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▸ noun: An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.
▸ noun: (in driving a vehicle) An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it.
▸ noun: (golf) A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
▸ noun: (billiards) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
▸ noun: (historical) A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
▸ noun: Chance.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
▸ noun: (tennis) The side of the court into which the ball is served.
▸ noun: (programming) A problem with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction cannot execute in the following clock cycle, potentially leading to incorrect results.
▸ verb: To expose to chance; to take a risk.
▸ verb: To risk (something); to venture, incur, or bring on.
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ noun: A home rule city, the county seat of Perry County, Kentucky, United States.
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moral,
potential,
occupational,
serious,
great,
major,
environmental,
hap,
significant,
possible,
particular
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