cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fallout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːlaʊt/
ipa: /ˈfɔlˌaʊt/
Forms: form: fallouts
Etymology: Deverbal from fall out; fall + out.
Senses: examples: text: It was 5 February 2010 and Safdar had already dealt with the fallout of one explosion that day: an hour before, a motorbike laden with explosives had slammed into a bus carrying Shia Muslims to a religious procession.
ref: 2017 April 6, Samira Shackle, “On the frontline with Karachi’s ambulance drivers”, in the Guardian:
glosses: The event of small airborne particles falling to the ground in significant quantities as a result of major industrial activity, volcano eruption, sandstorm, nuclear explosion, etc.
examples: text: On 26 April 1986 the reactor number four at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant located in the Soviet Union near Pripyat in Ukraine exploded. Further explosions and the resulting fire sent a plume of highly radioactive fallout into the atmosphere and over an extensive geographical area.
glosses: The particles themselves.
examples: raw_tags: title of an article by Dr. Abraham Twerski, M.D.
text: Psychological fallout in the shadow of terrorism
synonyms: blowback
repercussions
glosses: A negative side effect; an undesirable or unexpected consequence.
glosses: A declined offer in a sales transaction when acceptance was presumed.
glosses: The person who declines such an offer.
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
television
glosses: An impromptu guest used to fill in for another guest spot who is a no-show or who has cancelled last minute.
Derived terms: area of militarily significant fallout
atmospheric fallout
borrower fallout
chemical fallout
executive fallout
fallout contour
fallout pattern
fallout prediction
fallout risk
fallout safe height of burst
fallout shelter
fallout winds
fallout wind vector plot
investor fallout
militarily significant fallout
nonfallout
nuclear fallout
radioactive fallout
soot fallout
Related terms: rainout
smokefall
silicon carbide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silicon carbides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A binary compound of silicon and carbon, SiC; it is one of the hardest known materials, and is used as an abrasive, under the trade name Carborundum, and as a refractory material.
Related terms: crystolon
head hunter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head hunters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of headhunter.
PCMCIA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Personal Computer Memory Card International Association, a plug and play peripheral device interface, typically for laptop computers.
PCMCIA
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of people can't memorize computer industry acronyms.
raw_tags: from the above
meals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meal
magnesic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more magnesic
form: most magnesic
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: That contains magnesium
Derived terms: ferromagnesic
magnesite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmæɡnəzaɪt/
Forms: form: magnesites
Etymology: Named after its composition in 1807.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of magnesium carbonate, MgCO₃, occurring as dolomite (with calcite) but rarely found in the pure state.
Derived terms: boromagnesite
chlormagnesite
cupromagnesite
hydromagnesite
nitromagnesite
magnetical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more magnetical
form: most magnetical
Etymology: Latin magneticus: compare French magnétique. See magnetic.
Senses: glosses: magnetic
Derived terms: geomagnetical
magneticalness
unmagnetical
magnetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From magnetic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: Using magnetism
examples: text: My eyes were magnetically drawn to the scene.
glosses: As if by a magnet
magneticalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From magnetical + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being magnetic; magnetism.
magnetician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magneticians
Senses: glosses: magnetist.
magnetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From magnet + -ics.
Senses: glosses: The science or study of magnets and magnetism.
Derived terms: aeromagnetics
electromagnetics
hydromagnetics
micromagnetics
Related terms: electro-magnetics
magnetiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more magnetiferous
form: most magnetiferous
Etymology: From magneti- + -ferous, from magnet or magnetite.
Senses: examples: text: First, second and third base magnetiferous strips 70, 72 and 74 may be magnets. However, the inventor has found it more convenient to form these base magnetiferous strips of material that conducts magnetism and place between these strips two magnets 80, 82.
ref: 1989, Alberto Russo, Magnetic rotary locking and tensioning mechanism, US Patent 49745412, page 5:
glosses: Producing or conducting magnetism
examples: text: The ore is a richly magnetiferous Pochuck gneiss.
ref: 1910, William Shirley Bayley, Iron Mines and Mining in New Jersey, page 351:
text: Observations by Ball and myself in Colorado show that in the case of magnetiferous granites, the magnetite was a mineral of the pegmatite stage.
ref: 1923, Josiah Edward Spur, The Ore Magmas, page 36:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Containing magnetite
Synonyms: sense: producing or conducting magnetism
word: magnetic
sense: containing magnetite
word: magnetitic
Related terms: magnesiferous
magniferous
manganiferous
magnetist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetists
Etymology: From magnet + -ist.
Senses: synonyms: magnetician
glosses: Someone versed in magnetism
Derived terms: geomagnetist
paleomagnetist
magnetizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more magnetizable
form: most magnetizable
form: magnetisable
Etymology: From magnetize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be magnetized.
Derived terms: nonmagnetizable
magnetization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetizations
Etymology: From magnet + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The act of magnetizing, or the state of being magnetized
glosses: The magnitude of the magnetic strength of a magnetized object.
Derived terms: demagnetization
gravimagnetization
metamagnetization
net magnetization vector
photomagnetization
thermoremanent magnetization
Related terms: magnetism
magnetizee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetizees
Etymology: From magnetize + -ee.
Senses: glosses: A person influenced by animal magnetism.
magnetizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetizers
Etymology: From magnetize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: From these delusions to those still more fashionable deceptions, practised by the whole tribe of magnetisers, the transition is very natural.
ref: 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC:
text: Many times a whole audience will not only be crowded into a small room, but are noisy disbelievers, call it all a humbug, distract the mind of the magnetizer, and added to these, absolutely outwill the magnetizer, in their wish to bring odium upon the science, and carry their points and gain their ends.
ref: 1845, Bagg on Magnetism: Or the Doctrine of Equilibrium:
text: Mesmer had about a hundred people whom he had instructed as magnetisers, some of whom belonged to the nobility, who also "mesmerised" people by making passes over the affected parts of the body.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 142:
glosses: A practitioner of animal magnetism; a hypnotist.
glosses: Someone or something that imparts magnetism.
magneto-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From magnet- + -o-.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of magnet-.
magnetograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetographs
Etymology: From magneto- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for measuring changes in the direction and intensity of magnetic fields.
Derived terms: magnetographic
magnetometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmæɡnɪˈtɒmɪtə/
ipa: /ˌmæɡnɪˈtɑmɪtɚ/
rhymes: -ɒmɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: magnetometers
form: magnetimeter
Etymology: From magneto- + -meter.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: word: mag
glosses: An instrument used to measure the intensity and direction of a magnetic field, especially at points on the Earth's surface; sometimes used as metal detector.
Derived terms: aeromagnetometer
biomagnetometer
comagnetometer
mag
neuromagnetometer
Related terms: magnetometric
magnetometry
magnetometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From magneto- + -metric.
Senses: examples: magnetometric instruments
glosses: Pertaining to, or employed in, the measurement of magnetic forces
examples: magnetometric measurements
glosses: Obtained by means of a magnetometer
Related terms: magnetometry
magnetomotor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetomotors
Etymology: From magneto- + motor.
Senses: glosses: A voltaic series of two or more large plates, producing a great quantity of electricity of low tension, and hence adapted to the exhibition of electromagnetic phenomena.
magnetotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetotherapies
Etymology: From magneto- + therapy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The medical treatment of disease by the application of magnets to the surface of the body.
Related terms: magnetotherapeutic
magnetotherapist
magnifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From magnify + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be magnified, or extolled.
examples: text: Bacteria are magnifiable with the aid of a microscope.
glosses: Capable of being magnified, or made to appear larger.
magnific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more magnific
form: most magnific
form: magnifick
form: magnificke
Etymology: From Middle French magnifique, and its source, Latin magnificus. Doublet of magnifico.
Senses: examples: text: Dread Soverayne Goddesse, that doest highest sit / In seate of judgement in th'Almighties stead, / And with magnificke might and wondrous wit / Does to thy people righteous doome aread […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Then too the pillar'd Dome, magnific, heav'd / Its ample Roof […].
ref: a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Autumn”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
glosses: Magnificent, splendid; illustrious.
Derived terms: magnifically
magnificate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: magnificates
form: magnificating
form: magnificated
form: magnificated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin magnificātus, perfect passive participle of magnificō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: [T]each thy Incubus to Poëtize, / And throvve abroad thy ſpurious Snotteries, / Vpon that puft-up Lumpe of Barmy froth, / […] / Or Clumſy Chil-blain'd Iudgement; that, vvith Oath, / Magnificates his Merit; and beſpaules / The conſcious Time, vvith humorous Fome; & bravvles, / As if his Organons of Senſe vvould crack / The ſinevves of my Patience.
ref: 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act V, scene iii:
glosses: To magnify or extol.
magnification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmæɡnɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: magnifications
Etymology: From magnify + -ification.
Senses: examples: text: His story included a magnification of the events.
glosses: The act of magnifying; enlargement; exaggeration.
glosses: The apparent enlargement of an object in an image, for example using a lens, or by zooming in on a computer.
examples: text: magnification of sound
glosses: Amplification.
Derived terms: biomagnification
demagnification
overmagnification
remagnification
magnificently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæɡˈnɪfɪsəntli/
Forms: form: more magnificently
form: most magnificently
Etymology: From Middle English magnyficently; equivalent to magnificent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a magnificent manner.
magniloquence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magniloquences
form: magniloquency
Etymology: From Latin magniloquentia.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being magniloquent
synonyms: grandiloquence
glosses: Pompous discourse.
magniloquent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more magniloquent
form: most magniloquent
Etymology: From post-Classical Latin magniloquens (“talkative, verbose”).
Senses: examples: text: There is no doubt that the ordinary reader would enjoy, and he certainly would profit much by, a revival of the classic work—if only he did not fall asleep over its magniloquent but perissological otiosity.
ref: 1908, Charles Francis Horne, The Technique of the Novel, page 126:
text: The sermonizer, said Dwight [Macdonald], was guilty of "puerile, stupid twaddle" and seemed to have "a remarkable power of hypnotizing himself with magniloquent platitudes."
ref: 2012, David Skinner, The Story of Ain't: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published, HarperCollins, page 40:
synonyms: bombastic
tumid
grandiloquent
pompous
glosses: Using pompous speech; speaking with deliberately long or esoteric words.
Synonyms: fustian
lexiphanic
Derived terms: magniloquently
Related terms: grandiloquent
magnificat
magniloquence
splendiloquent
-onomy
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of -nomy.
irrupt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ʌpt
Forms: form: irrupts
form: irrupting
form: irrupted
form: irrupted
Etymology: From Latin irruptus, past participle of irrumpō.
Senses: glosses: To break into.
examples: text: Above all, though, I look back into a modernity where the animation of the object world, the voice of things, or the indistinction of object and subject does not constitute a general (or generalizable, theorizable) condition but irrupts as a discrete event, the aesthetic effects of which range from the uncanny to the sublime.
ref: 2015, Bill Brown, Other Things, Univ of Chicago Press, →ISBN:
glosses: To enter forcibly or uninvited.
glosses: To rapidly increase or intensify.
Derived terms: irruptive
Related terms: irruption
irrupt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ʌpt
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of erupt.
jasmine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæzmɪn/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæzmən/
rhymes: -æzmɪn
rhymes: -æzmən
Forms: form: jasmines
form: jassamine
form: jessamine
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle Persian yʾsmn'
Classical Persian یَاسَمِین (yāsamīn)bor.
Arabic يَاسَمِين (yāsamīn)bor.
French jasminbor.
English jasmine
Borrowed from French jasmin, from Arabic يَاسَمِين (yāsamīn).
Senses: glosses: Any of several plants, of the genus Jasminum, mostly native to Asia, having fragrant white or yellow flowers.
glosses: The perfume obtained from these plants.
glosses: Any of several not closely related plants having a similar perfume.
glosses: A yellow colour.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Jasminum sambac
word: Arabian jasmine
taxonomic: Cestrum elegans
word: bastard jasmine
taxonomic: Clematis crispa
word: blue jasmine
word: bush jasmine
taxonomic: Gardenia jasminoides
word: Cape jasmine
taxonomic: Gelsemium sempervirens
word: Carolina jasmine
taxonomic: Jasminum grandiflorum
word: Catalan jasmine
taxonomic: Jasminum grandiflorum
word: Catalonian jasmine
taxonomic: Vinca rosea
word: cayenne jasmine
taxonomic: Mandevilla laxa
word: Chilean jasmine
taxonomic: Jasminum polyanthum
word: climbing jasmine
taxonomic: Jasminum officinale
word: common jasmine
taxonomic: Trachelospermum spp.
word: confederate jasmine
taxonomic: Tabernaemontana divaricata
word: crepe jasmine
taxonomic: Tabernaemontana divaricata
word: crape jasmine
taxonomic: Cestrum diurnum
word: day jasmine
word: double jasmine
taxonomic: Passerina stelleri
word: ground jasmine
alt: Chrysojasminum humile, syn. Jasminum humile
word: Italian jasmine
taxonomic: Trachelospermum asiaticum
word: Japanese star jasmine
word: Jasmine
word: jasmined
word: jasminelike
word: jasmine rice
word: jasmine tea
word: jasminy
word: jasmone
word: jasmonic
taxonomic: Stephanotis floribunda
word: Madagascar jasmine
taxonomic: Nyctanthes arbor-tristis
word: night-blooming jasmine
taxonomic: Nyctanthes arbor-tristis
word: night-flowering jasmine
taxonomic: Cestrum nocturnum
word: night jasmine
taxonomic: Murraya paniculata
word: orange jasmine
taxonomic: Jasminum grandiflorum
word: poet's jasmine
taxonomic: Jasminum mesnyi
word: primrose jasmine
taxonomic: Plumeria rubra
word: red jasmine
taxonomic: Androsace spp.
word: rock jasmine
taxonomic: Jasminum grandiflorum
word: royal jasmine
taxonomic: Jasminum sambac
word: sambac jasmine
taxonomic: Jasminum grandiflorum
word: Spanish jasmine
taxonomic: Trachelospermum jasminoides
word: star jasmine
word: tree jasmine
taxonomic: Jasminum officinale
word: true jasmine
taxonomic: Jasminum sambac
word: Tuscan jasmine
taxonomic: Plumeria alba
word: West Indian jasmine
word: white jasmine
taxonomic: Cestrum parqui
word: willow-leaved jasmine
taxonomic: Jasminum nudiflorum
word: winter jasmine
word: yellow jasmine
Related terms: word: Arabian jasmine
word: mogra
word: pikake
taxonomic: Jasminum sambac
word: jasmine tea
word: chameli
word: jessamine
word: motia
lovebirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lovebird
irruptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irruptive
form: most irruptive
Senses: glosses: Having the quality of irrupting or making irruptions.
Derived terms: irruptively
irruptive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: irruptives
Senses: examples: text: Connor advises birders to wait until late in the winter to look for irruptives.
ref: 1988 June 17, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2016:
glosses: An organism that is suddenly more prevalent in a region, due to irruption.
irruption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌpʃən
Forms: form: irruptions
Etymology: From Middle French irruption, from Latin irruptiō(n).
Senses: examples: text: The Trojan irruption into the Greek camp is related in Book XV of the Iliad.
text: [I]t was not till arts and ſciences began to revive after the irruption of the Barbarians into Europe, that any thing of this kind appeared.
ref: 1748, [Tobias Smollett], The Adventures of Roderick Random. […] In Two Volumes., 2nd edition, volume I, London: Printed for J. Osborn in Pater-noster-Row, →OCLC, page vi:
text: At that time it was thought that the critical section, in which an irruption of water from the river was to be feared, lay under the Shoots, but this proved not to be the case. Indeed, relatively little trouble was experienced from the Severn. The very serious flooding, which twice submerged part of the works, came from an underground river, (now known as the Great Spring), the presence of which was unsuspected.
ref: 1948 September and October, “Weekend Works in the Severn Tunnel”, in Railway Magazine, page 299:
glosses: The action of irrupting or breaking into; a violent entry or invasion; an inbreaking; an intrusion.
examples: text: Extreme rainfall events predict irruptions of rat plagues in central Australia.
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: An abrupt increase of an animal population.
examples: text: How can we explain this irruption of young people self-identifying as socialists?
glosses: An abrupt increase in the size of a movement or organization.
wars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɔɹz/
ipa: /wɔːz/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)z
Senses: examples: text: He's tough. He's been through all the wars.
glosses: plural of war
wars
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɔɹz/
ipa: /wɔːz/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of war
disinherit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪsɪnˈhɛɹɪt/
rhymes: -ɛɹɪt
Forms: form: disinherits
form: disinheriting
form: disinherited
form: disinherited
Etymology: From Middle English; see dis- + inherit.
Senses: examples: text: Excuses for disinheriting people, that we swear we're not making up
text: Obviously, the process of coming out is not easy, regardless of social status: homophobia cuts across all classes. While the wealthy person has less to risk because of his or her material security (I haven't yet heard of anyone being disinherited), there are often obstacles unique to those with money.
ref: 1978 December 9, David Steven, “Living in a Double Closet”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 20, page 9:
glosses: To exclude from inheritance; to disown.
Derived terms: disinheritable
disinheritance
disinheritee
disinheritor
undisinherited
sycophancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sycophancies
Etymology: From Latin sȳcophantia, from Ancient Greek σῡκοφᾰντῐ́ᾱ (sūkophăntĭ́ā), equivalent to sycophant + -cy.
Senses: examples: text: I have always been taken aback at the high number of people in whom an astonishingly high income led to additional sycophancy as they became more dependent on their clients and employers and more addicted to making even more money.
ref: 2010, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, page 21:
text: “I don’t want to get myself into trouble,” he added, “but she’s very, she’s a great woman.”
Victoria [Starmer] looked a little creeped out. Her husband might be a master Trump-wrangler, an expert at sycophancy and genuflection, but she wasn’t.
ref: 2025 July 28, John Crace, “Sidekick Starmer can’t get a word in as The Donald dominates world’s most one-sided double act”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: The fawning behavior of a sycophant; servile flattery; fawningness.
qualifier: artificial intelligence
glosses: The tendency of a language model to produce answers that flatter or agree with a user’s beliefs or biases rather than giving accurate or truthful information, or to give strategically false answers when it infers that it is being evaluated in terms of alignment.
references
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛf.(ə)ɹən.sɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of reference
references
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛf.(ə)ɹən.sɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reference
dowdify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dowdifies
form: dowdifying
form: dowdified
form: dowdified
Etymology: From dowdy + -fy.
Senses: glosses: To make dowdy; to make unfashionable.
Derived terms: dowdification
disapprove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsəˈpɹuːv/
Forms: form: disapproves
form: disapproving
form: disapproved
form: disapproved
Etymology: From dis- + approve.
Senses: examples: text: She disapproves of rap music because of its sometimes aggressive lyrics.
text: The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
ref: 1945, George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism:
glosses: To condemn; to consider wrong or inappropriate; used with of.
examples: text: Green washing schemes of corporations are disapproved by Greenpeace activists.
glosses: To have or express an unfavorable opinion.
glosses: To refuse to approve; reject.
Derived terms: disapprovable
disapprovement
disapprover
Related terms: disapprobation
disapproval
brutish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹuːt.ɪʃ/
rhymes: -uːtɪʃ
Forms: form: more brutish
form: most brutish
Etymology: From brute + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Of, or in the manner of a brute
glosses: Bestial; lacking human sensibility
Derived terms: brutishly
brutishness
unbrutish
resting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛstɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛstɪŋ
homophone: wresting
Forms: form: restings
Senses: examples: text: Hence, if the universal Father had […] personally controlled the movements of the Israelites, and directed the course, the motions, and the restings, of that cloud […]
ref: 1865, Merritt Munson, The History of Moses and the Israelites, page 199:
synonyms: repose
inactivity
reliance
confidence
glosses: The action of rest
glosses: A place where one can rest; a resting place.
synonyms: word: hiatus
word: moratorium
word: recess
word: break
word: breather
word: cessation
word: demurral
word: gap
word: caesura
word: hiatus
word: halt
word: halting
word: interregnum
word: interruption
word: lapse
word: moratorium
word: pause
word: recess
word: respite
word: resting
word: stoppage
word: stopping
word: suspension
glosses: A pause; a break; an interlude.
resting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛstɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛstɪŋ
homophone: wresting
Senses: glosses: That rests; that is not in action or in the process of growth.
glosses: Unemployed; out of work.
examples: text: For most adults, a normal resting heart rate ranges from 60 to 100 beats per minute
ref: 2025 June 25 (last accessed), “Measuring Resting Heart Rate (RHR)”, in Virginia Commonwealth University, archived from the original on 24 Jun 2025, page 1:
glosses: Remaining; stationary.
resting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛstɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛstɪŋ
homophone: wresting
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rest
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: bitchy resting face
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: resting bitch face
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: resting face
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: resting-place
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: resting potential
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: resting spore
resting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛstɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛstɪŋ
homophone: wresting
ipa: /ɹiːˈstɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɹɛstɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛstɪŋ
homophone: wresting
Forms: form: restings
form: restinging
form: restung
form: restung
Etymology: re- + sting
Senses: glosses: To sting again.
refreshing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈfɹɛʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛʃɪŋ
Forms: form: more refreshing
form: most refreshing
Etymology: By surface analysis, refresh + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The pond was another favourite place to visit. Moorhens strutted from the neighbouring bushes, and a bevy of Muscovy ducks, a study in black, white and red, waddled from the farmyard hard by to enjoy a refreshing splash.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 217:
text: Every forecast or guess has one refreshing quality: one will be right and the rest will be wrong.
ref: 2022 June 20, Charles Hugh Smith, The Difference Between a Forecast and a Guess:
glosses: That refreshes someone; pleasantly fresh and different; granting vitality and energy.
examples: text: The polarization system has a refreshing rate that is twice the refreshing rate of the corresponding shutter system.
ref: 2003, John Wang, Data Mining: Opportunities and Challenges, page 74:
glosses: Serving to refresh, particularly with respect to an electronic screen, or a browser window or similar computer application.
Derived terms: refreshingly
refreshingness
refreshing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈfɹɛʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛʃɪŋ
Forms: form: refreshings
Etymology: By surface analysis, refresh + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Notwithstanding these powerful refreshings of divine grace, the ways of Zion continued to mourn generally, throughout the New-England churches; iniquity abounded, and the hearts of many waxed cold […]
ref: 1821, Frederick Butler, A Complete History of the United States of America:
glosses: The action of refresh; refreshment given or received.
glosses: That which gives refreshment.
refreshing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈfɹɛʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛʃɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, refresh + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of refresh
resting-place
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resting-places
Etymology: From Middle English restyng place, restingplace, rystynge-place, restynge place, equivalent to resting + place.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of resting place.
refreshment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈfɹɛʃ.mənt/
Forms: form: refreshments
Etymology: Recorded since 1665; either directly or via Middle English refreschement, from Old French refrescher (12th century; modern French rafraîchir), itself from re- (“again”) + fresche (“fresh”) (modern French frais; from a Germanic source, cognate with Old High German frisc, modern German frisch, Dutch fris, etc.)
Senses: synonyms: reinvigoration
revival
restoration
renewal
renovation
reanimation
repair
glosses: The process of refreshing; a means of restoring strength, energy or vigour.
examples: text: All refreshments will be provided by the hosts.
text: He was very friendly and polite to John, and after giving us a slight look, he called a groom to take us to our boxes, and invited John to take some refreshment.
ref: [1877], Anna Sewell, “Earlshall”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part II, page 101:
glosses: That which refreshes, such as a light snack or drink.
glosses: The result of being refreshed.
Derived terms: advanced refreshment
horizontal refreshments
liquid refreshment
refreshment car
refreshment room
Related terms: refresher
refreshingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more refreshingly
form: most refreshingly
Etymology: From refreshing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: a refreshingly original film in which the villain defeated the hero
text: The trade wind blows refreshingly cool across the Point, clearing it of mosquitoes and singing an eternal psalm in the fronds of the coconut palms.
ref: 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 57:
text: In a refreshingly honest introduction, it recognised that the hardest part of any strategy is making it happen.
ref: 2020 December 2, Industry Insider, “The costs of cutting carbon”, in Rail, page 76:
glosses: In a refreshing manner.
refreshingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From refreshing + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being refreshing.
rampart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæm.pɑː(ɹ)t/
Forms: form: ramparts
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French rempart (“rampart of a fort”), from Old French remparer (“to defend, fortify, inclose with a rampart”), from re- (“again”) + emparer (“defend, fortify, surround, seize, take possession of”), from Old Occitan amparer, from Vulgar Latin *anteparō (“to prepare”), from ante- + parō (“to prepare”).
Senses: examples: text: Between the southern end of the village, called Bridge End, and the River Thames runs a double row of ramparts and a ditch known as Dyke Hills.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 154, about Dorchester, Oxon:
glosses: A defensive mound of earth or a wall with a broad top and usually a stone parapet; a wall-like ridge of earth, stones or debris; an embankment for defensive purpose.
glosses: A defensive structure; a protective barrier; a bulwark.
glosses: That which defends against intrusion from outside; a protection.
glosses: A steep bank of a river or gorge.
rampart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæm.pɑː(ɹ)t/
Forms: form: ramparts
form: ramparting
form: ramparted
form: ramparted
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French rempart (“rampart of a fort”), from Old French remparer (“to defend, fortify, inclose with a rampart”), from re- (“again”) + emparer (“defend, fortify, surround, seize, take possession of”), from Old Occitan amparer, from Vulgar Latin *anteparō (“to prepare”), from ante- + parō (“to prepare”).
Senses: examples: text: Those grassy Hills, those glitt’ring Dells
Proudly ramparted with rocks
ref: 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ode on the Departing Year^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ode_on_the_Departing_Year_-_Coleridge_(1796)) (pamphlet), Bristol, page 14:
glosses: To defend with a rampart; fortify or surround with a rampart.
Derived terms: ramparted
Related terms: fraise
ramparted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rampart + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Provided with a rampart.
reliant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aɪənt
Forms: form: more reliant
form: most reliant
Etymology: From rely + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. And, as their ubiquity spreads, so too does the debate around whether we should allow ourselves to become so reliant on them – and who, if anyone, is policing their use.
ref: 2013 July 26, Leo Hickman, “How algorithms rule the world”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 26:
text: Brown heavily sympathises with the challenges now being faced by his successor Andy Byford and Mayor Sadiq Khan, to secure a more sustainable funding formula for TfL that is less reliant on farebox income.
ref: 2020 November 18, Mike Brown tells Paul Stephen, “I wasn't going to let the Mayor down”, in Rail, page 44:
glosses: Having reliance on somebody or something.
Derived terms: self-reliant
revanchist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈvæn(t)ʃɪst/
ipa: /ɹəˈvɑnt͡ʃɪst/
Forms: form: revanchists
Etymology: From French revanchiste, from revanche (“revenge”) + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The next day, newspapers across the political spectrum will express varying degrees of outrage at the president's discourtesy, ignorance, and lack of style; one will accuse him of being a revanchist.
ref: 1997, Tony Hendra, “Old soldiers”, in Harper's Magazine, volume 295, number 1766, page 53:
text: Mr. Murphy tracks shifts in Justice Scalia's approach and what differentiates it from those of other textual revanchists, whether Justice Clarence Thomas or the legal scholar Robert Bork.
ref: 2014 July 2, Jeff Shesol, “Rightward Bound: 'Uncertain Justice' and 'Scalia'”, in The New York Times (book review; International New York Times version: The Court: Rightward bound: Uncertain Justice. The Warren Court and the Constitution. By Laurence Tribe and Joshua Matz. 401 pages. Henry Holt & Company. $32. Scalia. A Court of One. By Bruce Allen Murphy. Illustrated. 644 pages. Simon & Schuster. $35. 10 July 2014, p. 9):
glosses: A revanchist person; occasionally, anyone seeking vengeance.
revanchist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈvæn(t)ʃɪst/
ipa: /ɹəˈvɑnt͡ʃɪst/
Etymology: From French revanchiste, from revanche (“revenge”) + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: No longer did young German tourists in France or Holland have to pretend that they were Swedes, and no longer did the governments of Eastern Europe blame all their problems on the “revanchist West Germans”.
ref: 1974 March 20, “The Legacy of a 'Good German'”, in Time:
text: What remains is an elegant brief history of the modern conservative movement, as unsparing in its critique of liberal hubris as of revanchist resentment.
ref: 2009 September 29, Jackson Lears, “The Waxing and Waning of America's Political Right”, in The New York Times, retrieved 05 Oct 2009:
text: Bannon, they proclaimed, was Trumpism in its distilled essence: revanchist, ahistorical, racially inflected, and consumed with an imaginary war on the media and America’s broader society.
ref: 2018 January 8, Rick Wilson, “Bannon Banished for Telling Truths About Trump as MAGA Monsters Turn on Each Other”, in The Daily Beast:
text: As execrable as the Supreme Court’s decisions have been, they are of a piece with the conservative rulings from lower court judges who see no issue with laundering a revanchist policy agenda through contorted rulings.
ref: 2024, G. S. Hans, Law Professors Can’t Keep Carrying Water For the Supreme Court, in: Balls and Strikes, August 5 2024
glosses: Seeking revenge or otherwise advocating retaliation, especially against a nation which has previously defeated and humiliated the revanchist party in war. Originally referred to the French indignation over losing Alsace-Lorraine to Germany in the Franco-Prussian War.
Related terms: revanche
revanchism
revanche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈvɑnt͡ʃ/
ipa: /ɹəˈvænt͡ʃ/
ipa: /ɹəˈvɑ̃ʃ/
Forms: form: revanches
Etymology: Borrowed from French revanche.
Senses: glosses: Revenge or retaliation.
glosses: The political policy of regaining lost territory.
Related terms: revanchism
revanchist
shitton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈʃɪtˌtʌn/
Forms: form: shittons
form: shit-ton
form: shit ton
form: shit-tonne
Etymology: From shit + ton.
Senses: examples: text: Most megahits cost a shitton to produce, but Pulp Fiction was only 12 million dollars, according to Rolling Stone.
ref: 1994 October 26, daniel federman, “Re: PULP FICTION BOX OFFICE RESULTS?”, in rec.arts.movies (Usenet):
text: How do they expect that by preventing a shitton of rich honkies from going home will gain support for their cause?
ref: 2000 July 13, jkeeton, “Current Events in St. Louis. *LONG*”, in alt.umr.student.babble (Usenet):
text: These workdays were long, and through vicious wine hangovers, exhaustion, dehydration, and ringing ears, I tried learning how to make Shitton of Meat Sandwiches. […] ¶ […] Sometimes, I got it right; other times, I'd forget to put on necessities like the cheese, and, on more than one occasion, the Shitton of Meat.
ref: 2005, Brian Costello, The Enchanters Vs. Sprawlburg Springs, Featherproof Books, →ISBN, page 109:
text: No, I'm not poly. I have a shitton of friends who are however, and it's one of those 'alternative lifestyles' (if you want to call it that I suppose) that people rarely hear about.
ref: 2005 October 14, "Aeire", commentary on the 2004 January 14 Queen of Wands
text: A few billion years of local perturbations add up to a shitton more effect than can be mounted against the overall galaxy.
ref: 2010 January 27, "eric gisse" (username), "Supermassive black hole rotation & host galaxy rotation", in sci.astro and other newsgroups, Usenet
synonyms: word: fuckload
word: abundance
word: arseload
word: assload
word: bellyload
word: boatload
word: brimful
word: busload
word: bucketful
word: bucketload
word: butt-ton
word: bumload
word: buttload
word: cartload
word: crapload
word: deal
word: fuckload
word: fuckton
word: fuckwad
word: great deal
word: hantle
word: heap
word: hecatomb
word: helluvalot
word: horseload
word: lashings
word: load
word: lot
word: mampus
word: many
word: mass
word: metric fuckton
word: metric shitload
word: mickle
word: mountain
word: muckle
word: multiplicity
word: multitude
word: pile
word: ream
word: shedload
word: shitful
word: shitload
word: shitton
word: slew
word: spadeloads
word: sum
word: superflux
word: ton
word: trainload
word: truckload
word: tun
word: vaultful
word: wagonload
glosses: An enormous amount.
Synonyms: crapton
Jasmine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jasmines
form: Jasmin
form: Jazmin
form: Jazmine
Etymology: From French jasmin, from Arabic يَاسَمِين (yāsamīn), from Classical Persian یاسمین (yāsamīn), from earlier یاسمن (yāsaman), from Middle Persian yʾsmn' (yāsaman).
Senses: examples: text: Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas spoke out against the order on Thursday, saying in an X post, “First Trump removes any reference of diversity from the present — now he’s trying to remove it from our history. Let me be PERFECTLY clear— you cannot erase our past and you cannot stop us from fulfilling our future.”
ref: 2025 March 28, Michael Williams, “Trump targets ‘improper ideology’ at the Smithsonian in latest effort to reshape the arts and history”, in CNN:
glosses: A female given name from Persian.
glosses: A surname from Persian.
Related terms: Jessamine
Jessamy
Jessamyn
Yasmin
Yasmina
Yasmine
Yasmeen
shitter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪt.ə/
ipa: /ˈʃɪt.ɚ/
ipa: [ˈʃɪɾ.ɚ]
rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)
Senses: examples: text: Text sex is even shitter.
ref: c. 2003, James Skelly, quoted in Doug Levy, “Artist Spotlight: The Coral”, in CMJ New Music Report, ISSN 0890-0795, Volume 74, Number 797 (2003 January 20), page 21
text: Even shitter!
ref: a. 2005, Simon Raven, quoted in Simon Raven and Chris Raven, Living the Linger, Samosir Books Limited (2005), page 170
text: Our university may have been shit on University Challenge, and even shitter at any kind of sport, but for a good political bit of head kicking we were unbeatable.
ref: 2005, Steve Morris, Pod and the Sexy Dream Club, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 49:
glosses: comparative form of shit: more shit; shittier
Cassandra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈsæn.dɹə/
ipa: /kəˈsɑːn.dɹə/
ipa: /kəˈsɛən.dɹə/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Κασσάνδρα (Kassándra).
Senses: examples: text: And so when Cassandra foretold the evils that were to come upon Troy, even her own people would not credit her words.
ref: 1897, Michael Clarke, The Story of Troy, page 30:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A prophetess who was daughter of King Priam of Troy and his queen Hecuba. She captured the eye of Apollo and was granted the ability to see the future; however, she was destined never to be believed.
examples: text: But succeeding ages (little regarding S. Chrysosthome's admonition to the contrary) have recalled prophane names, so as now Diana, Cassandra, Hyppolytus, Venus, Lais, names of unhappy disaster are as rife, as ever they were in paganism.
ref: 1605, William Camden, Remains Concerning Britain, John Russell Smith, published 1870, page 56:
text: Warren J. Tyler, son of Joel, was born in Byron, July 28, 1828. He married Cassandra Tyler, of Stafford, and has four children living.
ref: 1890, Frederick W. Beers, Gazetteer and Biographical Record of Genesee County, N.Y., 1788–1890, page 656:
text: "What's your name?" I asked.
"Cassandra."
Ah, a mythical name. It fit with the fairy-tale looks.
ref: 2004, Torey Hayden, chapter 1, in Twilight Children, HarperCollins UK, published 2013, →ISBN:
text: Cassandra sat down on a small sofa next to Mrs Budley.
ref: 2013, M. C. Beaton, chapter 4, in Miss Tonks Turns to Crime:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Walker County, Georgia, United States.
glosses: A small borough in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Derived terms: Cass
Cassaundra
Cassie
Sandra
Related terms: Jeremiah
Cassandra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈsæn.dɹə/
ipa: /kəˈsɑːn.dɹə/
ipa: /kəˈsɛən.dɹə/
Forms: form: Cassandras
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Κασσάνδρα (Kassándra).
Senses: examples: text: "Well, take my word for it, those girls will never marry; marriage is like money—seem to want it, and you never get it." The Cassandra was scarcely departed, when the objects of her oracle appeared—Mrs. Fergusson and her two daughters.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 36:
text: 1876–1877, "The New Republic", book III, chapter IV, page 46 in Belgravia: An Illustrated London Magazine, volume XXXI
'By the way,' said Mr. Saunders […] , 'I suppose I may speak the truth freely, as I know well enough that all to whom my vaticinations would be unwelcome are sure to mistake me for a Cassandra.'
text: When Cassandras like Pete Peterson, the former Commerce Secretary, present alarming numbers about the future burden of baby boomers on the budget, it turns out that only part of that prospective burden represents the sheer demographic effects of an aging population: […]
ref: 1997 March 9, Paul Krugman, “Does Getting Old Cost Society Too Much?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: doomsayer
word: ariolater
word: Chaldean
word: clairvoyant
word: divinator
word: diviner
word: duckerer
word: foreteller
word: fortuneteller
word: oracle
word: precog
word: precognitive
word: predictor
word: prognosticator
word: prophet
word: pythonist
word: scryer
word: seer
word: soothsayer
word: sortilegus
word: spaer
glosses: A person who makes dire predictions, especially those which are not believed but which turn out to be true.
give a fuck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪvəˌfʌk/
Forms: form: gives a fuck
form: giving a fuck
form: gave a fuck
form: given a fuck
Senses: examples: text: The committee doesn't give a fuck about this issue, but you know what, I give a fuck!
text: I don't give a fuck/They done pushed me to my limit, I'm all in/I might blow up any minute, did it again
ref: 1992, “I Don’t Give a Fuck”, Tupac Amaru Shakur (music):
text: And I don't give a fuck if calling the pope a motherfucker / means you unthinkingly brand me an unthinking apostate.
ref: 2010, “The Pope Song”, Tim Minchin (music):
text: Alex Trebek set a Guinness world record for most game shows hosted. The previous record was: Who gives a fuck?
ref: 2014 July 14, Norm Macdonald Live, season 2, episode 9, spoken by Norm Macdonald:
text: We did some very rough estimates, and, with 35 employees contributing just $6,000 a year, after 30 years, half a percent could add up to roughly a million dollars! That number was so high you’ll never guess what happened: Janice in accounting actually gave a fuck! I’m serious! She’s a changed woman now!
ref: 2016, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Retirement Plans”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 15, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:
text: Aline Brosh McKenna, one of the creators of The CW TV series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, told a reporter in 2020: “I often say, ‘Lord, give me the moxie of a post-menopausal women^([sic]) who gives absolutely no fucks.’”
ref: 2023 November 11, Emma Jacobs, quoting Aline Brosh McKenna, “When will I start caring less about everything?”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 4:
synonyms: word: becare
word: bother
word: care
word: concern oneself
word: mind
word: reck
word: trouble oneself
word: worry
glosses: To care; to give a shit.
raw_tags: in the negative
Derived terms: give a flying fuck
zero fucks given
give two fucks
TVR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Automobile manufacturer: derived from the first name of founder Trevor Wilkinson.
Senses: glosses: A UK-based automobile manufacturer.
glosses: Televiziunea Română: the state-owned television broadcaster of Romania.
tailgate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈteɪlˌɡeɪt/
Forms: form: tailgates
form: tail-gate
form: tail gate
Etymology: From tail + gate.
Senses: examples: text: When they first attached tailgates to cars, we were hooked. By the 1970s, wagons with names like Vista Cruiser and Town & Country sported tailgates as big as dining tables.
ref: 2007, Stephen Linn, The Ultimate Tailgater's Racing Guide, →ISBN:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
synonyms: tailboard
glosses: A hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle that can be lowered for loading and unloading.
glosses: The hinged rear door of a hatchback.
glosses: Either of the downstream gates in a canal lock.
examples: text: The website was created by Harry St. John, a former college athlete who wanted to take the agony out of managing tailgates.
ref: 2013 November 8, Nancy M. Better, “Tailgating Gets Online Playbooks”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Ellipsis of tailgate party.
topics: business
mining
coordinate_terms: maingate
glosses: A tunnel for drawing spent air away from the working face of a mine.
Coordinate terms: gatecrash
midgate
Derived terms: tailgate party