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Aggravation, in law, is "any circumstance attending the commission of a crime or tort which increases its guilt or enormity or adds to its injurious consequences, but which is above and beyond the essential constituents of the crime or tort itself".
Low-life (plural: low-lifes) (or lowlife) is a term for a person who is of low social status due to their low moral character.Examples of people typically referred to as low-life include bullies, criminals, drug dealers, freeloaders, bums, drunkards, gangsters, sex offenders, pimps, aggressive panhandlers, scammers, and thieves.
more than half of all votes, people, etc. (UK: absolute majority) make out to draw up, to seek to make it appear, to fabricate a story to see with difficulty; to understand the meaning of to kiss (see Making out) to succeed or profit ("She made out well on that deal.") * marinara sauce: sauce containing seafood, usu. in a tomato base
6. Hoosegow. Used to describe: Jail or prison Coming from the Spanish word "juzgado" which means court of justice, hoosegow was a term used around the turn of the last century to describe a place ...
One by one, everyone’s files were being encrypted right in front of them. At this point I started panicking and called my senior dev who rushed in from his day off. Then, the ultimate happened.
A hoard is a store or accumulation of things. A horde is a large group of people. Standard: A horde of shoppers lined up to be the first to buy the new gizmo. Standard: He has a hoard of discontinued rare cards. Non-standard: Do not horde the candy, share it. Non-standard: The hoard charged when the horns sounded.
One post from 2017, which is one of the most top-rated posts, states that it’s “biker terminology,” which makes sense. But we’ll get into the history and usage of the word more in a bit.
The study examined people waiting in line and concluded that the 2nd person was more aggressive than the 12th one when someone cut in line (Harris 1974). Unexpected frustration may be another factor. In a separate study to demonstrate how unexpected frustration leads to increased aggression, Kulik & Brown (1979) selected a group of students as ...