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Roman numerals: for example the word "six" in the clue might be used to indicate the letters VI; The name of a chemical element may be used to signify its symbol; e.g., W for tungsten; The days of the week; e.g., TH for Thursday; Country codes; e.g., "Switzerland" can indicate the letters CH; ICAO spelling alphabet: where Mike signifies M and ...
20 imperial fluid ounces (about 568 ml, 19.2 US fl oz or 6 ⁄ 5 US pt), pint of beer, lager or cider ("Pour us a pint") 16 US fluid ounces (about 473 ml, 16.65 imp fl oz or 5 ⁄ 6 imp pt) piss (on the piss) drinking heavily, going out for the purpose of drinking heavily (to piss off) to go away urine (usu. vulgar) urinate (usu. vulgar)
(vulgar, moderately offensive) go away; get lost solicitor lawyer, legal representative (US: attorney) spacker, spacky, spazmo (vulgar, offensive to many) idiot, general term of abuse: from "Spastic", referring in England almost exclusively (when not used as an insult) to a person suffering from cerebral palsy.
vagina (vulgar slang) ("Singin' 'hey diddle diddle' with your kitty in the middle" – Aerosmith, Walk this Way) knickers women's underwear (US: panties) knickerbockers: knob The penis, or specifically the glans (slang, vulgar) a rounded door handle fool, idiot, dim-witted person knock over to tip over something to cause an object to fall over.
According to Us Weekly, a palace source says the Queen finds the word “pregnant” to be a “vulgar” word. Here are 8 more words you will never hear anyone in the royal family say.
An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...
Crosswordese is the group of words frequently found in US crossword puzzles but seldom found in everyday conversation. The words are usually short, three to five letters, with letter combinations which crossword constructors find useful in the creation of crossword puzzles, such as words that start or end with vowels (or both), abbreviations consisting entirely of consonants, unusual ...
name of the last letter of the English alphabet (UK: zed) [842] zilch nothing, zero [843] zinger a witty, often caustic remark; something supposed to cause surprise or shock ZIP code (for Zone Improvement Plan) the postal code used by the United States Postal Service composed of 5 digits as in 90210, sometimes a suffix of 4 digits after a hyphen is