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scud collapse: the act of moving along swiftly (as before a gale); run before a gale

sage collapse: aromatic fresh or dried grey-green leaves used widely as seasoning for meats and fowl and game etc; a mentor in spiritual and philosophical topics who is renowned for profound wisdom; any of various plants of the genus Salvia; a cosmopolitan herb; of the grey-green color of sage leaves; having wisdom that comes with age and experience

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"

intelligent collapse: having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree; "is there intelligent life in the universe?"; "an intelligent question"; endowed with the capacity to reason; possessing sound knowledge; "well-informed readers"

hooch collapse: an illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor

potato collapse: an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland; annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers; widely cultivated as a garden vegetable; vines are poisonous

spud collapse: a sharp hand shovel for digging out roots and weeds; initiate drilling operations, as for petroleum; "The well was spudded in April"

wit collapse: a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter

stranglehold collapse: a wrestling hold in which the arms are pressed against the opponent's windpipe; complete power over a person or situation; "corporations have a stranglehold on the media"; "the president applied a chokehold to labor disputes that inconvenienced the public"

pleasure principle collapse: (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality

pulp collapse: the soft inner part of a tooth; an inexpensive magazine printed on poor quality paper; any soft or soggy mass; "he pounded it to a pulp"; a soft moist part of a fruit; a mixture of cellulose fibers; reduce to pulp; "pulp fruit"; "pulp wood"; remove the pulp from, as from a fruit

fascism collapse: a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism)

rabbi collapse: a Hebrew title of respect for a Jewish scholar or teacher; spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation; qualified to expound and apply Jewish law

ratio collapse: the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient)

funk collapse: an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar; United States biochemist (born in Poland) who showed that several diseases were caused by dietary deficiencies and who coined the term `vitamin' for the chemicals involved (1884-1967); a state of nervous depression; "he was in a funk"

sallow collapse: any of several Old World shrubby broad-leaved willows having large catkins; some are important sources for tanbark and charcoal; unhealthy looking; cause to become sallow; "The illness has sallowed her face"

lackluster collapse: lacking luster or shine; "staring with lackluster eyes"; "lusterless hair"; lacking brilliance or vitality; "a dull lackluster life"; "a lusterless performance"

guru collapse: a Hindu or Buddhist religious leader and spiritual teacher; a recognized leader in some field or of some movement; "a guru of genomics"; each of the first ten leaders of the Sikh religion

enlightenment collapse: education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge; a movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions

guillotine collapse: instrument of execution that consists of a weighted blade between two vertical poles; used for beheading people; kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; "The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country"

procurer collapse: someone who obtains or acquires; "the procurer of opera tickets"

intellectual collapse: a person who uses the mind creatively; appealing to or using the intellect; "satire is an intellectual weapon"; "intellectual workers engaged in creative literary or artistic or scientific labor"; "has tremendous intellectual sympathy for oppressed people"; "coldly intellectual"; "sort of the intellectual type"; "intellectual literature"; of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind; "intellectual problems"; "the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man"; of or relating to the intellect; "his intellectual career"

frost collapse: United States poet famous for his lyrical poems on country life in New England (1874-1963); the formation of frost or ice on a surface; ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside); damage by frost; "The icy precipitation frosted the flowers and they turned brown"; cover with frost; "ice crystals frosted the glass"; provide with a rough or speckled surface or appearance; "frost the glass"; "she frosts her hair"; decorate with frosting; "frost a cake"

concept collapse: an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances

pudding collapse: any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamed; (British) the dessert course of a meal (`pud' is used informally); any of various soft thick unsweetened baked dishes; "corn pudding"

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