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slang
     1. n. Language outside of conventional usage.
     2. n. Language that is unique to a particular profession or subject; jargon.
     3. n. The specialized language of a social group, sometimes used to make what is said unintelligible to those not members of the group; cant.
     4. v. (transitive, dated) To vocally abuse, or shout at.
     5. v. (archaic) simple past tense of sling
     6. n. (dialect) Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory.
     7. n. (obsolete) A fetter worn on the leg by a convict.
     8. n. (obsolete) A counterfeit weight or measure.
     9. n. (obsolete) A travelling show, or one of its performances.
     10. n. (obsolete) A hawker's license.
     11. n. (obsolete) A watchchain.
     12. v. (transitive, AAVE, MLE) To sell (especially illegal drugs).
a
     1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group.
           There was a man here looking for you yesterday.
     2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word.
           I've seen it happen a hundred times.
     3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003)
           We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London.
     4. art. The same; one.
           We are of a mind on matters of morals.
     5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007)
           A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties.
           He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head?
     6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc.
     7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it.
           The center of the village was becoming a Times Square.
     8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto.
           Stand a tiptoe.
     9. prep. To do with separation; In, into.
           Torn a pieces.
     10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by.
           I brush my teeth twice a day.
     11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with.
     12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In.
           A God’s name.
     13. prep. To do with status; In.
           King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18)
             To set the people a worke.
     14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing.
           1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’
             The times, they are a-changin'.
     15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in.
           1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21
             Jacob, when he was a dying
     16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into.
     17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have.
           I'd a come, if you'd a asked.
     18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He.
     19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah.
     20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of.
           The name of John a Gaunt.
     21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All.
     22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All.
cigarette
     1. n. Tobacco or other substances, in a thin roll wrapped with paper, intended to be smoked.
     2. v. (slang) To give someone a cigarette, and/or to light one for them.
           Could someone cigarette me?
butt
     1. n. The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end
     2. n.          (North America, slang) The buttocks (used as a euphemism in idiomatic expressions; less objectionable than arse/ass).
                    Get up off your butt and get to work.
     3. n.         # (slang) The whole buttocks and pelvic region that includes one's private parts.
     4. n.         #: I can see your butt.
     5. n.         #: When the woman in the dress was sitting with her legs up, I could see up her butt.
     6. n.         # (slang) Body; self.
     7. n.         #: Get your butt to the car.
     8. n.         #: We can't chat today. I have to get my butt to work before I'm late.
     9. n.          (leather trades) The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.
     10. n. The waste end of anything
     11. n.          (slang) A used cigarette.
     12. n.          A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.
     13. n.          (obsolete, West of England) Hassock.
     14. n. (generally) An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end.
     15. n.          The end of a firearm opposite to that from which a bullet is fired.
                    She was hit in the face with the butt of a shotgun.
     16. n.          (lacrosse) The plastic or rubber cap used to cover the open end of a lacrosse stick's shaft in order to reduce injury.
     17. n.          The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose.
     18. n.          The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib.
     19. n.          (mechanical) A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering.
     20. n.          (carpentry) A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc., so named because it is attached to the inside edge of the door and butts against the casing, i
     21. n.          (shipbuilding) The joint where two planks in a strake meet.
     22. n. A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
     23. n.          A mark to be shot at; a target.
     24. n.          A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed.
                    He's usually the butt of their jokes.
     25. n.          The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice.
     26. v. To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
     27. v. To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.
     28. v. (intransitive) To strike bluntly with the head.
           Rams butt at other males during mating season.
     29. n. A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt.
           Be careful in the pen, that ram can knock you down with a butt.
           The handcuffed suspect gave the officer a desperate butt in the chest.
     30. n. A thrust in fencing.
     31. n. (English units) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half tun; equivalent to the pipe.
     32. n. A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons.
     33. n. (Northern England) Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot
     34. n. (dated, West Country, &, Ireland) A heavy two-wheeled cart.
     35. n. (dated, West Country, &, Ireland) A three-wheeled cart resembling a wheelbarrow.
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