n
(colloquial, now chiefly attributive) Anything large or successful.
v
(intransitive) To scurry.
v
(transitive, UK, regional) To strike; to beat.
v
(slang) To hit, especially on the head.
n
An act or movement such as a quick dipping motion designed to evade, confuse, or distract an opponent or competitor.
v
(snooker) To fortuitously pot a ball in an unintended way.
v
(intransitive, of an infection, especially pneumonia) To progress rapidly through the body.
n
(US, slang) An inexperienced skier.
v
(Australia, New Zealand) To act loutishly; specifically, to drive excessively quickly, loudly or irresponsibly.
n
A fast movement in literal or figurative sense.
v
(US) To make a sudden, rapid movement
v
(Yorkshire) To jerk a limb or tilt the head.
adj
(informal) Exhibiting or characteristic of a rash or automatic response.
adj
Alternative spelling of knock-kneed [(of the legs) having the knees abnormally close together, and the ankles spread apart]
n
Alternative spelling of knuckle dragger [(idiomatic, often derogatory) A large, strong, and rather dimwitted person.]
v
To move quickly up and down; to bob up and down, like a cork on rough water.
v
(intransitive) To run away hastily; scram.
v
(intransitive) To move hastily, to scurry.
v
(intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.
v
(transitive) To move or pass (something) over a surface quickly so that it touches only at intervals; to skip, to skite.
v
(archaic) To move like a lash; to lash.
n
The act by which something is thumbed.
adj
Alternative spelling of toes up. [(idiomatic, slang, of a person) dead, killed]
v
(US, dialect) To draw or drag, as a deer or other animal after it has been killed.
v
Alternative spelling of waffle-stomp (“to hike while wearing waffle stompers, to beat decisively”) [(intransitive) To hike while wearing waffle stompers.]
v
(intransitive) To hike while wearing waffle stompers.
v
(transitive) To wrap up temporarily.
n
(US, idiomatic) The path slaves took to deliver food from the kitchen building of a plantation to the main dining room. Stories claim that slaves were expected to whistle during this walk in order to assure their masters that they were not eating the food.
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