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esquire collapse: a title of respect for a member of the English gentry ranking just below a knight; placed after the name; (Middle Ages) an attendant and shield bearer to a knight; a candidate for knighthood

sexist collapse: discriminatory on the basis of sex (usually said of men's attitude toward women)

continually collapse: seemingly without interruption; "complained continually that there wasn't enough money"

terror collapse: a very troublesome child; a person who inspires fear or dread; "he was the terror of the neighborhood"

hyena collapse: doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion

thespian collapse: of or relating to drama; "the movie director had thespian cooperation"

spade collapse: a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot; a playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it; "she led a low spade"; "spades were trumps"; dig (up) with a spade; "I spade compost into the flower beds"

Sherlock Holmes collapse: a fictitious detective in stories by A. Conan Doyle

daredevil collapse: a reckless impetuous irresponsible person; presumptuously daring; "a daredevil test pilot having the right stuff"

interminably collapse: all the time; seemingly without stopping; "a theological student with whom I argued interminably"; "her nagging went on endlessly"

prohibition collapse: the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof); "they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter"; "a medical inhibition of alcoholic beverages"; "he ignored his parents' forbiddance"; a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages; "in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US"; a decree that prohibits something; refusal to approve or assent to; the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment

zero collapse: the quantity that registers a reading of zero on a scale; a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number; indicating the absence of any or all units under consideration; "a zero score"; indicating an initial point or origin; of or relating to the null set (a set with no members); adjust (as by firing under test conditions) the zero of (a gun); "He zeroed in his rifle at 200 yards"; adjust (an instrument or device) to zero value

director collapse: someone who controls resources and expenditures; someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show; member of a board of directors

shell collapse: the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc; ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun; the housing or outer covering of something; "the clock has a walnut case"; a very light narrow racing boat; a rigid covering that envelops an object; "the satellite is covered with a smooth shell of ice"; the exterior covering of a bird's egg; the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts; the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals; remove from its shell or outer covering; "shell the legumes"; "shell mussels"; look for and collect shells by the seashore; hit the pitches of hard and regularly; "He shelled the pitcher for eight runs in the first inning"; fall out of the pod or husk; "The corn shelled"

modern collapse: a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes; a contemporary person; characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture; used of a living language; being the current stage in its development; "Modern English"; "New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew"; belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages; "modern art"; "modern furniture"; "modern history"; "totem poles are modern rather than prehistoric"

nothing collapse: a nonexistent thing; a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it"; in no way; to no degree; "he looks nothing like his father"

bourgeois collapse: a member of the middle class; belonging to the middle class; conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality"; (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class

valiant collapse: having or showing valor; "a valiant attempt to prevent the hijack"; "a valiant soldier"

roundsman collapse: a workman employed to make rounds (to deliver goods or make inspections or so on)

mercenary collapse: a person hired to fight for another country than their own

packing collapse: carrying something in a pack on the back; "the backpacking of oxygen is essential for astronauts"; the enclosure of something in a package or box

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