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flea collapse: any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap

macaroni collapse: pasta in the form of slender tubes; a British dandy in the 18th century who affected Continental mannerisms; "Yankee Doodle stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni"

pathetic collapse: inspiring scornful pity; "how silly an ardent and unsuccessful wooer can be especially if he is getting on in years"- Dashiell Hammett; inspiring mixed contempt and pity; "their efforts were pathetic"; "pitiable lack of character"; "pitiful exhibition of cowardice"

frail collapse: a basket for holding dried fruit (especially raisins or figs); the weight of a frail (basket) full of raisins or figs; between 50 and 75 pounds; physically weak; "an invalid's frail body"

cabbage collapse: any of various types of cabbage; any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers

stingy collapse: unwilling to spend; "she practices economy without being stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds"

jacks collapse: a game in which jackstones are thrown and picked up in various groups between bounces of a small rubber ball

pinwheel collapse: a toy consisting of vanes of colored paper or plastic that is pinned to a stick and spins when it is pointed into the wind; a wheel that has numerous pins that are set at right angles to its rim; "he spun the pinwheel and it stopped with the pointer on `Go'"; perennial subshrub of Tenerife having leaves in rosettes resembling pinwheels

strangler collapse: an epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling the tree

pedestal collapse: an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue); a position of great esteem (and supposed superiority); "they put him on a pedestal"

jester collapse: a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the middle ages

gutter collapse: a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater; a tool for gutting fish; a worker who guts things (fish or buildings or cars etc.); misfortune resulting in lost effort or money; "his career was in the gutter"; "all that work went down the sewer"; "pensions are in the toilet"; provide with gutters; "gutter the buildings"; wear or cut gutters into; "The heavy rain guttered the soil"; flow in small streams; "Tears guttered down her face"; burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker; "The cooling lava continued to gutter toward lower ground"

lengthen collapse: become long or longer; "In Spring, the days lengthen"; make longer; "Lengthen this skirt, please"

pedicel collapse: a small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence; an ultimate division of a common peduncle

hoist collapse: lifting device for raising heavy or cumbersome objects; raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car"; raise; "hoist the flags"; "hoist a sail"; move from one place to another by lifting; "They hoisted the patient onto the operating table"

hawk collapse: diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail; an advocate of an aggressive policy on foreign relations; hunt with hawks; "the tribes like to hawk in the desert"

get off collapse: escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action; "She gets away with murder!"; "I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities"; cause to be acquitted; get off the hook; in a legal case; "The lawyer got him off, even though there was no doubt in everybody's mind that he killed his wife"; deliver verbally; "He got off the best line I've heard in a long time"; leave a vehicle, aircraft, etc.; enjoy in a sexual way; "He gets off on shoes"; be relieved of one's duties temporarily

nominal collapse: existing in name only; "the nominal (or titular) head of his party"; insignificantly small; a matter of form only (`tokenish' is informal); "the fee was nominal"; "a token gesture of resistance"; "a toknenish gesture"; being value in terms of specification on currency or stock certificates rather than purchasing power; "nominal or face value"; pertaining to a noun or to a word group that functions as a noun; "nominal phrase"; "noun phrase"; relating to or constituting or bearing or giving a name; "the Russian system of nominal brevity"; "a nominal lists of priests"; "taxable males as revealed by the nominal rolls"

tinny collapse: thin and metallic in sound; lacking resonance; "an unpleasant tinny voice"; of or containing tin

lame duck collapse: an elected official still in office but not slated to continue

parlay collapse: a series of wagers in which the winnings from one wager are used as a stake for the subsequent wagers; stake winnings from one bet on a subsequent wager

jenny collapse: United States architect who designed the first skyscraper in which a metal skeleton was used (1832-1907)

derrick collapse: a simple crane having lifting tackle slung from a boom; a framework erected over an oil well to allow drill tubes to be raised and lowered

wholesale collapse: the selling of goods to merchants; usually in large quantities for resale to consumers; selling or related to selling goods in large quantities for resale to the consumer; "wholesale prices"; "a wholesale produce market"; on a large scale without careful discrimination; "I buy food wholesale"; at a wholesale price; "I can sell it to you wholesale"; sell in large quantities

deride collapse: treat or speak of with contempt; "He derided his student's attempt to solve the biggest problem in mathematics"

sneer collapse: a facial expression of contempt or scorn; the upper lip curls; a contemptuous or scornful remark; smile contemptuously; "she sneered at her little sister's efforts to play the song on the piano"; express through a scornful smile; "she sneered her contempt"

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