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are
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n 1: a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters [syn:
are, ar]
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blocker
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n 1: a football player whose responsibility is to block players
attempting to stop an offensive play
2: a class of drugs that inhibit (block) some biological process
[syn: blocker, blocking agent]
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blotter
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n 1: absorbent paper used to dry ink [syn: blotting paper,
blotter]
2: the daily written record of events (as arrests) in a police
station [syn: blotter, day book, police blotter, rap
sheet, charge sheet]
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bobber
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n 1: a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing
line [syn: bob, bobber, cork, bobfloat]
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chopper
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n 1: a grounder that bounces high in the air [syn: chop,
chopper]
2: informal terms for a human `tooth' [syn: chopper, pearly]
3: an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the
rotation of overhead blades [syn: helicopter, chopper,
whirlybird, eggbeater]
4: a butcher's knife having a large square blade [syn:
cleaver, meat cleaver, chopper]
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clobber
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n 1: informal terms for personal possessions; "did you take all
your clobber?" [syn: stuff, clobber]
v 1: strike violently and repeatedly; "She clobbered the man who
tried to attack her" [syn: clobber, baste, batter]
2: beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight;
"We licked the other team on Sunday!" [syn: cream, bat,
clobber, drub, thrash, lick]
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clodhopper
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n 1: a thick and heavy shoe [syn: brogan, brogue,
clodhopper, work shoe]
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cocker
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n 1: a small breed with wavy silky hair; originally developed in
England [syn: cocker spaniel, English cocker spaniel,
cocker]
v 1: treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper
the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!" [syn:
pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby,
coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge]
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copper
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n 1: a ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant
diamagnetic metallic element; occurs in various minerals
but is the only metal that occurs abundantly in large
masses; used as an electrical and thermal conductor [syn:
copper, Cu, atomic number 29]
2: a copper penny
3: uncomplimentary terms for a policeman [syn: bull, cop,
copper, fuzz, pig]
4: a reddish-brown color resembling the color of polished copper
[syn: copper, copper color]
5: any of various small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
having coppery wings
v 1: coat with a layer of copper
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cotter
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n 1: a peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlands [syn: cotter,
cottar]
2: a medieval English villein [syn: cotter, cottier]
3: fastener consisting of a wedge or pin inserted through a slot
to hold two other pieces together [syn: cotter, cottar]
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cropper
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n 1: small farmers and tenants [syn: sharecropper, cropper,
sharecrop farmer]
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cur
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n 1: an inferior dog or one of mixed breed [syn: cur,
mongrel, mutt]
2: a cowardly and despicable person
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dauber
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n 1: an unskilled painter
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deerstalker
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n 1: a tight-fitting hat with visors front and back; formerly
worn by hunters
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docker
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n 1: a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port [syn:
stevedore, loader, longshoreman, docker,
dockhand, dock worker, dockworker, dock-walloper,
lumper]
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dodder
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n 1: a leafless annual parasitic vine of the genus Cuscuta
having whitish or yellow filamentous stems; obtain
nourishment through haustoria
v 1: walk unsteadily; "small children toddle" [syn: toddle,
coggle, totter, dodder, paddle, waddle]
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dropper
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n 1: pipet consisting of a small tube with a vacuum bulb at one
end for drawing liquid in and releasing it a drop at a
time; "she used an eye dropper to administer medication to
the eyes" [syn: dropper, eye dropper]
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fodder
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n 1: soldiers who are regarded as expendable in the face of
artillery fire [syn: cannon fodder, fodder, fresh
fish]
2: coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire
plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop
v 1: give fodder (to domesticated animals)
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hawker
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n 1: someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the
streets or at carnivals) [syn: peddler, pedlar,
packman, hawker, pitchman]
2: a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the
sport of falconry [syn: falconer, hawker]
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hopper
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n 1: funnel-shaped receptacle; contents pass by gravity into a
receptacle below
2: someone who hops; "at hopscotch, the best hoppers are the
children"
3: a machine used for picking hops [syn: hop-picker, hopper]
4: terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for
leaping [syn: grasshopper, hopper]
5: (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground [syn:
grounder, ground ball, groundball, hopper]
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jobber
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n 1: someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to
merchants rather than to the ultimate customers [syn:
jobber, middleman, wholesaler]
-
jogger
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n 1: someone who runs a steady slow pace (usually for exercise)
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jotter
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n 1: a small notebook for rough notes
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knocker
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n 1: (Yiddish) a big shot who knows it and acts that way; a
boastful immoderate person
2: a person who knocks (as seeking to gain admittance); "open
the door and see who the knocker is"
3: one who disparages or belittles the worth of something [syn:
detractor, disparager, depreciator, knocker]
4: either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on
the chest of a woman [syn: breast, bosom, knocker,
boob, tit, titty]
5: a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge
to a door [syn: knocker, doorknocker, rapper]
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laugher
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n 1: a person who is laughing or who laughs easily
2: an easy victory [syn: runaway, blowout, romp,
laugher, shoo-in, walkaway]
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locker
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n 1: a storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it
has a lock [syn: cabinet, locker, storage locker]
2: a fastener that locks or closes
3: a trunk for storing personal possessions; usually kept at the
foot of a bed (as in a barracks) [syn: footlocker,
locker]
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logger
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n 1: a person who fells trees [syn: lumberman, lumberjack,
logger, feller, faller]
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lopper
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n 1: a long-handled pruning saw with a curved blade at the end
and sometimes a clipper; used to prune small trees [syn:
pruner, pruning hook, lopper]
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mater
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n 1: an informal use of the Latin word for mother; sometimes
used by British schoolboys or used facetiously
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mocker
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n 1: someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with
contempt or calls out in derision [syn: scoffer,
flouter, mocker, jeerer]
2: long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United
States able to mimic songs of other birds [syn:
mockingbird, mocker, Mimus polyglotktos]
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otter
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n 1: the fur of an otter
2: freshwater carnivorous mammal having webbed and clawed feet
and dark brown fur
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plotter
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n 1: a planner who draws up a personal scheme of action [syn:
schemer, plotter]
2: a clerk who marks data on a chart [syn: plotter, mapper]
3: a member of a conspiracy [syn: conspirator,
coconspirator, plotter, machinator]
4: an instrument (usually driven by a computer) for drawing
graphs or pictures
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popper
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n 1: British philosopher (born in Austria) who argued that
scientific theories can never be proved to be true, but are
tested by attempts to falsify them (1902-1994) [syn:
Popper, Karl Popper, Sir Karl Raimund Popper]
2: a container of stimulant drug (amyl nitrate or butyl nitrite)
3: a container for cooking popcorn
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potter
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n 1: a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and
bakes them it a kiln [syn: potter, thrower,
ceramicist, ceramist]
v 1: do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly;
"The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house"
[syn: putter, mess around, potter, tinker,
monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around]
2: work lightly; "The old lady is pottering around in the
garden" [syn: potter, putter]
3: move around aimlessly [syn: putter, potter, potter
around, putter around]
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proper
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adj 1: marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness;
"proper medical treatment"; "proper manners" [ant:
improper]
2: having all the qualities typical of the thing specified;
"wanted a proper dinner; not just a snack"; "he finally has a
proper job"
3: limited to the thing specified; "the city proper"; "his claim
is connected with the deed proper"
4: appropriate for a condition or purpose or occasion or a
person's character, needs; "everything in its proper place";
"the right man for the job"; "she is not suitable for the
position" [syn: proper, right]
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robber
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n 1: a thief who steals from someone by threatening violence
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rocker
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n 1: an attendant who rocks a child in a cradle
2: a performer or composer or fan of rock music [syn: rocker,
rock 'n' roll musician]
3: a teenager or young adult in the 1960s who wore leather
jackets and rode motorcycles
4: a chair mounted on rockers [syn: rocking chair, rocker]
5: a trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold
miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to
separate the gold [syn: rocker, cradle]
6: an ice skate with a curved blade
7: a curved support that permits the supported object to rock to
and fro
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shocker
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n 1: a shockingly bad person
2: a sensational message (in a film or play or novel)
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shopper
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n 1: someone who visits stores in search of articles to buy
2: a commercial agent who shops at the competitor's store in
order to compare their prices and merchandise with those of
the store that employs her
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slobber
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n 1: saliva spilling from the mouth [syn: drool, dribble,
drivel, slobber]
v 1: let saliva drivel from the mouth; "The baby drooled" [syn:
drivel, drool, slabber, slaver, slobber,
dribble]
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soccer
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n 1: a football game in which two teams of 11 players try to
kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal [syn:
soccer, association football]
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solder
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n 1: an alloy (usually of lead and tin) used when melted to join
two metal surfaces
v 1: join or fuse with solder; "solder these two pipes together"
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spotter
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n 1: a worker employed at a dry-cleaning establishment to remove
spots
2: a worker employed to apply spots (as markers or identifiers)
3: a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
[syn: lookout, lookout man, sentinel, sentry,
watch, spotter, scout, picket]
4: someone who is the first to observe something [syn: finder,
discoverer, spotter]
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squatter
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n 1: someone who settles lawfully on government land with the
intent to acquire title to it [syn: squatter,
homesteader, nester]
2: someone who settles on land without right or title
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stalker
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n 1: someone who walks with long stiff strides
2: someone who stalks game
3: someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful
intentions [syn: prowler, sneak, stalker]
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stocker
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n 1: a domestic animal (especially a young steer or heifer) kept
as stock until fattened or matured and suitable for a
breeding establishment
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stopper
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n 1: an act so striking or impressive that the show must be
delayed until the audience quiets down [syn: show-
stopper, showstopper, stopper]
2: a remark to which there is no polite conversational reply
[syn: conversation stopper, stopper]
3: (bridge) a playing card with a value sufficiently high to
insure taking a trick in a particular suit; "if my partner
has a spade stopper I can bid no trump"
4: blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole
tightly [syn: plug, stopper, stopple]
v 1: close or secure with or as if with a stopper; "She
stoppered the wine bottle"; "The mothers stoppered their
babies' mouths with pacifiers" [syn: stopper, stopple]
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sucker
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n 1: a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
[syn: chump, fool, gull, mark, patsy, fall guy,
sucker, soft touch, mug]
2: a shoot arising from a plant's roots
3: a drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw)
4: flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with
toothless jaws
5: hard candy on a stick [syn: lollipop, sucker, all-day
sucker]
6: an organ specialized for sucking nourishment or for adhering
to objects by suction
7: mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped
mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps
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swatter
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n 1: an implement with a flat part (of mesh or plastic) and a
long handle; used to kill insects [syn: swatter,
flyswatter, flyswat]
v 1: splash and flutter about in or as if in water; "She
swattered about in the pool"
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talker
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n 1: someone who expresses in language; someone who talks
(especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone
especially garrulous); "the speaker at commencement"; "an
utterer of useful maxims" [syn: speaker, talker,
utterer, verbalizer, verbaliser]
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topper
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n 1: a worker who makes or adds the top to something
2: a worker who cuts tops off (of trees or vegetables etc.)
3: the person who is most outstanding or excellent; someone who
tops all others; "he could beat the best of them" [syn:
best, topper]
4: an exceedingly good witticism that surpasses all that have
gone before
5: a woman's short coat
6: a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or
with beaver fur [syn: dress hat, high hat, opera hat,
silk hat, stovepipe, top hat, topper, beaver]
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totter
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v 1: move without being stable, as if threatening to fall; "The
drunk man tottered over to our table"
2: walk unsteadily; "small children toddle" [syn: toddle,
coggle, totter, dodder, paddle, waddle]
3: move unsteadily, with a rocking motion [syn: teeter,
seesaw, totter]
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trotter
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n 1: foot of a pig or sheep especially one used as food
2: a horse trained to trot; especially a horse trained for
harness racing [syn: trotting horse, trotter]
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walker
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n 1: New Zealand runner who in 1975 became the first person to
run a mile in less that 3 minutes and 50 seconds (born in
1952) [syn: Walker, John Walker]
2: United States writer (born in 1944) [syn: Walker, Alice
Walker, Alice Malsenior Walker]
3: a person who travels by foot [syn: pedestrian, walker,
footer]
4: a shoe designed for comfortable walking
5: a light enclosing framework (trade name Zimmer) with rubber
castors or wheels and handles; helps invalids or the
handicapped or the aged to walk [syn: walker, Zimmer,
Zimmer frame]
6: an enclosing framework on casters or wheels; helps babies
learn to walk [syn: walker, baby-walker, go-cart]
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watcher
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n 1: a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as
an exhibition of some kind); "the spectators applauded the
performance"; "television viewers"; "sky watchers
discovered a new star" [syn: spectator, witness,
viewer, watcher, looker]
2: a guard who keeps watch [syn: watchman, watcher,
security guard]
3: a person who keeps a devotional vigil by a sick bed or by a
dead body
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whopper
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n 1: a gross untruth; a blatant lie [syn: whopper, walloper]
2: something especially big or impressive of its kind [syn:
whacker, whopper]
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balker
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n 1: a person who refuses to comply [syn: balker, baulker,
noncompliant]
-
rotter
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n 1: a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible;
"only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the
bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call a
contemptible person a `git'" [syn: rotter, dirty dog,
rat, skunk, stinker, stinkpot, bum, puke,
crumb, lowlife, scum bag, so-and-so, git]
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tatar
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n 1: a member of the Mongolian people of central Asia who
invaded Russia in the 13th century [syn: Tatar, Tartar,
Mongol Tatar]
2: a member of the Turkic-speaking people living from the Volga
to the Ural Mountains (the name has been attributed to many
other groups)
3: the Turkic language spoken by the Tatar living from the Volga
to the Ural Mountains
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gawker
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n 1: a spectator who stares stupidly without intelligent
awareness
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bopper
0
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cakewalker
0
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caulker
0
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chocker
0
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dotter
0
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hotter
0
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licker
0
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odder
0
-
calker
0
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swabber
0
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yachter
0
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aaker
0
-
bachar
0
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bacher
0
-
blocher
0
-
brocker
0
-
chalker
0
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crocker
0
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fokker
0
-
hocker
0
-
locher
0
-
maucher
0
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ocker
0
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plocher
0
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shakur
0
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sochor
0
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ylvisaker
0
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curr
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