SUPPLEJACKS Synonyms

• a vine or climbing plant that readily grows up a support or over other plants

• someone seeking social prominence by obsequious behavior

• someone who ascends on foot

• someone who climbs as a sport; especially someone who climbs mountains

• an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing

• a woody climbing usually tropical plant

• climbing palm of Sri Lanka and southern India remarkable for the great length of the stems which are used for malacca canes

• the stem of various climbing palms of the genus Calamus and related genera used to make wickerwork and furniture and canes

• a switch made from the stems of the rattan palms

• someone who imports or exports without paying duties

• someone who travels on foot by running

• a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents

• a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base)

• a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips

• a trained athlete who competes in foot races

• (football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play

• a long narrow carpet

• device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along

• fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil

• slender stem-like structure by which some twining plants attach themselves to an object for support

• an unforeseen development

• an interpretation of a text or action

• any clever maneuver

• the act of rotating rapidly

• a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments

• a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight

• a circular segment of a curve

• a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself

• a jerky pulling movement

• a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair

• social dancing in which couples vigorously twist their hips and arms in time to the music; was popular in the 1960s

• the act of winding or twisting

• turning or twisting around (in place)

• to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)

• cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form

• turn in the opposite direction

• form into a spiral shape

• form into twists

• extend in curves and turns

• do the twist

• twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates

• practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive

• twist suddenly so as to sprain

• a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface