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. | |