• tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous
• someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
• a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases
• a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow)
• (boxing) a blow with the fist
verb
• poke or thrust abruptly
• search or inquire in a meddlesome way
• stir by poking
• hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument
• A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
• A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.
• Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
• The curved needle used in the art of crochet.
• The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
• A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.
• A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
• A snare; a trap.
• (in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
• Removal or expulsion from a group or activity
• A field sown two years in succession.
• (authorship) A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play.
• (authorship) A gimmick or element of a creative work intended to be attention-grabbing for the audience; a compelling idea for a story that will be sure to attract people's attention.
• A finesse.
• A jack (the playing card).
• A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
• A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
• A ship's anchor.
• Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.
• (Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word.
• A diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.
• A háček.
• Senses relating to sports.
• Something contrived or artificial.
verb
• To ascribe a false or artificial quality to; to pretend falsely to have some quality or to be doing something, etc.
• To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to be distressed.
• To cause someone or something to suffer pain.
noun
• A former Turkish, Egyptian, Hungarian, and Romanian unit of weight, usually of a little more than a kilogram.
• A unit of volume in Egypt (and formerly Turkey) corresponding to about 1.2 litres.
• Man; guy; bloke.
• A deciduous tree with distinctive deeply lobed leaves, acorns, and notably strong wood, typically of England and northeastern North America, included in genus Quercus.
• The wood of the oak.
• A rich brown colour, like that of oak wood.
• Any tree of the genus Quercus, in family Fagaceae.
• Any tree of other genera and species of trees resembling typical oaks of genus Quercus in some ways.
• The outer (lockable) door of a set of rooms in a college or similar institution. (Often in the phrase "to sport one's oak").
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