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▸ verb: (transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To attack with the teeth.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.
▸ verb: (intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
▸ verb: (intransitive, figurative) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
▸ verb: (intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
▸ verb: (transitive, sometimes figurative) To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.
▸ verb: (transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
▸ verb: (intransitive, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
▸ verb: (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
▸ verb: (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.
▸ verb: (obsolete, transitive, slang) To deceive or defraud; to take in.
▸ noun: The act of biting.
▸ noun: The wound left behind after having been bitten.
▸ noun: The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
▸ noun: A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
▸ noun: (slang) Something unpleasant.
▸ noun: (slang) An act of plagiarism.
▸ noun: A small meal or snack.
▸ noun: (figuratively, uncountable) Aggression.
▸ noun: The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
▸ noun: (colloquial, dated) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
▸ noun: (colloquial, dated, slang) A sharper; one who cheats.
▸ noun: (printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
▸ noun: (slang) A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.
▸ noun: (television) Ellipsis of sound bite. [(journalism, television) An extract from a speech or interview used as edited into a news or other broadcast; an interview clip, especially seen as particularly expressive or pithy.]
▸ noun: Acronym of behavior, information, thoughts, emotions (“four aspects of people's lives that a cult attempts to control”). [(uncountable) Human conduct relative to social norms.]
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