v
(transitive) to attack someone (especially verbally) unfairly in a deceitful, underhand, or treacherous manner, especially when they're not present in the place or situation that it happens. (as if stabbing them in the back). See backbite.
v
(transitive) To make a duke.
v
(transitive, UK dialectal, obsolete) To cheat; befool.
v
(transitive, idiomatic) To enter illegally or by force, especially in order to commit a crime.
v
(US, Britain, slang) To obtain something by wit or guile; to convince people to do something they might not normally do.
n
An intense period of study, sometimes all night before a critical exam.
n
A student who studies hard for an examination.
n
(historical, derogatory) Initialism of Committee to Re-elect the President, which raised money for Richard Nixon's campaign for 1972 reelection.
v
(Canada, US, informal) To double-cross; to betray.
n
(obsolete) One who crossbites; a deceiver; a cheat.
n
(archaic) A feat of escapism in which a person frees themselves from ropes tied around them.
n
The act of dodging; a dodge.
n
(idiomatic) Something easily acquired or stolen.
v
(intransitive, dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To make attempt.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To make a feint, or mock attack.
v
(transitive, slang) To obtain something from someone through trickery or manipulation.
n
(idiomatic, derogatory) A person or business that appears and/or disappears rapidly, appearing untrustworthy, or giving an impression of transience.
v
(Britain, Australia) To trump or preempt; to reap the benefit underhandedly from a situation that someone else has worked to create.
adj
(idiomatic, often derogatory, of a scheme) Claiming to provide large profits quickly, with no realistic chance of success, in order to lure gullible investment victims.
n
An instance of accomplishing a tricky idea or overcoming a difficult obstacle.
n
Tedious digging or (figuratively) research.
adj
Alternative form of jacked up [Hoisted, lifted off the ground, or propped up using a jack.]
v
(transitive) To cast off capriciously or unfeelingly, as a lover; to deceive in love.
n
(slang) A checking or restraining element. Only used in put the kibosh on and put on the kibosh.
v
(informal, intransitive) To engage in an activity whose only purpose is to make the time seem to pass more quickly; to fill the time between activities.
v
To be in an unknown place.
v
To waste somebody's time in an elaborately circuitous manner.
v
(intransitive, UK, dialectal, obsolete) To work hard.
v
To remain concealed in order to ambush.
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(intransitive) To sneak.
v
(intransitive, provincial, Northern England, Scotland) To try, attempt; take aim.
v
(intransitive, informal) To study intensely.
v
(transitive, figuratively) To restrain (from speaking, expressing opinion or acting); to gag; to silence; to censor.
v
To sneak; to creep or sidle.
v
(idiomatic) To sell or dispose of (something) with the intent to deceive; to attempt to pass off a counterfeit or inferior product as genuine.
n
(idiomatic) A job, task or other activity that is pleasant – or, by extension, easy or simple.
v
To search for something, especially in an unorganized way
n
One who quarrels or is disposed to do so. An arguer or disputer.
n
Alternative form of rake-off [A percentage of an amount of money taken by a third-party as a bribe, as part of an unlawful enterprise, or as a commission from the pot of a casino game.]
v
(obsolete, intransitive) To revel.
n
One who sidetracks something.
n
The act of moving in a stealthy or furtive way.
n
One who sneaks; one who moves stealthily to acquire an item or information.
v
To take (something) in covertly, to smuggle.
v
To approach a person or animal without being seen or heard
n
The situation where gases carrying dust bypass the active electrode system of an electrostatic precipitator.
n
Alternative form of sneak thief [A thief who steals without being noticed and without using violence.]
n
(obsolete) Quarreler, wrangler.
v
(transitive) To approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer.
v
(idiomatic) To look quickly at someone or something, hoping that nobody notices the action.
v
To kiss someone secretly or discreetly.
v
(idiomatic) To captivate someone; to mesmerize someone.
n
The act of one who strafes.
n
(slang) A lie; an overstretching of the truth.
n
(slang) A difficult situation.
v
(intransitive) To rampage or riot.
v
(transitive) To tease, to annoy; to get under the skin of (someone, typically so as to irritate them, or by extension to enamor, frighten, etc).
n
(informal, business or military slang, US) A wild-assed guess; a rough estimate.
v
(idiomatic, politics) To divert negative political attention by use of a military operation.
v
(intransitive) To achieve through contrivance or cajolery.
n
The act by which somebody is waylaid; an ambush.
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