drill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: drĭl
ipa: /dɹɪl/
ipa: [dɹɪɫ]
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: drills
form: drilling
form: drilled
form: drilled
Etymology: From Middle Dutch drillen (“bore, move in a circle”).
Senses: examples: text: Drill a small hole to start the screw in the right direction.
synonyms: excavate
bore
gouge
glosses: To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).
examples: text: They drilled daily to learn the routine exactly.
text: On his return the team that faced Hull City had been reconfigured. Moses wasn’t overly drilled, just told he would be playing right wing-back, that Conte had seen enough to know.
ref: 2017 May 13, Barney Ronay, “Antonio Conte’s brilliance has turned Chelsea’s pop-up team into champions”, in the Guardian:
glosses: To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context.
examples: text: The sergeant was up by 6:00 every morning, drilling his troops.
text: He [Frederic the Great] drilled his people, as he drilled his grenadiers.
ref: 1859, Thomas Macaulay, Life of Frederick the Great:
glosses: To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts.
examples: text: The instructor drilled into us the importance of reading the instructions.
glosses: To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.
examples: text: Drill deeper and you may find the underlying assumptions faulty.
glosses: To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level
examples: text: He drilled down the court and made a three-pointer.
text: He drilled the ball to his teammate.
text: He did get their attention when he drilled the ball dead center into the hole for an opening birdie.
ref: 2006, Joe Coon, The Perfect Game:
text: Without compromising he drilled the ball home, leaving Dynamos' ill-fated keeper diving for fresh air.
ref: 2007, Craig Cowell, Muddy Sunday:
text: Bolton were then just inches from taking the lead, but the dangerous-looking Taylor drilled just wide after picking up a loose ball following Jose Bosingwa's poor attempted clearance.
ref: 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC:
glosses: To throw, run, hit or kick with a lot of power.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To hit someone with a pitch, especially in an intentional context.
examples: text: Everytime^([sic]) when I rape your daughter. Your beautiful faces expressing how it hurts. Always while I drill her c*nt. I want to see you dead.
ref: 2010, MasseMord, “Masshealing Masskilling”:
text: Guess I'll be drilling her butt
ref: 2012, SwizZz, “Flu Shot”:
synonyms: word: plow
word: poke
word: root
word: shaft
word: Formal terms
word: bed
word: coit
word: coitize
word: dight
word: enjoy
word: feague
word: go in unto
word: go to bed with
word: have
word: know
word: lie by
word: lie with
word: love
word: mount
word: occupy
word: penetrate
word: season
word: seduce
word: sleep with
word: take
word: Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with"
word: Informal and slang terms
word: ball
word: bang
word: bauf
word: beep
word: be with
word: bone
word: boff
word: boink
word: bonk
word: boom-boom
word: dick
word: diddle
word: dig out
word: do
word: doink
word: drill
word: eff
word: expletive deleted
word: feck
word: fill
word: frack
word: frak
word: frick
word: frig
word: fuck
word: get into someone's pants
word: get over on
word: get up in
word: give someone one
word: give someone the time
word: go with
word: have one's way with
word: have one's wicked way with
word: hit
word: hump
word: jape
word: jump
word: jump someone's bones
word: knob
word: knock
word: knock off
word: know someone in the biblical sense
word: lay
word: love up
word: make
word: nail
word: plough
word: plug
word: poke
word: pork
word: pound
word: prig
word: pump
word: ream
word: rock
word: roger
word: root
word: run through
word: rut
word: sard
word: schlong
word: screw
word: see to
word: service
word: shaft
word: shag
word: shelve
word: slay
word: slip it to
word: smash
word: smush
word: stallionize
word: swive
word: tap
word: tup
word: wap
glosses: To have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate.
examples: text: ‘Matthew Garth woulda let Tom Dunstan drill him insteada drawin’ against him.’
ref: 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 16:
synonyms: drill up
glosses: To shoot; to kill by shooting.
Derived terms: drillability
drillable
drilldown
drill down
drill in
drill out
drill through
predrill
redrill
self-drilling
undrilled