cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
aposthia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a- + Ancient Greek πόσθη (pósthē) + -ia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
urology
coordinate_terms: macroposthia
microposthia
glosses: The congenital absence of a foreskin.
Derived terms: aposthic
Related terms: akroposthion
ballet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bă-lāʹ
note: '
enpr: băʹlā
ipa: /bælˈeɪ/
ipa: /ˈbæl(ˌ)eɪ/
ipa: /ˈbal.eɪ/
ipa: /ˈbal.ɪ/
ipa: /bælˈæɪ/
ipa: /bɛlˈæɪ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈbale/
ipa: /bɐleː/
ipa: /bɐlɪː/
rhymes: -æleɪ
rhymes: -æli
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: ballets
Etymology: Borrowed from French ballet, from Italian balletto (“short dance, ballet”), diminutive form of ballo (“group dance”), from Late Latin ballō (“to dance”).
Senses: examples: text: a classically-trained ballet dancer
topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A classical form of dance.
examples: text: Let's go to the ballet in the theatre tomorrow!
glosses: A theatrical presentation of such dancing, usually with music, sometimes in the form of a story.
examples: text: Zara joined the ballet at the age of 14.
glosses: The company of persons who perform this dance.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A light part song, frequently with a fa-la-la chorus, common among Elizabethan and Italian Renaissance composers.
examples: text: 9. Peter West, Ar. bears sable Ballets argent a Lyon Rampant.
ref: 1741, Richard Izacke, Remarkable Antiquities of the City of Exeter … by Richard Izacke … Second Edition:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A (small) ball i.e. roundel on a coat of arms, called a bezant, plate, etc., according to colour.
examples: text: Food preparation on a potager no doubt became a kitchen ballet in which pans were constantly shifted, coals constantly replenished, and grates shaken out.
ref: 1990, Historic Preservation: Quarterly of the National Council for Historic Sites and Buildings, volumes 42-43:
text: Henry Payton joined Alan on the sidelines during the conclusion of the oddly delicate ballet known as On-Scene Investigation.
ref: 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
glosses: Any intricate series of operations involving coordination between individuals.
Derived terms: antiballet
ballet boot
balletcore
ballet d'action
ballet dad
ballet dancer
ballet flat
ballet flats
balletgoer
balletgoing
balletic
balletlike
ballet master
balletmaster
ballet mistress
ballet mom
ballet mum
ballet music
balletomane
balletomania
ballet on horseback
ballet shoe
ballet skiing
ballet slipper
ballet troupe
balletwear
fairy ballet
nonballet
preballet
ski ballet
water ballet
ballet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bă-lāʹ
note: '
enpr: băʹlā
ipa: /bælˈeɪ/
ipa: /ˈbæl(ˌ)eɪ/
ipa: /ˈbal.eɪ/
ipa: /ˈbal.ɪ/
ipa: /bælˈæɪ/
ipa: /bɛlˈæɪ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈbale/
ipa: /bɐleː/
ipa: /bɐlɪː/
rhymes: -æleɪ
rhymes: -æli
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: ballets
form: balleting
form: balleted
form: balleted
Etymology: Borrowed from French ballet, from Italian balletto (“short dance, ballet”), diminutive form of ballo (“group dance”), from Late Latin ballō (“to dance”).
Senses: examples: text: Situations that typically require longer iliac limbs than the measurements suggest include extreme iliac tortuosity, “balleting” of the limbs (Endurant and Excluder) (Fig. 90-3), and the need to extend to the external iliac arteries. It these anatomic circumstances, it is prudent to choose a longer length when in doubt.
ref: 2014 Rutherford's Vascular Surgery E-Book - Page 1340
text: Unfortunately, he could only sustain so much abuse. Footfalls approached. Kanoa's lips smacked and his jaw hung open. His eyelids fluttered, their underlying gaze balleting without clarity. He felt beyond sick, and his world spun immensely. A garbled voice of incoherency seemed to be his only link to this realm of consciousness.
ref: 2016, Jacob Russell Dring, Endless the Chase:
text: Frankie's obviously going to ballet her way to the trophy.
ref: 2017, Num Nums, “A Total Bust a Move”, in The ZhuZhus:
glosses: To perform an action reminiscent of ballet dancing.
Related terms: mime
modern dance
slugfest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slugfests
Etymology: Originally US, from slug (“to hit very hard”) + -fest.
Senses: examples: text: The game turned into a 15-9 slugfest.
text: In a World Series that has come to be defined by the unpredictable and unexpected, it was only fitting that one night, after a lights-out pitchers’ duel between the heretofore unremarkable Alex Wood and Charlie Morton, a slugfest would unfold that sent the Cy Young Award winners Clayton Kershaw and Dallas Keuchel to early exits.
ref: 2017 October 30, Billy Witz, “Astros Down the Dodgers in a Dramatic and Dizzying Slugfest”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A baseball game in which many runs are scored, especially by home runs.
examples: text: The championship bout was a slugfest; both boxers were bloodied.
text: But while Roger Federer and Serena Williams were bludgeoning their opponents off the main court in a combined 126 minutes, the fans looking for a fantastic match stuffed into Armstrong Stadium next door to watch a mesmerizing slugfest between seventh-seeded Gaël Monfils of France and Juan Carlos Ferrero of Spain.
ref: 2011 September 1, Lynn Zinser, “Amid Favorites’ Easy Knockouts, Ferrero Prevails in a Lengthy Slugfest”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Nadal is supposedly the alpha male in any slugfest. But Rosol's forehand shots were being sent towards the Majorcan at 93mph plus, and his was the fastest serve at 134mph.
ref: 2012 June 28, Jamie Jackson, “Wimbledon 2012: Lukas Rosol shocked by miracle win over Rafael Nadal”, in The Guardian:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A game or match in which heavy blows are exchanged.
examples: text: Lakers win slugfest over Clippers
text: There isn’t much reason to be optimistic about thoughtful dialogue in this general election. Both sides are girded for a negative, no-holds-barred slugfest.
ref: 2016 May 8, Albert R. Hunt, “Trump and Clinton Campaigns Gear Up for a Slugfest”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: The race descended into a brutal slugfest as the leading candidates, the author-turned-venture capitalist J.D. Vance, the former state treasurer Josh Mandel and a self-funded businessman, Mike Gibbons, entered the final weekend before Tuesday’s primaries accusing one another of being insufficiently right-wing or disloyal to the man in Mar-a-Lago.
ref: 2022 April 30, Jonathan Weisman, Trip Gabriel, “Once Soft-Spoken, Ohio Conservatives Embrace the Bombast”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: The possible reversal of fortunes comes as Ukraine is preparing to mount a broader counteroffensive, aiming for a dramatic breakthrough in a war that has settled into a grueling slugfest, with much blood spilled but little ground gained.
ref: 2023 May 17, Marc Santora, Tyler Hicks, “Gains Near Bakhmut Raise Ukraine’s Hopes of a Turning Tide”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A tough, heated contest.
back burner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back burners
form: back-burner
form: backburner
Senses: examples: text: In restaurants, the back burner is the place that chefs leave their sauces and soup stocks to simmer while they are engaged in other, more immediately pressing, and faster operations on the front burners.
ref: 2005, David Rosenwasser, Jill Stephen, Writing Analytically, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 38:
text: Also, avoid reaching across a lit burner in the front of the stove to stir a pot on a back burner. Turn the front burner off while you tend to food on a back burner.
ref: 2008, Frances E. Ruffin, Kitchen Smarts, The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc, →ISBN, page 33:
antonyms: front burner
glosses: A section of a stove used to keep some pots warm while one focuses on others.
examples: text: We'll put next year's Christmas party on the back burner until we deal with the current financial crisis.
text: I kept cases on the back burner for years—just thinking about them, playing them out in my head, waiting for the time to work it, or a lucky break.
ref: 2006, Guy Lawson, William Oldham, The Brotherhoods, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
text: I made myself push those issues to the back burner after completing another dispute form.
ref: 2006, Denise Richardson, Give Me Back My Credit!, Infinity Publishing, →ISBN, page 179:
text: Before this bail-out, it had been widely speculated that the project would have to go on the back burner.
ref: 2023 April 5, “Network News: West Midlands Metro extension receives £60 million bail-out”, in RAIL, number 980, page 9:
glosses: A state of low urgency; a state of low current importance.
Derived terms: on the back burner
sawbuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sawbucks
form: saw buck
Etymology: * From saw + buck, calque of Dutch zaagbok.
* (ten-dollar bill): From the resemblance of the Roman numeral X (ten) to a sawhorse.
Senses: glosses: A framework for holding wood so that it can be sawed; a sawhorse.
glosses: A ten-dollar bill.
Derived terms: double sawbuck
Ameche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ameches
Etymology: After Don Ameche, who played Alexander Graham Bell in a 1939 film.
Senses: examples: text: Tell the asshole to take the fuckin' cigar out of his mouth and get on the Ameche.
ref: 1992, Robert Ludlum, The Road to Omaha, Bantam, published 1993, →ISBN, page 239:
text: "Sweetheart, bring me the Ameche, please." His face had a foolish smile.
Untangling the twenty foot extension cord, Alice Lynn placed the telephone in front of her husband.
ref: 2002, Richard W. McBurney, Bag Men: Mosaics, Trafford (self-published), page 266 http://google.com/books?id=y9ycPsYg9koC&pg=PA266&dq=ameche
text: "He was mixing with some trouble boys on the flimflam, putting screws to a Peterman after the box job."
"How'd you hear?"
"Jawed with him on the Ameche."
ref: 2004, Tim Dorsey, Cadillac Beach, →ISBN, page 214:
glosses: A telephone.
wikipedia: Alexander Graham Bell
Don Ameche
en:The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
anaesthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anaesthetic
form: most anaesthetic
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of anesthetic.
anaesthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anaesthetics
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of anesthetic.
Derived terms: anaesthetically
anaesthetician
perianaesthetic
preanaesthetic
subanaesthetic
potbelly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potbellies
form: pot-belly
form: pot belly
Etymology: From pot + belly.
Senses: synonyms: word: bay window
word: beer baby
word: beer belly
word: beer gut
word: beer muscles
word: Buddha belly
word: corporation
word: German goitre
word: gorbelly
word: Milwaukee goiter
word: Molson muscle
word: paunch
word: pot
word: potbelly
word: spare tire
word: swagbelly
word: tummy
glosses: A large, protruding, or swollen abdomen; a paunch.
glosses: Ellipsis of potbelly stove.
glosses: Ellipsis of Vietnamese pot-bellied pig.
Related terms: word: kettlebelly
bean-shooter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bean-shooters
form: beanshooter
Senses: glosses: A peashooter; a small or toy gun.
glosses: A slingshot.
beezer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iːzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: beezers
Etymology: Unknown, perhaps from Spanish cabeza (“head”), though the meaning “head” appears to somewhat postdate “nose” in English. First attested in 1908, originally apparently as American boxing slang. Various sources have suggested a borrowing, perhaps by American sailors or marines, from Mandarin 鼻子 (“nose”). While the Mandarin may have reinforced an existing term, an ultimate derivation from Mandarin is improbable given the context and time frame of early use.
Senses: examples: text: “In der beezer, Casey, slam him in der beezer!” ¶ At the ropes Casey fought back, but was obliged to clinch.
ref: 1913, “Kid Ivanhoe”, in Adventure, volume 7, page 131:
text: “Now, don’t be turnin’ up that busted beezer of yours so proud an’ haughty.[…]”
ref: 1919, Charles Emmett Van Loan, Taking the Count: Prize Ring Stories, page 183:
text: I am paying no attention to them, because they are drinking local ale, and talking loud, and long ago I learn that when a Boston character is engaged in aleing himself up, it is a good idea to let him alone, because the best you can get out of him is maybe a boff on the beezer.
ref: 1937, Damon Runyon, A Piece of Pie:
text: She had an ink spot on her nose, the result of working on her novel of suspense. It is virtually impossible to write a novel of suspense without getting a certain amount of ink on the beezer. Ask Agatha Christie or anyone.
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter V, in Jeeves in the Offing:
glosses: nose
examples: text: We were beating up into the wind, when Captain Pray decided to tack, and her concise order to me was “Duck your beezer!” and while I was wondering which part of the boat a beezer was, the boom just missed the top of my head and she remarked, “I told you to duck.”
ref: 1921 July 24, Eleanor Pray, “[Letter home]”, in Birgitta Ingemanson, editor, Letters from Vladivostok, 1894–1930, published 2013, page 98:
text: “[…] If the hogs ate your beezer with all the phony ideas you’ve got in it, they’d croak!”
ref: 1928, Robert Joyce Tasker, Grimhaven, page 110:
text: “If you’re mad, go to Lindewiese— / Then be glad, put an old hat on your beezer!”
ref: 1936, Adolf Lorenz, My Life and Work: The Search for a Missing Glove, page 4:
text: Beezer, head
ref: [1937, “Slang: American Slang”, in The Encyclopædia Britannica, 14th edition, volume 20, page 768:
glosses: head
beezer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iːzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: beezers
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots beezer, beeser, of unknown origin. First attested in the 1910s. The adjective is from the noun.
Senses: glosses: A smart person, a bloke.
beezer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iːzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more beezer
form: most beezer
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots beezer, beeser, of unknown origin. First attested in the 1910s. The adjective is from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: We had a beezer time at the party.
glosses: Excellent, super.
behind the eight-ball
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: First use appears c. 1923 in the Buffalo Evening Times. Thought to derive from the game of Kelly pool, in which players assigned balls numerically higher than 8, that is, balls that are behind the 8 ball in order, have little possibility of winning, or from eight-ball pool, where one cannot contact the eight ball on a shot before it is the legal ball, frustrating shots, or more generally, from the fact that the 8 ball is considered harder to aim at because of its color.
Senses: examples: text: After his last two projects failed, he was really behind the eight-ball.
text: He was desperate, playing behind the eight-ball.
glosses: In a difficult situation or tight spot; at a disadvantage.
Synonyms: sense: in a difficult situation
word: snookered
bent car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bent cars
Senses: glosses: A stolen car.
big house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big houses
form: bighouse
Senses: examples: text: He was 38 years old and had been in the big house twice for shooting scrapes.
ref: 1948 November 15, “The End of Bad Boy Collins”, in Time:
glosses: Prison, jail.
glosses: The workhouse.
coordinate_terms: longhouse
glosses: A religious building of the Delaware Indians, representing the cosmos.
glosses: A plantation house
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see big, house.
bim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bims
Etymology: From bimbo.
Senses: glosses: A woman.
Related terms: Bim, BEM, Bum
bindle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪndəl
enpr: bĭnʹdl
enpr: bĭnʹdəl
ipa: /ˈbɪndl/
other: /ˈbɪndəl/
Forms: form: bindles
Etymology: Unknown; compare Old English bindele (“a binding, a tying”) from bindan (“to bind”), and bundle. Additionally, compare mister from master.
Senses: glosses: A length of cord, rope, twine, etc, used to bind something.
bindle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪndəl
enpr: bĭnʹdl
enpr: bĭnʹdəl
ipa: /ˈbɪndl/
other: /ˈbɪndəl/
Forms: form: bindles
Etymology: Probably a corruption of bundle; perhaps influenced by the preceding word bindle meaning "length of cord used to bind something".
Senses: examples: text: [L]astly he made a bindle in a plastic tarp of some cans of juice and cans of fruit and cans of vegetables […]
ref: 2006, Cormac McCarthy, The Road, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →ISBN:
glosses: A bundle carried by a hobo (usually containing his possessions), often on a stick slung over the shoulder; a blanket roll.
glosses: Any bundle or package; specifically one containing narcotics such as cocaine, heroin, or morphine.
Synonyms: sense: bag of possessions
word: swag
sense: bag of possessions
word: swag bag
sense: bundle containing narcotics
word: baggie
sense: bundle containing narcotics
word: baggy
sense: bundle containing narcotics
word: deck
Hypernyms: bag
sack
Derived terms: bindle punk
bindlestiff
bindleman
bindle stiff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bindle stiffs
Etymology: From bindle, a hobo’s sack.
Senses: examples: text: “So maybe you better jus’ scatter along now, ’cause Curley maybe ain’t gonna like his wife out in the barn with us ‘bindle stiffs.’ ”
ref: 1937, John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, Covici Friede:
text: He felt like a toss-up between a bindle stiff and a skid row derelict.
ref: 1983, Clive Cussler, “Pacific Vortex!”, in Dirk Pitt Series, volume 1, Random House LLC, →ISBN, page 80:
glosses: A hobo, misfit, criminal, wanderer, or drifting harvest worker.
Synonyms: bindle punk
bindle punk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bindle punks
Senses: glosses: A bindle stiff.
bing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: bings
Etymology: From Middle English bing, binge, benge (also as Middle English byngger, bengere (“grain bin, hopper”)), from Old Norse bingr (“heap of corn; bed; bolster”), cognate with Scots bing, Swedish binge (“heap”), Danish bing (“bin; box; compartment”).
Compare also Scottish Gaelic binnean meaning a small hill or slag heap.
Senses: glosses: Solitary confinement
glosses: A slag heap, i.e. a man-made mound or heap formed with the waste material (slag) as a by-product of coal mining or the shale oil industry
glosses: The waste by-product from a foundry or furnace, formed into such a mound
glosses: A heap or pile, especially of metallic ore
Derived terms: pit bing
bing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: bings
form: binging
form: binged
form: binged
Etymology: Origin obscure. Compare Scots bin (“to move speedily with noise”).
Senses: glosses: To go; walk; come; run
bing
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: ping
form: ding
form: bong
Etymology: Onomatopoeia, variously of a bouncing sound or a bell.
Senses: glosses: The sound made by a bounce, or by striking a metallic surface
examples: Toronto Star, "Ryanair looking at standing 'seats,' pay toilets", 2 July 2010, Jim Rankin
Bing! Ladies and gentlemen, in a few minutes the captain will turn off the fasten seatbelt sign, but for your own safety we recommend you stay seated and with your seatbelt securely fastened at all times.
glosses: The high-pitched sound made by a bell being struck
bing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: bings
form: ping
form: ding
form: bong
Etymology: Onomatopoeia, variously of a bouncing sound or a bell.
Senses: glosses: The sound made by a bell, an onomatopœia.
glosses: The sound made by a bounce.
glosses: A bounce.
Derived terms: bingle
bing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: bings
form: binging
form: binged
form: binged
form: ping
form: ding
form: bong
Etymology: Onomatopoeia, variously of a bouncing sound or a bell.
Senses: glosses: To bounce.
Related terms: ping
ding
boing
bong
bang
bada bing bada boom
bing sutt
ing-bing
bing chilling
muset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: musets
Etymology: From Middle French mussette, from Old French mussette, diminutive of musse, muce (“a hiding place”).
Senses: examples: text: And when thou hast on foot the purblind hare,
Mark the poor wretch, to overshoot his troubles
How he outruns the wind and with what care
He cranks and crosses with a thousand doubles:
The many musets through the which he goes
Are like a labyrinth to amaze his foes.
ref: 1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC, lines [679-684]:
glosses: A small hole or gap through which a wild animal passes; a muse.
chinning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪnɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chin
dark meat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dark meats
Senses: glosses: The legs, thighs and wings of poultry.
glosses: A black person, regarded as a sex partner.
drop a dime
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drops a dime
form: dropping a dime
form: dropped a dime
form: dropped a dime
form: drop a nickel
Etymology: See dime § Etymology 2
Senses: glosses: To make a telephone call.
examples: text: He was in the back for a few minutes. Turned out he was dropping a dime on Ralph.
text: We got a crowd of black, white customers, out-of-state license plates, what have you. Somebody gonna check that out. They gonna drop a dime on me, call 911. And you know with my jacket I can't go back to jail.
ref: 1995 September 13, Richard Price, Spike Lee, 00:27:05 from the start, in Clockers, spoken by Rodney Little (Delroy Lindo), 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks; distributed by Universal Pictures:
text: Who dropped a dime to that newspaper reporter, Your Honor?
ref: 2002 July 14, Rafael Alvarez, “One Arrest” (11:51 from the start), in The Wire, season 1, episode 7 (television production), spoken by Jimmy McNulty (Dominic West), via HBO:
glosses: To inform, to call the authorities (on).
Synonyms: sense: to inform on
word: dime
word: grass up
word: snitch
Related terms: dime dropper
dime on
duck soup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duck soups
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see duck, soup.
glosses: Something which is easy; a piece of cake.
Synonyms: sense: an activity that is easy
word: breeze
sense: an activity that is easy
word: cakewalk
sense: an activity that is easy
word: cinch
sense: an activity that is easy
word: doddle
sense: an activity that is easy
word: piece of cake
sense: an activity that is easy
word: walk in the park
sense: an activity that is easy
word: walkover
Dutch act
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dutch acts
Senses: examples: text: Was she depressed enough to do the Dutch act?
glosses: Suicide.
house frau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: house fraus
Etymology: Borrowed from German Hausfrau.
Senses: glosses: A housewife.
flophouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɒphaʊs/
Forms: form: flophouses
form: flop-house
Etymology: From flop + house, originally hobo slang, presumably from slang flop (“lie down to sleep”).
Senses: examples: text: In one of [Cincinnati’s] slum districts stands the Silver Moon, a “flop house” (i.e., a house where the occupants are “flopped” out of their hanging bunks by letting down the ropes).
ref: 1904, McClure’s Magazine, November 1904
text: We even visited some drunken seamen in a flophouse on Mission Street that she knew; they offered us whisky.
ref: 1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC:
text: He was born out back of a twopenny flophouse in what the wags called “The Holy Land” […].
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 34:
glosses: A cheap hotel or boarding house where many people sleep in large rooms.
Synonyms: doss-house
flop
Hypernyms: house
Related terms: lodging house
workingmen's hotel
flophouse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɒphaʊs/
Forms: form: flophouses
form: flophousing
form: flophoused
form: flophoused
form: flop-house
Etymology: From flop + house, originally hobo slang, presumably from slang flop (“lie down to sleep”).
Senses: examples: text: August was aware of Robert's strange quirk of flophousing away from home and that he often spent weekends at the Diana.
ref: 1941, James F. Waters, The Court of Missing Heirs, page 53:
text: I kept going nowhere, bummed the country, boxcar'd it, breadlined it, flophoused it, that cruddy dying by inches in jungles when, Christ-o, outa the knocked-out black and blue I'm told I gotta go to war, gotta fight for freedom.
ref: 1960, Alan Kapelner, All the naked heroes: a novel, page 337:
text: For old time's sake we plan to flophouse with you over the parturient period.
ref: 1989, S. Prideaux, Fine Arts, page 202:
glosses: To stay in a flophouse.
gashouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gashouses
Etymology: From gas + house.
Senses: glosses: gasworks
Derived terms: gashouse egg
goog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡuːɡ/
ipa: /ɡʊɡ/
rhymes: -uːɡ
rhymes: -ʊɡ
Forms: form: googs
Etymology: From Irish and Scottish Gaelic gog / gug, cf. googie, from gugaí / gogaí (“sound made by chickens, baby name for chicken, baby name for egg" (i.e. gug-gug-gugaí)”).
Senses: examples: text: I always supposed he was called Goog because the tiny flattened ears did nothing to interrupt the goog-like sweep from crown to jaw.
ref: 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber & Faber, published 2003, page 53:
text: From its modest beginnings in one's diet as a boiled goog with toast soldiers, to the heady heights of the soufflé, the egg is the soul of French and English cuisine.
ref: 2016, J. D. Barrett, The Secret Recipe for Second Chances:
glosses: An egg.
Derived terms: full as a goog
grift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɪft/
rhymes: -ɪft
Forms: form: grifts
Etymology: American criminal underworld slang, 1906 (noun), 1915 (verb), alteration of graft (“corruption, illicit profit through corrupt means, bribe, one's occupation”), alteration perhaps influenced by similar sounding words, e.g. drift, etc., probably ultimately from Middle Dutch graft (“digging, ditch, canal, trench”) (modern Dutch gracht), related to Dutch graven (“to dig”), English grave (“to dig”).
Senses: examples: text: Hey, what's the grift? What are you trying to pull?
text: ‘Sounds like he’s trying to stretch out his grift for as long as possible,’ Gentle said. ‘Taking as much from his followers as he can before it falls apart.’
ref: 2022, Paul McAuley, Beyond the Burn Line, Gollancz, page 172:
synonyms: word: Abraham work
word: deception
word: deceit
word: dupery
word: fiddle
word: hocus-pocus
word: jugglery
word: list
word: mislead
word: Punic faith
word: rinky-dink
word: ruse
word: subterfuge
word: swack
word: trickery
glosses: A confidence game or swindle.
Derived terms: grifter
shopgrift
grift
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɪft/
rhymes: -ɪft
Forms: form: grifts
form: grifting
form: grifted
form: grifted
Etymology: American criminal underworld slang, 1906 (noun), 1915 (verb), alteration of graft (“corruption, illicit profit through corrupt means, bribe, one's occupation”), alteration perhaps influenced by similar sounding words, e.g. drift, etc., probably ultimately from Middle Dutch graft (“digging, ditch, canal, trench”) (modern Dutch gracht), related to Dutch graven (“to dig”), English grave (“to dig”).
Senses: glosses: To obtain illegally, as by con game.
glosses: To obtain money illegally.
glosses: To obtain money immorally or through deceitful means.
confidence game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confidence games
Senses: glosses: A swindle in which the mark, or victim, is defrauded after their trust has been won.
Synonyms: con game
grift
con game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: con games
Etymology: Clipping of confidence game.
Senses: glosses: A swindle in which the mark, or victim, is defrauded after his or her trust has been won.
Synonyms: confidence game
confidence trick
grift
scam
grifter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɪftɚ/
ipa: /ˈɡɹɪftə/
rhymes: -ɪftə(ɹ)
Forms: form: grifters
Etymology: From grift + -er; or probably an alteration of grafter (“a corrupt person, one who accepts bribes”), which is essentially a doublet of the same word. Originally circus slang (carny; compare shill of similar semantics), gradually widened in sense. First attested in 1906; popularized online circa late 2010s.
Senses: examples: text: We're all grifters. So we sell each other out for a nickel.
ref: 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep:
text: That was the train the drunks and the sinners rode—the gambling men and the grifters, the big-time spenders, the skirt-chasers, and all the jolly crew.
ref: 1958, Robert Bloch, That Hell-Bound Train:
text: From the small-time grifters like Anna Sorokin, who adopted the last name Delvey to masquerade in downtown New York circles as a European heiress for four years before she was convicted of second-degree grand larceny in 2019, […] all impostors come equipped with a tall tale and a look to match.
ref: 2020 November 12, Megan O’Grady, “How ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’ Foretold Our Era of Grifting”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: bristler
word: bunco artist
word: bunco-steerer
word: chiseler
word: con artist
word: confidence artist
word: confidence trickster
word: conman
word: flimflammer
word: grifter
word: lugger
word: magsman
word: mountebank
word: saltimbanco
word: sharpster
word: sharker
word: shark-gull
word: slicker
word: smooth operator
word: spiv
glosses: A con artist; someone who pulls confidence games; a swindler, scammer, huckster, hustler, and/or charlatan.
glosses: A manipulator or otherwise generally corrupt person who "games" a system, group of people, or other entity for selfish gains; especially of a political "sell-out" perceived as lacking integrity.
gumshoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌm.ʃuː/
Forms: form: gumshoes
Etymology: From gum + shoe.
Senses: glosses: A sneaker or rubber overshoe.
examples: text: "Who's this gumshoe guy from the bush league tailin' us?"
ref: 1920, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 20, in The Big-Town Round-Up:
synonyms: detective
dick
private eye
sleuth
glosses: A detective.
gumshoe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌm.ʃuː/
Forms: form: gumshoes
form: gumshoeing
form: gumshoed
form: gumshoed
Etymology: From gum + shoe.
Senses: examples: text: The next thing they did was to send a man sent down there from Baltimore and he spent a good deal of time gumshoeing around in that county trying to get another individual put in as secretary-treasurer.
ref: 1933, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture, Hearings, page 25:
text: But these days, more and more women are gumshoeing through the pages of murder mysteries.
ref: 1988 September 23, Achy Obejas, “Calendar”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: To act as a detective.
Related terms: galoshes
Harlem sunset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Harlem sunsets
Etymology: Used in Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely (1940), suggesting the red colour of a sunset.
Senses: examples: text: One time there was five smokes carved Harlem sunsets on each other down on East Eighty-four.
ref: 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, A. A. Knopf, page 14:
text: This wasn't some punk carving Harlem sunsets on a drugstore attendant. This was a professional job.
ref: 1976, Frank Ormsby, “War Memorial”, in Seamus Heaney, editor, Soundings, volume 3, page 15:
text: The blade had been inches from showing Moe a Harlem sunset. A longer knife, or an extra twist, and Moe would've bled to death before the meat wagon arrived.
ref: 2004 February 1, Desdemona, “{ASSM} Rough Cut: Chap 1 by Desdmona (crime drama)”, in alt.sex.stories.moderated (Usenet):
text: 2006, Richard E. Sall, Straightjacket, p. 38,
We had some mean turf wars with rival Latino and Italian gangs, and I've still got the scars to prove it: one under my left eye from some Romano's chain, and one just to the right of my right shoulder blade from some bitch who tried to give me a Harlem sunset –yup, that can happen in Detroit, too.
qualifier: noir
glosses: A fatal wound caused by a knife fight.
wooden kimono
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wooden kimonos
Etymology: A variation of earlier criminal slang such as wooden coat.
Senses: examples: text: "And you're just about ready to give up the ghost and call for a wooden kimono."
ref: 1935, Capt. Billy's Whiz-Bang Winter Annual, back cover
text: I expected the man to show up any minute with his tape measure to outfit me with a wooden kimono.
ref: 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Not too Far Tangent”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 19:
text: "The wooden kimono was all ready to drop in San Francisco Bay, but now he's mumbling something all about the one that got away."
ref: 1976, Tom Waits, Small Change, Asylum Records, 1976, Track #10
glosses: Synonym of coffin.
synonyms: word: coffin
vig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
Forms: form: vigs
Etymology: Clipping of vigorish, from Yiddish וויגריש (vigrish), from Russian вы́игрыш (výigryš, “winnings”).
Senses: examples: text: The house sets vigs on any game they allow you to bet on. It is your responsibility to play only those games where the vig is not prohibitive. Let's take one more look at how vigorish works for the house.
ref: 1984, John Patrick, Craps, →ISBN, page 11:
text: The bookmaker's mean profit per dollar bet is called vigorish or “the vig.” In our example, 11 + 11 = $22 is bet, and the bookmaker wins $1 so the vig is 1/22 = 4.5%.
ref: 2009, Wayne L. Winston, Mathletics: How Gamblers, Managers, and Sports Enthusiasts Use Mathematics, page 256:
text: The vig is like your "tax" paid on a bet which goes to the bookie. For example, every $100 I would bet, I had a vig of $10. So if I bet $500 and lost that bet, I would owe $550. Trust me, when you don't win, the vigs add up quick!
ref: 2016, Mark Andersch, By an Addict, for an Addict, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of vigorish (“charge taken on bets”).
synonyms: word: vigorish
extra: charge taken on bets
examples: text: 1973, Martin Scorsese, Mardik Martin (screenplay), Mean Streets, quoted in 2009, Ellis Cashmore, Martin Scorsese's America, page 118,
“You charged a guy from the neighborhood $1800 vig?” he asks incredulously (“vig” is short for vigorish, meaning a rate of interest from a loan from an illegal moneylender).
text: The guy was probably professional muscle, a leg breaker who collects vig for a loan shark. (Vig is a mob term for interest on loans to a loan shark.)
ref: 2005, F. P. Lione, The Crossroads (Midtown Blue Book; 2), page 100:
text: "Look, I know I owe you and I know I'm late but I'm good for it. I am. In fact I'll pay you triple what I owe. Triple! Plus the missing vigs, but I need some help first."
ref: 2009, Davinia Bostick, The Match, →ISBN, page 91:
qualifier: crime
glosses: Synonym of vigorish (“interest from a loan, as from a loan shark”).
synonyms: word: vigorish
extra: interest from a loan, as from a loan shark
examples: text: “Charlie, sign here, here and here.” “So, you're giving me all your money.” “Charlie, for the 500th time, I'm not giving it to you. It's not yours. I'm just setting up a temporary account in your name. What my wife can't find, she can't get.” “Right. That's-- This is good. This is shady, Frank. I like this kind of stuff.” “But you will be handsomely rewarded if you just keep your hands off of this money.” “Right, right. So what's the vig?” “The vig?” “Yeah, man. Like. You know, that's-- what's the vig on this action here?” “Do you even know what "vig" means?”
ref: 2006 July 6, Charlie Day & Glenn Howerton & Rob McElhenney, “Dennis and Dee Go on Welfare” (5:41 from the start), in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, season 2, episode 3, spoken by Charlie Kelly (Charlie Day):
glosses: Synonym of vigorish (“commission, finder's fee, or similar extra charge”).
synonyms: word: vigorish
extra: commission, finder's fee, or similar extra charge
WTFO
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Could be credited to George Carlin "WTF". However, he may have picked it up when he was a radar operator in the United States Air Force.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: what the fuck, over!
Related terms: snafu
fubar
vigorish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vigorishes
Etymology: From Yiddish וויגריש (vigrish), from Russian вы́игрыш (výigryš, “winnings”).
Senses: examples: text: The house sets vigs on any game they allow you to bet on. It is your responsibility to play only those games where the vig is not prohibitive. Let's take one more look at how vigorish works for the house.
ref: 1984, John Patrick, Craps, →ISBN, page 11:
text: The bookmaker's mean profit per dollar bet is called vigorish or “the vig.” In our example, 11 + 11 = $22 is bet, and the bookmaker wins $1 so the vig is 1/22 = 4.5%.
ref: 2009, Wayne L. Winston, Mathletics: How Gamblers, Managers, and Sports Enthusiasts Use Mathematics, page 256:
glosses: A charge taken on bets, as by a bookie or gambling establishment.
examples: text: His clients included wealthy women who possessed jewelry of great value, a fact which did not escape the loan shark. When it became apparent that the hairdresser could not meet his substantial vigorish payments, he was pressed into service as a "fingerman" for a burglary ring.
ref: 1976, “The Loan-Shark Racket”, in Ianni, Francis A. J., Reuss-Ianni, Elizabeth, editors, The Crime Society, page 217:
text: They lend you a thousand and call it a bone. It cost a hundred a week vigorish to borrow the bone.
ref: 2013, Harry Brooks, Everybody Does Business, →ISBN, page 356:
glosses: The interest on a loan of money, especially for loans made by a usurer or loan shark.
glosses: An amount owed on account of or payment of a bookie's charge or of interest.
examples: text: I was asking a man who had never bent a rule in his entire life to do it once. This wasn't Italy or France, where such miracles are possible with a little political vigorish. This was Switzerland, where nothing like this ever happens.
ref: 1999, Sean Hepburn Ferrer, Audrey Hepburn, An Elegant Spirit, published 2005, →ISBN, page 216:
glosses: A commission or similar extra charge.
Synonyms: sense: charge on bets
word: cut
sense: charge on bets
word: house take
sense: charge on bets
word: house cut
sense: charge on bets
word: house advantage
sense: charge on bets
word: juice
sense: charge on bets
word: overround
sense: charge on bets
word: rake
sense: charge on bets
word: rake-off
sense: charge on bets
word: vig
sense: loan interest
word: vig
sense: loan interest
word: rake off
sense: loan interest
word: cut
under glass
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
qualifier: literal
glosses: In a greenhouse, a cold frame, or a similar structure; said of the propagation and growth of plants.
glosses: In a glass case, like an item in a museum.
glosses: In jail.
take a powder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes a powder
form: taking a powder
form: took a powder
form: taken a powder
Senses: examples: text: Macdonald spoke slowly, bitterly. "The kidnapping is one too many for me, Costello. I don't want any part of it. I'm takin' a powder from this toy mob. I took a chance that bright boy might side me."
ref: 1933, Raymond Chandler, “Blackmailers Don't Shoot”, in Collected Stories, Everyman's Library, published 2002, page 20:
text: First Mrs Hitchcock packed up and took a powder, and there was hell to pay.
ref: 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “They Found the Body in a Ditch”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 2 (1923–1928: Chicago, Chicago), page 66:
text: Our idea was that once the storm had subsided we'd take a powder one night with our dough. . . We'd take our stuff and give ourselves a change of air. . . move to a different neighborhood.
ref: 1971, Louis-Ferdinand D. Celine, Death on the Installment Plan, page 446:
text: "Mr. Tilton said you told him you would take a powder." "Take a powder?" said Henry. "I once heard a man from Nevada tell me he would take a powder, meaning he was leaving town."
ref: 1979, Dan McCall, Beecher: A Novel, page 162:
text: But when you suffer losses, Uncle Sam may take a powder.
ref: 2000, Barbara Weltman, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting a Home-Based Business, page 271:
text: Go on, now. Scram. Take a powder. And don't come back till people on the street start wishing you a good afternoon.
ref: 2004, Robert Hough, Hogie Wyckoff, The Final Confession of Mabel Stark, page 418:
synonyms: take a walkout powder
glosses: To leave without saying goodbye; to leave quietly, to run away; to scram; to depart without taking leave or notifying anyone, often with the implication of avoiding something unpleasant or shirking responsibility.
Related terms: take to the hills
stool pigeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stool pigeons
Etymology: From the act of tying or even nailing a pigeon to a stool to act as a decoy by hunters. Alternatively, from an alteration of stale (“decoy”) + pigeon.
Senses: qualifier: originally
glosses: A pigeon tied to a stool by a piece of twine, used as a decoy to entice free-flying birds to the ground to be shot or trapped.
topics: gambling
games
glosses: A decoy used in a crooked gambling game.
synonyms: word: stoolie
word: stooly
word: abaddon
word: accuser
word: beefer
word: bewrayer
word: bigmouth
word: blabber
word: blabtale
word: blabtongue
word: canary
word: CI
word: finger
word: fink
word: fizgig
word: gossip
word: grass
word: informant
word: informer
word: jurat
word: leak
word: mole
word: narc
word: nark
word: nonce
word: outer
word: peacher
word: quisling
word: rat
word: ratfink
word: rooster
word: sneak
word: snitch
word: snout
word: squealer
word: state's evidence
word: stooge
word: stool pigeon
word: stoolie
word: supergrass
word: sycophant
word: tattler
word: tattletale
word: telltale tit
word: telltale
word: tout
word: whistleblower
glosses: An informer to the authorities, especially one who gives up criminal associates.
stoolie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstuːli/
rhymes: -uːli
Forms: form: stoolies
form: stooly
Etymology: From stool + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A stool pigeon.
shamus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: shä'məs
ipa: /ˈʃɑːməs/
enpr: shā'məs
ipa: /ˈʃeɪməs/
rhymes: -eɪməs
homophone: Séamus (of -ā-/-eɪ-/-eI- pronunciation)
Forms: form: shamuses
form: shami
Etymology: Said to be from the Irish name Séamus, on account of many American police officers being of Irish descent.
Senses: examples: text: “That's what you're here for. Didn't your aunt tell you? She wants you to follow Wilbert Cream and Phyllis about everywhere and see that he doesn't get a chance of proposing.”
“You mean that I'm to be a sort of private eye or shamus, tailing them up? I don't like it,” I said dubiously.
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter IV:
glosses: A private detective; originally, a policeman or police detective.
roundheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roundheels
form: roundheel
Etymology: From round + heels.
Senses: examples: text: […] “His wife was a roundheels anyway—”
“Darling.” She took him by the braid-edged lapels. “Won’t you watch your language a little for the duration? I know Grannie’s horrified sometimes.”
“Grannie wouldn’t know what a roundheels means,” Bruno said hoarsely.
ref: 2001, Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=MnskPAqeLPEC&pg=PA104&lpg=PA104&sig=cf5GjtBSOx43JWMQbY48g0ggCmk
text: But now she ignored the display, nodded attentively, and tried to sound smart but not too smart, agreeable but not a total pushover, and—when Emilio flirted—appropriately slutty but not a complete roundheels.
ref: 2003, Dan Simmons, Hard Freeze http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=e0rixLVIlVUC&pg=PA53&lpg=PA53&sig=f3xoIgKUi3gD98BCyJlSmThefXU
text: “Ah, that’d be Roundheels Molly?” said Corporal Scallot, looking up and grinning. “She’s sent many a lad on his way rejoicing.”
ref: 2004, Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=6e9nD0oQA3UC&pg=PA80&lpg=PA80&sig=bMcrIJMPI6HqCbcSEjFFtk5e0Js
glosses: A sexually promiscuous woman.
roundheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roundheel
Etymology: From round + heels.
Senses: glosses: plural of roundheel
roscoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒskəʊ
Forms: form: roscoes
Etymology: Unknown, apparently from the surname Roscoe; sometimes attested as John Roscoe. Attested from the 1910s.
Senses: examples: text: Why, it was nothing to travel about the country with fifty grand worth of ice on me. Suppose I hadn’t packed a roscoe—hell, I’d of been hoisted once a week!
ref: 1948, Leslie Charteris, Saint Errant, page 103:
text: Vincenzo Ricci: Just his normal detail, a few guys with roscoes. None of the other fellas are gonna do dick to protect that piece of shit.
ref: 2020, Hangar 13, “Happy Birthday!”, in Mafia: Definitive Edition:
glosses: A handgun, particularly a revolver.
wikipedia: Green's Dictionary of Slang
pro skirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pro skirts
Senses: glosses: A prostitute.
pearl diver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pearl divers
Senses: glosses: A person who dives for pearls.
glosses: A person who works as a dishwasher.
dishwasher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪʃˌwɒʃə/
ipa: /ˈdɪʃˌwɑʃɚ/
Forms: form: dishwashers
Etymology: From Middle English dysche wescheare, equivalent to dish + washer.
Senses: examples: text: load the dishwasher
text: Plus, there are about a thousand things that also could, or should get done in that time: a load of laundry, loading the dishwasher, tidying the kitchen, picking up a gagillion toys and blankies off the ground, restocking the change tables.
ref: 2011, Karen Savage, Instructions Not Included: The Adventures of New Motherhood:
text: Conditions inside dishwashers not only enable selected fungal species to survive, but also promote the selective enrichment of particular polyextremotolerant fungi that can tolerate low and high pH, temperatures up to 60°C or 80°C, occasional dehydration and high organic loads, high concentrations of NaCl, and mechanical stress due to water ejectors.
ref: 2016 February 12, “The Black Yeast Exophiala dermatitidis and Other Selected Opportunistic Human Fungal Pathogens Spread from Dishwashers to Kitchens”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A machine for washing dishes.
examples: text: The chefs never cooked before, the cashiers never cashiered before, the dishwashers never dishwashed before, the waitresses never waitressed before, and the managers never managed before.
ref: 2007, Thomas Quealy, M + M:
synonyms: dishy
coordinate_terms: bottlewasher
glosses: Someone who washes dishes, especially one hired to wash dishes in a restaurant.
examples: text: The country-people say that the "tinner," that is the "dishwasher" or water-wagtail, is scarcer than it was before the blizzard, which must have caused the death of tens of thousands of birds. They call it the tinner, because it builds its nest in the mouth of the old mine-shafts.
ref: 2022, John Coulson Tregarthen, Wild Life at the Land's End:
glosses: A European bird, the wagtail.
glosses: A bird, the restless flycatcher (Myiagra inquieta).
Derived terms: dishwasherable
dishwasher proof
dishwasher-safe
dishwasher salt
purple monkey dishwasher
Related terms: pearl diver
Nevada gas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The first gas chamber was used in Nevada, USA on February 8, 1924.
Senses: examples: text: In the front seat it had a tank of Nevada gas, cyanide, which the guy driving could turn into the back part without getting it himself.
ref: 1935, Raymond Chandler, Nevada Gas, The Library of America, page 166:
glosses: Hydrogen cyanide, used in the gas chamber.