(nautical) Backward against the mast; said of the sails when pressed by the wind from the "wrong" (forward) side, or of a ship when its sails are set that way.
By surprise; startled; dumbfounded. (see usage)
noun
(obsolete) An abacus.
ackee
ackee
noun
A tropical evergreen tree, Blighia sapida, related to the lychee and longan.
The fruit of the tree, of which only the arils are edible, the remainder being poisonous.
acker
acker
noun
(regional, now rare) A visible current in a lake or river; a ripple on the surface of water.
Obsolete form of acre.
ackey
ackey
noun
A silver coin once used in the Gold Coast (in Africa)
acock
acock
adv
In a cocked or turned-up fashion.
defiantly
alack
alack
intj
An expression of sorrow or mourning.
aleck
aleck
Proper noun
A diminutive of the male given name Alexander.
alick
amick
amuck
amuck
adv
Alternative form of amok
anack
arick
arock
avick
backs
backs
noun
(Cambridge University, with "the") The backyard of the University.
plural of back
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of back
backy
backy
noun
Alternative spelling of baccy
becka
black
black
adj
(Ireland, informal) Overcrowded.
(Ireland, now derogatory) Protestant, often with the implication of being militantly pro-British or anti-Catholic. (Compare blackmouth ("Presbyterian").)
(US) Belonging to or descended from any of various sub-Saharan African ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin.
(board games, chess) Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set (in chess the set used by the player who moves second) (often regardless of the pieces' actual colour).
(card games, of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red (“of the hearts or diamonds suit”)
(chiefly historical) Designated for use by those ethnic groups (as described above).
(of a place, etc) Without light.
(of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
(of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
(of objects, markets, etc) Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
(politics) Anarchist; of or pertaining to anarchism.
(politics) Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
(sometimes capitalized) Belonging to or descended from any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes below.)
(typography) Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white (“said of a character or symbol outline, not filled with color”).
Bad; evil; ill-omened.
Clandestine; relating to a political, military, or espionage operation or site, the existence or details of which is withheld from the general public.
Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.
Foul; dirty, soiled.
Having one or more features (hair, fur, armour, clothes, bark, etc) that is dark (or black); in taxonomy, especially: dark in comparison to another species with the same base name.
Occult; relating to something (such as mystical or magical knowledge) which is unknown to or kept secret from the general public.
noun
(Britain, countable) A type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
(US, slang) Marijuana.
(baseball, countable) The edge of home plate.
(billiards, snooker, pool, countable) The black ball.
(countable and uncountable) A black dye or pigment.
(countable and uncountable) The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.
(countable) A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
(countable) Something, or a part of a thing, which is black.
(in chess and similar games, countable) The person playing with the black set of pieces.
(in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
(informal) Blackness, the condition of belonging to or being descended from one of these ethnic groups.
(informal, countable) Blackcurrant syrup (in mixed drinks, e.g. snakebite and black, cider and black).
(obsolete, countable) A stain; a spot.
(sometimes capitalised, countable, often offensive) A member of descendant of any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes.)
A dark smut fungus, harmful to wheat.
verb
(Britain, transitive) To boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute.
(transitive) To apply blacking to (something).
(transitive) To make black; to blacken.
brack
brack
noun
(obsolete) Salty or brackish water.
A flaw in cloth.
An opening caused by the parting of a solid body; a crack or breach.
Barmbrack.
cacak
cacka
cacks
cacks
noun
(Bristol) Underpants
(Ireland) Trousers
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cack
caked
caked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cake
caker
caker
noun
One who forms something into a cake.
cakes
cakes
noun
plural of cake
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cake
cakey
cakey
adj
Alternative spelling of caky
cakra
cakra
noun
Alternative form of chakra
calks
calks
noun
plural of calk
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calk
camak
capek
carks
carks
noun
plural of cark
casks
casks
noun
plural of cask
casky
caulk
caulk
noun
A composition of vehicle and pigment used at ambient temperatures for filling/sealing joints or junctures, that remains elastic for an extended period of time after application.
Alternative form of calk (“pointed projection on a horseshoe”)
Caulking.
verb
(nautical) To drive oakum into the seams of a ship's wooden deck or hull to make it watertight.
(slang) To copulate.
To apply caulking to joints, cracks, or a juncture of different materials.
cawky
cawky
adj
Resembling or relating to cawk.
celka
chack
chack
noun
A snack or light hasty meal.
verb
(ice-skating) To not broadcast a medal-winning or otherwise memorable or crucial figure skating performance. This only occurs in a live broadcast because the network has to decide which programs to show and which to cut in the interest of time. If a skater is low in the rankings and several big names are set to skate later, that performance may be cut.
Of birds: to make a sudden harsh call.
To toss up the head frequently, as a horse to avoid the restraint of the bridle.
chaka
chalk
chalk
noun
(US, military, countable) A platoon-sized group of airborne soldiers.
(US, sports, chiefly basketball) The prediction that there will be no upsets, and the favored competitor will win.
(US, sports, chiefly basketball, horseracing) The favorite in a sporting event.
(countable) A piece of chalk, or nowadays processed compressed gypsum (calcium sulfate, CaSO4), that is used for drawing and for writing on a blackboard (chalkboard).
(uncountable) A soft, white, powdery limestone (calcium carbonate, CaCO3).
(uncountable, climbing, gymnastics) A white powdery substance used to prevent hands slipping from holds when climbing, or losing grip in weight-lifting or gymnastics, sometimes but not always limestone-chalk, often magnesium carbonate (MgCO3).
Tailor's chalk.
verb
(figuratively) To record a score or event, as if on a chalkboard.
To apply chalk to anything, such as the tip of a billiard cue.
To make white, as if with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.
To manure (land) with chalk.
To record something, as on a blackboard, using chalk.
To use powdered chalk to mark the lines on a playing field.
chank
chank
noun
(India) The large spiral shell of several species of sea conch, much used in making bangles, especially Turbinella pyrum.
verb
(US) To eat noisily; to champ or chomp.
chark
chark
noun
(US, Alaska) A wine glass.
A Middle Eastern falcon, probably the lanner.
A pointed stick, which when placed with the point against another piece of wood, and spun rapidly in alternate directions with the aid of attached cords, produces enough heat by friction to create a fire; a fire drill.
Charcoal; coke.
verb
(Scotland) To make a grating sound.
To reduce by strong heat, as to produce charcoal or coke; to calcine.
chauk
chawk
cheka
choak
choak
verb
Obsolete form of choke.
chyak
cilka
clack
clack
noun
(colloquial) The tongue.
An abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects colliding repetitively; a sound midway between a click and a clunk.
Anything that causes a clacking noise, such as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.
Chatter; prattle.
verb
(UK) To cut the sheep's mark off (wool), to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty.
(intransitive) To make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
(transitive) To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
Dated form of cluck.
To chatter or babble; to utter rapidly without consideration.
claik
claik
noun
(Scotland) Gossip; a gossip.
(Scotland) The cry of a goose, or other bird.
verb
(Scotland) To honk or cry like a goose.
clake
clake
noun
Alternative form of claik (the barnacle goose)
clank
clank
noun
A loud, hard sound of metal hitting metal.
verb
(intransitive) To make a clanking sound
(transitive) To cause to sound with a clank.
clark
clark
Proper noun
definition (see
definition
a city in South Dakota, USA, and county seat of Clark County.
clawk
cloak
cloak
noun
(Internet) A text replacement for an IRC user's hostname or IP address, making the user less identifiable.
(figurative) That which conceals; a disguise or pretext.
A blanket-like covering, often metaphorical.
A long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood.
verb
(science fiction, transitive, intransitive) To render or become invisible via futuristic technology.
(transitive) To cover as with a cloak.
(transitive, figurative) To cover up, hide or conceal.
crack
crack
adj
Excellent, first-rate, superior, top-notch.
Highly trained and competent.
noun
(Cumbria, elsewhere throughout the North of the UK) a meaningful chat.
(Internet slang) Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
(Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous storytelling; good company.
(archaic) A crazy or crack-brained person.
(archaic) A mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity.
(computing) A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
(figurative, humorous) Something good-tasting or habit-forming.
(hydrodynamics, US, dated) An expanding circle of white water surrounding the site of a large explosion at shallow depth, marking the progress of the shock wave through the air above the water.
(informal) An attempt at something.
(informal) The space between the buttocks.
(obsolete) A boast; boasting.
(obsolete) A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
(obsolete) Breach of chastity.
(obsolete) One who excels; the best.
(onomatopoeia) Any sharp sound.
(onomatopoeia) The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.
(slang) Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.
(slang, dated, UK) A brief time; an instant; a jiffy.
(vulgar, slang) Vagina.
A narrow opening.
A sharp, resounding blow.
A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
verb
(archaic, colloquial) To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
(colloquial) To barely reach, attain to (a measurement, extent).
(intransitive) To become debilitated by psychological pressure.
(intransitive) To break apart under force, stress, or pressure.
(intransitive) To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.
(intransitive) To form cracks.
(intransitive) To make a cracking sound.
(intransitive) To make a sharply humorous comment.
(intransitive, of a pubescent boy's voice) To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.
(intransitive, of a voice) To change rapidly in register.
(obsolete) To brag; to boast.
(transitive) To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.
(transitive) To cause to make a sharp sound.
(transitive) To make a crack or cracks in.
(transitive) To open slightly.
(transitive) To overcome a security system or component.
(transitive) To tell (a joke).
(transitive, chemistry) To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.
(transitive, computing) To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
(transitive, figurative) To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure.
(transitive, figurative) To solve a difficult problem.
(transitive, informal) To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.
craik
craik
noun
(Scotland) Alternative form of crake
(Scotland, Ireland) Misspelling of craic.
crake
crake
noun
(obsolete) A crack; a boast.
Any of several birds of the family Rallidae that have short bills.
verb
(obsolete) To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.
To cry out harshly and loudly, like a crake.
crank
crank
adj
(nautical, of a ship) Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.
(slang) Strange, weird, odd.
Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
Sick; unwell.
noun
(US, slang) Synonym of methamphetamine.
(archaic) Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.
(archaic, baseball, slang, 1800s) A baseball fan.
(informal) An advocate of a pseudoscience movement.
(informal) An ill-tempered or nasty person.
(informal, Britain, dated in US) A person who is considered strange or odd by others. They may behave in unconventional ways.
(obsolete) A sick person; an invalid.
(rare) A twist or turn in speech; word play consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation to a wheel or other mechanical device; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion.
A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim;
Clipping of crankshaft.
The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.
a fit of temper or passion.
verb
(intransitive) To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining.
(intransitive) To be running at a high level of output or effort.
(intransitive) To turn a crank.
(intransitive, dated) To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.
(intransitive, of a crank or similar) To turn.
(transitive) To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.
(transitive) To turn by means of a crank.
creak
creak
noun
The sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking.
verb
(intransitive) To make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances.
(intransitive, figurative) To suffer from strain or old age.
(transitive) To produce a creaking sound with.
croak
croak
noun
A faint, harsh sound made in the throat.
The call of a frog or toad. (see also ribbit)
The harsh call of various birds, such as the raven or corncrake, or other creatures.
verb
(intransitive) To make a croak.
(intransitive, of a frog, toad, raven, or various other birds or animals) To make its sound.
(slang) To die.
(transitive) To utter in a low, hoarse voice.
(transitive, slang) To kill someone or something.
To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.
dacko
facks
facks
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fack
flack
flack
noun
(Canada, US) A publicist, a publicity agent.
Alternative spelling of flak.
verb
(Canada, US) To publicise, to promote.
(intransitive, UK dialectal) To hang loosely; flag.
(intransitive, obsolete) To flutter; palpitate.
(transitive, UK dialectal) To beat by flapping.
frack
frack
adj
Alternative form of freck
verb
(oil industry) To employ hydraulic fracturing (fracking).
glack
hacek
hacks
hacks
noun
plural of hack
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hack
hacky
hacky
adj
(Tyneside) Filthy or totally dirty.
(colloquial) Short and interrupted, broken, jerky; hacking.
(comedy, informal) Hackneyed (lacking significance through having been overused; unoriginal and trite)
(computing, informal) Using, or characterised by, hacks: poorly designed workarounds.
(games) A children's game involving picking up objects; knucklebones; jackstones.
(poker slang) A pair of jacks.
(slang, now chiefly Ireland) Alternative form of jakes: an outhouse or lavatory.
plural of jack
jacky
jacky
noun
(UK, dialect, archaic) English gin.
(slang, derogatory) A sailor.
kacey
kacha
kacha
adj
Alternative form of kutcha
kacie
kacie
Proper noun
name, a fanciful variant of
karch
kauch
keach
kiack
kiack
noun
(Canada) Alosa pseudoharengus, a species of small freshwater fish, also known as the alewife.
A temple for practitioners of Buddhism within Burma.
kicva
knack
knack
noun
A petty contrivance; a toy.
A readiness in performance; aptness at doing something.
Something performed, or to be done, requiring aptness and dexterity.
verb
(obsolete, UK, dialect) To crack; to make a sharp, abrupt noise; to chink.
To speak affectedly.
kyack
kyack
noun
A packsack to be swung on either side of a packsaddle.
Obsolete spelling of kayak
lacks
lacks
noun
plural of lack
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lack
macks
macks
noun
plural of mack
mckay
nyack
packs
packs
noun
plural of pack
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pack
plack
plack
noun
(Scotland, Northern England, historical) A coin issued by James III of Scotland; also a 15th-16th century Scottish coin worth four Scots pennies.
(obsolete) A coin used in the Netherlands in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Misspelling of plaque.
pucka
pucka
adj
Alternative form of pukka.
quack
quack
adj
Falsely presented as having medicinal powers.
noun
(derogatory) A fraudulent healer, especially a bombastic peddler in worthless treatments, a doctor who makes false diagnoses for monetary benefit, or an untrained or poorly trained doctor who uses fraudulent credentials to attract patients
(figuratively, derogatory) Any similar charlatan or incompetent professional.
(humorous slang, mildly derogatory) Any doctor.
The sound made by a duck.
verb
(intransitive) Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
(obsolete) To make vain and loud pretensions.
To make a noise like a duck.
To practice or commit quackery (fraudulent medicine).
racks
racks
noun
(metonymically) publication, distribution (of a magazine)
plural of rack
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of rack
sacks
sacks
noun
plural of sack
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sack
sakdc
shack
shack
noun
(Nigeria, slang) A drink, especially an alcoholic one.
(UK, US, dialect, obsolete) A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
(fishing) Bait that can be picked up at sea.
(obsolete) Freedom to pasturage in order to feed upon shack.
(obsolete) Grain fallen to the ground and left after harvest.
(obsolete) Nuts which have fallen to the ground.
(slang) The room from which a ham radio operator transmits.
A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.
Any poorly constructed or poorly furnished building.
verb
(Nigeria, slang) To drink, especially alcohol.
(UK, dialect) To wander as a vagabond or tramp.
(US, intransitive) To hibernate; to go into winter quarters.
(obsolete) To feed in stubble, or upon waste.
(obsolete) To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.
To live (in or with); to shack up.
slack
slack
adj
(linguistics) Lax.
(normally said of a rope) Lax; not tense; not firmly extended.
(slang, Caribbean, Jamaica) Vulgar; sexually explicit, especially in dancehall music.
Excess; surplus to requirements.
Lacking diligence or care; not earnest or eager.
Moderate in speed.
Moderately warm.
Not active or busy, successful, or violent.
Weak; not holding fast.
adv
Slackly.
noun
(countable) A tidal marsh or shallow that periodically fills and drains.
(countable) A valley, or small, shallow dell.
(mining) Small coal; coal dust.
(rail transport) A temporary speed restriction where track maintenance or engineering work is being carried out at a particular place.
(uncountable) The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it.
(uncountable, psychotherapy) Unconditional listening attention given by client to patient.
verb
(obsolete) To mitigate; to reduce the strength of.
To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake.
To slacken.
smack
smack
adv
As if with a smack or slap; smartly; sharply.
noun
(Northern England) A form of fried potato; a scallop.
A distinct flavor, especially if slight.
A group of jellyfish.
A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.
A sharp blow; a slap. See also: spank.
A slight trace of something; a smattering.
A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade and often called a fishing smack
The sound of a loud kiss.
verb
(especially outside of North America) To strike a child (usually on the buttocks) as a form of discipline. (normal U.S. and Canadian term spank)
(intransitive) To have a particular taste; used with of.
(intransitive) To indicate or suggest something; used with of.
(transitive) To get the flavor of.
To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate.
To make a smacking sound.
To slap or hit someone.
To wetly separate the lips, making a noise, after tasting something or in expectation of a treat.
snack
snack
noun
(obsolete) A share; a part or portion.
(slang) A very sexy and attractive person.
A light meal.
An item of food eaten between meals.
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To bite.
(obsolete, transitive) To share.
(obsolete, transitive) To snatch.
To eat a light meal.
To eat between meals.
spack
spack
noun
(Britain slang, derogatory, offensive) A clumsy, foolish, or mentally deficient person.
stack
stack
noun
(Australia, slang) A fall or crash, a prang.
(UK) A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.
(aviation) A holding pattern, with aircraft circling one above the other as they wait to land.
(bodybuilding) A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits.
(computing, often with "the") A stack data structure stored in main memory that is manipulated during machine language procedure call related instructions.
(figuratively) A large amount of an object.
(geology) A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.
(library) Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.
(mathematics) A generalization of schemes in algebraic geometry and of sheaves.
(military) A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.
(poker) The amount of money a player has on the table.
(programming) A linear data structure in which items inserted are removed in reverse order (the last item inserted is the first one to be removed).
(video games) The quantity of a given item which fills up an inventory slot or bag.
A combination of interdependent, yet individually replaceable, software components or technologies used together on a system.
A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.
A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof.
A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last.
A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)
A smokestack.
A vertical drainpipe.
An extensive collection
An implementation of a protocol suite (set of protocols forming a layered architecture).
verb
(aviation, transitive) To place (aircraft) into a holding pattern.
(gaming) To operate cumulatively.
(informal, intransitive) To collect precious metal in the form of various small objects such as coins and bars.
(printing) To have excessive ink transfer.
(transitive) To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.
(transitive) To deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).
(transitive, US, Australia, slang) To crash; to fall.
(transitive, card games) To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner.
(transitive, poker) To take all the money another player currently has on the table.
swack
swack
adj
(Scotland) Lithe; nimble.
adv
With a swack, to the point of touching.
noun
(slang) A large number or amount of something.
A bum or petty thief.
A gulp or hearty swallow.
A sharp blow.
A single attempt or instance of taking action; a crack; a go.
A striking stimulus.
A wet sound such as a loud kiss.
An attack, a swipe.
The sound of a sharp blow.
clout; influence.
verb
To consume with hearty enjoyment.
To labour; to exert an effort.
To make a swack (sound).
To slap or hit.
tacks
tacks
noun
plural of tack
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tack
tacky
tacky
adj
(colloquial) In poor taste.
(colloquial) Of low quality.
Gaudy or flashy.
Of a substance, slightly sticky.
Shabby, dowdy in one's appearance or dress.
noun
Alternative form of tackey
talck
thack
thack
noun
A stroke; a thwack.
the weatherproof outer layer of a roof, often thatch specifically
verb
(transitive) To strike; thump; thwack.
To cover a roof with thack.
track
track
noun
(automotive) Short for caterpillar track.
(automotive) The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree.
(cricket) The pitch.
(fashion, colloquial) Clipping of trackshoe.
(music) A song or other relatively short piece of music, on a record, separated from others by a short silence.
(railways) The way or rails along which a train moves.
(slang) The street, as a prostitute's place of work.
(uncountable, sports) The racing events of track and field; track and field in general.
A circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors.
A mark left by something that has passed along.
A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or animal.
A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.
A road or other similar beaten path.
A themed set of talks within a conference.
A tract or area, such as of land.
Awareness of something, especially when arising from close monitoring.
Physical course; way.
Sound stored on a record.
The direction and progress of someone or something; path.
The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc.
The physical track on a record.
verb
(computing, transitive or intransitive) To create music using tracker software.
(intransitive) To exhibit good cognitive function.
(intransitive, chiefly of a storm) To move.
(intransitive, colloquial) To make sense; to be consistent with known information
(transitive or intransitive) To create a musical recording (a track).
(transitive or intransitive, of a camera) To travel so that a moving object remains in shot.
(transitive) To discover the location of a person or object by following traces.
(transitive) To follow the tracks of.
(transitive) To make tracks on or to leave in the form of tracks.
(transitive) To match the movement or change of a person or object.
(transitive) To monitor the movement of a person or object.
(transitive) To observe the (measured) state of a person or object over time.
(transitive) To tow.
(transitive) To traverse; to move across.
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wacke
wacke
noun
(geology) A soft, earthy, dark-coloured rock or clay derived from the alteration of basalt.
wacko
wacko
adj
(informal) Amusingly eccentric or irrational.
intj
(Britain, dated) hurrah!
noun
(informal) An amusingly eccentric or irrational person.
wacks
wacks
noun
plural of wack
wacky
wacky
adj
Zany; eccentric.
noun
Alternative form of wacke
whack
whack
adj
Alternative form of wack (“crazy”)
noun
(US, obsolete) A deal, an agreement.
(US, slang) An attempt, a chance, a turn, a go, originally an attempt to beat someone or something.
(dated, disco-era drug slang) PCP, phencyclidine (as also wack).
(obsolete) A whack-up: a division of an amount into separate whacks, a divvying up.
(originally UK cant, somewhat dated) A share, a portion, especially a full share or large portion.
(typography, computing, slang) The backslash, ⟨ \ ⟩.
The sound of a heavy strike.
The strike itself.
The stroke itself, regardless of its successful impact.
verb
(UK, chiefly in the negative) To surpass; to better.
(slang) To kill, bump off.
(sports) To beat convincingly; to thrash.
(transitive, slang) To share or parcel out (often with up).
To hit, slap or strike.
wrack
wrack
noun
(archaic) Remnant from a shipwreck as washed ashore, or the right to claim such items.
(archaic, dialectal or literary) Vengeance; revenge; persecution; punishment; consequence; trouble.
(archaic, except in dialects) Ruin; destruction.
A high flying cloud; a rack.
Any marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed of the family Fucaceae.
The remains; a wreck.
Weeds, vegetation or rubbish floating on a river or pond.
verb
(UK dialectal, transitive) To execute vengeance; avenge.
(UK dialectal, transitive) To worry; tease; torment.
(transitive, usually passive) To wreck, especially a ship.
Alternative form of rack (“to cause to suffer pain, etc.”)
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yacks
yacks
noun
plural of yack
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of yack