Concept cluster: Actions > Rough or aggressive action
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(UK dialectal) A band of harvesters.
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One who bulldozes.
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One who attacks violently and/or mindlessly.
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(UK, Scotland, dialect) To carry, as a burden.
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One who chalks.
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(logging, obsolete) Someone who follows logs out of the forest in order to signal a yarder engineer to stop them if they become fouled (also called a frogger).
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(transitive) Obsolete spelling of chouse (“to cheat, to swindle”) [(obsolete, transitive) To cheat, to trick.]
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(UK) To cut the sheep's mark off (wool), to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty.
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One who, or that which, clobbers.
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One who, or that which, clogs.
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Alternative form of cratedigger [(slang) A person who habitually looks through crates of vinyl records at music shops, especially in pursuit of rare or interesting albums.]
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(slang) A person who habitually looks through crates of vinyl records at music shops, especially in pursuit of rare or interesting albums.
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(regional, Ireland, Scotland) an incursion for plunder, raid, forray
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Alternative form of creach [(regional, Ireland, Scotland) an incursion for plunder, raid, forray]
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Alternative spelling of cutthroat [A murderer who slits the throats of victims.]
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(Scotland and Northern England, archaic) A blow, a heavy thump.
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A ditcher.
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One who digs ditches.
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(US) A person who performs eefing.
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One who excises, especially one who performs female genital cutting.
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(UK, dialect) A remnant; an odd piece left over.
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(obsolete) a piece
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(intransitive, UK dialectal) To hang loosely; flag.
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One who or that which flays.
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A person who uses a garrote.
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someone who garrottes
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One who digs gault clay.
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One who gesticulates.
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Alternative form of gong scourer [(obsolete) One who dug out and removed human excrement from privies and cesspits.]
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(Southeastern US) One who harvests food (such as tubers or peanuts) by digging it up with the hands.
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(US, slang, derogatory) A student who engages in grade grubbing; someone seeking to improve their grades by sucking up or by trying to negotiate for any additional marks.
adj
(US, slang, derogatory) Engaging in grade grubbing.
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To scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food.
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(transitive) To cut out the balls of the feet of (dogs) so as to render them unfit for hunting.
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(dialect, UK and Newfoundland) An odd job; a piece of casual work.
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(Ireland) To scrounge, to grub.
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The act or process by which something is jammed.
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One who kitbashes.
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One who knaps.
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A person or thing that lacerates.
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One who lances something.
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One who wraps or folds.
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One who whips or lashes.
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One who uses a lasso.
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(rare) One who uses a lasso.
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One who mops
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(informal) One who grabs or snatches.
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To obtain (an opal) by searching through mullock.
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(Ireland, slang) Alternative form of peeler (policeman). [(Britain, Ireland, Australia, slang) A police officer.]
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One who, or that which, planishes.
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One who plucks.
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(dated) Any worn-out or useless article.
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A skyscraper made (at least partly) of wood; a mass timber building.
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(Scotland) To prick; to goad; to progue.
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Alternative form of pumpkin head [(idiomatic, US, prison slang) A severe head injury resulting from a beating.]
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(Scotland) raid
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To scavenge.
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(intransitive, Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) Of animals (especially sheep): to graze.
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(obsolete, Scotland) A sword.
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A person who, or thing that, rasps or scrapes.
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(Northern England, Scotland) Alternative form of rit [(Northern England, Scotland) A scratch, a score or a groove.]
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(US, slang) One who roots for, or applauds, something.
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One who rough-hews.
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(transitive, UK, Australia, New Zealand, informal) To beg (for), to cadge or bum.
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One who scales.
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One who scalps, or removes the scalp of another.
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A warrior who collects the scalps of vanquished enemies.
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One who skimps or does slipshod work.
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One who scampers.
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One who shapes by grinding.
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One who scarifies.
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(archaic) To clean the rubbish from a street, etc.
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(gerund) The act of searching through refuse for useful material.
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(science fiction, slang) A scavenger; one who looks for discarded objects.
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(chiefly Jewish) to scrounge, sponge, cadge
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One who cuts with scissors.
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(US, dialect) The oldsquaw.
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(Oxford University slang) An act of sconcing; very similar to a fine at Cambridge University, though a sconce is the act of issuing a penalty rather than the penalty itself.
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One who or that which scopes.
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(obsolete) barter
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Alternative form of scauper [A tool with a semicircular edge, used by engravers to clear away the spaces between the lines of an engraving.]
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(obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To barter or exchange.
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Obsolete form of scorse. [(obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To barter or exchange.]
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One who scotches.
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Alternative spelling of Scouser [(Liverpudlian, colloquial) A Liverpudlian.]
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Alternative form of scug [(Northern England, Scotland, transitive) To shelter; to protect.]
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(obsolete) A rover or footpad; a prowling robber.
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One who, or that which, scourges.
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Obsolete spelling of scour [The removal of sediment caused by swiftly moving water.]
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Obsolete form of scourer (“a robber”). [A tool used to scour, usually used to clean cookware.]
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One who scrabbles.
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A person who scrapbooks.
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One who scrapes horns.
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A person who fights doggedly, who exhibits indomitable will.
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(slang) A counterfeiter.
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One who scrawls; a hasty, awkward writer.
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One who screeves, or draws with chalks on a pavement or sidewalk.
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One who scribbles; a hasty or untalented writer or artist.
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(slang, Bay Area African-American Vernacular and Chicano) Money
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(obsolete) A fencing master, fencer.
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One who scrimmages.
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One who scrimps.
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(countable) Someone who scrimshaws.
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(UK, military, slang) A shirker; one who scrimshanks.
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Someone who scrounges; a scrounger.
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(obsolete) A scroll.
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(rugby) One who scrummages; usually used in reference to the qualities of front row forwards.
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One who scrumps.
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(obsolete) A scullion; a servant who does the cleaning, etc.
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Alternative form of scuddler [(obsolete) A scullion; a servant who does the cleaning, etc.]
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One who scuffs the feet.
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One who scuffles.
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One who scutches.
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To void thin excrement.
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One who scutters.
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(historical) A member of a local youth gang in working-class areas of Manchester, Salford, and surrounding townships during the late 19th century.
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Alternative form of scuddick [(obsolete) Something of little or no importance; a whit or jot.]
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One who scythes.
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(US, slang, dated) An exorbitant discount on a note.
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(agriculture, rare) Synonym of stooker.
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A person who takes shortcuts.
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(obsolete) To scale; to mount
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One who, or that which, skewers.
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Alternative form of scrimmager [One who scrimmages.]
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Alternative form of scrimshander [(countable) Someone who scrimshaws.]
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One who slashes.
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Synonym of slasher movie
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A person who or thing that slits.
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One who cuts material into slivers.
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(UK, dialect, obsolete) To plunder.
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(transitive, informal) To devour greedily.
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(figuratively) A problem or difficulty with something.
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(transitive, figuratively) To ensnare.
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(Australia, New Zealand) To snatch.
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(UK, dialect) To sneak.
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(obsolete) To sniff out.
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(transitive, usually followed by "down") To eat quickly or voraciously
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(rare) The participant in a snuff film who is killed.
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(transitive) To mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait.
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(obsolete, transitive) To pounce upon.
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(homeless slang) To search garbage for food.
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Obsolete form of spulzie. [(Scotland) To plunder.]
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One who, or that which, stabs.
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(transitive) To direct a group of animals.
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One who stomps.
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One who strews something.
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(agriculture) To milk (a cow or other animal); especially, to squeeze the teat of (a cow, etc.) to extract the last bit of milk from the udder; to strap (dialectal), to strip.
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One who or that which strops.
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One who swaddles.
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Someone who swats.
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(transitive, chiefly Scotland) To beat with a tawse.
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One who thrashes.
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A person who occupies the threshold between places or statuses.
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A tasty morsel (of food).
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One who tramples.
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(dated) One who or that which trims, or rebukes or reproves; a scold.
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(obsolete) A truffle.
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(transitive, originally Polari, UK and Australia, slang) To tweak, finesse or improve (something); to make more appealing or exciting. Usually with up.

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