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brook collapse: a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river); "the creek dried up every summer"

milestone collapse: stone post at side of a road to show distances; a significant event in your life (or in a project)

go back collapse: belong to an earlier time; "This story dates back 200 years"

strait collapse: a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water; strict and severe; "strait is the gate"

rummage collapse: a jumble of things to be given away; search haphazardly; "We rummaged through the drawers"

snafu collapse: an acronym often used by soldiers in World War II: situation normal all fucked up; cause to be in a state of complete confusion

retrograde collapse: of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma; moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth; going from better to worse; go back over; "retrograde arguments"; move back; "The glacier retrogrades"; move in a direction contrary to the usual one; "retrograding planets"; move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies

circuitous collapse: marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct; "the explanation was circuitous and puzzling"; "a roundabout paragraph"; "hear in a roundabout way that her ex-husband was marrying her best friend"

relapse collapse: go back to bad behavior; "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"

inside collapse: the inner or enclosed surface of something; the region that is inside of something; away from the outer edge; "an inner lane"; "the inside lane"; relating to or being on the side closer to the center or within a defined space; "he reached into his inside jacket pocket"; "inside out"; "an inside pitch is between home plate and the batter"; confined to an exclusive group; "privy to inner knowledge"; "inside information"; "privileged information"; within a building; "in winter we play inside"; on the inside; "inside, the car is a mess"

twirl collapse: turn in a twisting or spinning motion; "The leaves swirled in the autumn wind"

dogleg collapse: a golf hole with a sharp angle in the fairway; angle that resembles the hind leg of a dog

landmark collapse: an anatomical structure used as a point of origin in locating other anatomical structures (as in surgery) or as point from which measurements can be taken; a mark showing the boundary of a piece of land; an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend; "the agreement was a watershed in the history of both nations"; the position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape; "the church steeple provided a convenient landmark"