Monday, February 16, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 221

Number of Answers: 57

Points Needed for Genius: 155

Genius requires between 25 and 50 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 75% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 68% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 221 was in the 72nd percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on February 14, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 57 possible answers rank it in the 87th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on February 14, 2026.
The highest number of answers was 81 on June 08, 2019.
The lowest number of answers was 16 on March 27, 2023.

It takes a 7-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on February 15, 2026.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.0.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.



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The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 230
  • loll 214
  • toot 210
  • nana 191
  • naan 191
  • tilt 152
  • till 152
  • lilt 152
  • nene 150
  • tint 145
  • mamma 144
  • mama 144
  • toon 138
  • onto 138
  • onion 138
  • acai 137
  • acacia 137
  • anon 130
  • anal 130
  • olio 124
  • papa 123
  • dodo 123
  • tact 122
  • baba 121
  • lulu 119
  • lull 119
  • poop 118
  • booboo 118
  • boob 118
  • moon 114
  • mono 114
  • mitt 114
  • cocci 114
  • tartar 113
  • tart 113
  • ratatat 113
  • calla 113
  • call 113
  • tutu 112
  • tattoo 112
  • loon 112
  • attar 112
  • ally 110
  • allay 110
  • tatty 109
  • momma 108
  • ammo 108
  • meme 107
  • roar 106
  • peep 105


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 113,709 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,912 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*:

  • abaca
  • abaka
  • abba
  • aboma
  • acock
  • acro
  • ambo
  • arak
  • araroba
  • arrack
  • arroba
  • baboo
  • bacca
  • baccara
  • backbar
  • barca
  • barm
  • bombora
  • bora
  • cabob
  • cabomba
  • caca
  • camorra
  • carabao
  • caracara
  • carack
  • caramba
  • carbo
  • carbora
  • cark
  • carr
  • carrack
  • carrom
  • crackback
  • crambo
  • crookback
  • kabab
  • kabaka
  • kabar
  • kaka
  • karoo
  • karroo
  • kbar
  • kokam
  • kora
  • maar
  • macaco
  • mack
  • makar
  • mammock
  • mara
  • maraka
  • marc
  • marka
  • markka
  • markkaa
  • marram
  • mora
  • orra
  • roorback

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

aback

Etymology 1

adverb
  1. Towards the back or rear; backwards.
  2. In the rear; a distance behind.
  3. By surprise; startled; dumbfounded. (see usage)
  4. Backward against the mast; said of the sails when pressed by the wind from the "wrong" (forward) side, or of a ship when its sails are set that way.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An abacus.

ammo

noun
  1. Ammunition.
verb
  1. To load up on ammunition.

amok

No Definition Found.

arbor

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A shady sitting place or pergola usually in a park or garden, surrounded by climbing shrubs, vines or other vegetation.
  2. A grove of trees.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An axis or shaft supporting a rotating part on a lathe.
  2. A bar for supporting cutting tools.
  3. A spindle of a wheel.

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.

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.

baba

noun
  1. A kind of sponge cake soaked in rum-flavoured syrup.
  2. (esp. among people of East European ancestry) A grandmother.
  3. An old woman, especially a traditional old woman from an eastern European culture.
  4. (esp. among people of Indian ancestry) A father.
  5. (Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism) A holy man, a spiritual leader.
  6. A baby, child.
  7. In baby talk, often used for a variety of words beginning with b, such as bottle or blanket.

babka

No Definition Found.

back

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
  2. That which is farthest away from the front.
  3. Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
  4. A support or resource in reserve.
  5. The keel and keelson of a ship.
  6. The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
  7. Effort, usually physical.
  8. A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
  9. Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
verb
  1. To go in the reverse direction.
  2. To support.
  3. (of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
  4. (of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
  5. (of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
  6. (of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
  7. To push or force backwards.
  8. To get upon the back of; to mount.
  9. To place or seat upon the back.
  10. To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
  11. To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
  12. To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
  13. (of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
  14. To row backward with (oars).
adjective
  1. Near the rear.
  2. Not current.
  3. Far from the main area.
  4. In arrear; overdue.
  5. Moving or operating backward.
  6. Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
adverb
  1. To or in a previous condition or place.
  2. Away from the front or from an edge.
  3. In a manner that impedes.
  4. In a reciprocal manner; in return.
  5. Earlier, ago.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
  2. A ferryboat.

backcomb

noun
  1. The hairstyle produced by backcombing.
  2. A decorative comb worn as an ornament and to secure a hairstyle.
verb
  1. To hold hair and comb it towards the head, thus giving it a bushier look; tease.

backroom

noun
  1. A room near the rear of a premises, especially one that is only accessible to a privileged few and can be used as an inconspicuous meeting place.
adjective
  1. Of, relating to, or happening in a backroom
  2. Characterized by secrecy or anonymity

bamboo

noun
  1. A grass of the Poaceae family, characterised by its woody, hollow, round, straight, jointed stem, all of which are in the Bambuseae tribe.
  2. The wood of the bamboo plant as a material or cane.
  3. A didgeridoo.
  4. A member of the British military or British East India Company who spent so much time in Indonesia, India, or Malaysia that they never went back home.
verb
  1. To flog with a bamboo cane.
  2. To paint (furniture, etc.) to give it the appearance of bamboo.
  3. To penetrate sexually.
adjective
  1. Made of the wood of the bamboo.

baobab

noun
  1. A tree, Adansonia digitata (and similar species), native to tropical Africa, having a broad swollen trunk and edible gourd-like hanging fruits.

barb

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else.
  2. A hurtful or disparaging remark.
  3. A beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.
  4. Armor for a horse, corrupted from bard.
  5. A horse.
  6. One of the side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane.
  7. Any of various species of freshwater carp-like fish that have barbels and belong to the cyprinid family.
  8. Menticirrhus americanus (Carolina whiting, king whiting, southern kingcroaker, and southern kingfish), found along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States.
  9. A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.
  10. A blackish or dun variety of the pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.
  11. A muffler, worn by nuns and mourners.
  12. Paps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which mark the opening of the submaxillary glands under the tongue in horses and cattle. The name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and swollen. [Written also barbel and barble.]
  13. A bit for a horse.
  14. A plastic fastener, shaped roughly like a capital I (with serifs), used to attach socks etc. to their packaging.
verb
  1. To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc.
  2. To cover a horse in armor, corrupted from bard.
  3. To cut (hair).
  4. To shave or dress the beard of.
  5. To clip; to mow.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors.
  2. A blackish or dun variety of pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A barbiturate.

bark

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog, a fox, and some other animals.
  2. An abrupt loud vocal utterance.
verb
  1. To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs).
  2. To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.
  3. To speak sharply.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree.
  2. Peruvian bark or Jesuit's bark, the bark of the cinchona from which quinine is produced.
  3. Hard candy made in flat sheets, for instance out of chocolate, peanut butter, toffee or peppermint.
  4. The crust formed on barbecued meat that has had a rub applied to it.
  5. The envelopment or outer covering of anything.
verb
  1. To strip the bark from; to peel.
  2. To abrade or rub off any outer covering from.
  3. To girdle.
  4. To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A small sailing vessel, e.g. a pinnace or a fishing smack; a rowing boat or barge.
  2. A sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
  3. A vessel, typically with three (or more) masts, with the foremasts (or fore- and mainmasts) square-rigged, and mizzenmast schooner-rigged.

barrack

Etymology 1

noun
  1. (chiefly in the plural) A building for soldiers, especially within a garrison; originally referred to temporary huts, now usually to a permanent structure or set of buildings.
  2. (chiefly in the plural) primitive structure resembling a long shed or barn for (usually temporary) housing or other purposes
  3. (chiefly in the plural) any very plain, monotonous, or ugly large building
  4. A movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc.
  5. (usually in the plural) A police station.
verb
  1. To house military personnel; to quarter.
  2. To live in barracks.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To jeer and heckle; to attempt to disconcert by verbal means.
  2. To cheer for or support a team.

barroom

noun
  1. A room where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.

boar

noun
  1. A wild boar (Sus scrofa), the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig.
  2. A male pig.
  3. A male boar (sense 1).
  4. A male bear.
  5. A male guinea pig.

bookmark

noun
  1. A strip of material used to mark a place in a book.
  2. A record of the address of a file or Internet page serving as a shortcut to it.
  3. A pointer found in a nonclustered index to a row in a clustered index or a table heap
verb
  1. To create a bookmark.

bookrack

No Definition Found.

cacao

noun
  1. A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.
  2. This tree's seed, the cocoa bean.

camo

noun
  1. A pattern on clothing consisting of irregularly shaped patches that are either greenish/brownish, brownish/whitish, or bluish/whitish, as used by ground combat forces.
  2. Clothes made from camouflage fabric, for concealment in combat or hunting.
verb
  1. To camouflage.
  2. To put on camouflage clothing.

carb

noun
  1. Clipping of carburettor / carburetor.
noun
  1. (nutrition) A sugar, starch, or cellulose that is a food source of energy for an animal or plant.
  2. (by extension, metonym) Any food rich in starch or other carbohydrates.

carob

noun
  1. An evergreen shrub or tree, Ceratonia siliqua, native to the Mediterranean region.
  2. The fruit of that tree.
  3. A sweet chocolate-like confection made with the pulp of the fruit.

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

cobra

noun
  1. Any of various venomous snakes of the family Elapidae.

coca

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.
  2. The dried leaf of one of these plants, the South American shrub (Erythroxylum coca), widely cultivated in Andean countries, which is the source of cocaine.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A pastry typically made and consumed in the Spanish Mediterranean coast.

cocoa

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made.
  2. An unsweetened brown powder made from roasted, ground cocoa beans, used in making chocolate, and in cooking.
  3. A hot drink made with milk, cocoa powder, and sugar.
  4. A serving of this drink.
  5. A light to medium brown colour.
adjective
  1. Of a light to medium brown colour, like that of cocoa powder.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Coconut palm.
  2. Coconut, the fruit of the coconut palm.

coma

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A state of unconsciousness from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A cloud of dust surrounding the nucleus of a comet.
  2. A defect characterized by diffuse, pear-shaped images that in an ideal image would appear as points.
  3. A tuft or bunch, such as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree, a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant, or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds.

comma

noun
  1. The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set off parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
  2. A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
  3. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.
  4. A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
  5. A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
  6. In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma.
  7. A brief interval.
verb
  1. To place a comma or commas within text; to follow, precede, or surround a portion of text with commas.

crab

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
  2. The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat
  3. A bad-tempered person.
  4. (in plural crabs) An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
  5. A playing card with the rank of three.
  6. A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
  7. A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
  8. An unsold book that is returned to the publisher.
verb
  1. To fish for crabs.
  2. To ruin.
  3. To complain.
  4. To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
  5. To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
  6. To move (a camera) sideways.
  7. (World War I), to fly slightly off the straight-line course towards an enemy aircraft, as the machine guns on early aircraft did not allow firing through the propeller disk.
  8. To back out of something.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The crab apple or wild apple.
  2. The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
  3. A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
  4. A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
  5. A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
  6. A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
  7. A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
verb
  1. (obsolete) To irritate, make surly or sour
  2. To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
  3. (British dialect) To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick

Etymology 3

noun
  1. The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. Short for carabiner.

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.

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.

kabob

noun
  1. A dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab.
  2. A shish kebab or any other food on a skewer.
  3. The outward growing portions of a shish kebab structure.
  4. A Muslim, usually of southern European, Middle Eastern, or North African descent.
  5. The vulva.
verb
  1. To roast in the style of a kebab
  2. To stab or skewer

kaboom

noun
  1. The sound of an explosion, typically seen in comic strips or heard in a light-hearted conversation.
interjection
  1. The sound of an explosion, typically seen in comic strips or heard in a light-hearted conversation.

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.

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

mako

noun
  1. Mako shark

mama

noun
  1. (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent.

mamba

noun
  1. Any of various venomous snakes of the genus Dendroaspis, native to Africa, that live in trees.

mambo

noun
  1. A voodoo priestess (in Haiti)
  2. A Latin-American musical genre, adapted from rumba, originating from Cuba in the 1940s, or a dance or rhythm of this genre.
verb
  1. To perform this dance.

mamma

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder. (plural: mammae)
  2. An accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent.

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

momma

noun
  1. Mother
  2. A voluptuous woman.
  3. One's wife or girlfriend.

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.

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

marm

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

boba

noun
  1. Short for boba tea.
noun
  1. A small edible ball made primarily from tapioca starch; used in bubble tea.

barbacoa

noun
  1. Meat slow-cooked over an open fire, characteristic of Latin American cuisine.

barback

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