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atop
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adv 1: on, to, or at the top
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bop
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n 1: the law enforcement agency of the Justice Department that
operates a nationwide system of prisons and detention
facilities to incarcerate inmates sentenced to imprisonment
for federal crimes [syn: Federal Bureau of Prisons,
BoP]
2: an early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940) [syn:
bop, bebop]
v 1: dance the bebop [syn: bop, bebop]
2: hit hard [syn: sock, bop, whop, whap, bonk, bash]
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chap
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n 1: a boy or man; "that chap is your host"; "there's a fellow
at the door"; "he's a likable cuss"; "he's a good bloke"
[syn: chap, fellow, feller, fella, lad, gent,
blighter, cuss, bloke]
2: a long narrow depression in a surface [syn: crevice,
cranny, crack, fissure, chap]
3: a crack in a lip caused usually by cold
4: (usually in the plural) leather leggings without a seat;
joined by a belt; often have flared outer flaps; worn over
trousers by cowboys to protect their legs
v 1: crack due to dehydration; "My lips chap in this dry
weather"
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chop
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n 1: the irregular motion of waves (usually caused by wind
blowing in a direction opposite to the tide); "the boat
headed into the chop"
2: a small cut of meat including part of a rib
3: a jaw; "I'll hit him on the chops"
4: a tennis return made with a downward motion that puts
backspin on the ball [syn: chop, chop shot]
5: a grounder that bounces high in the air [syn: chop,
chopper]
v 1: cut into pieces; "Chop wood"; "chop meat" [syn: chop,
chop up]
2: move suddenly
3: form or shape by chopping; "chop a hole in the ground"
4: strike sharply, as in some sports
5: cut with a hacking tool [syn: chop, hack]
6: hit sharply
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clop
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n 1: the sound of a horse's hoofs hitting on a hard surface
[syn: clip-clop, clippety-clop, clop, clopping,
clunking, clumping]
v 1: make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves
striking the ground [syn: clop, clump, clunk,
plunk]
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cop
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n 1: uncomplimentary terms for a policeman [syn: bull, cop,
copper, fuzz, pig]
v 1: take by theft; "Someone snitched my wallet!" [syn: hook,
snitch, thieve, cop, knock off, glom]
2: take into custody; "the police nabbed the suspected
criminals" [syn: collar, nail, apprehend, arrest,
pick up, nab, cop]
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crop
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n 1: the yield from plants in a single growing season [syn:
crop, harvest]
2: a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large
scale
3: a collection of people or things appearing together; "the
annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas"
4: the output of something in a season; "the latest crop of
fashions is about to hit the stores"
5: the stock or handle of a whip
6: a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a
stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food [syn:
craw, crop]
v 1: cut short; "She wanted her hair cropped short"
2: prepare for crops; "Work the soil"; "cultivate the land"
[syn: cultivate, crop, work]
3: yield crops; "This land crops well"
4: let feed in a field or pasture or meadow [syn: crop,
graze, pasture]
5: feed as in a meadow or pasture; "the herd was grazing" [syn:
crop, browse, graze, range, pasture]
6: cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the
plants in the garden" [syn: snip, clip, crop, trim,
lop, dress, prune, cut back]
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drop
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n 1: a shape that is spherical and small; "he studied the shapes
of low-viscosity drops"; "beads of sweat on his forehead"
[syn: drop, bead, pearl]
2: a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid); "he had
a drop too much to drink"; "a drop of each sample was
analyzed"; "there is not a drop of pity in that man"; "years
afterward, they would pay the blood-money, driblet by
driblet"--Kipling [syn: drop, drib, driblet]
3: a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity; "a drop of 57
points on the Dow Jones index"; "there was a drop in pressure
in the pulmonary artery"; "a dip in prices"; "when that
became known the price of their stock went into free fall"
[syn: drop, dip, fall, free fall]
4: a steep high face of rock; "he stood on a high cliff
overlooking the town"; "a steep drop" [syn: cliff, drop,
drop-off]
5: a predetermined hiding place for the deposit and distribution
of illicit goods (such as drugs or stolen property)
6: a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity; "it was a
miracle that he survived the drop from that height" [syn:
drop, fall]
7: a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from
the flies; often used as background scenery [syn: drop
curtain, drop cloth, drop]
8: a central depository where things can be left or picked up
9: the act of dropping something; "they expected the drop would
be successful"
v 1: let fall to the ground; "Don't drop the dishes"
2: to fall vertically; "the bombs are dropping on enemy targets"
3: go down in value; "Stock prices dropped"
4: fall or descend to a lower place or level; "He sank to his
knees" [syn: sink, drop, drop down]
5: terminate an association with; "drop him from the Republican
ticket"
6: utter with seeming casualness; "drop a hint"; drop names"
7: stop pursuing or acting; "drop a lawsuit"; "knock it off!"
[syn: drop, knock off]
8: leave or unload; "unload the cargo"; "drop off the passengers
at the hotel" [syn: drop, drop off, set down, put
down, unload, discharge]
9: cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow; "strike down
a tree"; "Lightning struck down the hikers" [syn: fell,
drop, strike down, cut down]
10: lose (a game); "The Giants dropped 11 of their first 13"
11: pay out; "spend money" [syn: spend, expend, drop]
12: lower the pitch of (musical notes) [syn: flatten, drop]
[ant: sharpen]
13: hang freely; "the ornaments dangled from the tree"; "The
light dropped from the ceiling" [syn: dangle, swing,
drop]
14: stop associating with; "They dropped her after she had a
child out of wedlock" [syn: dismiss, send packing, send
away, drop]
15: let or cause to fall in drops; "dribble oil into the
mixture" [syn: dribble, drip, drop]
16: get rid of; "he shed his image as a pushy boss"; "shed your
clothes" [syn: shed, cast, cast off, shake off,
throw, throw off, throw away, drop]
17: take (a drug, especially LSD), by mouth; "She dropped acid
when she was a teenager"
18: omit (a letter or syllable) in speaking or writing; " New
Englanders drop their post-vocalic r's"
19: leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?";
"The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten" [syn:
neglect, pretermit, omit, drop, miss, leave out,
overlook, overleap] [ant: attend to, take to heart]
20: change from one level to another; "She dropped into army
jargon"
21: fall or sink into a state of exhaustion or death; "shop til
you drop"
22: grow worse; "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the
slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting
match" [syn: devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate]
[ant: convalesce, recover, recuperate]
23: give birth; used for animals; "The cow dropped her calf this
morning"
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flop
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adv 1: with a flopping sound; "he tumbled flop into the mud"
2: exactly; "he fell flop on his face" [syn: right, flop]
n 1: an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point
numbers; "this computer can perform a million flops per
second" [syn: floating-point operation, flop]
2: someone who is unsuccessful [syn: flop, dud, washout]
3: a complete failure; "the play was a dismal flop" [syn:
flop, bust, fizzle]
4: the act of throwing yourself down; "he landed on the bed with
a great flop" [syn: flop, collapse]
v 1: fall loosely; "He flopped into a chair"
2: fall suddenly and abruptly
3: fail utterly; collapse; "The project foundered" [syn: fall
through, fall flat, founder, flop]
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fop
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n 1: a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
[syn: dandy, dude, fop, gallant, sheik, beau,
swell, fashion plate, clotheshorse]
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plop
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adv 1: with a short hollow thud; "plop came the ball down to the
corner of the green" [syn: plop, plunk]
n 1: the noise of a rounded object dropping into a liquid
without a splash
v 1: drop something with a plopping sound
2: drop with the sound of something falling into water
3: set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise;
"He planked the money on the table"; "He planked himself into
the sofa" [syn: plank, flump, plonk, plop, plunk,
plump down, plunk down, plump]
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prop
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n 1: a support placed beneath or against something to keep it
from shaking or falling
2: any movable articles or objects used on the set of a play or
movie; "before every scene he ran down his checklist of
props" [syn: property, prop]
3: a propeller that rotates to push against air [syn: airplane
propeller, airscrew, prop]
v 1: support by placing against something solid or rigid; "shore
and buttress an old building" [syn: prop up, prop,
shore up, shore]
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slop
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n 1: wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen
waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk [syn:
slop, slops, swill, pigswill, pigwash]
2: deep soft mud in water or slush; "they waded through the
slop" [syn: slop, mire]
3: (usually plural) waste water from a kitchen or bathroom or
chamber pot that has to be emptied by hand; "she carried out
the sink slops"
4: (usually plural) weak or watery unappetizing food or drink;
"he lived on the thin slops that food kitchens provided"
5: writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental
[syn: treacle, mush, slop, glop]
v 1: cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a
container; "spill the milk"; "splatter water" [syn:
spill, slop, splatter]
2: walk through mud or mire; "We had to splosh across the wet
meadow" [syn: squelch, squish, splash, splosh,
slosh, slop]
3: ladle clumsily; "slop the food onto the plate"
4: feed pigs [syn: slop, swill]
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stop
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n 1: the event of something ending; "it came to a stop at the
bottom of the hill" [syn: stop, halt]
2: the act of stopping something; "the third baseman made some
remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a
flood" [syn: stop, stoppage]
3: a brief stay in the course of a journey; "they made a
stopover to visit their friends" [syn: stop, stopover,
layover]
4: the state of inactivity following an interruption; "the
negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check"; "during
the halt he got some lunch"; "the momentary stay enabled him
to escape the blow"; "he spent the entire stop in his seat"
[syn: arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stop,
stoppage]
5: a spot where something halts or pauses; "his next stop is
Atlanta"
6: a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some
point and suddenly releasing it; "his stop consonants are too
aspirated" [syn: stop consonant, stop, occlusive,
plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, plosive] [ant:
continuant, continuant consonant]
7: a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative
sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations; "in
England they call a period a stop" [syn: period, point,
full stop, stop, full point]
8: (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound
quality from the organ pipes; "the organist pulled out all
the stops"
9: a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of
aperture of the lens; "the new cameras adjust the diaphragm
automatically" [syn: diaphragm, stop]
10: a restraint that checks the motion of something; "he used a
book as a stop to hold the door open" [syn: catch, stop]
11: an obstruction in a pipe or tube; "we had to call a plumber
to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe" [syn:
blockage, block, closure, occlusion, stop,
stoppage]
v 1: come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She
stopped in front of a store window" [syn: stop, halt]
[ant: get going, go, start]
2: put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your
little brother" [syn: discontinue, stop, cease, give
up, quit, lay off] [ant: bear on, carry on,
continue, preserve, uphold]
3: stop from happening or developing; "Block his election";
"Halt the process" [syn: stop, halt, block, kibosh]
4: interrupt a trip; "we stopped at Aunt Mary's house"; "they
stopped for three days in Florence" [syn: stop, stop
over]
5: cause to stop; "stop a car"; "stop the thief" [ant: start,
start up]
6: prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the
negotiations" [syn: break, break off, discontinue,
stop]
7: hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or
influence of; "Arrest the downward trend"; "Check the growth
of communism in South East Asia"; "Contain the rebel
movement"; "Turn back the tide of communism" [syn: check,
turn back, arrest, stop, contain, hold back]
8: seize on its way; "The fighter plane was ordered to intercept
an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace" [syn:
intercept, stop]
9: have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense;
either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in
a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon
the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The
symphony ends in a pianissimo" [syn: end, stop, finish,
terminate, cease] [ant: begin, start]
10: render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade
the streets"; "stop the busy road" [syn: barricade,
block, blockade, stop, block off, block up, bar]
11: stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or
developments; "Hold on a moment!" [syn: hold on, stop]
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swap
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n 1: an equal exchange; "we had no money so we had to live by
barter" [syn: barter, swap, swop, trade]
v 1: exchange or give (something) in exchange for [syn: trade,
swap, swop, switch]
2: move (a piece of a program) into memory, in computer science
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wop
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n 1: (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian
descent [syn: wop, dago, ginzo, Guinea,
greaseball]
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glop
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n 1: any gummy shapeless matter; usually unpleasant
2: writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental
[syn: treacle, mush, slop, glop]
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nonstop
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adv 1: without stopping; "we are flying nonstop form New York to
Tokyo"
adj 1: (of a journey especially a flight) occurring without
stops; "a nonstop flight to Atlanta"
2: at all times; "around-the-clock nursing care" [syn: around-
the-clock, day-and-night, nonstop, round-the-clock]
n 1: a flight made without intermediate stops between source and
destination; "how many nonstops are there to Dallas?" [syn:
nonstop flight, nonstop]
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scaup
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n 1: diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill
[syn: scaup, scaup duck, bluebill, broadbill]
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bopp
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chopp
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copp
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cropp
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gropp
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klopp
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kropp
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opp
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popp
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poppe
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propp
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schropp
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shoppe
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skop
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swapp
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tropp
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