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Number of Pangrams: 3

Maximum Puzzle Score: 229

Number of Answers: 51

Points Needed for Genius: 160

Genius requires between 21 and 46 words. You need at least an 8-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 88% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 62% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 229 was in the 74th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on May 19, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 51 possible answers rank it in the 77th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on May 19, 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 an 8-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on May 13, 2026.

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



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The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 239
  • loll 220
  • toot 214
  • nana 199
  • naan 199
  • nene 158
  • tilt 156
  • till 156
  • lilt 156
  • mamma 152
  • mama 152
  • tint 149
  • onion 145
  • toon 144
  • onto 144
  • acai 142
  • acacia 142
  • anon 134
  • anal 134
  • olio 131
  • papa 127
  • tact 126
  • baba 126
  • lulu 125
  • lull 125
  • dodo 124
  • poop 120
  • booboo 120
  • boob 120
  • mitt 119
  • moon 118
  • mono 118
  • cocci 118
  • calla 118
  • call 118
  • loon 117
  • tartar 116
  • tart 116
  • ratatat 116
  • tattoo 115
  • attar 115
  • tutu 114
  • ally 113
  • allay 113
  • momma 111
  • aria 111
  • ammo 111
  • tatty 110
  • roar 109
  • meme 109


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 118,052 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,990 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
  • acock
  • acro
  • arak
  • araroba
  • arrack
  • arroba
  • baboo
  • bacca
  • baccara
  • backbar
  • barca
  • bora
  • cabob
  • caca
  • carabao
  • caracara
  • carack
  • carbo
  • carbora
  • cark
  • carr
  • carrack
  • cordoba
  • crackback
  • crookback
  • dada
  • dado
  • darb
  • darbar
  • dobra
  • kabab
  • kabaka
  • kabar
  • kaka
  • karoo
  • karroo
  • kbar
  • kora
  • orad
  • 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.

aboard

adverb
  1. On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car.
  2. On or onto a horse, a camel, etc.
  3. On base.
  4. Into a team, group, or company.
  5. Alongside.
preposition
  1. On board of; onto or into a ship, boat, train, plane.
  2. Onto a horse.
  3. Across; athwart; alongside.

abracadabra

noun
  1. A use of the mystical term ‘abracadabra’, supposed to work as part of a healing charm or a magical spell; any spell or incantation making use of the word.
  2. Mumbo-jumbo; obscure language or technicalities; jargon.
interjection
  1. Used to indicate that a magic trick or other illusion has been performed.

abroad

noun
  1. Countries or lands abroad.
adverb
  1. Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries.
  2. At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space.
  3. Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode.
  4. Before the public at large; throughout society or the world; here and there; moving without restriction.
  5. Not on target; astray; in error; confused; dazed.
  6. Played elsewhere than one's home grounds.
preposition
  1. Throughout, over.

accord

noun
  1. Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.
  2. A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord.
  3. Agreement or harmony of things in general.
  4. An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit.
  5. An international agreement.
  6. Assent
  7. Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act.
verb
  1. To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.
  2. To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize.
  3. To agree or correspond; to be in harmony; to be concordant.
  4. To agree in pitch and tone.
  5. To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award.
  6. To give consent.
  7. To arrive at an agreement.

adobo

noun
  1. A Philippine dish in which pork or chicken is slowly cooked in a sauce including soy sauce, vinegar, and crushed garlic.
  2. A marinade.

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.

ardor

noun
  1. Great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion.
  2. Spirit; enthusiasm; passion.
  3. Intense heat.

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.

backboard

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The flat vertical surface to which the basket is attached.
  2. A flat vertical wall with the image of a tennis net drawn or painted on it. Designed to practice hitting against such that the ball bounces back.
  3. (first aid) A spine board.
  4. A board placed at the back of a cart, boat, etc.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The port or larboard side of a ship

backdoor

noun
  1. A subsidiary entrance to a building or house at its rear, normally away from the street.
  2. A means of access, often secret and unprotected, to something.
  3. A secret means of access to a program or system.
  4. A rear side door of a car, or at the back of a van.
  5. The anus, generally used in reference to anal sex.
  6. The rear side of the hole, furthest from the golfer.
verb
  1. To attempt to accomplish by indirect means, especially when direct means are proscribed.
  2. To enter a tube by accelerating from behind; to surf into an already formed hollow wave, in contrast to the normal method of slowing to allow a surfable wave to form.

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.

bard

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A professional poet and singer, like among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.
  2. (by extension) A poet.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. (Often in the plural.)
  2. Defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms.
  3. A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game.
  4. The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.
  5. Specifically, Peruvian bark.
verb
  1. To cover a horse in defensive armor.
  2. To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.

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.

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.

board

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making.
  2. A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.
  3. A flat surface with markings for playing a board game.
  4. Short for blackboard, whiteboard, chessboard, surfboard, message board (on the Internet), etc.
  5. A committee that manages the business of an organization, e.g., a board of directors.
  6. Regular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging.
  7. The side of a ship.
  8. The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward.
  9. The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink, often in plural.
  10. A long, narrow table, like that used in a medieval dining hall.
  11. Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard.
  12. A level or stage having a particular layout.
  13. A container for holding pre-dealt cards that is used to allow multiple sets of players to play the same cards.
verb
  1. To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.
  2. To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money.
  3. To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.
  4. To capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her with a boarding party
  5. To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation
  6. To approach (someone); to make advances to, accost.
  7. To cover with boards or boarding.
  8. To hit (someone) with a wooden board.
  9. To write something on a board, especially a blackboard or whiteboard.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A rebound.

bookrack

No Definition Found.

brad

noun
  1. A thin, small nail, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head, or occasionally with a small domed head, similar to that of an escutcheon pin.
  2. (elementary school usage) A paper fastener, a fastening device formed of thin, soft metal, such as shim brass, with a round head and a flat, split shank, which is spread after insertion in a hole in a stack of pages, in much the same way as a cotter pin or a split rivet.
verb
  1. To attach using a brad.
  2. To upset the end of a rod inserted in a hole so as to prevent it from being pulled out, as when riveting.

broad

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk.
  2. A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
  3. A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656.
adjective
  1. Wide in extent or scope.
  2. Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
  3. Having a large measure of any thing or quality; unlimited; unrestrained.
  4. Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
  5. Plain; evident.
  6. (writing) Unsubtle; obvious.
  7. Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
  8. Gross; coarse; indelicate.
  9. (of an accent) Strongly regional.
  10. (Gaelic languages) Velarized, i.e. not palatalized.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A prostitute, a woman of loose morals.
  2. (sometimes obsolete) A woman or girl.

cacao

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

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.

card

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A playing card.
  2. (in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.
  3. A resource or an argument, used to achieve a purpose.
  4. Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
  5. A map or chart.
  6. An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentrically so.
  7. A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants.
  8. A tabular presentation of the key statistics of an innings or match: batsmen’s scores and how they were dismissed, extras, total score and bowling figures.
  9. A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.
  10. A greeting card.
  11. A business card.
  12. Title card / Intertitle: A piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of the photographed action at various points, generally to convey character dialogue or descriptive narrative material related to the plot.
  13. A test card.
  14. A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc.
  15. A printed programme.
  16. (by extension) An attraction or inducement.
  17. A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.
  18. A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.
  19. An indicator card.
verb
  1. To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
  2. To play cards.
  3. To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Material with embedded short wire bristles.
  2. A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.
  3. A hand-held tool formed similarly to a hairbrush but with bristles of wire or other rigid material. It is used principally with raw cotton, wool, hair, or other natural fibers to prepare these materials for spinning into yarn or thread on a spinning wheel, with a whorl or other hand-held spindle. The card serves to untangle, clean, remove debris from, and lay the fibers straight.
  4. A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
  5. A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
verb
  1. To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
  2. To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.
  3. To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.
  4. To clean or clear, as if by using a card.
  5. To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. One of the officials appointed by the pope in the Roman Catholic Church, ranking only below the pope and the patriarchs, constituting the special college which elects the pope. (See Wikipedia article on Catholic cardinals.)
  2. Any of a genus of songbirds of the finch family, Cardinalis.
  3. Any of various related passerine birds of the family Cardinalidae (See Wikipedia article on cardinals) and other similar birds that were once considered to be related.
  4. (color) A deep red color, somewhat less vivid than scarlet, the traditional colour of a Catholic cardinal's cassock. (same as cardinal red)
  5. Short for cardinal number, a number indicating quantity, or the size of a set (e.g., zero, one, two, three). (See Wikipedia article on Cardinal number.)
  6. (grammar) Short for cardinal numeral, a word used to represent a cardinal number.
  7. Short for cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis), a flowering plant.
  8. Short for cardinal tetra (Paracheirodon axelrodi), a freshwater fish.
  9. (bow) A woman's short cloak with a hood, originally made of scarlet cloth.
  10. Mulled red wine.

cardboard

noun
  1. A wood-based material resembling heavy paper, used in the manufacture of boxes, cartons and signs.
adjective
  1. Made of or resembling cardboard; flat or flavorless.

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.

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.

coda

noun
  1. A person born hearing to deaf parents.
noun
  1. A passage that brings a movement or piece to a conclusion through prolongation.
  2. The optional final part of a syllable, placed after its nucleus, and usually composed of one or more consonants.
  3. In seismograms, the gradual return to baseline after a seismic event. The length of the coda can be used to estimate event magnitude, and the shape sometimes reveals details of subsurface structures.
  4. A conclusion (of a statement or event, for example), final portion, tail end.

corkboard

noun
  1. A kind of strawboard or cardboard in which ground cork is mixed with the paper pulp.

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.

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.

dark

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
  2. (of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
  3. Hidden, secret, obscure.
  4. Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malign.
  5. Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
  6. Lacking progress in science or the arts; said of a time period.
  7. With emphasis placed on the unpleasant aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction presented in narrative form or a portion of either.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
  2. Ignorance.
  3. Nightfall.
  4. A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To grow or become dark, darken.
  2. To remain in the dark, lurk, lie hidden or concealed.
  3. To make dark, darken; to obscure.

doodad

noun
  1. A thing (used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall); especially an unspecified gadget, device, or part.

dorado

noun
  1. Coryphaena hippurus, the mahi-mahi or dolphin, a species of fish with a dorsal fin that runs the length of the body, also known for iridescent coloration.

drab

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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

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.

radar

noun
  1. A method of detecting distant objects and determining their position, velocity, or other characteristics by analysis of sent radio waves (usually microwaves) reflected from their surfaces
  2. A type of system using such method, differentiated by platform, configuration, frequency, power, and other technical attributes.
  3. An installation of such a system or of the transmitting and receiving apparatus.
  4. A superior ability to detect something.
verb
  1. To scan with radar, or as if with radar.

road

noun
  1. A way used for travelling between places, originally one wide enough to allow foot passengers and horses to travel, now (US) usually one surfaced with asphalt or concrete and designed to accommodate many vehicles travelling in both directions. In the UK both senses are heard: a country road is the same as a country lane.
  2. A road; or particularly a car, as a means of transportation.
  3. A path chosen in life or career.
  4. An underground tunnel in a mine.
  5. A railway or a single railway track.
  6. The act of riding on horseback.
  7. A hostile ride against a particular area; a raid.
  8. (often in the plural) A partly sheltered area of water near a shore in which vessels may ride at anchor; a roadstead.
  9. A journey, or stage of a journey.
  10. A way or route.
adjective
  1. At the venue of the opposing team or competitor; on the road.
  2. (Slang) Having attributes, primarily masculine, suggesting a tendency towards minor crime. Usually used by youths endearingly; glorifying crime.

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

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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