cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Special K
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Initial of Kellogg Company. The drug was nicknamed humorously after the cereal, since it begins with the letter k.
Senses: examples: text: Yeah, it's called the euphoric blockbuster and it's supposed to make Special K look weak.
ref: 1995, Harmony Korine, Kids, spoken by Fidget:
text: Ketamine, a powerful anesthetic that acts on an entirely different neurotransmitter system (and which has been ingested in rave clubs as Special K) was recently the subject of a glowing study by the National Institute of Mental Health.
ref: 2008 October, Paul Scott, “Was the Prozac revolution all in our heads?”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, →ISSN, page 149:
text: The soul leaves the sedated body and is free to travel, according to the not-exact testimony of numerous drugged-out Special K abusers.
ref: 2013, Chuck Palahniuk, Doomed, page 58:
text: Recreational users call it "special K," and the euphoric, hallucinatory experience it induces the "K-hole."
ref: [2018 May 8, Moises Velasquez-Manoff, “Ketamine Stirs Up Hope—and Controversy—as a Depression Drug”, in Wired:
glosses: Ketamine, used as a hallucinogen.
ketamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɛt.ə.mɪn/
ipa: /ˈkiː.tə.miːn/
ipa: /ˈkɛt.əˌmin/
ipa: /ˈki.təˌmin/
Forms: form: ketamines
Etymology: Blend of ketone + amine. First use appears c. 1966.
Senses: examples: text: He was riding high that night, with a brick of Wage's ketamine on its way to Yokohama and the money already in his pocket.
ref: 1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 8:
text: The chatbot instructed him to give up sleeping pills and an anti-anxiety medication, and to increase his intake of ketamine, a dissociative anesthetic, which ChatGPT described as a “temporary pattern liberator.”
ref: 2025 June 13, Kashmir Hill, “They Asked ChatGPT Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
synonyms: word: Special K
word: vitamin K
glosses: A synthetic compound used as a dissociative anesthetic and analgesic drug and also recreationally as a hallucinogen.
Derived terms: K-hole
esketamine
S-ketamine
R-ketamine
RS-ketamine
ketamination
norketamine
freelance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹiːlɑːns/
ipa: /ˈfɹiˌlæns/
rhymes: -iːlɑːns
Forms: form: freelances
form: free-lance
form: free lance
Etymology: From free + lance. Coined by Walter Scott (1771–1832) in Ivanhoe (1820) to describe a medieval mercenary warrior or "free-lance" (indicating that the lance is not sworn to any lord's services). It changed to a figurative noun around the 1860s and was recognized as a verb in 1903 by authorities such as the Oxford English Dictionary. In modern times the term has morphed into an adjective, a verb, and an adverb, as well as the derivative noun freelancer.
Senses: examples: text: The objector, one Millworthy, a free-lance of journalism, was not to be so easily silenced.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
text: The person you are revising (the revisee) is a colleague at your own rank, or another freelance.
ref: 2014, Brian Mossop, Revising and Editing for Translators, page 192:
glosses: Someone who sells their services to clients without a long-term employment contract.
synonyms: word: adventurer
word: bravo
word: condottiere
word: filibuster
word: freebooter
word: freelance
word: free companion
word: hired gun
word: hireling
word: hit man
word: merc
word: mercenary
word: private military contractor
word: sellsword
word: soldier of fortune
glosses: A medieval mercenary.
freelance
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹiːlɑːns/
ipa: /ˈfɹiˌlæns/
rhymes: -iːlɑːns
Forms: form: more freelance
form: most freelance
form: free-lance
form: free lance
Etymology: From free + lance. Coined by Walter Scott (1771–1832) in Ivanhoe (1820) to describe a medieval mercenary warrior or "free-lance" (indicating that the lance is not sworn to any lord's services). It changed to a figurative noun around the 1860s and was recognized as a verb in 1903 by authorities such as the Oxford English Dictionary. In modern times the term has morphed into an adjective, a verb, and an adverb, as well as the derivative noun freelancer.
Senses: examples: text: He was a freelance writer for several magazines.
text: Both work -- Jenny as a freelance writer from home, Marc full-time-plus as a civil engineer with a long commute. Jenny also takes care of their four sons, ages 20 months to 9 years, and homeschools the two oldest.
ref: 2007 October 30, Terry Cettina, “How to even the score on housework, kid duty”, in CNN:
glosses: Of, or relating to a freelance; without employment contract.
Derived terms: freelancer
freelance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹiːlɑːns/
ipa: /ˈfɹiˌlæns/
rhymes: -iːlɑːns
Forms: form: freelances
form: freelancing
form: freelanced
form: freelanced
form: free-lance
form: free lance
Etymology: From free + lance. Coined by Walter Scott (1771–1832) in Ivanhoe (1820) to describe a medieval mercenary warrior or "free-lance" (indicating that the lance is not sworn to any lord's services). It changed to a figurative noun around the 1860s and was recognized as a verb in 1903 by authorities such as the Oxford English Dictionary. In modern times the term has morphed into an adjective, a verb, and an adverb, as well as the derivative noun freelancer.
Senses: glosses: To work as a freelance.
glosses: To produce or sell services as a freelance.
speed bump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speed bumps
Senses: glosses: A traffic calming measure, consisting of a transverse ridge in the road, to limit the speed of vehicles.
glosses: An obstacle or difficulty; roadblock; snag.
topics: business
finance
qualifier: high-frequency trading
glosses: Any technical measure taken by an electronic financial exchange to deliberately delay orders by microseconds or milliseconds.
Synonyms: word: judder bar
word: ramp
word: sleeping policeman
word: speed hump
word: road hump
word: traffic bump
Derived terms: Newfoundland speed bump
speed camera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speed cameras
Senses: glosses: A roadside camera, triggered by a speeding vehicle, that takes a photograph of the offending vehicle and records its speed.
fisticuffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪs.tɪ.kʌfs/
Senses: glosses: plural of fisticuff
examples: text: So he obſerves that all ſimple Governments are apt to ſome evil that is peculiar and conſequential to their Nature, as he inſtanceth in a Kingdom changed into Monarchy abſolute, by which he means that which we now call Tyranny; Ariſtocracy into Oligarchy, and Democracy into Beſtial Chirocracy, when the Seditious of people prevail more by Fiſticuffs than reaſon: […]
ref: 1686, Nathaniel Johnston, “III: That the People are not the Original of Authority and Government”, in The Excellency of Monarchical Government, Eſpecially of the Engliſh Monarchy […] , London: T. B. for Robert Clavel, page 19:
text: People who share a cell in the Basti[l]le […] if they do not immediately fall to fisticuffs, will find some possible ground of compromise.
ref: 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Virginibus Puerisque”, in Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers:
text: […], his head all scarred with the sticks and fisticuffs which he had got in the taverns at Utrecht, […]
ref: 1890, Edmondo de Amicis, translated by Caroline Tilton, Holland and Its People, Chapter XII:
glosses: An impromptu fight with the fists, usually between only two people.
examples: text: In his college days of athletic exercises, Mr. Crisparkle had known professors of the Noble Art of fisticuffs, […]
ref: 1870 April–September, Charles Dickens, “Chapter XVII”, in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1870, →OCLC:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Bare-knuckled boxing, a form of boxing done without boxing gloves or similar padding.
Synonyms: sense: informal: fight
word: brawl
word: fight
word: fist-fight
word: punch-up
sense: bare-knuckled boxing
word: prizefighting
Related terms: fist
fisticuff
fisticuffer
boxing
fighting
dictatorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [dɪktəˈtɔːɹɪəɫ]
rhymes: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: more dictatorial
form: most dictatorial
Etymology: From dictator + -ial.
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to a dictator
examples: text: "It was chiefly on account of his father," replied the Doctor, addressing the General, "that Philimore persevered in so rigidly keeping the secret of his attachment, having been once told by him, in the language of worldly dictatorial authority, that he would sooner follow him to the grave than that he should see him marry without fortune[…]
ref: 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 202–203:
glosses: in the manner of a dictator, usually with callous disregard for others.
Synonyms: bossy and arrogant
Derived terms: dictatorialism
dictatoriality
dictatorially
dictatorialness
nondictatorial
postdictatorial
undictatorial
Squarial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskwɛəɹi.əl/
ipa: /ˈskwɛɹi.əl/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəl
Forms: form: Squarials
Etymology: Blend of square + aerial
Senses: glosses: A flat, diamond-shaped aerial (antenna) for receiving satellite television signals; it became obsolete in the 1990s.
stage diving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stage divings
Etymology: From stage + diving.
Senses: examples: text: Soon metalheads would invade the narrow pit between the stage and seats, often climbing over rows of seats, to start a long series of walls of death, stage divings, crowdsurfing […]
ref: 2019, Stefano Barone, Metal, Rap, and Electro in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia:
glosses: The practice of jumping from the stage in a rock concert to be caught and carried aloft by the crowd.
stage diving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From stage + diving.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stage dive
Related terms: crowd surfing
shrapnel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɹæpnəl/
rhymes: -æpnəl
Forms: form: shrapnels
Etymology: From Shrapnel. Named after British army officer Henry Shrapnel (1761–1842) who invented an anti-personnel shell that transported a large number of bullets to the target before releasing them, at a far greater distance than rifles could fire the bullets individually. The surname is likely a metathesized form of Charbonnel, a diminutive of Old French charbon (“charcoal”) in reference to hair color, complexion, or the like.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
hypernyms: shell#Noun
cartridge
coordinate_terms: canister shot
glosses: An anti-personnel artillery shell used in World War I which carries a large number of individual bullets or balls close to the target and then ejects them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike the target individually.
topics: government
military
politics
war
hypernyms: shot
coordinate_terms: canister shot
glosses: The bullets or balls from the aforementioned type of artillery shell.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Any shot, fragments, or debris thrown out by an exploding shell, bomb, or landmine.
examples: text: The dog ate my sandwich, and there was shrapnel all over the place from him tearing open the bag.
glosses: Debris.
examples: text: I was waiting in the queue, looking at the board / Wondering whether to have a burger or chips / Or what the shrapnel in my back pocket could afford
ref: 2004, “Fit But You Know It”, in Mike Skinner (lyrics), A Grand Don't Come For Free, performed by The Streets:
glosses: Loose change.
Derived terms: pocket shrapnel
silken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪlkən/
rhymes: -ɪlkən
Forms: form: silkens
form: silkening
form: silkened
form: silkened
Etymology: From Middle English silken, selken, seolkene, from Old English seolcen, from seolc (“silk”) + -en, from an unattested early Proto-West Germanic borrowing from Latin sēricum, from Ancient Greek σηρικός (sērikós, “silken”), from σήρ (sḗr, “silkworm”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”). Equivalent to silk + -en (“made of”). Cognate with Scots selkin, silkin (“silken”), Icelandic silki (“silken”).
Senses: examples: text: silkening body lotion
text: Or, if your sheep are of Silurian breed,
Nightly to house them dry on fern or straw,
Silk’ning their fleeces.
ref: 1757, John Dyer, The Fleece, London: R. & J. Dodsley, Book I, lines 492-494, p. 30:
text: […] these lights silkened her black skin:
ref: 1987, Derek Walcott, “The Light of the World”, in The Arkansas Testament, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 48:
glosses: To render silken or silklike.
statementing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From statement (noun) + -ing.
Senses: topics: education
glosses: formal official assessment of a child as having special needs.
statementing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From statement (verb) + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of statement
steampunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstiːm.pʌŋk/
Forms: form: steampunks
Etymology: From steam + -punk, by analogy with cyberpunk, coined by science-fiction writer Kevin Wayne Jeter (born 1950) in a 1987 letter to the magazine Locus in response to a review of his book Infernal Devices published the same year (see the quotation below).
Senses: examples: text: There's railroad trains, a lot of steam-driven stuff, but that's about it. More ‘steam punk’, I suppose.
ref: 1987 May, James Blaylock, Locus, volume 20, number 5 (#316 overall), page 57:
text: It is also the vision of steampunk, a subculture that is the aesthetic expression of a time-traveling fantasy world, one that embraces music, film, design and now fashion, all inspired by the extravagantly inventive age of dirigibles and steam locomotives, brass diving bells and jar-shaped protosubmarines.
ref: 2008 May 8, Ruth La Ferla, “Steampunk moves between 2 worlds”, in The New York Times:
text: The [Arboath North Signal Box] locking room's collection of chains, pulleys and wires resembles the inside of a piano, stretching to the 72-levered frame above. Lovers of steampunk will find it especially pleasing.
ref: 2021 November 3, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Boxes with functions across the centuries”, in RAIL, number 943, page 57:
coordinate_terms: dieselpunk
;
see also others
glosses: A subgenre of science fiction that depicts advanced technology combined with Victorian style and aesthetics, such as steam-powered machines and vehicles, visible gears and screws and people dressed in 19th-century attires.
examples: text: Personally, I think Victorian fantasies are going to be the next big thing, as long as we can come up with a fitting collective term for Powers, [James] Blaylock and myself. Something based on the appropriate technology of the era; like steam-punks, perhaps...
ref: 1987 April, Kevin Wayne Jeter, “[Untitled letter]”, in Locus, volume 20, number 4 (#315 overall), archived from the original on 30 Aug 2014, page 57:
glosses: A writer of steampunk fiction.
examples: text: It wound up being an overwhelmingly positive experience that made me appreciate the steampunks around me even more.
ref: 2009 September, Klaude Davenport, “An interview with Emmett and Klaude Davenport of the Clockwork Cabaret”, in Exhibition Hall, number 1, page 6:
text: It is extremely rare that you speak to someone who says "I want to be an ...." This would suggest that for the vast majority of steampunks their choice of outfit (at least intitially) is less a conscious attempt at portrayal and more of a spontaneous and potentially subconscious growth of an idea.
ref: 2010 September 24, John Naylor, “Re: [Steam-Scholars] Hello again and a query”, in steam-scholars mailing list, message-ID <45b85.6b512dc6.39cddc00@aol.com>:
glosses: A person cosplaying as a steampunk character.
Derived terms: steampunker
steampunkish
steampunky
steampunk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstiːm.pʌŋk/
Forms: form: steampunks
form: steampunking
form: steampunked
form: steampunked
Etymology: From steam + -punk, by analogy with cyberpunk, coined by science-fiction writer Kevin Wayne Jeter (born 1950) in a 1987 letter to the magazine Locus in response to a review of his book Infernal Devices published the same year (see the quotation below).
Senses: examples: text: [Director Paul W.S.] Anderson's answer to the question of what to update in this film seems to be: steampunk everything. Hence the elaborate airship contraptions and weapons, all made in wood and iron and powered by choo-choo engines. What seems to be missing is the why. When far-fetched techno-bits and bobs are put into a story, these items must have a meaning and purpose. Here, the gadgets are throwaway items used for their visual effect, then discarded.
ref: 2011 October 26, John Lui, “Musketeers victim of identity crisis [review of The Three Musketeers (2011)]”, in The Straits Times (Life! section), Singapore:
text: There is also a strong draw on literature and film for ideas. Some steampunks will take a favorite character, such as Boba Fett, Alice, Dorothy, Professor Snape, or Sherlock Holmes, and “steampunk” him or her out by adding elements of leather (or faux leather), gears, clock parts, electricity, motors, and so on.
ref: 2012, Sybil Fogg, “Mechomancy: Steampunk Sensibilities in Pagan Traditions”, in Llewellyn's 2013 Magical Almanac: Practical Magic for Everyday Living, Woodbury, Minn.: Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN, page 90:
glosses: To depict in a steampunk manner.
chanced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃænst/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɑːnst/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃeənst/
rhymes: -ænst
rhymes: -ɑːnst
rhymes: -eənst
Senses: examples: text: He chanced upon the definition when leafing through the dictionary.
glosses: simple past and past participle of chance
step aerobics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: a form of aerobics involving repeated stepping up onto, and down from a block or platform
aerobics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹəʊbɪks/
ipa: /əˈɹoʊbɪks/
rhymes: -əʊbɪks
Etymology: aerobic + -s.
Senses: hypernyms: cardio#Noun
glosses: A form of exercise, designed to enhance one's cardiovascular fitness, normally performed to music.
Derived terms: aquaerobics
aqua aerobics
boxaerobics
chairobics
quadrobics
step aerobics
strollerobics
water aerobics
Related terms: aerobes
aerobic
earner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nə(ɹ)
Forms: form: earners
Etymology: From earn + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Teachers are not simply wage earners who teach students, but revolutionaries bringing up the future builders of socialism. For this reason, we are working hard to help teachers acquire advanced science and technology and to revolutionize and working-classize them.
ref: 1972 May 14, Kim Il Sung, Kim Il Sung Works (Kim Il Sung Works; 27), Pyongyang, Korea: Foreign Languages Publishing House, Talk to the Delegation of the Japan National Association of Socialist Mayors, page 177:
text: A remaining downside with potentially big unintended consequences is the legislated proposal doesn’t yet adjust the spouse income test, excluding many couples where one earner loses their job and leading to a perverse and undesirable "benefit cliff".
ref: 2020 March 24, Peter Whiteford, Bruce Bradbury, “Your guide to coronavirus payments for the extra million on welfare”, in The Conversation:
glosses: One who earns money.
examples: text: Those Japanese radios were a nice little earner: we sold all of them by lunchtime.
glosses: A profitable product or scheme; something that brings in good money.
Derived terms: big earner
dual earner
middle earner
nonearner
wage earner
stonking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: For instance he might see a White-eared Honeyeater, a not uncommon bird in the heathy areas at Bunyip, but in his excitement to call it, something in his brain scrambled and came out as: `White-cheeked Honeyeater!' White-cheeked Honeyeater is an absolute stonking crippler in Victoria, but Stu was not actually trying to string a rarity, he'd just got such a flood of new information swirling around his brain that sometimes it got jumbled up.
ref: 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 67:
glosses: impressively large; exciting
stonking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stonk
SDLP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: "We know we can't bring those people back," said former deputy first minister Mark Durkan of the SDLP.
ref: 2023 April 7, Chris Andrews, quoting Mark Durkan, “Good Friday Agreement: Use courage and vision of 1998, says George Mitchell”, in BBC News:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Social Democratic and Labour Party.
ITA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Independent Television Authority.
topics: education
glosses: Initialism of Initial Teaching Alphabet.
ITA
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of I totally agree.
vocational school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vocational schools
Senses: glosses: A school that provides training in specific skills required for different industries.
Synonyms: trade school
inconceivable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪn.kənˈsiː.və.bl̩/
Forms: form: more inconceivable
form: most inconceivable
Etymology: From in- + conceivable.
Senses: examples: text: While the world altered dramatically during the course of her reign, the monarchy did too, though rather more imperceptibly: the walkabouts that increasingly characterised royal appearances, the pop concerts at Buckingham Palace, the throwing open of the royal palaces to visitors – even the paying of income tax, and royal podcasts – would have been inconceivable as innovations at the time Elizabeth came to the throne.
ref: 2022 September 8, Stephen Bates, “Queen Elizabeth II obituary”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Unable to be conceived or imagined; unbelievable.
Derived terms: inconceivability
inconceivableness
inconceivably
stressed out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stress out
stressed out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stressed out
form: most stressed out
Senses: glosses: Very stressed psychologically or physically.
glosses: Exhausted or debilitated by stress.
UCAS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈjuːkæs/
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Universities and Colleges Admissions Service.
superbug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superbugs
Etymology: From super- + bug.
Senses: examples: text: But now we’re seeing increasing numbers of superbugs that survive antibiotics. One of the best-known [is] MRSA, a kind of staph infection [that] kills about 18,000 Americans annually. That’s more than die of AIDS.
ref: 2010 March 7, Nicholas Kristof, “The Spread of Superbugs”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A strain of bacteria that is resistant to many antibiotics (e.g., MDR, XDR).
glosses: Any pathogen resistant to many, even all, of the biocides or other agents used to treat similar pathogens.
glosses: An invasive insect, Bemisia tabaci, that is a major pest of vegetable crops, both directly and as a virus vector.
Synonyms: sense: Bemisia tabaci
word: silverleaf whitefly
Hyponyms: sense: drug-resistant microbe
word: super gonorrhea
superunleaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + unleaded.
Senses: glosses: of unleaded petrol, that has a higher than normal octane number due to the addition of aromatic hydrocarbons
sussed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ʌst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of suss
glosses: simple past and past participle of sus
sussed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ʌst
Senses: examples: text: Chippenham's hardly the romantic capitol of the world m′boy, but I see exactly what you′re saying, though I think you′ve got it more sussed than all us.
ref: 2005, Daniel C. Bristow, Halcyon Nights, page 57:
text: ‘You mean you were still on dial-up?’ He laughed. ‘For someone who does what you do, I can′t believe you′re not more sussed.’
ref: 2011, Henry Sutton, Get Me Out of Here, page 78:
glosses: Sorted, organised; figured out, understood.
examples: text: Patric′s one of the most sussed beings in the industry, but the schizophrenia that comes from being unable to reconcile a love of music with a desire to make lots of bucks seems to have affected everyone.
ref: 1981, Muff Andersson, Music in the Mix: The story of South African Popular Music, page 53:
text: […] for example J-17′s February issue carried an informative quiz, ‘Are you sussed about sex?’
ref: 1999, Jane C. Stokes, Anna Reading, The media in Britain: current debates and developments, page 215:
text: Their replacement came in the form of Liz Shaw (Caroline John), a rather more sussed female ‘companion’ than most of her predecessors.
ref: 2000, Daniel O′Brien, SF:UK: How British Science Fiction Changed the World, unidentified page:
text: “But he didn′t, he just got lucky. When you′re lucky like that, though, people start to look up to you ... They reckon you′re more sussed than others.”
ref: 2003, Ian Rankin, A Question of Blood, page 508:
text: She certainly seemed a lot more sussed than Martie remembered her.
ref: 2006, Stephen Simm, Miss Kwa Kwa, page 191:
glosses: Well-informed; in the know, savvy.
Synonyms: sense: well-informed
word: savvy
sense: well-informed
word: switched on
Related terms: suss out
sustainable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈsteɪnəbəl/
Forms: form: more sustainable
form: most sustainable
Etymology: From sustain + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be sustained.
examples: text: sustainable economy
text: In addition to the resources listed in the organic and local food sections earlier, a good source of sustainable meat is Heritage Foods USA (heritagefoodsusa.com).
ref: 2008, Kate L. Harrison, The Green Bride Guide, →ISBN, page 174:
text: Some critics have asserted that sustainable food is "elitist"; that it's too expensive and not widely available.
ref: 2008 August–October, Dawn Brighid, "A Taste of Hope", in Organic Gardening, ISSN 1536-108X, volume 55, number 6, page 73 http://books.google.com/books?id=S8MDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA73&dq=%22that+sustainable%22
text: A city on a hill—or many cities on hills—surrounded by unbroken vistas of beautiful countryside; small, thriving, family-run farms growing organic, seasonal, and sustainable fruits and vegetables specific to the region.
ref: 2010, Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw, →ISBN, page 129:
text: Right now, rich nations devour 28 tonnes of material per person per year – including everything from fish to forests, plastics to metals. That’s four times more than ecologists say is sustainable.
ref: 2019, Jason Hickel, “Climate breakdown is coming. The UK needs a Greener New Deal”, in Guardian.:
glosses: Able to be produced or sustained for an indefinite period without damaging the environment, or without depleting a resource; renewable.
Derived terms: sustainability
sustainable development
sustainable tourist
sustainable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈsteɪnəbəl/
Forms: form: sustainables
Etymology: From sustain + -able.
Senses: examples: text: It has only been in the last 20 years that the long-term trend away from fossil fuels and toward nuclear energy and sustainables has intensified.
ref: 1996, Joseph Francis Coates, John B. Mahaffie, Andy Hines, 2025: Scenarios of U.S. and Global Society Reshaped by Science and Technology, page 117:
glosses: A renewable energy source.
Tamil Tiger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tamil Tigers
Senses: glosses: A member of a guerrilla organization seeking the establishment of an independent state (Tamil Eelam) in the northeast of Sri Lanka for the Tamil community.
Related terms: Tamil Tigers
bash the bishop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bashes the bishop
form: bashing the bishop
form: bashed the bishop
form: bashed the bishop
Etymology: Uncertain or disputed. Goldman (1950) suggests that beat the bishop comes from a resemblance of the penis to a bishop’s miter; Partridge (7th ed., 1970) likewise derives bash the bishop from a resemblance to the Staunton bishop chess piece. Other sources, such as Green, suggest that assonance of bishop with bash, beat, bop etc. may have given rise to the phrase as a type of word play.
Senses: examples: text: “Hello, Gladys,” I said, shaking her by the hand. “Joffy here used to bash the bishop so much when he was a boy we all thought he would go blind.”
ref: 2003, Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair:
glosses: To masturbate by stimulating one's penis.
flog the dolphin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flogs the dolphin
form: flogging the dolphin
form: flogged the dolphin
form: flogged the dolphin
Senses: glosses: To masturbate by stimulating one's penis.
Synonyms: spank the monkey
Spiegel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Spiegels
form: Spegal
Etymology: From German Spiegel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
predatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛdət(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛdəˌtɔɹi/
Forms: form: more predatory
form: most predatory
form: prædatory
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin praedātōrius, equivalent to predator + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Harry Kane was back to his predatory best after struggling in the group stage, following up his goal against Germany by poking home a superb pass from Raheem Sterling after only four minutes.
ref: 2021 July 3, Phil McNulty, “Ukraine 0-4 England”, in BBC Sport:
text: And while there are plenty of benches, there's little shelter from the wind (or predatory seagulls the size of dogs) out on the platforms.
ref: 2024 November 13, Paul Bigland, “Much to admire... but pockets of neglect”, in RAIL, number 1022, page 49:
glosses: Of, or relating to a predator.
examples: text: The mark of his father’s early life was strong upon him and enhanced by months of association with beasts, from whom the imitative faculty of youth had absorbed a countless number of little mannerisms of the predatory creatures of the wild.
ref: 1915 December 4 – 1916 January 8, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter IX, in The Son of Tarzan, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published March 1917, →OCLC:
synonyms: predaceous
predacious
glosses: Living by preying on other living animals.
examples: text: predatory lending
text: predatory inclusion
text: One very important section of the denizens of Darkest England are the criminals and the semi-criminals. They are more or less predatory, and are at present shepherded by the police and punished by the gaoler.
ref: 1890, William Booth, chapter 7, in In Darkest England and the Way Out:
text: The purpose of government was the guarding of property-rights, the perpetuation of ancient force and modern fraud. Or was it marriage? Marriage and prostitution were two sides of one shield, the predatory man’s exploitation of the sex-pleasure.
ref: 1905 April–October, Upton Sinclair, chapter XXXI, in The Jungle, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 26 February 1906, →OCLC:
text: Francis had promised to take the matter seriously, recruiting victims of predatory priests to a Vatican commission he set up to stamp out abuse, but several resigned soon afterwards, judging that he was not prepared to make the changes needed and hand oversight of the church’s handling of such cases to a completely independent body.
ref: 2025 April 21, Peter Stanford, “Pope Francis obituary”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Exploiting or victimizing others for personal gain.
Derived terms: antipredatory
macropredatory
mesopredatory
micropredatory
nonpredatory
predatorially
predatorily
predatoriness
predatorious
predatory conference
predatory incursion
predatory journal
predatory pricing
predatory publishing
predatory tunicate
unpredatory
Related terms: predaceous
predacious
predation
predator
prey
interchange
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪndʒ
enpr: ĭntə(r)chānj'
ipa: /ɪntə(ɹ)ˈtʃeɪndʒ/
enpr: ĭntərchānj'
ipa: /ɪntɚˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: interchanges
form: interchanging
form: interchanged
form: interchanged
Etymology: From Old French entrechange, by surface analysis, inter- + change.
Senses: examples: text: to interchange places
glosses: to switch (each of two things)
examples: text: I shall interchange / My waned state for Henry's regal crown.
ref: c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vii]:
glosses: to mutually give and receive (something); to exchange
examples: text: The poem is written in an alef-lamed, bet-nun acrostic form. This is a formula of permutation of letters wherein the first interchanges with the twelfth, the second with the thirteenth, etc.
ref: 1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 260:
glosses: to swap or change places
examples: to interchange cares with pleasures
glosses: to alternate; to intermingle or vary
examples: text: But those 13 miles go through central London, and where the Underground interchanges with Crossrail, its own stations will be boosted and glamorised, especially at Bond Street and Tottenham Court Road.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 274:
text: The expectation is that about one-third of passengers will choose to interchange at Old Oak, while two-thirds will prefer to travel on to Euston.
ref: 2020 March 25, William Barter, “HS2: Euston or Old Oak Common?”, in Rail, page 59:
topics: transport
glosses: To act as or carry out an interchange (noun, senses 2, 3).
Synonyms: sense: to switch each of two things
word: exchange
word: swap
sense: to mutually give and receive something
word: exchange
word: trade
word: mix
Derived terms: preinterchange
interchange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪndʒ
enpr: ĭn'tə(r)chānj
ipa: /ˈɪntə(ɹ).tʃeɪndʒ/
enpr: ĭn'tərchānj
ipa: /ˈɪntɚt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: interchanges
Etymology: From Old French entrechange, by surface analysis, inter- + change.
Senses: examples: text: That was one of three superb saves Hennessey made in the opening 45 minutes, the best of which was from Dzeko, who had been released by a slick interchange involving Silva and Sergio Aguero.
ref: 2011 October 29, Neil Johnston, “Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: An act of interchanging.
glosses: A highway junction in which traffic may change from one road to another without crossing a stream of traffic.
glosses: A junction in which traffic may merge to enter or diverge to exit a limited-access highway to access a surface street, without crossing traffic on the main highway.
examples: text: Holborn tube station is the only interchange between the London Underground Central and Piccadilly Lines.
text: Moving on again, I catch another GWR Class 802 bound for Oxford via the Cotswold Line. Our first stop is at one of the newest stations on the network - Worcestershire Parkway, which opened on February 23. It's a four-platform (actually three-platform) split-level interchange with the line from Birmingham to Bristol.
ref: 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 67:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A connection between two or more lines, services or modes of transport; a station at which such a connection can be made.
examples: text: David and I were not "intimate" friends. There was always a certain old-worldly formality about our interchanges. There was something professorial and distant about David, something that commanded respect, partially, I think, because he was so respectful himself.
ref: 1984 December 15, Nancy Walker, “Remembering David Stryker”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 22, page 5:
glosses: A back-and-forth interaction; an exchange.
Derived terms: cloverleaf interchange
electronic data interchange
partial cloverleaf interchange
preinterchange
single-point urban interchange
system interchange
transport interchange
polar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpoʊlər/
ipa: [ˈpʰəʊ̯lə(ɹ)]
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈpolɑ(r)/
Etymology: From Late Latin polāris, equivalent to pole + -ar.
Senses: examples: text: After all, to go into outer space is not so much worse, if at all, than a polar expedition.
ref: 1900 December – 1901 August, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, The First Men in the Moon, London: George Newnes, […], published 1901, →OCLC:
topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or having a pole or polarity, as:
Of, relating to, measured from, or referred to a geographic pole (the North Pole or South Pole); within the Arctic or Antarctic circles.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
space-sciences
glosses: Of or having a pole or polarity, as:
Of an orbit that passes over, or near, one of these poles.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or having a pole or polarity, as:
Having a dipole; ionic.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of or having a pole or polarity, as:
Of a coordinate system, specifying the location of a point in a plane by using a radius and an angle.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or having a pole or polarity, as:
Having but two possible answers, yes and no.
raw_tags: of a question
examples: text: polar viewpoints
glosses: Of or having a pole or polarity, as:
Of or relating to a pole (extreme) on any spectrum or field, such as an ideologically pure dogmatic position as opposed to any syncretic integration or balancing of competing principles.
qualifier: conceptual analysis
Derived terms: ambipolar
antipolar
autopolar
axipolar
bipolar
circumpolar
contrapolar
copolar
decapolar
dipolar
electropolar
epipolar
equipolar
extrapolar
frontopolar
grolar
heteropolar
hexadecapolar
hexapolar
homopolar
interpolar
intrapolar
isopolar
micropolar
monopolar
multipolar
non-polar
nonpolar
octapolar
octopolar
omnipolar
peripolar
pizzly
polar antonym
polar area diagram
polar axis
polar bar chart
polar bear
polar bear dip
polar bear plunge
polar bear swim
polar body
polar cap
polar circle
polar cod
polar cone
polar coordinates
polar covalent bond
polar desert
polar dog
polar equation
polar fox
polar ice
polarisation
polariscope
polarise
polarity
polarization
polarize
polar lights
polarly
polar moment of inertia
polar motion
polar night
polar nucleus
polaron
polaroplast
polar opposite
polar question
polar star
polar stratospheric cloud
polar vortex
polar wander
polarward
polar willow
polar wind
polar wolf
prizzly
quadripolar
semipolar
space polar coordinate
subpolar
temporopolar
tetrapolar
transpolar
tripolar
unipolar
polar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpoʊlər/
ipa: [ˈpʰəʊ̯lə(ɹ)]
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈpolɑ(r)/
Forms: form: polars
Etymology: From Late Latin polāris, equivalent to pole + -ar.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The line joining the points of contact of tangents drawn to meet a curve from a point called the pole of the line.
niggaz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nigga
nigon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nigons
form: negon
form: negyn
form: nygon
Senses: glosses: Niggard, miser.
hypnotized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypnotized
form: most hypnotized
form: hypnotised
Senses: glosses: Under hypnosis
Derived terms: dickmatized
nonhypnotized
unhypnotized
hypnotized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hypnotised
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hypnotize
e-nose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-noses
Etymology: From e- + nose.
Senses: examples: 2005, E-nose to 'sniff out' superbugs, BBC Online, 22 September.
The e-nose created by surgeon David Morgan and engineer Ritaban Dutta and colleagues can sit on a doctor's desk and analyse gasses given off by swabs from patients for signs of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and other strains of Staph aureus.
glosses: An electronic device able to detect specific combinations of chemicals in gaseous form.
technology transfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technology transfers
Senses: examples: text: University licensing offices have at their disposal a number of contractual arrangements to facilitate technology transfer, including secrecy agreements, options, licenses, material transfer agreements, and equity investments.
ref: 2004, David Mowery, Ivory Tower and Industrial Innovation, page 178:
text: Technology transfer from the space program has fueled many inventions and innovations, but it was also the excitement of this human accomplishment that drove many young minds (including that of your author) to enter STEM careers.
ref: 2018 May 25, David Gewirtz, ZDNet:
glosses: The movement of (especially new) technology from one field or region to another, especially from a research institution to the marketplace in order to allow commercialization.
glosses: The use of a concept or product from one technology to solve a problem in an unrelated one.
get off at Haymarket
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets off at Haymarket
form: getting off at Haymarket
form: got off at Haymarket
form: got off at Haymarket
Etymology: Haymarket railway station is the last station shortly before arrival into Edinburgh Waverley station when travelling from Glasgow.
Senses: examples: text: John looked at a woman standing further down the carriage in bridal headdress surrounded by her hen party acolytes.
‘She's got the wrong aisle. At least she chose Virgin Trains. All train guards can marry folk you know. But the vows are only valid for the duration of the journey. You can always get off at Haymarket, know what I mean?’
The women shrieked as the inflatable male doll her friends had stowed in the overhead luggage rack idly dangled a leg.
ref: 2014, Stuart Campbell, John McPake and the Sea Beggars:
text: The thought that Lizzie and her man knew about getting off at Haymarket and other ways of delaying pregnancy occurred to Peggy for the first time.
ref: 2014, Mary Easson, Black rigg, page 157:
text: […]he tenderly whispered, 'Now, my sweet, don't you worry because I was careful and got off at Haymarket every time, so I did.' This remark meant nothing to Kate but to others in Leith who were acquainted with the facts of life it meant that Hugh had been careful not to go full steam ahead into Waverley and therefore put her in the family way.
ref: 2015, Millie Gray, Silver Linings:
text: '[…]Do you and Bill sleep in separate rooms now?'
Anna roared with laughter. 'No, darling! I just tell him to get off at Haymarket.'
It was not till many years later that Olivia worked out what she meant! She didn't dare to ask Anna there in the middle of the tea room.
ref: 2017, Mary Contini, Dear Alfonso: An Italian Feast of Love and Laughter:
glosses: To practise coitus interruptus, the withdrawal method of contraception.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, off, at, Haymarket.
Synonyms: word: get off at Redfern
Related terms: three stops short of Dagenham
three-peat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: three-peats
form: three-peating
form: three-peated
form: three-peated
form: threepeat
Etymology: Blend of three + repeat.
Senses: glosses: To win something three times consecutively.
three-peat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: three-peats
form: threepeat
Etymology: Blend of three + repeat.
Senses: examples: text: Jokić is going for a historic three-peat of MVPs and you would be hard pressed to bet against the Serbian winning the trophy for a third successive year.
ref: 2023 April 5, Thomas Schlacher, “Joel Embiid vs. Nikola Jokić vs. Giannis Antetokounmpo: What’s the latest in the race to become the NBA MVP?”, in CNN:
glosses: A third successive win.
Derived terms: fourpeat
four-peat
Related terms: hat trick
through-ticketing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: through ticketing
Senses: glosses: a system in which a traveller using multiple transport networks can purchase a single ticket for the entire journey
ticketing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ticketings
Senses: examples: text: Other approaches, which apply to bus as well, are to upgrade existing facilities, improve ticketing, ensure fares are affordable and longer operating hours.
ref: 2019 October, John Glover, “Heathrow rail expansion”, in Modern Railways, page 72:
text: Quizzed on simplifying fares, Heaton-Harris said the Government had inherited a "mix of ticketing and unbelievable, interesting fares up and down the system, and we do want to simplify them".
ref: 2021 October 6, “Network News: Lords hear fares and ticketing are key areas for improvement”, in RAIL, number 941, page 22:
text: Traditionally, 'ticket office' seems to have been the preferred term in America, with Britain using the term 'booking office' (as an 1881 edition of The Railway Age Monthly and Railway Service Magazine explains). Today, the two are often used interchangeably (as the recent 'Save our ticket offices' campaign shows), with the term 'ticketing' perhaps capturing more of the point-of-sale transaction and issuing of tickets within stations.
ref: 2024 March 6, Dr Joseph Brennan, “England's booking offices of distinction”, in RAIL, number 1004, page 56:
glosses: The issuing or selling of tickets.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A periodic sale of ore in the mining districts, in which buyers wrote their bids upon tickets.
Derived terms: e-ticketing
through-ticketing
through ticketing
throwaway ticketing
ticketing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ticket
tone dialing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: A system of telephone dialing in which each digit is transmitted as a burst of a single audio frequency.
Related terms: touch-tone dialing
pulse dialing
towelhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: towelheads
Etymology: From towel + head.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Muslims, Arabs, Sikhs, and other groups that traditionally wear headdress such as a turban, keffiyeh or headscarf.
Synonyms: diaperhead
raghead
eligible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛl.ɪ.d͡ʒɪ.bəl/
ipa: /ˈɛl.ɪ.d͡ʒə.bəl/
ipa: /ˈɛl.ə.d͡ʒə.bəl/
ipa: /ˈel.ə.d͡ʒə.bəl/
Forms: form: more eligible
form: most eligible
Etymology: From Middle French eligible, from Latin eligibilis, from ēligō (“select, choose”).
Senses: glosses: Allowed to and meeting the necessary conditions required to participate in or be chosen for something
glosses: Worthy of being chosen (for marriage).
Synonyms: choosable
licensed
qualified
Derived terms: eligibleness
noneligible
reeligible
supereligible
ultraeligible
uneligible
Related terms: elect
elegant
eligibility
eligibly
elite
illegible
eligible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛl.ɪ.d͡ʒɪ.bəl/
ipa: /ˈɛl.ɪ.d͡ʒə.bəl/
ipa: /ˈɛl.ə.d͡ʒə.bəl/
ipa: /ˈel.ə.d͡ʒə.bəl/
Forms: form: eligibles
Etymology: From Middle French eligible, from Latin eligibilis, from ēligō (“select, choose”).
Senses: examples: text: Federal agencies report that only about 1 percent of eligible students take advantage of switching schools and fewer than 20 percent of eligibles receive extra tutoring.
ref: 2007 October 3, Diane Ravitch, “Get Congress Out of the Classroom”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who is eligible.
headcloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headcloths
Etymology: From Old English hēafodclāþ, equivalent to head + cloth.
Senses: glosses: Any form of headwear consisting of a piece of material either tied or held in place with a band.