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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 154

Number of Answers: 41

Points Needed for Genius: 108

Genius requires between 18 and 36 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 79% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 66% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 154 was in the 44th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on November 19, 2024.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 41 possible answers rank it in the 56th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on November 19, 2024.
The highest number of answers was 81 on June 8, 2019.
The lowest number of answers was 16 on March 27, 2023.

It takes a 6-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on November 15, 2024.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 4.9.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.



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Haven't I seen these words before?

The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 186
  • loll 179
  • toot 170
  • naan 164
  • nana 164
  • lilt 130
  • till 130
  • tilt 130
  • tint 125
  • mama 120
  • mamma 120
  • nene 116
  • acacia 113
  • acai 113
  • onto 112
  • toon 112
  • anal 109
  • onion 107
  • anon 106
  • boob 106
  • booboo 106
  • olio 103
  • lull 101
  • lulu 101
  • papa 100
  • baba 99
  • dodo 99
  • mitt 99
  • poop 98
  • allay 97
  • ally 97
  • call 96
  • calla 96
  • ratatat 96
  • tact 96
  • tart 96
  • tartar 96
  • attar 95
  • cocci 95
  • tatty 95
  • tutu 94
  • mono 93
  • moon 93
  • tattoo 93
  • ammo 92
  • epee 92
  • momma 92
  • peep 92
  • loon 91
  • roar 91


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 93,434 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,332 unique words.
Below are the distributions of the lengths of these words.



Valid dictionary words not in today's official answers

You may be wondering why these words aren't here*:

  • acari
  • acro
  • acromia
  • amir
  • arak
  • arrack
  • camorra
  • caracara
  • carack
  • cark
  • carr
  • carrack
  • carrom
  • coria
  • corm
  • iroko
  • karoo
  • karri
  • karroo
  • kirk
  • kora
  • korai
  • krai
  • maar
  • mair
  • makar
  • mara
  • maraka
  • marc
  • maria
  • marka
  • markka
  • markkaa
  • marram
  • micra
  • microcar
  • micrococci
  • mikra
  • miri
  • mirk
  • moira
  • moirai
  • moorcock
  • mora
  • morro
  • orra
  • raia
  • raki
  • rami
  • rickrack
  • ricrac
  • rimrock

*Because the New York Times considers them obscure or offensive.

arco

adverb
  1. A note in string instrument musical notation indicating that the bow is to be used in the usual way, usually following a passage that is played pizzicato.

aria

noun
  1. A musical piece written typically for a solo voice with orchestral accompaniment in an opera or cantata.

armor

noun
  1. A protective layer over a body, vehicle, or other object intended to deflect or diffuse damaging forces.
  2. A natural form of this kind of protection on an animal's body.
  3. Metal plate, protecting a ship, military vehicle, or aircraft.
  4. A tank, or other heavy mobile assault vehicle.
  5. A military formation consisting primarily of tanks or other armoured fighting vehicles, collectively.
  6. The naturally occurring surface of pebbles, rocks or boulders that line the bed of a waterway or beach and provide protection against erosion.
verb
  1. To equip something with armor or a protective coating or hardening.
  2. To provide something with an analogous form of protection.

aroma

noun
  1. A smell; especially a pleasant spicy or fragrant one.

carioca

noun
  1. An inhabitant of Rio de Janeiro.
noun
  1. A sideways step in which one leg crosses over the other.

carom

Etymology 1

noun
  1. (cue sports, especially billiards) A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball.
  2. A billiard-like Indian game in which players take turns flicking checker-like pieces into one of four goals on the corners of a (one meter by one meter square) board.
verb
  1. To make a carom (shot in billiards).
  2. To strike and bounce back; to strike (something) and rebound.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (spices) ajwain

circa

preposition
  1. Approximately, about, around (typically in relation to time)

cirri

noun
  1. A tendril.
  2. A thin tendril-like appendage.
  3. A principal high-level cloud type characterised by white, delicate filaments or wisps, of white (or mostly white) patches, or of narrow bands, found at an altitude of above 7000 metres.

coir

noun
  1. The fibre obtained from the husk of a coconut, used chiefly in making rope, matting and as a peat substitute.

cork

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The bark of the cork oak, which is very light and porous and used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material.
  2. A bottle stopper made from this or any other material.
  3. An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.
  4. The cork oak, Quercus suber.
  5. The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water.
verb
  1. To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.
  2. To blacken (as) with a burnt cork
  3. To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.
  4. To fill with cork, as the center of a baseball bat.
  5. To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma.
  6. To position one's drift net just outside of another person's net, thereby intercepting and catching all the fish that would have gone into that person's net.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes heels over head, with the board overhead.
verb
  1. To perform such a maneuver.
adjective
  1. Having the property of a head over heels rotation.

crack

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
  2. A narrow opening.
  3. A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
  4. Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.
  5. The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.
  6. Any sharp sound.
  7. A sharp, resounding blow.
  8. An attempt at something.
  9. Vagina.
  10. The space between the buttocks.
  11. Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous storytelling; good company.
  12. Business; events; news.
  13. A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
  14. (elsewhere throughout the North of the UK) a meaningful chat.
  15. Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
  16. The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
  17. A mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity.
  18. A crazy or crack-brained person.
  19. A boast; boasting.
  20. Breach of chastity.
  21. A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
  22. A brief time; an instant; a jiffy.
verb
  1. To form cracks.
  2. To break apart under pressure.
  3. To become debilitated by psychological pressure.
  4. To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.
  5. To make a cracking sound.
  6. (of a voice) To change rapidly in register.
  7. (of a pubescent boy's voice) To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.
  8. To make a sharply humorous comment.
  9. To make a crack or cracks in.
  10. To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.
  11. To strike forcefully.
  12. To open slightly.
  13. To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure. (Figurative)
  14. To solve a difficult problem. (Figurative, from cracking a nut.)
  15. To overcome a security system or a component.
  16. To cause to make a sharp sound.
  17. To tell (a joke).
  18. To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.
  19. To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
  20. To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.
  21. To brag, boast.
  22. To be ruined or impaired; to fail.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Highly trained and competent.
  2. Excellent, first-rate, superior, top-notch.

cram

noun
  1. The act of cramming (forcing or stuffing something).
  2. Information hastily memorized.
  3. A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
  4. (British slang) A lie; a falsehood.
  5. A mathematical board game in which players take turns placing dominoes horizontally or vertically until no more can be placed, the loser being the player who cannot continue.
  6. A small friendship book with limited space for people to enter their information.
verb
  1. To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to fill to superfluity.
  2. To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
  3. To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination.
  4. To study hard; to swot.
  5. To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff oneself.
  6. (British slang) To lie; to intentionally not tell the truth.
  7. (British slang) To make (a person) believe false or exaggerated tales.

crick

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A painful muscular cramp or spasm of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, making it difficult to move the part affected. (Compare catch.)
  2. A small jackscrew.
verb
  1. To develop a crick (cramp, spasm).
  2. To cause to develop a crick; to create a crick in.
  3. To twist, bend, or contort, especially in a way that produces strain.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A small inlet or bay, often saltwater, narrower and extending farther into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river; the inner part of a port that is used as a dock for small boats.
  2. A stream of water (often freshwater) smaller than a river and larger than a brook.
  3. Any turn or winding.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it.

croak

noun
  1. A faint, harsh sound made in the throat.
  2. The cry of a frog or toad. (see also ribbit)
  3. The harsh cry of various birds, such as the raven or corncrake, or other creatures.
verb
  1. To make a croak.
  2. To utter in a low, hoarse voice.
  3. (of a frog, toad, raven, or various other birds or animals) To make its cry.
  4. To die.
  5. To kill someone or something.
  6. To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.

croc

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A crocodile.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A plastic slip-on shoe.

croci

noun
  1. A perennial flowering plant (of the genus Crocus in the Iridaceae family). Saffron is obtained from the stamens of Crocus sativus.
  2. Any of various similar flowering plants, such as the autumn crocus and prairie crocus.
  3. A deep yellow powder, the oxide of some metal (especially iron), calcined to a red or deep yellow colour.
  4. A fraudulent doctor; a quack.

crock

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
  2. A piece of broken pottery, a shard.
  3. A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.
  4. An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse or ewe).
  5. Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.
  6. A low stool.
  7. A patient who is difficult to treat, especially one who complains of a minor or imagined illness.
verb
  1. To break something or injure someone.
  2. (leatherworking) To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another.
  3. To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage.
  4. To put or store (something) in a crock or pot.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut.
  2. Colouring matter that rubs off from cloth.
verb
  1. To give off crock or smut.

crook

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
  2. A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
  3. A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
  4. A lock or curl of hair.
  5. A gibbet.
  6. A support beam consisting of a post with a cross-beam resting upon it; a bracket or truss consisting of a vertical piece, a horizontal piece, and a strut.
  7. A shepherd's crook; a staff with a semi-circular bend ("hook") at one end used by shepherds.
  8. A bishop's staff of office.
  9. An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
  10. A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
  11. A pothook.
  12. A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
verb
  1. To bend, or form into a hook.
  2. To become bent or hooked.
  3. To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard.
  2. Ill, sick.
  3. Annoyed, angry; upset.

karma

noun
  1. The sum total of a person's actions, which determine the person's next incarnation in samsara, the cycle of death and rebirth.
  2. A force or law of nature which causes one to reap what one sows; destiny; fate.
  3. A distinctive feeling, aura, or atmosphere.
  4. (Reddit) A score assigned to a user of a discussion forum, indicating the popularity of their posts with other users.

karmic

adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to karma.

korma

noun
  1. A curry made from various spices especially coriander and cumin; and often with yoghurt sauce or nuts.

macro

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Very large in scope or scale.
adjective
  1. Of a lifestyle incorporating a dietary regimen including locally grown, seasonal, natural foods, or of the diet itself.
  2. Long-lived.
noun
  1. The study of the entire economy in terms of the total amount of goods and services produced, total income earned, the level of employment of productive resources, and the general behavior of prices.
noun
  1. Any of the elements required in large amounts by all living things.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A comparatively human-friendly abbreviation of complex input to a computer program.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Macro lens

maraca

noun
  1. A Latin American percussion instrument consisting of a hollow-gourd rattle containing pebbles or beans and often played in pairs, as a rhythm instrument.
  2. (in the plural) breasts

mark

Etymology 1

noun
  1. (heading) Boundary, land within a boundary.
  2. (heading) Characteristic, sign, visible impression.
  3. (heading) Indicator of position, objective etc.
  4. (heading) Attention.
verb
  1. To put a mark on (something); to make (something) recognizable by a mark; to label or write on (something).
  2. To leave a mark (often an undesirable or unwanted one) on (something).
  3. To have a long-lasting negative impact on (someone or something).
  4. To create an indication of (a location).
  5. To be an indication of (something); to show where (something) is located.
  6. To indicate (something) in writing or by other symbols.
  7. To create (a mark) on a surface.
  8. To celebrate or acknowledge (an event) through an action of some kind.
  9. (of things) To identify (someone as a particular type of person or as having a particular role).
  10. (of people) To assign (someone) to a particular category or class.
  11. (of people) To choose or intend (someone) for a particular end or purpose.
  12. To be a point in time or space at which something takes place; to accompany or be accompanied by (an event, action, etc.); to coincide with.
  13. To be typical or characteristic of (something).
  14. To distinguish (one person or thing from another).
  15. To focus one's attention on (something or someone); to pay attention to, to take note of.
  16. To become aware of (something) through the physical senses.
  17. To hold (someone) in one's line of sight.
  18. To indicate the correctness of and give a score to (a school assignment, exam answers, etc.).
  19. To record that (someone) has a particular status.
  20. To keep account of; to enumerate and register; to keep score.
  21. To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a pass easily.
  22. To catch the ball directly from a kick of 15 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.
  23. To put a marker in the place of one's ball.
  24. To sing softly, sometimes an octave lower than usual, in order to protect one's voice during a rehearsal.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A measure of weight (especially for gold and silver), once used throughout Europe, equivalent to 8 oz.
  2. An English and Scottish unit of currency (originally valued at one mark weight of silver), equivalent to 13 shillings and fourpence.
  3. Any of various European monetary units, especially the base unit of currency of Germany between 1948 and 2002, equal to 100 pfennigs.
  4. A coin worth one mark.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does.
  2. To cause someone to walk somewhere.
  3. To go to war; to make military advances.
  4. To make steady progress.
verb
  1. To have common borders or frontiers

micro

noun
  1. (gaming slang) micromanagement
verb
  1. (gaming slang) to micromanage
adjective
  1. Small, relatively small; used to contrast levels of the noun modified.
noun
  1. A computer designed around a microprocessor, smaller than a minicomputer or a mainframe.
noun
  1. The field of economics that deals with small-scale economic activities such as those of an individual or company.

mirror

noun
  1. A smooth surface, usually made of glass with reflective material painted on the underside, that reflects light so as to give an image of what is in front of it.
  2. An object, person, or event that reflects or gives a picture of another.
  3. A disk, website or other resource that contains replicated data.
  4. A mirror carp.
  5. A kind of political self-help book, advising kings, princes, etc. on how to behave.
verb
  1. Of an event, activity, behaviour, etc, to be identical to, to be a copy of.
  2. To create something identical to (a web site, etc.).
  3. To reflect, as in a mirror.

moor

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath
  2. A game preserve consisting of moorland.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To cast anchor or become fastened.
  2. To fix or secure (e.g. a vessel) in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with ropes, cables or chains or the like
  3. To secure or fix firmly.

morocco

noun
  1. A soft leather, made from goatskin, used especially in bookbinding.
  2. A sheepskin leather in imitation of this.
  3. A very strong ale, anciently brewed in Cumberland.

okra

noun
  1. The edible immature mucilaginous seed pod (properly, capsule) of the Abelmoschus esculentus.
  2. The flowering mallow plant Abelmoschus esculentus itself, now commonly grown in the tropics and warmer parts of the temperate zones.

orca

noun
  1. A sea mammal (Orcinus orca) related to dolphins and porpoises, commonly called the killer whale.

rack

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other
  2. Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
  3. A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
  4. A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
  5. A bunk.
  6. (by extension) Sleep.
  7. A distaff.
  8. A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion#, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.
  9. A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.
  10. A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
  11. A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
  12. A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
  13. A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
  14. A woman's breasts.
  15. A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
  16. A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
  17. A grate on which bacon is laid.
  18. That which is extorted; exaction.
  19. A set with a distributive binary operation whose result is unique.
  20. A thousand pounds (£1,000), especially such proceeds of crime
verb
  1. To place in or hang on a rack.
  2. To torture (someone) on the rack.
  3. To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
  4. To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
  5. To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
  6. To strike a male in the testicles.
  7. To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
  8. To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
  9. To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
  10. To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
  11. (structural engineering) Tending to shear a structure (that is, force it to move in different directions at different points).

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To stretch a person's joints.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
verb
  1. To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir
  2. To fly, as vapour or broken clouds

Etymology 4

verb
  1. To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.

Etymology 5

noun
  1. A fast amble.
verb
  1. (of a horse) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.

Etymology 6

noun
  1. A wreck; destruction.

Etymology 7

noun
  1. A young rabbit, or its skin.

Etymology 8

noun
  1. A clear, unsweetened aniseed-flavoured alcoholic drink, produced and consumed primarily in the Middle East
  2. The toothbrush tree, Salvadora persica.

rick

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Straw, hay etc. stored in a stack for winter fodder, commonly protected with thatch.
  2. A stack of wood, especially cut to a regular length; also used as a measure of wood, typically four by eight feet.
verb
  1. To heap up (hay, etc.) in ricks.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To slightly sprain or strain the neck, back, ankle etc.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A brand new (naive) boot camp inductee.

roam

verb
  1. To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination.
  2. To use a network or service from different locations or devices.
  3. To transmit (resources) between different locations or devices, to allow comparable usage from any of them.
  4. To range or wander over.

roar

noun
  1. A long, loud, deep shout, as of rage or laughter, made with the mouth wide open.
  2. The cry of the lion.
  3. The deep cry of the bull.
  4. A loud resounding noise.
  5. A show of strength or character.
verb
  1. To make a loud, deep cry, especially from pain, anger, or other strong emotion.
  2. To laugh in a particularly loud manner.
  3. Of animals (especially the lion), to make a loud deep noise.
  4. Generally, of inanimate objects etc., to make a loud resounding noise.
  5. To proceed vigorously.
  6. To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly.
  7. To be boisterous; to be disorderly.
  8. To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses do when they have a certain disease.
  9. (North Midlands) to cry

rock

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A formation of minerals, specifically:
  2. A large hill or island having no vegetation.
  3. Something that is strong, stable, and dependable; a person who provides security or support to another.
  4. A lump or cube of ice.
  5. A type of confectionery made from sugar in the shape of a stick, traditionally having some text running through its length.
  6. A crystallized lump of crack cocaine.
  7. An unintelligent person, especially one who repeats mistakes.
  8. An Afrikaner.
  9. An extremely conservative player who is willing to play only the very strongest hands.
  10. Any of several fish:
  11. A basketball.
  12. (rock paper scissors) A closed hand (a handshape resembling a rock), that beats scissors and loses to paper. It beats lizard and loses to Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
  13. A cricket ball, especially a new one that has not been softened by use
  14. A crystal used to control the radio frequency.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An act of rocking; a rocking motion; a sway.
verb
  1. To move gently back and forth.
  2. To cause to shake or sway violently.
  3. To sway or tilt violently back and forth.
  4. (of ore etc.) To be washed and panned in a cradle or in a rocker.
  5. To disturb the emotional equilibrium of; to distress; to greatly impact (most often positively).
  6. To do well or to be operating at high efficiency.
  7. To make love to or have sex with.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A style of music characterized by basic drum-beat, generally 4/4 riffs, based on (usually electric) guitar, bass guitar, drums and vocals.
verb
  1. To play, perform, or enjoy rock music, especially with a lot of skill or energy.
  2. To be very favourable or skilful; excel; be fantastic.
  3. To thrill or excite, especially with rock music
  4. To do something with excitement yet skillfully
  5. To wear (a piece of clothing, outfit etc.) successfully or with style; to carry off (a particular look, style).

Etymology 4

noun
  1. Distaff.
  2. The flax or wool on a distaff.

Etymology 5

noun
  1. An enormous mythical bird in Eastern legend.
noun
  1. Rocuronium.

rococo

noun
  1. A style of baroque architecture and decorative art, from 18th-century France, having elaborate ornamentation.
adjective
  1. Of or relating to the rococo style.
  2. Over-elaborate or complicated; opulent.
  3. Old-fashioned.

rook

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family.
  2. A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays.
  3. A type of firecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name.
  4. A trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards.
  5. A bad deal, a rip-off.
verb
  1. To cheat or swindle.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally) or in castling.
  2. A castle or other fortification.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A rookie.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. Mist; fog; roke

Etymology 5

verb
  1. To squat; to ruck.

Etymology 6

verb
  1. Pronunciation spelling of look.

room

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Opportunity or scope (to do something).
  2. Space for something, or to carry out an activity.
  3. A particular portion of space.
  4. Sufficient space for or to do something.
  5. A space between the timbers of a ship's frame.
  6. Place; stead.
  7. A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling.
  8. (with possessive pronoun) (One's) bedroom.
  9. (in the plural) A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings.
  10. (always in the singular, metonymy) The people in a room.
  11. An area for working in a coal mine.
  12. A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage.
  13. A IRC or chat room.
  14. Place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant.
  15. Furniture sufficient to furnish a room.
verb
  1. To reside, especially as a boarder or tenant.
  2. To assign to a room; to allocate a room to.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Wide; spacious; roomy.

Etymology 3

adverb
  1. Far; at a distance; wide in space or extent.
  2. Off from the wind.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A deep blue dye.

marm

noun
  1. Madam; a polite term of address for a lady.

romcom

noun
  1. A genre of fiction, especially film, that presents love stories in a humorous and light-hearted way.
  2. Such a story.

microcrack

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