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boy collapse: (ethnic slur) offensive and disparaging term for Black man; "get out of my way, boy"; a friendly informal reference to a grown man; "he likes to play golf with the boys"

gook collapse: a disparaging term for an Asian person (especially for North Vietnamese soldiers in the Vietnam War)

airy collapse: having little or no perceptible weight; so light as to resemble air; "airy gauze curtains"; not practical or realizable; speculative; "airy theories about socioeconomic improvement"; "visionary schemes for getting rich"

compact collapse: a small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse; a small and economical car; closely and firmly united or packed together; "compact soil"; "compact clusters of flowers"; having component parts closely crowded together; "a compact shopping center"; "a dense population"; "thick crowds"; "a thick forest"; "thick hair"; heavy and compact in form or stature; "a wrestler of compact build"; "he was tall and heavyset"; "stocky legs"; "a thick middle-aged man"; "a thickset young man"; have the property of being packable or of compacting easily; "This powder compacts easily"; "Such odd-shaped items do not pack well"

yellow jacket collapse: small yellow-marked social wasp commonly nesting in the ground

bottleneck collapse: the narrow part of a bottle near the top; become narrow, like a bottleneck; "Right by the bridge, the road bottlenecks"; slow down or impede by creating an obstruction; "His laziness has bottlenecked our efforts to reform the system"

slight collapse: almost no or (with `a') at least some; very little; "there's slight chance that it will work"; "there's a slight chance it will work"; pay no attention to, disrespect; "She cold-shouldered her ex-fiance"

delicate collapse: exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury; "a delicate violin passage"; "delicate china"; "a delicate flavor"; "the delicate wing of a butterfly"; easily broken or damaged or destroyed; "a kite too delicate to fly safely"; "fragile porcelain plates"; "fragile old bones"; "a frail craft"; difficult to handle; requiring great tact; "delicate negotiations with the big powers";"hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter"; "a touchy subject"; of an instrument or device; capable of registering minute differences or changes precisely; "almost undetectable with even the most delicate instruments"; marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique; "a surgeon's delicate touch"; easily hurt; "soft hands"; "a baby's delicate skin"

worker collapse: sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages for food and cares for the larvae; a person who works at a specific occupation; "he is a good worker"

condensation collapse: (psychoanalysis) an unconscious process whereby two ideas or images combine into a single symbol; especially in dreams; a shortened version of a written work; atmospheric moisture that has condensed because of cold; the process of changing from a gaseous to a liquid or solid state

strangulation collapse: (pathology) constriction of a body part so as to cut off the flow of blood or other fluid; "strangulation of the intestine"; the condition of having respiration stopped by compression of the air passage

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"

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