| 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. | |
| strange |
| 1. adj. Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary. | |
| He thought it strange that his girlfriend wore shorts in the winter. | |
| 2. adj. Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience. | |
| I moved to a strange town when I was ten. | |
| 3. adj. (physics) Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness. | |
| 4. adj. (obsolete) Belonging to another country; foreign. | |
| 5. adj. (obsolete) Reserved; distant in deportment. | |
| 6. adj. (obsolete) Backward; slow. | |
| 7. adj. (obsolete) Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced. | |
| 8. v. (obsolete, transitive) To alienate; to estrange. | |
| 9. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be estranged or alienated. | |
| 10. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To wonder; to be astonished (at something). | |
| 11. n. (slang) vagina | |
| odd |
| 1. adj. (not comparable) Single; sole; singular; not having a mate. | |
| Optimistically, he had a corner of a drawer for odd socks. | |
| 2. adj. (obsolete) Singular in excellence; unique; sole; matchless; peerless; famous. | |
| 3. adj. Singular in looks or character; peculiar; eccentric. | |
| 4. adj. Strange, unusual. | |
| She slept in, which was very odd. | |
| 5. adj. (not comparable) Occasional; infrequent. | |
| but for the odd exception | |
| 6. adj. (not comparable) Left over, remaining when the rest have been grouped. | |
| I'm the odd one out. | |
| 7. adj. (not comparable) Casual, irregular, not planned. | |
| He's only worked odd jobs. | |
| 8. adj. (not comparable, in combination with a number) About, approximately. | |
| There were thirty-odd people in the room. | |
| 9. adj. (not comparable) Indivisible by two; not even. | |
| The product of odd numbers is also odd. | |
| 10. adj. Sporadic; scattered in frequency; occurring randomly | |
| I don't speak Latin well, so in hearing a dissertation in Latin, I would only be able to make out the odd word of it. | |
| 11. adj. (sports) On the left. | |
| He served from the odd court. | |
| 12. n. (mathematics, diminutive) An odd number. | |
| So let's see. There are two evens here and three odds. | |
| 13. n. (colloquial) Something left over, not forming part of a set. | |
| I've got three complete sets of these trading cards for sale, plus a few dozen odds. | |
| eccentric |
| 1. adj. Not at or in the centre; away from the centre. | |
| 2. adj. Not perfectly circular; elliptical. | |
| As of 2008, Margaret had the most eccentric orbit of any moon in the solar system, though Nereid's mean eccentricity is greater. | |
| 3. adj. Having a different center; not concentric. | |
| 4. adj. (of a person) Deviating from the norm; behaving unexpectedly or differently. | |
| 5. adj. (physiology, of a motion) Against or in the opposite direction of contraction of a muscle (e.g., such as results from flexion of the lower arm (bending of the elbow joint) by an external force while c | |
| 6. adj. Having different goals or motives. | |
| 7. n. One who does not behave like others. | |
| 8. n. (slang) A kook; a person of bizarre habits or beliefs. | |
| 9. n. (geometry) A circle not having the same centre as another. | |
| 10. n. (engineering) A disk or wheel with its axis off centre, giving a reciprocating motion. | |
| person |
| 1. n. An individual; usually a human being. | |
| Each person is unique, both mentally and physically. | |
| 2. n. A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic represent | |
| 3. n. (Christianity) Any one of the three hypostases of the Holy Trinity: the Father, Son, or Holy Spirit. | |
| 4. n. (chiefly in science fiction) Any sentient or socially intelligent being. | |
| 5. n. (in a compound noun or noun phrase) Someone who likes or has an affinity for (a specified thing). | |
| Jack's always been a dog person, but I prefer cats. | |
| 6. n. The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc. | |
| 7. n. (law) Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts. | |
| At common law a corporation or a trust is legally a person. | |
| 8. n. (law) The human genitalia; specifically, the penis. | |
| 9. n. (grammar) A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom or about whom he is speaking. See grammatical person. | |
| 10. n. (biology) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa, Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals. | |
| 11. v. (obsolete, transitive) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate. | |
| 12. v. (transitive, gender-neutral) To man. | |
