n
(slang) Someone who works or studies seemingly way too much.
n
(idiomatic) A much more pressing issue to attend to.
v
(UK dialect, Black Country) to break
n
Alternative spelling of brush-off [An abrupt rebuff, a snub or curt rejection, a disdainful dismissal.]
v
(slang, transitive) To assassinate; to bump off.
n
Alternative spelling of bumpoff. [(chiefly US, slang) A murder.]
v
(UK, Australia, transitive, informal) To put or throw something without care; to chuck.
v
(obsolete, slang) To use up, as by bruising or overexertion; to exhaust or incapacitate for action.
v
(US, informal, transitive) To physically damage or ruin
n
Alternative form of chip off the old block [(idiomatic) Someone who takes after one of his or her parents.]
v
(transitive, Britain) To sneak up on or rapidly approach.
n
One who performs badly at an important part of a competition because they are nervous, especially when winning.
v
(transitive, US, regional) To cause undesirable activity in livestock, such as running.
v
(slang, transitive) to give up, to quit
v
(transitive, slang, chiefly Southern US) To throw.
n
(informal) A union-busting tactic where a business focuses on hiring new workers who are not unionists, so that the influence of the union will gradually decrease as its supporters leave.
n
A person who dashes; a fast runner.
v
(transitive) To knee someone in the thigh.
n
(US, colloquial, dated) A plodding and laborious student.
n
(slang, dated, Ireland, Liverpudlian) a severe criticism, scolding, reprimand, or punishment
adj
(figuratively) Alternative form of hanged, drawn and quartered [(informal, euphemistic) damned (as an intensifier or vehement denial)]
v
(slang) To be very good; to rule; to rock.
n
(obsolete, Scotland) A device for wedging items into a tight space.
v
(UK) To rummage, in order to search for something; to dig amongst articles or move things aside in order to try and find something.
v
(transitive) To carry away or about; carry; move.
v
(idiomatic) To try to gain something by taking advantage of a confused or troubled situation.
v
(espionage, slang) To subject to a lie detector test.
v
(obsolete) To tread underfoot; to trample.
adv
(colloquial) With great energy or speed; very well. (Frequently with go.)
v
(Scotland) To get what one deserves. [18th–19th c.]
v
(archaic) To jerk, yerk.
v
(informal) To consume something quickly.
v
(archaic, transitive) To seize or grasp.
n
The act by which something is grubbed, or dug up.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To mutilate; hamstring; cut away.
v
To brusquely force something into a space; to cram, to squeeze.
v
(obsolete) To seize with the teeth; to gnaw.
v
To do a relaxing activity.
v
(transitive, slang) To hit or strike (a person).
v
To help oneself liberally to food at table.
v
(informal, Britain) To thrash
n
(UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, military slang, radio voice procedure) An incident that is not a drill or training exercise; an emergency. Also end of exercise. Stop drill immediately. As a ‘tap out’ called by during physical training. Sim munitions training in Australian Swat ‘end ex’.
v
(intransitive, Australia, New Zealand, slang) Often followed by on or out: to quit or back out of a promise.
v
(idiomatic, vulgar) To work on a time-consuming and ultimately pointless or impossible task; to try to perfect what is inherently bad.
v
(intransitive) To move silently, stealthily, or furtively.
n
(nautical, by extension, slang, uncountable) Sleep.
v
(US regional, slang) To dress up.
v
(transitive) To lure from another; to entice away from.
v
(transitive) To strike (something) hard, especially with an implement.
v
(New Zealand, slang, transitive) To provoke or hurry (someone) into doing something.
v
(regional, rare, obsolete) To tear, rip, rend.
v
(idiomatic) To do something extremely quickly and perfunctorily.
v
(UK, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, transitive) To stretch; stretch out.
v
(chiefly Canada, idiomatic, transitive) To list or recite quickly.
v
(transitive, UK dialectal) To tend to a certain effect or outcome.
v
(transitive) To launch or unleash in rapid succession.
v
Archaic spelling of rove. [(obsolete, intransitive) To shoot with arrows (at).]
v
(obsolete, intransitive) To wander; to roam.
adj
decisively beaten or defeated
v
(dated) To move or pass with difficulty.
v
(transitive) To search something thoroughly and with disregard for the way in which things were arranged.
v
(US) To eat something quickly.
v
(Britain, slang) To run away; to flee; to escape.
v
(intransitive, US, slang, often imperative, dated) To leave; to go away; to scram.
v
(euphemistic) To kill, usually a horse.
v
(dialectal) To avoid; baffle, outwit, shirk.
v
To move in a stealthy or furtive way; to come or go while trying to avoid detection.
v
(idiomatic) To have one's corpse disposed of in a body of water.
n
(nonstandard, see usage notes) A sliver.
v
(transitive) In the game of pool or snooker to pocket a ball by accident; in billiards, to make an ill-considered shot.
v
(informal, followed by the preposition to) To blow away, to impress (someone).
v
(intransitive, Scotland and Northern England) To bounce, rebound or ricochet.
v
(idiomatic, aviation, slang) To switch off the transponder (“a radar or radio transceiver that transmits some signal in response to receiving a predetermined signal”) of an aircraft, for example, because it is interfering with the radar system.
v
To labour; to exert an effort.
n
A sudden act of seizing.
v
(intransitive, slang, Britain) To study with effort or determination (object of study indicated by "up on").
v
To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
v
(figuratively) To trouble; oppress.
v
(Cockney rhyming slang) To sack; to fire from a job.
v
(archaic) To bruise up, completely beat or batter; crush; to make numb.
v
(transitive) To crush something by walking on it.
v
(US) To beat soundly in a game.
v
To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue.
v
(intransitive) To walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp, to trudge.
v
(transitive) To form a mass of earth or a hillock around.
v
Alternative form of vroom [(informal) To move with great speed; to zoom.]
v
(informal) To move with great speed; to zoom.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To box (somebody) on the ear; to strike on the ear.
v
Synonym of winkle out (“to acquire or extract with difficulty”)
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