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office boy collapse: a young man who is employed to do odd jobs in a business office

closet collapse: a small private room for study or prayer; confine to a small space, as for intensive work

toggle collapse: a fastener consisting of a peg or pin or crosspiece that is inserted into an eye at the end of a rope or a chain or a cable in order to fasten it to something (as another rope or chain or cable); any instruction that works first one way and then the other; it turns something on the first time it is used and then turns it off the next time; release by a toggle switch; "toggle a bomb from an airplane"; fasten with, or as if with, a toggle; provide with a toggle or toggles

nominate collapse: propose as a candidate for some honor; put forward; nominate for appointment to an office; "The President nominated her as head of the Civil Rights Commission"

joining collapse: the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication); "the joining of hands around the table"; "there was a connection via the internet"

mortise collapse: a square hole made to receive a tenon and so to form a joint; cut a hole for a tenon in

miter collapse: a liturgical headdress worn by bishops on formal occasions; the surface of a beveled end of a piece where a miter joint is made; "he covered the miter with glue before making the joint"; fit together in a miter joint; bevel the edges of, to make a miter joint; confer a miter on (a bishop)

coupling collapse: the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring"; a mechanical device that serves to connect the ends of adjacent objects

unseat collapse: dislodge from one's seat, as from a horse; remove from political office; "The Republicans are trying to unseat the liberal Democrat"

pension off collapse: let go from employment with an attractive pension; "The director was pensioned off when he got senile"

knuckle collapse: a joint of a finger when the fist is closed; shoot a marble while keeping one's knuckles on the ground; press or rub with the knuckles

hip collapse: either side of the body below the waist and above the thigh; the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum; the fruit of a rose plant

firearm collapse: a portable gun; "he wore his firearm in a shoulder holster"

revolver collapse: a pistol with a revolving cylinder (usually having six chambers for bullets)

musket collapse: a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymen

knee collapse: the part of a trouser leg that provides the cloth covering for the knee; hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella

closure collapse: termination of operations; "they regretted the closure of the day care center"; a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive incomplete objects as complete and to close or fill gaps and to perceive asymmetric stimuli as symmetric; a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body; terminate debate by calling for a vote; "debate was closured"; "cloture the discussion"

heraldry collapse: emblem indicating the right of a person to bear arms; the study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogies

disbar collapse: remove from the bar; expel from the practice of law by official action; "The corrupt lawyer was disbarred"

superannuate collapse: retire or become ineligible because of old age or infirmity; become obsolete; declare to be obsolete; retire and pension (someone) because of age or physical inability

interface collapse: (chemistry) a surface forming a common boundary between two things (two objects or liquids or chemical phases); (computer science) computer circuit consisting of the hardware and associated circuitry that links one device with another (especially a computer and a hard disk drive or other peripherals); the overlap where two theories or phenomena affect each other or have links with each other; "the interface between chemistry and biology"; (computer science) a program that controls a display for the user (usually on a computer monitor) and that allows the user to interact with the system

shotgun collapse: firearm that is a double-barreled smoothbore shoulder weapon for firing shot at short ranges

scarf collapse: a garment worn around the head or neck or shoulders for warmth or decoration; wrap in or adorn with a scarf; unite by a scarf joint; masturbate while strangling oneself

livery collapse: the care (feeding and stabling) of horses for pay; uniform worn by some menservants and chauffeurs

mandarin collapse: the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China; a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China; a high public official of imperial China; any high government official or bureaucrat; a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group; shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia

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