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(Nigeria) thug, typically a jobless male youth who threatens tourists
n
(obsolete) The head of a gang of female canters or gypsies.
n
(archaic, Scotland) A victor.
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The practice of procuring women for the gratification of lust.
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The employment or office of a bawd
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(US, military, euphemistic) A supposed comrade whose actions harm his friends, often but not always, for his own benefit.
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(Britain, historical) The practice of children undertaking to do small jobs around the home, originally for a charge of one shilling, traditionally offered by boy scouts during a designated week of the year.
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A self-styled bodyguard or groupie of the nouveau riche (such as a professional athlete or musician)
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A diminutive of body, forming part of the exclamatory phrase "ods bodikin", a corruption of God's body.
n
(1970s Britain slang) One of a gang of violent hooligans who usually wear short-cropped hair and bovver boots.
n
(UK, military, slang, dated) A German person.
v
Alternative form of brozier [(transitive, UK, slang, obsolete) To bankrupt.]
n
One who frequents brothels.
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(intransitive, obsolete) To sell articles such as obscene books in public houses etc.
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A person who changes partners frequently.
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A card advertising the services of a prostitute.
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(rare, dated) A thug; a gangster.
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The use of a child by others for sexual activities in return for remuneration or any other form of consideration.
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(dated) A friend; a pal.
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(Britain) A stereotype of a pompous, ex-military middle-aged man, conservative and opposed to new ideas.
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(US, dated) A sly fellow.
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(idiomatic, derogatory) A person who marries or becomes romantically involved with someone who is much younger, or who employs or otherwise engages a young person for a purpose inappropriate for his or her age.
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(slang) A member of a (Latino) criminal gang. (Sometimes capitalized.)
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A member of The Crips, a violent Los Angeles criminal gang that has an intense and bitter rivalry with the Bloods.
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(chiefly India, Myanmar, Pakistan) A bandit or armed robber, especially former parts of British India.
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(India) goondaism; gang rule; intimidative behavior.
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(informal) An entrepreneur in the business of selling pornography.
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(in India and the Middle East) The harassment of women, especially foreign, or dressed as such, by groups of men.
adj
Abbreviation of Facebook official. [(slang, of a relationship) Existing, as evidenced by a relationship status on Facebook or a similar website.]
n
(dated, idiomatic, British slang) Any large, plentiful source or supplier of money.
adj
(slang, derogatory) Having the characteristics of a FOB (a recent immigrant); not having assimilated into the local culture.
n
(slang) A gangster; often used to address one's friend.
n
Alternative form of gadsman [(historical) A man who uses a gad or goad in driving.]
n
(dated) A fashionable young man who is polite and attentive to women.
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Obsolete form of gallant. [(dated) A fashionable young man who is polite and attentive to women.]
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A human adversary, one that is dangerous and implacable.
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(obsolete) A prostitute; one who is on the game.
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A criminal group with a common cultural background and identifying features, often associated with a particular section of a city.
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(US, slang) Protecting gang turf, especially when dealing drugs or other black market objects.
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Someone regularly participating in the activities of a hoodlum group which is identified as gang.
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(US, slang) A member of a violent gang; a violent person.
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The realm or sphere of criminal gangs.
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A member of the underworld of organized crime.
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(nonce word, nonstandard) A member of a gang.
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The leader of a criminal gang.
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(chiefly India and Africa) A member of a work gang; a laborer, often on railways.
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(slang) A member of an urban criminal or street gang.
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Alternative form of gangsta [(slang) A member of an urban criminal or street gang.]
n
A member of a criminal or street gang.
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A gentleman who is of independent means and so does not need employment; a man who is free from duties and responsibilities; a dilettante.
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(South Asia, colloquial, law) A hired thug.
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(India) Thuggery, goondaism.
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(slang) One who grooms, or attempts to gain the trust of a minor etc. in order to exploit them.
n
Alternative form of goonda [(South Asia, colloquial, law) A hired thug.]
n
(slang) A prospective or fringe member of the motorcycle gang Hells Angels
v
(comics) To be a henchman or henchwoman, usually for a supervillain.
n
A gangster; a hired thug.
n
(obsolete, games) The blindfolded player in the game of hoodman-blind, or blind man's buff.
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A paid male companion offering conversation and in some cases sex, as in certain types of bar in Japan.
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A street thug who is part of a gang of thieves.
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(South Africa) A perpetrator of male gang rape of women (jackrolling).
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A corrupt official; a corrupt public servant.
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(US, military and prison slang) The man who seduces a soldier or inmate's wife or girlfriend during his absence.
n
(US) Joe Average; the typical working man.
n
Alternative form of Joe Sixpack [(slang) The average person.]
n
(US, colloquial) A police-run program in which men arrested for soliciting prostitutes agree to attend lectures from former prostitutes as an alternative to paying a fine or spending time in jail.
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(slang, archaic) A flunkey; a male servant.
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(theater) Synonym of one-night stand (“single evening's performance”)
n
(dated, British India) known depredator: a category of criminal
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(dated) An adult who recruits children to train them as criminals.
n
(LGBT, slang, US) A gathering of friends for the purpose of gossiping and chit-chat.
n
(ironic) An unemployed woman or one who has retired from work.
n
(obsolete) A pickpocket working in groups.
v
Of a woman: to seduce (a younger man).
n
(music, US, slang) Initialism of Original Gangsta; a person associated with the earliest era of gangsta rap.
n
(India, derogatory) A villager; rustic; hick.
n
A person who furthers the illicit love-affairs of others; a pimp or procurer.
n
(obsolete) The work of a pander; pimping.
n
A street gang based in Birmingham, England, that operated from the end of the 19th century until after the First World War. Gang members had a distinctive appearance: close-cropped hair, bell-bottomed trousers, peaked caps, and a white scarf knotted at the throat.
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(historical) A thug (member of band of assassins in India).
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The business generated by providing goods and services to the homosexual community.
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(slang) A recently commissioned officer.
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(obsolete) A procurer; a pimp.
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A criminal in Papua New Guinea, sometimes operating as part of a gang.
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(US, dated, slang) A juvenile criminal gang.
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someone hired to perform possibly illegal and lethal duties resembling thuggery
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(slang, informal, sometimes considered offensive, sometimes derogatory) A fictional character from anime, or related media, who is coded as or has qualities typically associated with a gender other than the character's ostensible gender; dansou.
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A criminal or vigilante with similar social tendencies.
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(India) a person with a criminal record
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(US, slang) jailbait (underage woman considered sexually attractive by adult men)
n
(derogatory, slang) An area in eastern Toronto, Canada, with certain poor neighbourhoods and youth gangs, loosely likened to Harlem in New York.
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(by extension figuratively, often derogatory) Someone who only works for money, in the manner of a mercenary.
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(Jamaica, slang) An armed gangster.
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A white slaver, who sells prostitutes into illegal 'sex slavery'.
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(Singapore, colloquial) One's partner in a romantic relationship.
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An organized group of lower-class criminals; an urban gang.
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Sexual harassment and sexualised intimidation happening in public areas, such as catcalling.
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The trade of a streetwalker; prostitution that is not tied to a particular brothel or establishment.
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Synonym of stable (“group of prostitutes managed by one pimp”)
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Someone who removes their clothing in a sexually provocative manner, especially as a form of paid entertainment.
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(intransitive, slang) To walk the streets as a prostitute.
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(finance) An informal money pooling scheme practised in Africa, the Caribbean, and some immigrant communities.
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The combating of prostitution by criminalizing the buyer, rather than the seller, of sexual services.
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(African-American Vernacular, dated) A male pimp.
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(South Africa) A boorish rustic.
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(African-American Vernacular) One who, usually as a result of social disadvantage, has turned to committing crimes (e.g. selling drugs, robbery, assault, etc.) to make a living; a gangsta.
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(historical, countable) A thug (member of band of assassins in India).
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A member of a criminal tong.
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(UK, slang, archaic) A self-important, vainglorious person.
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Alternative form of troll-my-dames [(archaic) The game of nineholes.]
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(chiefly Britain) A member of an Afro-Caribbean gang who engages in organized crime, especially drug trafficking.
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