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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

burg collapse: colloquial American term for a town; "I've lived in this burg all my life"

flute collapse: a high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown; a groove or furrow in cloth etc (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column); a tall narrow wineglass; form flutes in

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

gaggle collapse: a flock of geese; make a noise characteristic of a goose; "Cackling geese"

whoosh collapse: gush or squirt out; "Oil whooshed up when the drill hit the well"

ever collapse: at any time; "did you ever smoke?"; "the best con man of all time"; (intensifier for adjectives) very; "she was ever so friendly"

bell collapse: a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck; the flared opening of a tubular device; the sound of a bell being struck; "saved by the bell"; "she heard the distant toll of church bells"; United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922); English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961); a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905); the shape of a bell; (nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.; attach a bell to; "bell cows"

green light collapse: permission to proceed with a project or to take action; "the gave the green light for construction to begin"; a signal to proceed

horn collapse: one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates; any hard protuberance from the head of an organism that is similar to or suggestive of a horn; an alarm device that makes a loud warning sound; a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather); a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it; a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning;; the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails; stab or pierce with a horn or tusk; "the rhino horned the explorer"

hoot collapse: a loud raucous cry (as of an owl); to utter a loud clamorous shout; "the toughs and blades of the city hoot and bang their drums, drink arak, play dice, and dance"; utter the characteristic sound of owls

request collapse: a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority; the verbal act of requesting; express the need or desire for; ask for; "She requested an extra bed in her room"; "She called for room service"; ask (a person) to do something; "She asked him to be here at noon"; "I requested that she type the entire manuscript"; inquire for (information); "I requested information from the secretary"

wigwag collapse: signal by or as if by a flag or light waved according to a code; send a signal by waving a flag or a light according to a certain code

alarm collapse: a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event; an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger; fear resulting from the awareness of danger; warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness; "The empty house alarmed him"; "We alerted the new neighbors to the high rate of burglaries"

constantly collapse: without interruption; "the world is constantly changing"; seemingly uninterrupted; "constantly bullied by his big brother"; "was perpetually answering the doorbell"; without variation or change; "constantly kind and gracious"

clack collapse: a sharp abrupt noise as if two objects hit together; may be repeated

polecat collapse: dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened

buoy collapse: bright-colored; a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards; mark with a buoy; keep afloat; "The life vest buoyed him up"; float on the surface of water

tootle collapse: the sound of casual playing on a musical instrument; "he enjoyed hearing the tootles of their horns as the musicians warmed up"; play (a musical instrument) casually; "the saxophone player was tootling a sad melody"

whish collapse: move with a whishing sound; "The car whished past her"; make a sibilant sound

solicitation collapse: the act of enticing a person to do something wrong (as an offer of sex in return for money); request for a sum of money; "an appeal to raise money for starving children"; an entreaty addressed to someone of superior status; "a solicitation to the king for relief"

siren collapse: eellike aquatic North American salamander with small forelimbs and no hind limbs; have permanent external gills; an acoustic device producing a loud often wailing sound as a signal or warning; a warning signal that is a loud wailing sound; a sea nymph (part woman and part bird) supposed to lure sailors to destruction on the rocks where the nymphs lived; "Odysseus ordered his crew to plug their ears so they would not hear the Siren's fatal song"

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