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(UK, obsolete, slang) A good turn to repay another.
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(archaic, British slang, chiefly London) A shop selling cheap and low-quality clothes, especially in the East End of London.
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Alternative form of Abraham man [(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant, historical) A mentally ill beggar.]
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Alternative form of Abraham man [(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant, historical) A mentally ill beggar.]
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(slang, archaic, rare) A parson.
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Alternative form of autem gogler [(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A religious- or spiritual-based con artist or scam operator.]
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(Internet slang) An administrator or moderator who behaves badly.
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(African-American Vernacular, slang) One who has swag and lives an extravagant lifestyle.
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Something that promises much but delivers nothing; an illusion.
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(figuratively, colloquial) Great skill in any field.
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A political decoy; a person employed to impersonate a politician, in order to draw attention away from the real person or to take risks on their behalf.
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(Britain, military, slang) A stretcher-bearer.
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Alternative spelling of body snatcher [(slang, humorous, derogatory, obsolete) One who makes arrests, such as a bailiff or policeman.]
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Alternative spelling of body snatcher [(slang, humorous, derogatory, obsolete) One who makes arrests, such as a bailiff or policeman.]
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The lifestyle of a brigand.
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A person who is intentionally physically or emotionally cruel to others, especially to those whom they perceive as being vulnerable or of less power or privilege.
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Alternative form of carny [(informal, countable) A person who works in a carnival (often one who uses exaggerated showmanship or fraud).]
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The practices of a carpetbagger
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A car for clowns, especially the car of a circus train that carries the clowns.
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(intransitive) To use a condom for protection in sexual intercourse.
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One who attends an event without an invitation.
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Obsolete form of dalliance. [Playful flirtation; amorous play.]
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the act of performing as a pantomime dame
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An anonymous informant; a Deep Throat.
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(US, slang) The deal; that which is current, relevant, or taking place.
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A person who is the mere tool of another; a man of straw.
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(medicine) A form of medical fraud in which the patient is encouraged to refer or bring along family members who have no particular reason to come but will provide the practitioner with more work.
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(obsolete) Alternative form of fardel (a bundle or burden) [A fourth part: a quarter of anything.]
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Alternative form of fibbie [(slang) An FBI agent.]
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A slick salesman or spin doctor.
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Someone who flattens, purposely or accidently. Also flattener.
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(Scotland, historical) A licensed beggar.
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The disruption by law enforcement of organized crime.
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Someone who participates in gangstalking.
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The stalking of an individual by a large number of people who coordinate their separate stalking activities.
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(Asian English) The groom or one of his groomsmen when partaking in the gatecrashing ritual of a traditional Chinese wedding.
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Alternative spelling of gate-keepy [(informal) Engaging in, characteristic of, or related to gatekeeping.]
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(dated) One who exhibits gigmanity; a person with petty pride in his or her status.
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(Internet slang, derogatory, far-right) A government agent or informant infiltrating an online political space, with the supposed intention of surveilling violent extremists or provoking entrapment.
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(slang) A gang of criminals who tunnel into vaults in order to steal.
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(obsolete) Title used with the name of one's child's godparent or of a friend.
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A person who grandstands
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Alternative form of gray hat [(idiomatic, fiction) A morally ambiguous character; a antihero]
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(transitive) To remove or conjure away, as if by a harlequin's trick.
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(very rare) One who harms.
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(obsolete) One who heles or covers; hence, a tiler, slater, or thatcher.
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(slang, obsolete) A juggler.
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(India) A person with a criminal record, especially an extensive one.
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A gang of people who physically harass others, often in a coordinated fashion.
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Somebody who sells things in an aggressive or showy manner.
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(figuratively, rhetoric) Third parties used cynically to divert attention away from accusations against oneself.
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(obsolete) An unlicensed or illegitimate trader.
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Alternative spelling of jailbait [(slang) A sexually mature person below, or appearing to be below, the legal age of consent, who is regarded, usually by an adult, as being "temptingly" attractive and/or seductive.]
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A needy, tricky, constant borrower; a confidence trickster.
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(professional wrestling slang) A performer whose primary role is to lose to established talent.
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(obsolete) A female joculator; a female jester, comedian or entertainer.
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Alternative form of jol (“a party”) [(South Africa, slang) A party.]
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(obsolete) A person who performs tricks using sleight of hand, a conjurer, prestidigitator.
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(LGBT, slang, US) To meet with friends without any agenda or goals.
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An unimportant person; a character (especially in fiction) lacking individuality.
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(archaic) A con man who tries to deceive members of the public.
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(obsolete) An illegal exaction.
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A person put in the front of some business, but who is not really responsible.
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(US) police who arrested beggars and homeless people
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(obsolete) A material made in imitation of velvet.
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(slang, obsolete) A petty criminal who follows a female pickpocket.
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(figuratively) the spreading or promotion of a specified thing
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(obsolete, nonce word) A moralizer.
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One who sells dubious medicines.
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(Britain, derogatory) A sensationalist, scandalmongering journalist, one who is not driven by any social principles.
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An actor in a pantomime; one who communicates entirely through gesture and facial expression.
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A pantomime or dumb show.
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A hired mourner at a funeral; an undertaker's assistant.
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(Britain, derogatory) A sex offender, especially one who is guilty of sexual offences against children.
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(figuratively) A fake-news disseminator; A conspiracy-theory propagator.
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The act of one who peddles.
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(figuratively) A person of low rank or importance.
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(slang, criminology) The act of an individual, a phrog, secretly living in another person's home without authorization.
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The process of modifying a vehicle (usually a car), predominantly focusing on its appearance and audiovisual system as opposed to performance.
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One who traffics in appointments to places.
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(African-American Vernacular, slang) A player (someone who plays the field, or has prowess in gaining romantic and sexual relationships).
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A person at the mercy of fate.
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(obsolete) An extortioner.
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Gang violence between people who live in different postcode areas.
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(figuratively) Someone who is manipulative and thus able to get people to do what they want or events to develop in the way they want, respectively, in a puppet-like manner.
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(fiction, science fiction) An unimportant character introduced only to be killed in order to underscore the peril to the important characters; an expendable character.
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One who attends revels; a partygoer.
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A quack doctor, a fraud.
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Alternative form of schemey [Scheming; cunning; devious.]
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(informal, derogatory) A social gathering organised so that people working in the non-profit charity sector can get together.
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(derogatory) To promote or endorse in return for payment, especially dishonestly.
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Alternative form of siserary [(obsolete) A severe rebuke or scolding.]
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Alternative spelling of slayer [a killer; a murderer; someone who slays]
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(Ireland, derogatory) With regard to physical force Irish republicanism: someone who sympathises with it without actively supporting it; someone whose opposition to it is equivocal or less than wholehearted.
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(Australia) Agitator, inciter; hawk (sense 2), warmonger
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(UK politics, informal) A government adviser, often in a political or media role.
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A wooer; one who courts.
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(business, politics) A person employed to gloss over a poor public image (or present it in a better light) in business and politics, especially after unfavourable results have been achieved. A lobbyist; PR person.
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(Britain, dated) A flashy con artist, often homeless, who lives by his wits.
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Being spied upon by security or intelligence services.
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(obsolete) A patsy, a pawn, someone used under some false pretext to forward another's (usu. sinister) designs; a stalking horse.
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Alternative spelling of stalkerazzi [(derogatory) Paparazzi who violate their targets' privacy in the manner of stalkers.]
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One who is stalked; the victim of a stalker.
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(informal) Of, pertaining to, or resembling a stalker.
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The act of going stealthily.
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(informal) An honest and straightforward man of good character
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Anything of small value.
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(psychology) A confederate; a person who is secretly working for the researcher, unknown to the study participant.
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(obsolete, slang) To sell straws on the streets in order to cover the giving to the purchaser of things usually banned, such as pornography.
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The third party who makes a straw purchase for another person.
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(US) A person who makes political contributions provided by an anonymous third party
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A purchase made secretly on behalf of someone else.
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A person who makes a straw purchase.
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(slang, obsolete) A professional false witness hired by an unscrupulous attorney. Such a man would frequent the vicinity of a courthouse and show his intention and availability by a straw sticking from one of his shoes.
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Alternative spelling of straw man [To falsely attribute an insubstantial argument (a straw man argument) to another through direct declaration or indirect implication; to put words in someone's mouth.]
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A person’s nickname, such as a gangster or mafia name.
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In films, someone who performs stunts that are deemed too dangerous or physically difficult for the main actors to attempt.
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(informal) A male with exceptional sexual talents and stamina.
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a poor person who advocates against social welfare programs because they believe they will become rich in the future.
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One who thigs or solicits subsistence from others; a beggar.
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(informal, derogatory) A form of lowest-common-denominator entertainment designed to appeal to the masses and dissuade people from thinking.
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Something to play with, especially as intended for use by a child.
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A jester dressed entirely in red.
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(slang) A sex act, chiefly one performed for payment; an act of prostitution.
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(slang) An individual who turns tricks; a prostitute.
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(mythology, literature) Any of numerous figures featuring in various mythologies and folk traditions, who use guile and secret knowledge to challenge authority and play tricks and pranks on others; any similar figure in literature.
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(by extension) A subversive person or device placed within the ranks of the enemy.
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Alternative form of tutoy [(transitive) To address by the informal French pronoun tu (“you”).]
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(Internet slang) A wage slave.
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(British spelling) Alternative spelling of whodunit [A novel or drama concerning a crime (usually a murder) in which a detective follows clues to determine the perpetrator.]
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(entertainment) To perform bawdy, profane or pornographic material.
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(idiomatic) A group of people thought to have a negative influence on a person's behaviour; a bad crowd.
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