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haphazard collapse: marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling"; "sloppy workmanship"; dependent upon or characterized by chance; "a haphazard plan of action"; "his judgment is rather hit-or-miss"; without care; in a slapdash manner; "the Prime Minister was wearing a grey suit and a white shirt with a soft collar, but his neck had become thinner and the collar stood away from it as if it had been bought haphazard"

pawn collapse: borrowing and leaving an article as security for repayment of the loan; (chess) the least powerful piece; moves only forward and captures only to the side; it can be promoted to a more powerful piece if it reaches the 8th rank; an article deposited as security; leave as a guarantee in return for money; "pawn your grandfather's gold watch"

bagatelle collapse: a table game in which short cues are used to knock balls into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties are incurred if the pegs are knocked over; something of little value or significance; a light piece of music for piano

exigency collapse: a pressing or urgent situation; "the health-care exigency"

zap collapse: a sudden event that imparts energy or excitement, usually with a dramatic impact; "they gave it another zap of radiation"; kill with or as if with a burst of gunfire or electric current or as if by shooting; "in this computer game, space travellers are vaporized by aliens"; strike suddenly and with force; "This show zaps the viewers with some shocking scenes"

house of cards collapse: an unstable construction with playing cards; "he built three levels of his cardcastle before it collapsed"; a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control; "his proposal was nothing but a house of cards"; "a real estate bubble"

ghost collapse: a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"; the visible disembodied soul of a dead person; write for someone else; "How many books have you ghostwritten so far?"; move like a ghost; "The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard"

conk collapse: informal term for the nose; hit, especially on the head; "The stranger conked him and he fainted"

whack collapse: the sound made by a sharp swift blow; hit hard; "The teacher whacked the boy"

stint collapse: an individuals prescribed share of work; "her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her"; supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with the allowance"

dollhouse collapse: a small model of a house used as a toy by children; a house so small that it is likened to a child's plaything

duologue collapse: a part of the script in which the speaking roles are limited to two actors

vaccine collapse: immunogen consisting of a suspension of weakened or dead pathogenic cells injected in order to stimulate the production of antibodies

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