v
(transitive) To blow-dry (hair) with the use of a brush, to make it wavy.
n
A brief workout for a racehorse.
n
A swim, usually a short swim to refresh.
n
One who, or that which, dips (immerses something, or itself, into a liquid).
n
(nautical) Alternative form of dipsey [(nautical, slang, attributive) Deep sea.]
n
(physics, uncountable) Resistance of a fluid to something moving through it.
n
(dialect) A person or animal that is suffering or has suffered drowning.
n
Someone who dies by drowning.
n
A series of conditions that can lead to a person being drowned: lack of education (about water safety or local conditions), lack of safety advice, lack of protection (such as a flotation device), lack of supervision, and inability to cope (e.g. a weak swimmer in strong currents).
n
The act or process of briefly submerging or immersing an object or person in a liquid, as in dunking a cookie in milk, or dunking a playmate in the swimming pool.
v
(intransitive) To arrive without warning, but not suddenly.
n
A combined feeling of light-headedness and dizziness, as if floating.
n
(informal, US) The act of almost completely submerging oneself in water to resemble an alligator
n
A swimming pool that produces a visual effect of water extending to the horizon or vanishing into a lake, bay, etc.
v
(chiefly dialectal) To leap, jump, exert oneself, play.
n
The practice of swimming while wearing an artificial mermaid tail.
n
Immersion of the entire body in water by plunging.
n
A pool that is small in diameter, but deep, usually resulting from erosion by a natural force such as a waterfall or rapids.
n
Synonym of polar bear plunge
v
To sink one's legs deep into snow while walking.
adj
Following immersion in water (with the danger of drowning)
n
(nautical, surfing) An unexpected, dangerously large wave.
n
The act of swimming naked.
n
Alternative form of skinny dip [The act of swimming naked.]
v
Alternative spelling of skinny-dip
n
(New York City) A slide (object onto which children climb and down which they slide).
n
The movement of matter by a current.
v
(idiomatic) To operate among dangerous people.
adv
So as to be possible to swim.
v
(of a ship, boat, or other watercraft) To slowly fill with water, as due to a leak or being washed by high waves; to begin to sink.
v
As a person or animal, to go into a body of water and start swimming.
v
(chiefly water sports) To dunk into the sea or another body of water
n
A hazardous patch of ice that bends under a person's weight.
v
(intransitive) To be moved, or to pass, on a buoyant medium; to float.
n
(show jumping, athletics) A (usually rectangular) pool of water intended to be an obstacle to be jumped.
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