cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Downing Street
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named for its founder, Sir George Downing.
Senses: glosses: A street leading off Whitehall in Westminster, London containing the residences of the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer
glosses: The British government.
examples: text: For all his faults and grandstanding, however, Prescott genuinely cared - and his ambitious plans for tram schemes and railway extensions were stymied by lack of support from Downing Street.
ref: 2024 January 10, Christian Wolmar, “A time for change? ... just as it was back in issue 262”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 60:
glosses: Either 10 Downing Street or 11 Downing Street.
Related terms: 10 Downing Street
11 Downing Street
White House
Kremlin
BACH motif
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BACH motifs
Etymology: These four notes spell Bach's name; in German musical nomenclature “B” stands for B flat, whereas “H” means B natural.
Senses: examples: text: The BACH motif:
{bes'a'cb'}
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A sequence of four notes (B flat, A, C, B natural), included in a piece of music as a homage to Johann Sebastian Bach.
withers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪð.ɚz/
ipa: /ˈwɪð.əz/
Forms: form: wither
Etymology: From dialectal English wither (“against”) (compare wither-) + -s; see with. So-named because it is the part of the horse that pushes against a load. Compare German Widerrist (“withers”), from wider (“against”) + Rist (“wrist”).
Senses: glosses: The part of the back of a four-legged animal that is between the shoulder blades; in many species the highest point of the body and the standard place to measure the animal's height.
Hyponyms: nape
Coordinate terms: scruff
Derived terms: fistulous withers
wither-wrung
wring one's withers
withers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪð.ɚz/
ipa: /ˈwɪð.əz/
Etymology: From dialectal English wither (“against”) (compare wither-) + -s; see with. So-named because it is the part of the horse that pushes against a load. Compare German Widerrist (“withers”), from wider (“against”) + Rist (“wrist”).
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wither
mastoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæ.stɔɪd/
rhymes: -æstɔɪd
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin mastoīdēs, from Ancient Greek μᾰστοειδής (măstoeidḗs, “like a breast”), from μᾰστός (măstós, “a woman's breast”) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, “-like, -oid”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Being the process of the temporal bone behind the ear.
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: Being the process of the temporal bone behind the ear.
Being any of several bony elements that occupy a similar position in the skull of lower vertebrates.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the mastoid process of the temporal bone.
examples: text: Spores tetrahedral, paraphyses mastoid-claviform, scales smooth, entire.
ref: 1899, Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club, volumes 6-8, page 192:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Shaped like a nipple.
Synonyms: word: mammiform
word: mastoid
word: mastoidal
word: mammillariform
word: mammillary
word: mammose
Derived terms: atlantomastoid
bimastoid
cleidomastoid
juxtamastoid
mastoid bone
mastoid cell
mastoid process
occipitomastoid
otomastoid
paramastoid
parietomastoid
petromastoid
postmastoid
retromastoid
sternocleidomastoid
sternomastoid
stylomastoid
supramastoid
transmastoid
tympanomastoid
Related terms: word: breasts
mastoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæ.stɔɪd/
rhymes: -æstɔɪd
Forms: form: mastoids
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin mastoīdēs, from Ancient Greek μᾰστοειδής (măstoeidḗs, “like a breast”), from μᾰστός (măstós, “a woman's breast”) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, “-like, -oid”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of mastoid process.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Clipping of mastoiditis.
Derived terms: mastoidal
mastoidectomy
mastoiditis
mastoid process
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mastoid processes
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: mastoid
mastoid bone
processus mastoideus
temporal apophysis
glosses: The conical, nipplelike projection of the petrous part of the temporal bone, that is situated behind the ear in humans and many other vertebrates, and serves as a site of muscle attachment.
mastoid bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mastoid bones
Senses: glosses: The mastoid process.
Christine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɪsˈtiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Etymology: Borrowed from French Christine. Doublet of Christina.
Senses: examples: text: "Chris?" he repeated after her very softly, his eyes upon her, tenderly indulgent. "Ah! let it be Christine. I may call you that?"
"My actual name is Christina, but that's a detail. You can call me Christine if you like it best."
ref: 1913, Ethel May Dell, The Rocks of Valpré, BiblioBazaar, LLC, published 2007, →ISBN, page 36:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
A town in Texas; named for the first white baby girl born there.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
A city in North Dakota; probably named for Swedish opera singer Christina Nilsson.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Kentucky.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
A former settlement in California; named for an early Swiss settler.
meg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mĕg
ipa: /mɛɡ/
rhymes: -ɛɡ
Forms: form: megs
form: meg
Senses: glosses: Clipping of megabyte
glosses: Clipping of megahertz
glosses: Clipping of megajoule
Related terms: mil
meg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mĕg
ipa: /mɛɡ/
rhymes: -ɛɡ
Forms: form: megs
form: meg
Etymology: Unknown
Senses: examples: text: He could pick out cloth that was thirty meg a yard and get a suit and overcoat for fifteen bucks.
ref: 1916, Ring W. Lardner, “Three Kings and a Pair”, in The Saturday Evening Post:
glosses: a dollar
meg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mĕg
ipa: /mɛɡ/
rhymes: -ɛɡ
Forms: form: megs
Etymology: Clipping of nutmeg.
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: a nutmeg
meg
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: mĕg
ipa: /mɛɡ/
rhymes: -ɛɡ
Forms: form: megs
form: megging
form: megged
form: megged
Etymology: Clipping of nutmeg.
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: To nutmeg an opponent.
meg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mĕg
ipa: /mɛɡ/
rhymes: -ɛɡ
Forms: form: megs
Senses: glosses: A megalodon.
fetch
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: fĕch
ipa: /fɛt͡ʃ/
note: Southern US, African-American Vernacular, obsolete
enpr: fŏch
ipa: /fɑt͡ʃ/
note: Southern US, African-American Vernacular, obsolete
rhymes: -ɛtʃ
Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English fecchen (“to get and bring back, fetch; to come for, get and take away; to steal; to carry away to kill; to search for; to obtain, procure”) [and other forms], from Old English feċċan, fæċċan, feccean (“to fetch, bring; to draw; to gain, take; to seek”), a variant of fetian, fatian (“to bring near, fetch; to acquire, obtain; to bring on, induce; to fetch a wife, marry”) and possibly related to Old English facian, fācian (“to acquire, obtain; to try to obtain; to get; to get to, reach”), both from Proto-Germanic *fatōną, *fatjaną (“to hold, seize; to fetch”), from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to step, walk; to fall, stumble”).
The English word is cognate with Dutch vatten (“to apprehend, catch; to grasp; to understand”), German fassen (“to catch, grasp; to capture, seize”), English fet (“(obsolete) to fetch”), Faroese fata (“to grasp, understand”), Danish fatte (“to grasp, understand”), Swedish fatta (“to grasp, understand”), Icelandic feta (“to go, step”), West Frisian fetsje (“to grasp”).
The noun is derived from the verb.
Senses: qualifier: Utah
glosses: Minced oath for fuck.
fetch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fĕch
ipa: /fɛt͡ʃ/
note: Southern US, African-American Vernacular, obsolete
enpr: fŏch
ipa: /fɑt͡ʃ/
note: Southern US, African-American Vernacular, obsolete
rhymes: -ɛtʃ
Forms: form: fetches
Etymology: Uncertain; the following possibilities have been suggested:
* From fetch-life (“(obsolete, rare) a deity, spirit, etc., who guides the soul of a dead person to the afterlife; a psychopomp”).
* From the supposed Old English *fæcce (“evil spirit formerly thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; a mare”).
* From Old Irish fáith (“seer, soothsayer”).
Senses: examples: text: In these dilapidated articles of dress she had, on principle, arrayed herself, time out of mind, on such occasions as the present; for this at once expressed a decent amount of veneration for the deceased, and invited the next of kin to present her with a fresher set of weeds: an appeal so frequently successful, that the very fetch and ghost of Mrs. Gamp, bonnet and all, might be seen hanging up, at any hour of the day, in at least a dozen of the second-hand clothes shops around Holborn.
ref: 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, “The Reader is Brought into Communication with Some Professional Persons, and Sheds a Tear over the Filial Piety of Good Mr. Jonas”, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC, page 236:
text: I think it was a fetch. [...] Folk say a fetch is seen at its departing / From a cold house whence it shall lead a soul; / But this comes like a child-birth closing in, / And so perchance it does but signify / The consciousness of death that breaks in all.
ref: 1905, Gordon Bottomley, Midsummer Eve, Harting, Petersfield, Hampshire: Pear Tree Press, →OCLC; republished in King Lear’s Wife, The Crier by Night, The Riding to Lithend, Midsummer Eve, Laodice and Danaë: Plays, London: Constable & Company, 1920, →OCLC, page 159:
text: Several farm maidservants meet to see their future lovers' spirits on Midsummer Eve, but see only the "fetch" or double of one of them, foretelling her death.
ref: 1921, Sterling Andrus Leonard, “Bibliography of Plays for Reading in High Schools”, in Sterling Andrus Leonard, editor, The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays: […], Boston, Mass.: The Atlantic Monthly Press, →OCLC, page 300:
text: "If you're after some money," said the millionaire, "move that cat out of the way." Catweazle shook his head. "Mayhap 'tis a fetch." Victor was very taken aback. "A fetch?" he gulped. "That's a witch in the shape of a cat, isn't it?" "Ay," said Catweazle calmly.
ref: 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 80:
glosses: The apparition of a living person; a person's double, the sight of which is supposedly a sign that they are fated to die soon, a doppelganger; a wraith (“a person's likeness seen just after their death; a ghost, a spectre”).
Derived terms: fetch candle
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: make fetch happen
Roman cursive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪv
Etymology: Roman + cursive
Senses: glosses: The form of script used in ancient Rome until about the 3rd century AD for Latin handwriting.
Related terms: Roman square capitals
Roman square capitals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Roman + square + capitals
Senses: glosses: The form of writing used in ancient Rome for inscriptions.
Related terms: Roman cursive
downshifter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downshifters
Etymology: From downshift + -er or down + shifter.
Senses: glosses: A person who makes a transition to a less pressured or demanding career or lifestyle
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A process, algorithm, etc. that shifts something to a lower level or frequency.
Related terms: downshift
downshifting
dress-down Friday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dress-down Fridays
Senses: synonyms: casual Friday
glosses: A Friday on which office workers are allowed to dress more casually than usual.
Coordinate terms: word: dress-down day
word: mufti day
Related terms: business casual
smart casual
casual Friday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: casual Fridays
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dress-down Friday.
synonyms: word: dress-down Friday
prognostic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɒɡˈnɒstɪk/
ipa: /pɹəɡˈnɒstɪk/
ipa: /pɹɑɡˈnɑs.tɪk/
ipa: /pɹɔɡˈnɔs.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɒstɪk
Forms: form: more prognostic
form: most prognostic
form: prognostical
form: prognostick
Etymology: From Medieval Latin prognosticus, from Ancient Greek προγνωστικός (prognōstikós, “foreknowing”), from πρό (pró) + γνωστικός (gnōstikós, “of or for knowing, good at knowing”), from γιγνώσκω (gignṓskō, “to learn to know, to perceive, to mark, to learn”).
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to or characterized by prognosis or prediction.
Synonyms: foretelling
predictive
prognostic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɒɡˈnɒstɪk/
ipa: /pɹəɡˈnɒstɪk/
ipa: /pɹɑɡˈnɑs.tɪk/
ipa: /pɹɔɡˈnɔs.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɒstɪk
Forms: form: prognostics
form: prognostical
form: prognostick
Etymology: From Medieval Latin prognosticus, from Ancient Greek προγνωστικός (prognōstikós, “foreknowing”), from πρό (pró) + γνωστικός (gnōstikós, “of or for knowing, good at knowing”), from γιγνώσκω (gignṓskō, “to learn to know, to perceive, to mark, to learn”).
Senses: examples: text: There are several opinions as to what he meant
 But no one considers it a happy prognostic.
ref: 1935, T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral, Part I:
text: The appearance of the tongue is closely connected with the sense of thirst, and is of considerable importance as a prognostic.
ref: 1809, Bartholomew Parr, “PROGNOSIS”, in The London Medical Dictionary:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: prognosis
examples: text: Careful observers may foretell the hour
 (By sure prognostics) when to dread a show’r.
 While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o’er
 Her frolics, and pursues her tail no more.
ref: 1710, Jonathan Swift, A Description of a City Shower:
text: It was even later than usual when the Comtesse quitted a brilliant réunion of all that was gayest in the royal circle, elate with the glittering triumph of gratified vanity, and reading in such success the sure prognostic of more solidly successful ambition.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXIX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 305:
glosses: A sign by which a future event may be known or foretold.
examples: text: The choice of a successor was no light matter. That choice would inevitably be considered by the country as a prognostic of the highest import.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XI, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
glosses: A prediction of the future.
glosses: One who predicts the future.
Synonyms: sense: sign
word: indication
sense: sign
word: sign
sense: sign
word: omen
sense: sign
word: foretelling
sense: sign
word: prediction
Related terms: prognostatic
prognosis
prognosticable
prognosticate
drive-by
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: driveby
form: drive by
Senses: glosses: Of a crime, etc.: carried out from a moving vehicle.
examples: text: If the highly visible mockery of teenagers leads to a serious examination of the practices and institutions that perpetuate racism, perhaps it will be worth it. But I have my doubts. This kind of drive-by scapegoating does not seem conducive to genuine reflection (and it definitely doesn't encourage reflection in the individuals it scapegoats). It allows us to point the finger at other, younger, relatively powerless people, rather than consider the ways in which we're implicated in a problem that is much, much larger than a few misguided teenagers on Twitter.
ref: 2012 April 11, L. V. Anderson, “Talking to Teens Who Tweeted Racist Things About The Hunger Games”, in Slate, archived from the original on 02 Jun 2023:
text: But what hinders students far more than the technical side is Wikipedia's editing culture. Many of their contributions got reversed almost immediately, in what is known as a "drive-by deletion."
ref: 2018 October 8, Dawn Bazely, “Why Nobel winner Donna Strickland didn’t have a Wikipedia page”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Mar 2023:
glosses: Done in a cursory or superficial manner with little regard for the issues involved; careless, offhand.
Derived terms: drive-by download
drive-by media
drive by shooting
drive-by
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drive-bys
form: driveby
form: drive by
Senses: glosses: A crime, such as a shooting, carried out from a moving vehicle.
Related terms: fly-by
run by
sail-by
driveby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of drive-by.
driveby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drivebys
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of drive-by.
drop-dead
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: My date was drop-dead gorgeous!
text: Carmiesha "Lil' Muddah" Vernoy had been with me since back in the day. She was more than a dime piece. She was drop-dead gorgeous and had the best pussy in the world.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 21:
glosses: Very impressively or spectacularly.
examples: text: drop-dead date
text: The intruding investor (VC #2) makes an offer at a pre-money valuation of $15 million, subject to due diligence, and the expiration of the "drop dead" date, meaning the date in the initial investor's term sheet when exclusivity expires.
ref: 2003, Joseph W. Bartlett, Ross Barrett, Michael Butler, Advanced Private Equity Term Sheets and Series A Documents:
text: As the drop-dead date approaches, my mind becomes more focused.
ref: 2010, Richard L. Daft, The Executive and the Elephant, page 96:
text: If the assets [of a steel mill] were not sold by a fixed date, […]the “drop-dead” provision of the settlement agreement would take effect. Under that provision, the mills would be closed, the stay would be lifted, and the secured creditors would take possession. Probably neither the debtor nor the secured creditors believed that a sale could be completed before the drop-dead date.
ref: 2019, Lynn M. LoPucki, Elizabeth Warren, Robert M. Lawless, Secured Transactions: A Systems Approach, page 107:
topics: business
law
glosses: Absolutely final; being the deadline, especially in relation to a date set out in a contract upon which adverse consequences will flow if the contract has not been fulfilled.
Related terms: drop dead
to die for
solicit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sə-lĭs'ĭt
ipa: /səˈlɪsɪt/
rhymes: -ɪsɪt
Forms: form: solicits
form: soliciting
form: solicited
form: solicited
form: sollicit
Etymology: From Middle English soliciten, solliciten, from Old French soliciter, solliciter, borrowed from Latin sollicitō (“stir, disturb; look after”), from sollicitus (“agitated, anxious, punctilious”, literally “thoroughly moved”), from sollus (“whole, entire”) + perfect passive participle of cieō (“shake, excite, cite, to put in motion”).
Senses: examples: text: to solicit alms, or a favour
text: I view my crime, but kindle at the view,
 Repent old pleasures, and solicit new.
Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?
ref: 1717, Alexander Pope, “Eloisa to Abelard”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC:
synonyms: supplicate
thig
glosses: To persistently endeavor to obtain an object, or bring about an event.
examples: text: American railroads are not permitted to operate long-haul road routes, but the I.C.C. decision of 1954 did permit them to solicit trailer business in, say, New York for Chicago provided the trailer was piggybacked in between.
ref: 1960 November, David Morgan, “"Piggyback"—U.S. success story”, in Trains Illustrated, page 683:
synonyms: address
romance
glosses: To woo; to court.
examples: text: That fruit […] sollicited her longing eye.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: Sounds and some tangible qualities fail not to solicit their proper senses, and force an entrance to the mind.
ref: , Book II, Chapter 1
text: If you want to lose your virginity, you should try to solicit some fine looking women.
glosses: To persuade or incite one to commit some act, especially illegal or sexual behavior.
examples: text: My girlfriend tried to solicit me for sex, but I was tired.
glosses: To offer to perform sexual activity, especially when for a payment.
synonyms: appeal
petition
request
glosses: To make a petition.
glosses: To disturb or trouble; to harass.
examples: text: Should
 My brother henceforth study to forget
 The vow that he hath made thee, I would ever
 Solicit thy deserts.
ref: 1628, John Ford, The Lover's Melancholy:
synonyms: plead
glosses: To urge the claims of; to plead; to act as solicitor for or with reference to.
examples: text: 1611-1615, George Chapman, Iliad, Book XVI
Hath any ill solicited thine ears?
text: But anxious fears solicit my weak breast.
ref: 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act I, page 3:
synonyms: worry
glosses: To disturb; to disquiet.
Related terms: solicitation
solicitor
solicitous
solicitude
unsolicited
solicit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sə-lĭs'ĭt
ipa: /səˈlɪsɪt/
rhymes: -ɪsɪt
Forms: form: solicits
form: sollicit
Etymology: From Middle English soliciten, solliciten, from Old French soliciter, solliciter, borrowed from Latin sollicitō (“stir, disturb; look after”), from sollicitus (“agitated, anxious, punctilious”, literally “thoroughly moved”), from sollus (“whole, entire”) + perfect passive participle of cieō (“shake, excite, cite, to put in motion”).
Senses: examples: text: (1) How many male or female students are named (or otherwise identified) in the context of a solicit?
(2) How many words of a solicit are directed to a particular student?
ref: 2017, Lia Litosseliti, Research Methods in Linguistics, page 19:
glosses: Solicitation.
drop dead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drops dead
form: dropping dead
form: dropped dead
form: dropped dead
Etymology: Compare Dutch doodvallen and the expletive "val dood!".
Senses: examples: text: Stuff your eyes with wonder […]live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
ref: 1953, Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451:
text: Boy, I'm in a bad mood today! Everyone had better steer clear of me! I hate everybody! As far as I'm concerned, everyone on the planet can just drop dead. People are scum.
ref: 1988 November 23, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes:
glosses: To die suddenly.
examples: text: `My parents would drop dead if they knew,' she said.
ref: 1965, James Holledge, What Makes a Call Girl?, London: Horwitz Publications, page 90:
glosses: To be appalled or mortified.
drop dead
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Compare Dutch doodvallen and the expletive "val dood!".
Senses: examples: text: “Whatta ya say, goils? I'll take the botha ya, only later, like, well, you know, like later onea ya can split and go home.”[…]“Drop dead,” Rachel said with a smile.
ref: 1967, Trudy Baker, Rachel Jones, Donald Bain (uncredited), Coffee, Tea, or Me?: The Uninhibited Memoirs of Two Airline Stewardesses, New York: Bantam Books, pages 7–8:
text: [to Kramer] Are you dense? I said I wanted you to drop dead. Now... drop dead! [slams the door in Kramer's face]
ref: 1997, Peter Mehlman, David Mandel, “The Betrayal”, in Seinfeld, season 9, episode 8, spoken by Franklin Delano Romanowski (Michael McShane):
glosses: Used angrily to express disgust, contempt, derision, etc., toward another person.
drop dead
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Compare Dutch doodvallen and the expletive "val dood!".
Senses: examples: text: Let's suppose your personality was only a manifestation of the id and you saw a drop dead gorgeous man that really tripped your trigger. Spurred on by your id, you would run up to him and immediately engage him in a sexual encounter.
ref: 1992, Gigi Moers, How and Why Lovers Cheat: And What You Can Do about It, page 96:
glosses: Alternative form of drop-dead.
jaffa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæfə/
Forms: form: jaffas
Etymology: From Jaffa, an ancient port city in what is now Israel from which the oranges were exported. The sense "impotent male" is a reference to being "seedless"; see seed.
The cricketing sense, of a 'sweet ball' (from the bowler's perspective), is a metaphor further reinforced in Australian English where Jaffa is also a trademark for a popular lolly that is red and round.
Senses: glosses: A type of sweet orange, normally seedless.
glosses: An impotent or infertile male.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A ball that is very difficult for the batsman to hit because it moves erratically either through the air or off the pitch
Rounds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaʊndz/
rhymes: -aʊndz
homophone: rounds
Forms: form: Roundses
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the nickname for a descendant of a round or fat person.
rounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaʊndz/
rhymes: -aʊndz
homophone: Rounds
Senses: glosses: plural of round
rounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaʊndz/
rhymes: -aʊndz
homophone: Rounds
Senses: glosses: The practice of medical doctors visiting patients in a hospital or in their homes according to a predetermined order.
examples: the hourly rounds of the night watchman.
glosses: A route taken by someone in authority.
topics: campanology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A descending diatonic scale played on a ring of bells.
Derived terms: do the rounds
grand rounds
hearts and rounds
make the rounds
rounds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaʊndz/
rhymes: -aʊndz
homophone: Rounds
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of round
alexander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌælɪɡˈzændɚ/
note: æ-tensing, rhotic
ipa: [ˌælɪɡˈzeəndɚ]
note: æ-tensing, non-rhotic
ipa: [ˌælɪɡˈzeəndə]
ipa: /ˌalɪɡˈzɑːndə/
rhymes: -ɑːndə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ændə(ɹ)
Forms: form: alexanders
Etymology: Unknown. Apparently from either the given name or the surname Alexander, but the connection is unclear. Attested since the early 20th century.
Senses: examples: text: Alexander cocktail
3/4 jigger rye whiskey.
1/4 jigger Benedictine.
Twist orange peel on top. Stir.
ref: 1914, Jacques Straub, Drinks, Hotel Monthly Press, page 17:
text: Alexander Cocktail
1/3 Creme de Cocoa
1/3 Gin
1/3 Sweet Cream
ref: 1933, Julien Proskauer, What'll You Have ?: A Not Too Dry Text Book about Cocktails, →OCLC, page 80:
glosses: A cocktail made of cognac or gin, white crème de cacao, and light cream.
Derived terms: Brandy Alexander
guaraní
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡwɑːɹəˈniː/
rhymes: -iː
homophone: Guaraní
Forms: form: guaranís
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish guaraní, from Guaraní guarani.
Senses: glosses: The currency of Paraguay, divided into 100 céntimos.
erose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more erose
form: most erose
Senses: examples: text: an erose leaf
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Irregularly notched, eaten away, as though bitten.
Synonyms: indented
jagged
notched
Derived terms: erosely
Related terms: erode
rhetorical question
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhetorical questions
Senses: glosses: A question posed only for dramatic or persuasive effect.
examples: text: Are you nuts? Don't answer that – it's a rhetorical question.
glosses: A question to which the asker does not expect an answer.
clandestinely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /klænˈdɛs.tɪn.li/
Forms: form: more clandestinely
form: most clandestinely
Etymology: From clandestine + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In another moment, Louisa's arms were around her also, welcoming her to Violet Lodge, and pouring on her a thousand thanks, yet asking, with trepidation, "have you brought the dear girls clandestinely?"
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 211:
glosses: In a secret or covert manner.
glosses: In an illicit way, i.e. not permitted by the law or regulations.
Related terms: clandestinity
flagrante delicto
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /fləˌɡɹæn.teɪ dɪˈlɪk.təʊ/
Senses: examples: text: But there was still a pretty show. A thief's hand struck off flagrante delicto; a murdered woman's hair; the Abbot's axe, and other tools of crime.
ref: 1861, Charles Reade, chapter XXXVII, in The Cloister and the Hearth; or, Maid, Wife, and Widow. A Matter-of-Fact Romance., New York, N.Y.: Rudd & Carleton; London: Trübner & Co.:
text: And just then there came a knock and a scurrying; the police, so lamentably absent from the Calton Hill, appeared upon the scene; and the party, taken flagrante delicto, with their glasses at their elbow, were seized, marched up to the police office, and all duly summoned to appear as witnesses in the consequent case against that arch-shebeener, Colette.
ref: 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 2, in The Misadventures Of John Nicholson, New York: John W. Lovell, page 13:
glosses: Alternative form of in flagrante delicto.
brownie point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brownie points
Etymology: Unknown, but possibly from brownnose, and often associated with the points that Girl Guides or Girl Scouts at the Brownie level (ages six through eight) receive for doing specific tasks that when accumulated earn them badges (a sign of recognition) to wear on their Brownie Uniform. First use appears c. 1944 in the The Daily Item (Sunbury).
Senses: examples: text: You're really going to get some brownie points from the teacher for that fantastic essay!
text: However, you get Brownie points for having spelled my names right—all of them, and the first time too!
ref: 1967 November, Harriette Bailey Conn, “Women legislators”, in Ebony, page 14:
glosses: Credit or praise for good work or a good deed, often for the express purpose of currying favor.
wikipedia: Brownies (Scouting)
The Daily Item (Sunbury)
Related terms: house points
brownie points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brownie point
johnny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɒn.i/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɑn.i/
rhymes: -ɒni
Forms: form: johnnies
Etymology: Alternative letter-case form of Johnny, diminutive of John.
Senses: glosses: A condom.
examples: text: Willie Cox said they found him in the barn, shot bang through the head, and the young English johnny who'd been on the station learning farming - disappeared.
ref: 1913, Katherine Mansfield, Millie:
glosses: An inexperienced new worker, usually an immigrant.
examples: text: His hand shook. A little water spilled down the front of the hospital johnny Sean wore.
ref: 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
glosses: A hospital gown: a gown with a back opening closed with snaps or ties, worn by hospital patients.
examples: text: The women's toilet (as distinguished from the ladies' room in a speakeasy, the johnny at school, the little girls' room at a party in an apartment, and the wash-my-hands on a train) was clean enough.
ref: 1935, John O'Hara, BUtterfield 8, Ch. ix, page 279
text: Kitty Hofman came in the johnny.
ref: 1935, John O'Hara, chapter IV, in Appointment in Samarra, page 98:
glosses: Synonym of john: a toilet, lavatory, outhouse, or chamber pot.
synonyms: word: john
extra: a toilet, lavatory, outhouse, or chamber pot
examples: text: [H]e declared, like a real Irishman, that 'if he were a living man when he died, he would not give a single johnny of whisky either at his wake or his funeral.'
ref: 1867, William Dool Killen, Memoir of John Edgar, page 108:
glosses: A half-glass of whisky.
Synonyms: sense: condom
word: condom
sense: place or device for urination and defecation
word: toilet
word: bathroom
word: and Thesaurus:chamber pot
Derived terms: johnny bag
johnnycake
johnny house
rubber johnny
Related terms: John Thomas
I'm
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪm/
ipa: /a(ɪ)m/
ipa: /əm/
ipa: /ʌm/
rhymes: -aɪm
Forms: form: I 'm
Etymology: Contraction of I am.
Senses: glosses: Contraction of I am.
Synonyms: word: am
word: cham
RIAA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Recording Industry Association of America.
hog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɒɡ/
ipa: /hɑɡ/
ipa: /hɔɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
homophone: hogg
Forms: form: hogs
form: hogging
form: hogged
form: hogged
form: 'og
Etymology: From Middle English hog, from Old English hogg, hocg (“hog”), possibly from Old Norse hǫggva (“to strike, chop, cut”), from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną (“to hew, forge”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewh₂- (“to beat, hew, forge”).
Cognate with Old High German houwan, Old Saxon hauwan, Old English hēawan (English hew). Hog originally meant a castrated male pig, hence a sense of “the cut one”. (Compare hogget for a castrated male sheep.) More at hew.
Alternatively from a Brythonic language, from Proto-Celtic *sukkos, from Proto-Indo-European *suH- and thus cognate with Welsh hwch (“sow”) and Cornish hogh (“pig”).
Senses: examples: text: Hey! Quit hogging all the blankets.
text: The [...] air-conditioning unit didn't work very good, and there was only one fan; and from the minute me and Winn-Dixie got in the library, he hogged it all.
ref: 2000, Kate DiCamillo, chapter 15, in Because of Winn-Dixie, New York: Scholastic Inc.:
glosses: To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.
examples: text: Some, perhaps, would wish to plait or shave the tail and crimp or hog the mane to complete the picture.
ref: 1880, William Day, The Racehorse in Training:
glosses: To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.
glosses: To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.
(of a hedge) to trim up closely
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
examples: text: Although most of the buoyancy of a ship is provided by the middle part of the hull and comparatively little by the tapering ends, nothing will ever prevent people from putting heavy weights into the ends of a ship. One result of this is that many vessels tend to 'hog' (the two ends tend to droop and the middle of the hull tends to rise).
ref: 1991, J. E. Gordon, Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down, Penguin UK, →ISBN, page 52:
text: Difficulty may be encountered when securing cargo hatches on ships which hog or sag and the water-tight integrity of the ship may be impaired.
ref: 2013, H. I. Lavery, Shipboard Operations, Routledge, →ISBN, page 267:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards (the opposite of sag).
topics: engineering
machining
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To take a rough cut, quickly removing material; to hog out.
Synonyms: sense: take greedily
word: bogart
Derived terms: hog up
hog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɒɡ/
ipa: /hɑɡ/
ipa: /hɔɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
homophone: hogg
Forms: form: hogs
form: hogging
form: hogged
form: hogged
form: 'og
Senses: glosses: To process (bark, etc.) into hog fuel.
Derived terms: unhogged
hog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɒɡ/
ipa: /hɑɡ/
ipa: /hɔɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
homophone: hogg
Forms: form: hogs
form: 'og
Etymology: Clipping of quahog
Senses: glosses: A quahog (clam).
kangaroo mouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kangaroo mice
Senses: glosses: Either of the two species in the genus Microdipodops, native to the deserts of the South-western United States.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Microdipodops pallidus
word: pale kangaroo mouse
taxonomic: Microdipodops megacephalus
word: dark kangaroo mouse
birth canal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birth canals
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The combined vagina and cervix, when the cervix dilates during birth to form a continuous tube with the vagina.
rack one's brain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: racks one's brain
form: racking one's brain
form: racked one's brain
form: racked one's brain
form: rack one's brains
form: wrack one's brain
form: wrack one's brains
Etymology: Combination of rack (“medieval torture method”), and brain, thus meaning “to cause the mind extreme discomfort”.
Variants include rack one's wit (1583) and rack one's memory, as well as cudgel one's brain / cudgel one's brains.
Senses: examples: text: I have been racking my brain all day trying to think of a birthday present for her.
text: Let’s face it – math isn’t for everyone. If you’re done racking your brains over a question based on quadratic equations, differential calculus, or even lengthy word problems, and can’t for the life of you figure out what’s what, then perhaps it’s time you let ChatGPT take up the role of a home tutor.
ref: 2023 January 19, Zohaib Ahmed, “Here’s how ChatGPT can help you deal with boring tasks so you can focus on things that matter”, in The Indian Express:
glosses: To struggle to think of or remember something.
Related terms: beat one's brains
hide nor hair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He retired last June, and his coworkers have seen neither hide nor hair of him since.
text: Not a one of us could catch hide nor hair nor sight nor sound of them.
ref: 1885, Mark Twain, chapter 41, in Huckleberry Finn:
text: 1982, Richard Schickel, "Flesh and Flash" (review of Cat People), Time, 5 Apr.,
No rational explanation for her lamentable condition is advanced, neither hide nor hair of a leopard is ever spotted, and certainly no scene in which woman literally turns into cat, or vice versa, is ever played.
glosses: A trace, indication, or evidence, especially of a person.
Synonyms: hide or hair
fuckable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌkəbl̩/
Forms: form: more fuckable
form: most fuckable
Etymology: From fuck + -able.
Senses: examples: text: They were forgetting about “the little things that matter so much.” And the little things always turned out to be much the same things the magazine ads and the television commercials were about: how not to “offend,” how to “keep safe,” how to use the right dishwashing detergent and keep young and kissable, and the right perfume and remain irresistibly fuckable.
ref: 1965, Lawrence Lipton, “Intermarital Sex”, in The Erotic Revolution: An Affirmative View of the New Mortality, Los Angeles, California: Sherbourne Press, Inc., →LCCN, →OCLC, page 75:
text: After all, he thought hopefully, the squaw from last night was more or less fuckable. In fact her big, sagging breasts were perfect for a tit-job; it had been three years since his last time.
ref: 2000 [1998], Frank Wynne, transl., Atomised, translation of Les Particules élémentaires by Michel Houellebecq:
text: This is an inevitable downside of female stardom—she may marry and consider mating but she must stay fuckable at all costs.
ref: 2025 August 30, Jo Ellison, “Taylor Swift is entering her conservative era”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 20:
glosses: Capable of, or suitable for, being fucked; sexually attractive.
Synonyms: doable
fuckworthy
rootable
screwable
Derived terms: fuckability
fuckableness
unfuckable
fuckable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌkəbl̩/
Forms: form: fuckables
Etymology: From fuck + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Each time he walked away from those short skirts, he risked some cock taking over his flock of fuckables.
ref: 2019, Leopold Borstinski, Mama's Gone:
glosses: A sexually desirable person.
dimwit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪmwɪt/
Forms: form: dimwits
Etymology: Compound of dim + wit.
Senses: glosses: A person who is deficient in intelligence.
Synonyms: fool
idiot
Derived terms: dimwitted
dimwittedly
dimwittedness
dimwittery
dimwitticism
Related terms: halfwit
nitwit
supramental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛntəl
Forms: form: more supramental
form: most supramental
Etymology: From supra- + mental.
Senses: glosses: beyond or somehow above normal thought
modify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒdɪfaɪ/
ipa: /ˈmɑdɪfaɪ/
Forms: form: modifies
form: modifying
form: modified
form: modified
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: modify
form: modify
form: modified
form: modify
form: modifiest
form: modified
form: modifiedst
form: modifies
form: modifieth
form: modified
form: modify
form: modified
form: modify
form: modified
form: modify
form: -
form: modifying
form: modified
Etymology: From Middle English modifien, from Middle French modifier, from Latin modificare (“to limit, control, regulate, deponent”), from modificari (“to measure off, set bound to, moderate”), from modus (“measure”) + facere (“to make”); see mode.
Senses: examples: text: Her publisher advised her to modify a few parts of the book to make it easier to read.
glosses: To change part of.
glosses: To be or become modified.
glosses: To set bounds to; to moderate.
examples: text: There is inherently no ordering to the modification and no hierarchy of modification: that is, both adjectives modify the substantive and both apply equally to the substantive[…]
ref: 1977, Linda R. Waugh, A Semantic Analysis of Word Order: Position of the Adjective in French:
text: Adjectives modify nouns.
ref: 2016, Allen Ascher, The New Harbrace Guide: Genres for Composing:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To qualify the meaning of.
Synonyms: adapt
alter
amend
revamp
rework
Derived terms: automodify
biomodify
demodify
hydromodify
modifiability
modifier
overmodify
postmodify
premodify
remodify
submodify
undermodify
Related terms: modification
mojo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmoʊd͡ʒoʊ/
ipa: /ˈməʊd͡ʒəʊ/
rhymes: -əʊd͡ʒəʊ
Forms: form: mojos
form: mojoes
Etymology: Probably of Creole origin, cognate with Gullah moco (“witchcraft”), Fula moco'o (“medicine man”). The origin of the drug sense is uncertain, possibly related to Spanish mojar (“to toast (celebrate with a drink)”).
Senses: glosses: A magic spell or hex.
examples: text: A doney, for instance, is a woman of worse than doubtful morals, and a nation sack is a cloth pouch worn on a string around the neck for holding mojos and small change.
ref: 1991 July/August, Shelby Foote, “When Robert Johnson Sings”, in American Heritage, volume 42, number 4:
glosses: An object (such as a charm or amulet) used to cast magic spells, especially in hoodoo.
glosses: Spellcraft, hoodoo.
examples: text: I haven’t seen much mojo in the state Legislature for that or any other major intervention, though. Hey, lawmakers, you should check out the test scores for your own school districts. It might be yours are needing some help, too, maybe even more so than Seattle.
ref: 2022 February 12, Danny Westneat, “The reason voters see past the terrible headlines with Seattle schools”, in The Seattle Times:
glosses: Supernatural skill; exceptional luck, success, or power.
examples: text: Still reeling from the 2023 Voice loss, Albanese struggled until the start of this year to regain his mojo. Polls relentlessly showed the prime minister was on the nose with voters weary over the cost of living.
ref: 2025 May 8, Jacob Greber, “How Peter Dutton’s Wile E Coyote campaign flew off the cliff”, in ABC News:
glosses: Personal magnetism; charm; that which makes one successful and liked, viewed as an inherent power that can be present or absent.
examples: text: Look at the way the chicks are checking out Daniel on the dancefloor. He's still got plenty of mojo.
glosses: Sex appeal; sex drive.
synonyms: word: recreational drug
word: drug
word: dope
word: gear
word: horse
word: stuff
word: substance
glosses: An illegal drug, especially morphine or other narcotics.
glosses: A telecopier; a fax machine.
raw_tags: with "wire"
Derived terms: mojo hand
mojoless
mojo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmoʊd͡ʒoʊ/
ipa: /ˈməʊd͡ʒəʊ/
rhymes: -əʊd͡ʒəʊ
Forms: form: mojos
form: mojoing
form: mojoed
form: mojoed
Etymology: Probably of Creole origin, cognate with Gullah moco (“witchcraft”), Fula moco'o (“medicine man”). The origin of the drug sense is uncertain, possibly related to Spanish mojar (“to toast (celebrate with a drink)”).
Senses: glosses: To cast a magic spell on or jinx (someone).
glosses: To annoy or bother (someone).
mojo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmoʊd͡ʒoʊ/
ipa: /ˈməʊd͡ʒəʊ/
rhymes: -əʊd͡ʒəʊ
Forms: form: mojos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish mojo.
Senses: examples: text: I know I want one more satisfying starch, and I’m debating between Yewande Komolafe’s plantains with beans and Von Diaz’s yuca coated in a warm, garlicky mojo.
ref: 2021 November 8, Tejal Rao, “Sidesgiving”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Any of various sauces originating in the Canary Islands and made with olive oil, peppers, garlic, paprika, and other spices.
mojo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmoʊd͡ʒoʊ/
ipa: /ˈməʊd͡ʒəʊ/
rhymes: -əʊd͡ʒəʊ
Forms: form: mojos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of moio (“Portuguese dry measure”).
through the roof
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Fuel prices have gone through the roof since last fall.
text: When I found out fuel prices are through the roof this winter, I hit the roof.
text: Soybean meal prices have gone through the roof — they're over $100 a ton, back to war-time levels — because of heavy exports and a short 1953 crop.
ref: 1954, Farm Journal, volume 78, page 18:
text: With 16 minutes left on the clock and the tension climbing through the roof, Trinh-Duc tried his luck with a penalty from just inside halfway only to push it wide, but the unthinkable now seemed a real possibility.
ref: 2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport:
text: His heartbeat increased in intensity, his hormones went through the roof, and his mind became woozy.
ref: 2014, Kwame Owusu-Baafi, Through the Eyes of the Spirit, page 136:
text: That computer was high priced, and the interest was through the roof, but we got it!
ref: 2011, Kaleda Carthran, Looking Through the Mirrors of Me: The Life of Kaleda Carthran:
text: My numbers were through the roof, and I was beating records held by some of the most successful cyclists.
ref: 2012, David Millar, Racing Through the Dark: Crash. Burn. Coming Clean. Coming Back.:
text: I looked in some estate agents' today – the prices are through the roof.
ref: 2015, Linda Newbery, Andie's Moon: The Historical House:
synonyms: through the ceiling
antonyms: through the floor
glosses: Having risen to a very high level or amount.
Related terms: off the charts
off-the-charts