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aglitter
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adj 1: having brief brilliant points or flashes of light; "bugle
beads all aglitter"; "glinting eyes"; "glinting water";
"his glittering eyes were cold and malevolent"; "shop
window full of glittering Christmas trees"; "glittery
costume jewelry"; "scintillant mica"; "the scintillating
stars"; "a dress with sparkly sequins"; "`glistering' is
an archaic term" [syn: aglitter(p), coruscant,
fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering,
glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly]
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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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bicker
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n 1: a quarrel about petty points [syn: bicker, bickering,
spat, tiff, squabble, pettifoggery, fuss]
v 1: argue over petty things; "Let's not quibble over pennies"
[syn: quibble, niggle, pettifog, bicker,
squabble, brabble]
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bidder
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n 1: someone who makes an offer
2: someone who makes a bid at cards
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bigger
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adj 1: large or big relative to something else [syn: bigger,
larger]
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chipper
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adj 1: having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air;
"looking chipper, like a man...diverted by his own wit"-
Frances G. Patton; "life that is gay, brisk, and
debonair"- H.M.Reynolds; "walked with a jaunty step"; "a
jaunty optimist" [syn: chipper, debonair,
debonaire, jaunty]
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clipper
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n 1: (electronics) a nonlinear electronic circuit whose output
is limited in amplitude; used to limit the instantaneous
amplitude of a waveform (to clip off the peaks of a
waveform); "a limiter introduces amplitude distortion"
[syn: limiter, clipper]
2: a fast sailing ship used in former times [syn: clipper,
clipper ship]
3: shears for cutting grass or shrubbery (often used in the
plural)
4: scissors for cutting hair or finger nails (often used in the
plural)
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dipper
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n 1: a ladle that has a cup with a long handle
2: a cluster of seven stars in Ursa Minor; at the end of the
dipper's handle is Polaris [syn: Little Dipper, Dipper]
3: a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major
[syn: Big Dipper, Dipper, Plough, Charles's Wain,
Wain, Wagon]
4: small North American diving duck; males have bushy head
plumage [syn: bufflehead, butterball, dipper,
Bucephela albeola]
5: small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-
flowing streams and feeds along the bottom [syn: water
ouzel, dipper]
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flipper
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n 1: a shoe for swimming; the paddle-like front is an aid in
swimming (especially underwater) [syn: flipper, fin]
2: the flat broad limb of aquatic animals specialized for
swimming
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kipper
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n 1: salted and smoked herring [syn: kipper, kippered
herring]
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mudskipper
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n 1: found in tropical coastal regions of Africa and Asia; able
to move on land on strong pectoral fins [syn: mudskipper,
mudspringer]
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nipper
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n 1: a young person of either sex; "she writes books for
children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British
term for youngster" [syn: child, kid, youngster,
minor, shaver, nipper, small fry, tiddler,
tike, tyke, fry, nestling]
2: a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other
arthropods [syn: claw, chela, nipper, pincer]
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ripper
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n 1: a murderer who slashes the victims with a knife; "Jack the
Ripper was probably a madman"
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shipper
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n 1: someone who ships goods
2: a company in the business of shipping freight
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sipper
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n 1: a drinker who sips
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skipper
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n 1: a student who fails to attend classes
2: an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship [syn:
master, captain, sea captain, skipper]
3: the naval officer in command of a military ship [syn:
captain, skipper]
v 1: work as the skipper on a vessel
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slipper
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n 1: low footwear that can be slipped on and off easily; usually
worn indoors [syn: slipper, carpet slipper]
2: a person who slips or slides because of loss of traction
[syn: skidder, slider, slipper]
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stripper
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n 1: a chemical compound used to remove paint or varnish
2: a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves
and binds the leaves together into books [syn: stripper,
stemmer, sprigger]
3: a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing
to music [syn: stripper, striptease artist, striptease,
stripteaser, exotic dancer, ecdysiast, peeler]
4: an oil well whose production has declined to less than ten
barrels a day [syn: stripper well, stripper]
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tipper
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n 1: a person who leaves a tip; "a generous tipper"
2: truck whose contents can be emptied without handling; the
front end of the platform can be pneumatically raised so that
the load is discharged by gravity [syn: dump truck,
dumper, tipper truck, tipper lorry, tip truck,
tipper]
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tripper
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n 1: (slang) someone who has taken a psychedelic drug and is
undergoing hallucinations
2: a walker or runner who trips and almost falls [syn:
stumbler, tripper]
3: a tourist who is visiting sights of interest [syn:
sightseer, excursionist, tripper, rubberneck]
4: a catch mechanism that acts as a switch; "the pressure
activates the tripper and releases the water" [syn:
tripper, trip]
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zipper
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n 1: a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means
of a sliding tab [syn: slide fastener, zip, zipper,
zip fastener]
v 1: close with a zipper; "Zip up your jacket--it's cold" [syn:
zip up, zipper, zip] [ant: unzip]
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chitter
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v 1: make high-pitched sounds, as of birds [syn: chitter,
twitter]
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whipper
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n 1: a person who administers punishment by wielding a switch or
whip [syn: switcher, whipper]
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agrippa
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n 1: Roman general who commanded the fleet that defeated the
forces of Antony and Cleopatra at Actium (63-12 BC) [syn:
Agrippa, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa]
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bibber
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dripper
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hipper
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snipper
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gipper
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knipper
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schipper
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