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  2. Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States

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    (vulgar) someone who regularly gets heavily drunk (cf. BrE meaning of pissed). pissing it down [with rain] (slang, mildly vulgar) raining hard (sometimes "pissing down" is used in the US, as in "It's pissing down out there.") Also "pissing it down the drain" or "pissing it away" * meaning to waste something. pitch playing field [139] plain flour

  3. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    to hit someone or something hard ("say that again and I'll twat you!" (pronounced /ˈtwæt/) vulva (vulgar) (pronounced /ˈtwɒt/) A vulgar or derogatory term for a woman. [87] twister something that twists; see also Twister (game) a tornado: tyke someone from Yorkshire (informal, sometimes disparaging)

  4. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    For example, in Turkish, kara and siyah both mean 'black', the former being a native Turkish word, and the latter being a borrowing from Persian. In Ottoman Turkish, there were often three synonyms: water can be su (Turkish), âb (Persian), or mâ (Arabic): "such a triad of synonyms exists in Ottoman for every meaning, without exception". As ...

  5. Skiptrace - Wikipedia

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    Other terms include to skip trace, or debtor and fugitive recovery. [2] A skip tracer is someone who performs this task, which may be the person's primary occupation. The term skip (as a noun) refers to the person being searched for, and is derived from the idiomatic expression "to skip town", meaning to depart (perhaps in a rush or perhaps hoping to elude creditors or law enforcement).

  6. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  7. 86 (term) - Wikipedia

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    Beyond this context, it is generally used with the meaning to 'get rid of' someone or something. [7] The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the term as to "refuse to serve (a customer)", or to "get rid of" or "throw out" someone or something. [8] The Oxford English Dictionary says it may be used as a noun or verb. [2]

  8. List of English-language expressions related to death

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    Fading away [1] To be weakening and close to death Neutral Also to be 'fading fast' Fall off one's perch [9] To die Informal Fall off the toilet: To die, often in an untimely or unexpected manner Informal Food for worms [2] Someone who is dead Slang Also 'worm food' Fratricide Murder among siblings Formal Free one's horses To die Neutral Game ...

  9. Google Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Google Dictionary is an online dictionary service of Google that can be accessed with the "define" operator and other similar phrases [note 1] in Google Search. [2] It is also available in Google Translate and as a Google Chrome extension. The dictionary content is licensed from Oxford University Press's Oxford Languages. [3]