toward a past time; "set the clocks back an
hour"; "never look back"; "lovers of the past looking fondly
backward" [syn: back, backward] [ant: ahead, forward]
5: in reply; "he wrote back three days later"
6: in repayment or retaliation; "we paid back everything we had
borrowed"; "he hit me and I hit him back"; "I was kept in
after school for talking back to the teacher"
adj 1: related to or located at the back; "the back yard"; "the
back entrance" [ant: front(a)]
2: located at or near the back of an animal; "back (or hind)
legs"; "the hinder part of a carcass" [syn: back(a),
hind(a), hinder(a)]
3: of an earlier date; "back issues of the magazine"
n 1: the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the
neck to the end of the spine; "his back was nicely tanned"
[syn: back, dorsum]
2: the side that goes last or is not normally seen; "he wrote
the date on the back of the photograph" [syn: rear, back]
[ant: front]
3: the part of something that is furthest from the normal
viewer; "he stood at the back of the stage"; "it was hidden
in the rear of the store" [syn: back, rear] [ant:
front]
4: (football) a person who plays in the backfield
5: the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and
protecting the spinal cord; "the fall broke his back" [syn:
spinal column, vertebral column, spine, backbone,
back, rachis]
6: the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a
book; "the book had a leather binding" [syn: binding, book
binding, cover, back]
7: the part of a garment that covers the back of your body;
"they pinned a `kick me' sign on his back"
8: a support that you can lean against while sitting; "the back
of the dental chair was adjustable" [syn: back, backrest]
9: (American football) the position of a player on a football
team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage
v 1: be behind; approve of; "He plumped for the Labor Party"; "I
backed Kennedy in 1960" [syn: back, endorse, indorse,
plump for, plunk for, support]
2: travel backward; "back into the driveway"; "The car backed up
and hit the tree"
3: give support or one's approval to; "I'll second that motion";
"I can't back this plan"; "endorse a new project" [syn:
second, back, endorse, indorse]
4: cause to travel backward; "back the car into the parking
spot" [ant: advance, bring forward]
5: support financial backing for; "back this enterprise"
6: be in back of; "My garage backs their yard" [ant: face,
front, look]
7: place a bet on; "Which horse are you backing?"; "I'm betting
on the new horse" [syn: bet on, back, gage, stake,
game, punt]
8: shift to a counterclockwise direction; "the wind backed"
[ant: veer]
9: establish as valid or genuine; "Can you back up your claims?"
[syn: back, back up]
10: strengthen by providing with a back or backing
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backpack
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n 1: a bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder [syn:
backpack, back pack, knapsack, packsack,
rucksack, haversack]
v 1: hike with a backpack; "Every summer they are backpacking in
the Rockies" [syn: backpack, pack]
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backtrack
0
v 1: retrace one's course; "The hikers got into a storm and had
to turn back" [syn: backtrack, turn back, double
back]
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bareback
0
adv 1: without a saddle; "she prefers to ride her horse
bareback" [syn: bareback, barebacked]
adj 1: riding without a saddle; "a bareback rider" [syn:
bareback, barebacked]
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biofeedback
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n 1: a training program in which a person is given information
about physiological processes (heart rate or blood
pressure) that is not normally available with the goal of
gaining conscious control of them
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bivouac
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n 1: temporary living quarters specially built by the army for
soldiers; "wherever he went in the camp the men were
grumbling" [syn: camp, encampment, cantonment,
bivouac]
2: a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent [syn:
campsite, campground, camping site, camping ground,
bivouac, encampment, camping area]
v 1: live in or as if in a tent; "Can we go camping again this
summer?"; "The circus tented near the town"; "The
houseguests had to camp in the living room" [syn: camp,
encamp, camp out, bivouac, tent]
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black
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adj 1: being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having
little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all
incident light; "black leather jackets"; "as black as
coal"; "rich black soil" [ant: white]
2: of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially
of sub-Saharan African origin; "a great people--a black
people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of
civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr. [ant: white]
3: marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks";
"black words"
4: offering little or no hope; "the future looked black";
"prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always
been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of
things" [syn: black, bleak, dim]
5: stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or
dishonorable; "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart
has concocted yet another black deed"; "Darth Vader of the
dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic
hostility"; "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on
punishing him"-Thomas Hardy [syn: black, dark,
sinister]
6: (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire
consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on
Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a
disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if
true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles
Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win
it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error" [syn: black,
calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful]
7: (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood;
"a face black with fury" [syn: black, blackened]
8: extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-
black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar" [syn:
black, pitch-black, pitch-dark]
9: harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke";
"grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to
savage mordant wit" [syn: black, grim, mordant]
10: (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; "black
propaganda"
11: distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no
taxes" [syn: bootleg, black, black-market,
contraband, smuggled]
12: (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing
disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest
records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel
Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an
opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of
cowardice" [syn: black, disgraceful, ignominious,
inglorious, opprobrious, shameful]
13: (of coffee) without cream or sugar
14: soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing
outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour" [syn:
black, smutty]
n 1: the quality or state of the achromatic color of least
lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) [syn:
black, blackness, inkiness] [ant: white,
whiteness]
2: total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total
darkness"; "in the black of night" [syn: total darkness,
lightlessness, blackness, pitch blackness, black]
3: British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who
formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat
(1728-1799) [syn: Black, Joseph Black]
4: popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928) [syn:
Black, Shirley Temple Black, Shirley Temple]
5: a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose
ancestors came from Africa) [syn: Black, Black person,
blackamoor, Negro, Negroid]
6: (board games) the darker pieces [ant: white]
7: black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning); "the widow wore
black"
v 1: make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling";
"The ceiling blackened" [syn: blacken, melanize,
melanise, nigrify, black] [ant: white, whiten]
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blackjack
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n 1: a common scrubby deciduous tree of central and southeastern
United States having dark bark and broad three-lobed (club-
shaped) leaves; tends to form dense thickets [syn:
blackjack oak, blackjack, jack oak, Quercus
marilandica]
2: a piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle;
used for hitting people [syn: blackjack, cosh, sap]
3: a flag usually bearing a white skull and crossbones on a
black background; indicates a pirate ship [syn: black flag,
pirate flag, Jolly Roger, blackjack]
4: a gambling game using cards; the object is to hold cards
having a higher count than those dealt to the banker up to
but not exceeding 21 [syn: blackjack, twenty-one, vingt-
et-un]
v 1: exert pressure on someone through threats [syn:
blackmail, blackjack, pressure]
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bootblack
0
n 1: a person who polishes shoes and boots [syn: bootblack,
shoeblack]
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bootjack
0
n 1: has V-shaped notch for pulling off boots
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bushwhack
0
v 1: wait in hiding to attack [syn: ambush, scupper,
bushwhack, waylay, lurk, ambuscade, lie in wait]
2: live in the bush as a fugitive or as a guerilla
3: cut one's way through the woods or bush
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canvasback
0
n 1: North American wild duck valued for sport and food [syn:
canvasback, canvasback duck, Aythya valisineria]
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cardiac
0
adj 1: of or relating to the heart; "cardiac arrest"
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celeriac
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n 1: grown for its thickened edible aromatic root [syn:
celeriac, celery root, knob celery, root celery,
turnip-rooted celery, Apium graveolens rapaceum]
2: thickened edible aromatic root of a variety of celery plant
[syn: celeriac, celery root]
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celiac
0
adj 1: belonging to or prescribed for celiac disease; "a celiac
diet"
2: of or in or belonging to the cavity of the abdomen [syn:
coeliac, celiac]
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clack
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n 1: a sharp abrupt noise as if two objects hit together; may be
repeated [syn: clack, clap]
2: a simple valve with a hinge on one side; allows fluid to flow
in only one direction [syn: clack valve, clack, clapper
valve]
v 1: make a rattling sound; "clattering dishes" [syn: clatter,
clack, brattle]
2: make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens [syn: cluck,
click, clack]
3: speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
[syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-
tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab,
gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble]
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claque
0
n 1: a group of followers hired to applaud at a performance
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cognac
0
n 1: high quality grape brandy distilled in the Cognac district
of France
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comeback
0
n 1: a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty
or critical one); "it brought a sharp rejoinder from the
teacher" [syn: rejoinder, retort, return, riposte,
replication, comeback, counter]
2: return by a celebrity to some previously successful activity
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crack
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adj 1: of the highest quality; "an ace reporter"; "a crack
shot"; "a first-rate golfer"; "a super party"; "played
top-notch tennis"; "an athlete in tiptop condition"; "she
is absolutely tops" [syn: ace, A-one, crack,
first-rate, super, tiptop, topnotch, top-notch,
tops(p)]
n 1: a long narrow opening [syn: crack, cleft, crevice,
fissure, scissure]
2: a narrow opening; "he opened the window a crack" [syn: gap,
crack]
3: a long narrow depression in a surface [syn: crevice,
cranny, crack, fissure, chap]
4: a sudden sharp noise; "the crack of a whip"; "he heard the
cracking of the ice"; "he can hear the snap of a twig" [syn:
crack, cracking, snap]
5: a chance to do something; "he wanted a shot at the champion"
[syn: shot, crack]
6: witty remark [syn: wisecrack, crack, sally, quip]
7: a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation
of the parts; "there was a crack in the mirror"
8: a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather
than snorted; highly addictive [syn: crack, crack
cocaine, tornado]
9: a usually brief attempt; "he took a crack at it"; "I gave it
a whirl" [syn: crack, fling, go, pass, whirl,
offer]
10: the act of cracking something [syn: fracture, crack,
cracking]
v 1: become fractured; break or crack on the surface only; "The
glass cracked when it was heated" [syn: crack, check,
break]
2: make a very sharp explosive sound; "His gun cracked"
3: make a sharp sound; "his fingers snapped" [syn: snap,
crack]
4: hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise;
"The teacher cracked him across the face with a ruler"
5: pass through (a barrier); "Registrations cracked through the
30,000 mark in the county" [syn: break through, crack]
6: break partially but keep its integrity; "The glass cracked"
7: break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension; "The pipe
snapped" [syn: snap, crack]
8: gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions;
"she cracked my password"; "crack a safe"
9: suffer a nervous breakdown [syn: crack up, crack, crock
up, break up, collapse]
10: tell spontaneously; "crack a joke"
11: cause to become cracked; "heat and light cracked the back of
the leather chair"
12: reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking
13: break into simpler molecules by means of heat; "The
petroleum cracked"
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crackerjack
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n 1: someone excellent of their kind; "he's a jimdandy of a
soldier" [syn: jimdandy, jimhickey, crackerjack]
2: something excellent of its kind; "the bike was a jimdandy"
[syn: jimdandy, jimhickey, crackerjack]
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crookback
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adj 1: characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an
abnormality of the vertebral column [syn: crookback,
crookbacked, humped, humpbacked, hunchbacked,
gibbous, kyphotic]
n 1: a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal
curvature of the upper spine [syn: humpback, hunchback,
crookback]
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crossjack
0
n 1: the lowermost sail on a mizzenmast [syn: crossjack,
mizzen course]
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cutback
0
n 1: a reduction in quantity or rate
-
demoniac
0
adj 1: frenzied as if possessed by a demon; "the soldier was
completely amuck"; "berserk with grief"; "a berserk
worker smashing windows" [syn: amuck, amok,
berserk, demoniac, demoniacal, possessed(p)]
n 1: someone who acts as if possessed by a demon
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diamondback
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n 1: large deadly rattlesnake with diamond-shaped markings [syn:
diamondback, diamondback rattlesnake, Crotalus
adamanteus]
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dieback
0
n 1: a disease of plants characterized by the gradual dying of
the young shoots starting at the tips and progressing to
the larger branches
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dipsomaniac
0
n 1: a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually [syn:
alcoholic, alky, dipsomaniac, boozer, lush,
soaker, souse]
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drawback
0
n 1: the quality of being a hindrance; "he pointed out all the
drawbacks to my plan"
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egomaniac
0
n 1: an abnormally egotistical person
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fallback
0
n 1: to break off a military action with an enemy [syn:
disengagement, fallback, pullout]
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fatback
0
n 1: salt pork from the back of a hog carcass
-
feedback
0
n 1: the process in which part of the output of a system is
returned to its input in order to regulate its further
output
2: response to an inquiry or experiment
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finback
0
n 1: large flat-headed whalebone whale having deep furrows along
the throat; of Atlantic and Pacific [syn: finback,
finback whale, fin whale, common rorqual,
Balaenoptera physalus]
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flack
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n 1: a slick spokesperson who can turn any criticism to the
advantage of their employer [syn: flak catcher, flak,
flack catcher, flack]
2: intense adverse criticism; "Clinton directed his fire at the
Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack";
"don't give me any flak" [syn: fire, attack, flak,
flack, blast]
3: artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes [syn:
antiaircraft, antiaircraft gun, flak, flack, pom-
pom, ack-ack, ack-ack gun]
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flak
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n 1: a slick spokesperson who can turn any criticism to the
advantage of their employer [syn: flak catcher, flak,
flack catcher, flack]
2: intense adverse criticism; "Clinton directed his fire at the
Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack";
"don't give me any flak" [syn: fire, attack, flak,
flack, blast]
3: artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes [syn:
antiaircraft, antiaircraft gun, flak, flack, pom-
pom, ack-ack, ack-ack gun]
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flapjack
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n 1: a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle
[syn: pancake, battercake, flannel cake, flannel-
cake, flapcake, flapjack, griddlecake, hotcake,
hot cake]
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flashback
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n 1: a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to
an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal
chronological development of the story [ant: flash-
forward]
2: an unexpected but vivid recurrence of a past experience
(especially a recurrence of the effects of an hallucinogenic
drug taken much earlier)
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fullback
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n 1: (football) the running back who plays the fullback position
on the offensive team
2: (American football) the position of a back on a football team
v 1: play the fullback
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gimcrack
0
adj 1: tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring";
"garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts";
"a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
[syn: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish,
gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky,
tatty, tawdry, trashy]
n 1: ornamental objects of no great value [syn: folderal,
falderol, frill, gimcrackery, gimcrack, nonsense,
trumpery]
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greenback
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n 1: a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central
bank); "he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes" [syn:
bill, note, government note, bank bill, banker's
bill, bank note, banknote, Federal Reserve note,
greenback]
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gunnysack
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n 1: a bag made of burlap [syn: gunnysack, gunny sack,
burlap bag]
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hack
0
n 1: one who works hard at boring tasks [syn: hack, drudge,
hacker]
2: a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a
political party for private rather than public ends [syn:
machine politician, ward-heeler, political hack,
hack]
3: a mediocre and disdained writer [syn: hack, hack writer,
literary hack]
4: a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the
surface of the soil
5: a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers
where they want to go in exchange for money [syn: cab,
hack, taxi, taxicab]
6: an old or over-worked horse [syn: hack, jade, nag,
plug]
7: a horse kept for hire
8: a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
v 1: cut with a hacking tool [syn: chop, hack]
2: be able to manage or manage successfully; "I can't hack it
anymore"; "she could not cut the long days in the office"
[syn: hack, cut]
3: cut away; "he hacked his way through the forest"
4: kick on the arms
5: kick on the shins
6: fix a computer program piecemeal until it works; "I'm not
very good at hacking but I'll give it my best" [syn: hack,
hack on]
7: significantly cut up a manuscript [syn: hack, cut up]
8: cough spasmodically; "The patient with emphysema is hacking
all day" [syn: hack, whoop]
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hackmatack
0
n 1: poplar of northeastern North America with broad heart-
shaped leaves [syn: balsam poplar, hackmatack,
tacamahac, Populus balsamifera]
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haemophiliac
0
n 1: someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable
bleeding [syn: hemophiliac, haemophiliac, bleeder,
hemophile, haemophile]
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halfback
0
n 1: (football) the running back who plays the offensive
halfback position
2: (American football) the position of a back on a football team
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hardback
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adj 1: having a hard back or cover; "hardback books" [syn:
hardbacked, hardback, hardbound, hardcover]
n 1: a book with cardboard or cloth or leather covers [syn:
hardback, hardcover]
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hardtack
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n 1: very hard unsalted biscuit or bread; a former ship's staple
[syn: hardtack, pilot biscuit, pilot bread, sea
biscuit, ship biscuit]
2: a mountain mahogany
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hatchback
0
n 1: a car having a hatchback door
2: a sloping rear car door that is lifted to open [syn:
hatchback, hatchback door]
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haversack
0
n 1: a bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder [syn:
backpack, back pack, knapsack, packsack,
rucksack, haversack]
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hayrack
0
n 1: a rack that holds hay for feeding livestock
2: a frame attached to a wagon to increase the amount of hay it
can carry [syn: hayrack, hayrig]
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haystack
0
n 1: a stack of hay [syn: haystack, hayrick, rick]
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highjack
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n 1: seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert
it to an alternate destination [syn: hijack, highjack]
v 1: take arbitrarily or by force; "The Cubans commandeered the
plane and flew it to Miami" [syn: commandeer, hijack,
highjack, pirate]
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hijack
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n 1: seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert
it to an alternate destination [syn: hijack, highjack]
v 1: take arbitrarily or by force; "The Cubans commandeered the
plane and flew it to Miami" [syn: commandeer, hijack,
highjack, pirate]
2: seize control of; "they hijacked the judicial process"
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hogback
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n 1: a narrow ridge of hills [syn: hogback, horseback]
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horseback
0
adv 1: on the back of a horse; "he rode horseback to town";
"managed to escape ahorse"; "policeman patrolled the
streets ahorseback" [syn: horseback, ahorse,
ahorseback]
n 1: the back of a horse
2: a narrow ridge of hills [syn: hogback, horseback]
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huckaback
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n 1: toweling consisting of coarse absorbent cotton or linen
fabric [syn: huck, huckaback]
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humpback
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n 1: an abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column [syn:
kyphosis, humpback, hunchback]
2: a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature
of the upper spine [syn: humpback, hunchback,
crookback]
3: large whalebone whale with long flippers noted for arching or
humping its back as it dives [syn: humpback, humpback
whale, Megaptera novaeangliae]
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hunchback
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n 1: an abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column [syn:
kyphosis, humpback, hunchback]
2: a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature
of the upper spine [syn: humpback, hunchback,
crookback]
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iliac
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adj 1: of or relating to the ilium
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insomniac
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adj 1: experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness; "insomniac
old people"; "insomniac nights"; "lay sleepless all
night"; "twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights"-
Shakespeare [syn: insomniac, sleepless, watchful]
n 1: someone who cannot sleep [syn: insomniac, sleepless
person]
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ipecac
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n 1: a medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in
cases of drug overdose or poisoning)
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jack
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n 1: a small worthless amount; "you don't know jack" [syn:
jack, doodly-squat, diddly-squat, diddlysquat,
diddly-shit, diddlyshit, diddly, diddley, squat,
shit]
2: a man who serves as a sailor [syn: mariner, seaman,
tar, Jack-tar, Jack, old salt, seafarer, gob,
sea dog]
3: someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual
labor [syn: laborer, manual laborer, labourer, jack]
4: immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit; it contains
an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted
[syn: jackfruit, jak, jack]
5: a small ball at which players aim in lawn bowling
6: an electrical device consisting of a connector socket
designed for the insertion of a plug
7: game equipment consisting of one of several small six-pointed
metal pieces that are picked up while bouncing a ball in the
game of jacks [syn: jack, jackstones]
8: small flag indicating a ship's nationality
9: one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young
prince [syn: jack, knave]
10: tool for exerting pressure or lifting
11: any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical
to warm temperate seas
12: male donkey [syn: jack, jackass]
v 1: lift with a special device; "jack up the car so you can
change the tire" [syn: jack, jack up]
2: hunt with a jacklight [syn: jacklight, jack]
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kayak
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n 1: a small canoe consisting of a light frame made watertight
with animal skins; used by Eskimos
v 1: travel in a small canoe; "we kayaked down the river"
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kickback
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n 1: a commercial bribe paid by a seller to a purchasing agent
in order to induce the agent to enter into the transaction
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kleptomaniac
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n 1: someone with an irrational urge to steal in the absence of
an economic motive
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knack
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n 1: a special way of doing something; "he had a bent for it";
"he had a special knack for getting into trouble"; "he
couldn't get the hang of it" [syn: bent, knack, hang]
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knapsack
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n 1: a bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder [syn:
backpack, back pack, knapsack, packsack,
rucksack, haversack]
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knickknack
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n 1: a small inexpensive mass-produced article [syn:
knickknack, novelty]
2: miscellaneous curios [syn: bric-a-brac, knickknack,
nicknack, knickknackery, whatnot]
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lack
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n 1: the state of needing something that is absent or
unavailable; "there is a serious lack of insight into the
problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert
regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost" [syn:
lack, deficiency, want]
v 1: be without; "This soup lacks salt"; "There is something
missing in my jewelry box!" [syn: miss, lack] [ant:
feature, have]
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lampblack
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n 1: a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or
principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments
and ink [syn: carbon black, lampblack, soot, smut,
crock]
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leatherback
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n 1: wide-ranging marine turtle with flexible leathery carapace;
largest living turtle [syn: leatherback turtle,
leatherback, leathery turtle, Dermochelys coriacea]
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lilac
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adj 1: of a pale purple color [syn: lavender, lilac, lilac-
colored]
n 1: any of various plants of the genus Syringa having large
panicles of usually fragrant flowers
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lumberjack
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n 1: a person who fells trees [syn: lumberman, lumberjack,
logger, feller, faller]
2: a short warm outer jacket [syn: lumberjack, lumber
jacket]
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maniac
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adj 1: wildly disordered; "a maniacal frenzy" [syn: maniacal,
maniac(p)]
n 1: an insane person [syn: lunatic, madman, maniac]
2: a person who has an obsession with or excessive enthusiasm
for something
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megalomaniac
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n 1: a pathological egotist
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mossback
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n 1: an extremely old-fashioned conservative
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natterjack
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n 1: common brownish-yellow short-legged toad of western Europe;
runs rather than hops [syn: natterjack, Bufo calamita]
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nymphomaniac
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adj 1: (used of women) affected with excessive sexual desire
[syn: nymphomaniacal, nymphomaniac]
n 1: a woman with abnormal sexual desires [syn: nymphomaniac,
nympho]
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outback
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adj 1: inaccessible and sparsely populated; [syn: outback(a),
remote]
n 1: the bush country of the interior of Australia
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pack
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n 1: a large indefinite number; "a battalion of ants"; "a
multitude of TV antennas"; "a plurality of religions" [syn:
battalion, large number, multitude, plurality,
pack]
2: a complete collection of similar things
3: a convenient package or parcel (as of cigarettes or film)
4: an association of criminals; "police tried to break up the
gang"; "a pack of thieves" [syn: gang, pack, ring,
mob]
5: an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose [syn:
clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack,
camp]
6: a group of hunting animals
7: a cream that cleanses and tones the skin [syn: pack, face
pack]
8: a sheet or blanket (either dry or wet) to wrap around the
body for its therapeutic effect
9: a bundle (especially one carried on the back)
v 1: arrange in a container; "pack the books into the boxes"
[ant: take out, unpack]
2: fill to capacity; "This singer always packs the concert
halls"; "The murder trial packed the court house"
3: compress into a wad; "wad paper into the box" [syn: pack,
bundle, wad, compact]
4: carry, as on one's back; "Pack your tents to the top of the
mountain"
5: set up a committee or legislative body with one's own
supporters so as to influence the outcome; "pack a jury"
6: have with oneself; have on one's person; "She always takes an
umbrella"; "I always carry money"; "She packs a gun when she
goes into the mountains" [syn: carry, pack, take]
7: press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the
auditorium" [syn: throng, mob, pack, pile, jam]
8: hike with a backpack; "Every summer they are backpacking in
the Rockies" [syn: backpack, pack]
9: press down tightly; "tamp the coffee grinds in the container
to make espresso" [syn: tamp down, tamp, pack]
10: seal with packing; "pack the faucet"
11: have the property of being packable or of compacting easily;
"This powder compacts easily"; "Such odd-shaped items do not
pack well" [syn: compact, pack]
12: load with a pack [syn: pack, load down]
13: treat the body or any part of it by wrapping it, as with
blankets or sheets, and applying compresses to it, or
stuffing it to provide cover, containment, or therapy, or to
absorb blood; "The nurse packed gauze in the wound"; "You
had better pack your swollen ankle with ice"
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paperback
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adj 1: (of books) having a flexible binding [syn: paperback,
paperbacked]
n 1: a book with paper covers [syn: paperback book, paper-
back book, paperback, softback book, softback,
soft-cover book, soft-cover]
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paranoiac
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n 1: a person afflicted with paranoia [syn: paranoid,
paranoiac]
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piggyback
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adv 1: on a railroad flatcar; "the trailer rode piggyback across
the country" [syn: piggyback, pickaback,
pig-a-back]
2: on the back or shoulder or astraddle on the hip; "she carried
her child piggyback" [syn: piggyback, pickaback,
pig-a-back]
n 1: the act of carrying something piggyback
v 1: ride on someone's shoulders or back
2: haul truck trailers loaded with commodities on railroad cars
3: haul by railroad car
4: support on the back and shoulders; "He piggybacked her child
so she could see the show"
5: bring into alignment with; "an amendment to piggyback the
current law"
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plaque
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n 1: (pathology) a small abnormal patch on or inside the body
2: a memorial made of brass [syn: brass, memorial tablet,
plaque]
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playback
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n 1: the act of reproducing recorded sound; "he was allowed to
hear the playback of his testimony"
2: electronic equipment comprising the part of a tape recorder
that reproduces the recorded material
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pullback
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n 1: a device (as a decorative loop of cord or fabric) for
holding or drawing something back; "the draperies were
drawn to the sides by pullbacks" [syn: pullback,
tieback]
2: (military) the act of pulling back (especially an orderly
withdrawal of troops); "the pullback is expected to be over
25,000 troops"
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quack
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adj 1: medically unqualified; "a quack doctor"
n 1: an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who
dispenses medical advice
2: the harsh sound of a duck
v 1: utter quacking noises; "The ducks quacked"
2: act as a medical quack or a charlatan
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quarterback
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n 1: (football) the person who plays quarterback [syn:
quarterback, signal caller, field general]
2: (American football) the position of the football player in
the backfield who directs the offensive play of his team;
"quarterback is the most important position on the team"
[syn: quarterback, signal caller, field general]
v 1: play the quarterback
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racetrack
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n 1: a course over which races are run [syn: racetrack,
racecourse, raceway, track]