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(slang) A verbal argument.
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Alternative form of backchat [(Britain) Cheeky or impertinent responses, especially to criticism.]
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A person who says nasty things about another person behind the second person's back: that is, out of their sight and hearing.
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(Britain) Cheeky or impertinent responses, especially to criticism.
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(transitive) To respond to in an aggressively disputatious, often sarcastic or insolent manner.
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(Caribbean, Jamaica) To disparage something, or to speak maliciously about someone.
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(intransitive) To engage in banter or playful conversation.
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(idiomatic, Ireland) To tell wonderful stories, or something which is amazing and remarkable.
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(transitive) To use abusive language towards.
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(uncountable) Gossip; prattle.
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(chiefly computing and engineering jargon) A problem that needs fixing.
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Alternative spelling of buzzword [(derogatory) A word drawn from, or imitative of, technical jargon, used more to impress others than to convey meaning.]
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A phrase drawn from or imitative of technical jargon, and often rendered meaningless and fashionable through abuse by non-technical persons in a seeming show of familiarity with the subject.
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(slang, vulgar, Britain) To untruthfully speak of another in a belittling, deprecative, slighting manner, either in person or in absentia.
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(chiefly US, colloquial) To use cursing, to use bad language, to speak profanely.
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(dated, euphemistic) A stand-in for a censored word, like "Devil" or "damn". (Compare deuce.)
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(idiomatic, informal) To tell salacious gossip.
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(slang) A song or hip-hop track, frequently as part of a hip-hop feud, primarily intended to verbally assault or insult a person or a group of people.
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A song, especially a hip hop or rap recording intended to disparage or attack another person or group.
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(idiomatic) To feel energetic or frisky; to behave in a vigorous or bold manner.
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A poetic contest of insults or invective.
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(transitive) To expose (someone) to ridicule or scorn.
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Alternative spelling of jibe [(transitive) To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride, to mock, to taunt.]
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To speak to someone rudely or without respect.
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Speech that attacks or disparages a person or group of persons on the basis of origin, race, nationality, ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or disability.
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One who undergoes hazing.
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Disclosing private information in a hostile manner.
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(intransitive) To make small talk or idle chatter.
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Alternative form of kinkshame [To mock, shame, or condemn someone for their sexual preferences or interests and fetishes.]
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To mock, shame, or condemn someone for their sexual preferences or interests and fetishes.
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(Jamaica, dialect) Gossip, rumor, chatty speaking.
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(uncountable) backchat or rudeness
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(slang, uncountable) Backtalk; verbal impertinence.
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(idiomatic) Promising but empty talk; words absent of real action or intention.
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Synonym of lip service (“promising but empty talk; words absent of real action or intention”)
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(informal) Characteristic of conversations held in locker rooms; that is boastful, juvenile, or explicitly sexual.
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(slang) A type of boastful, lurid, chauvinistic conversation that commonly takes place in all-male locker rooms, especially such conversation concerning sexual conquests and the like.
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Alternative form of locker room talk [(slang) A type of boastful, lurid, chauvinistic conversation that commonly takes place in all-male locker rooms, especially such conversation concerning sexual conquests and the like.]
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Synonym of make light of
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(idiomatic, transitive) To mock; to ridicule or imitate, often to express contempt.
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(derogatory or humorous) Communication by men viewed as crude, terse, evasive, or emotionally inept.
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A tirade of abusive language.
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(figuratively) Willfully abusive, even slanderous remarks or claims, notably between political opponents.
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(Caribbean) to mock, to make fun of
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(idiomatic) An insult or barbed comment issued as the speaker departs or the conversation comes to an end.
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An insult or phrase of the type that is traditionally used by children against one another; a childish verbal attack.
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By analogy, insulting or hurtful words carelessly or randomly said; opportunistic attack, especially criticism.
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(rhetoric) A speech that attempts to insult, degrade, or otherwise attack something.
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(at first especially in the black LGBT community) To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way.
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(transitive) to criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of
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(obsolete) To make ridiculous; to ridicule.
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Alternative form of rumortrage [(finance, colloquial) An increase in trading activity prompted by rumors of a takeover.]
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To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
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(US) Backtalk, cheek, sarcasm.
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(by extension) A speech or piece of writing which contains angry and extended criticism.
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Alternative form of shit-stirrer [(slang) One who enjoys creating trouble for others by provoking controversy, for example by revealing facts that others would prefer to keep secret.]
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(rude, vulgar) Untruthfully speaking deprecatively or offensively about another person, especially behind that person's back, but also in the person's presence.
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(uncountable) language considered acceptable in a single-sex workplace (typically a workshop), but not in mixed or polite company.
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(slang, offensive, derogatory) To tell a misleading story, especially for advantage.
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(slang, transitive, sometimes with "off") To talk badly about; to malign or denigrate (someone).
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(transitive, colloquial) To speak badly of; to criticize forcefully.
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(Internet) A collection of humorous videos intended to poke fun at a certain group of people, such as a community or nation
n
(slang) Insulting speech, especially when intended to irritate or annoy someone.
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Alternative form of smack talk [(slang) Insulting speech, especially when intended to irritate or annoy someone.]
n
(informal) an accident; cropper
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(historical) One who hawked the broadsides containing the dying speeches of persons executed.
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(dated, derogatory) Speech seen as vulgar and improper, especially that associated with uneducated and low-class people; slang.
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(by extension, neologism, transitive) To speak obliquely about (a person).
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(uncountable, not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.
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(idiomatic) To reply impertinently or rudely; to answer in a cheeky or rude manner.
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(slang, vulgar) To untruthfully speak of another in a belittling, deprecative, slighting manner, either in person or in absentia.
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(slang, vulgar, Britain) To talk badly about something.
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(slang) To untruthfully speak of another in a belittling, deprecative, slighting manner, either in person or in absentia.
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(derogatory) An organization or other group that is all talk and no action.
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The act of one who taunts.
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(slang) One who rages or raves with violence; a boisterous person.
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(African-American Vernacular) To disparage or belittle.
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Alternative form of trash-talk [(US) To insult a rival in a disparaging way.]
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(US) To insult a rival in a disparaging way.
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Alternative form of trash-talk [(US) To insult a rival in a disparaging way.]
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(rare) Alternative spelling of tsuris [(US, colloquial) Problems or troubles.]
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(idiomatic) A method of persuasion in which damaging rumors or innuendo are deliberately spread concerning a person or other target, while the source of the rumors tries to avoid detection.
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The action of a whistleblower.
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(idiomatic) An abusive, vulgar, nasty, or otherwise objectionable manner of speaking.
adj
(informal, computing, especially Usenet) Suffering from intermittent bugs.
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A raucous public demonstration designed to embarrass a public figure or celebrity as a form of political activism.
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