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▸ noun: Any diurnal predatory terrestrial bird of similar size and appearance to the accipitrid hawks, such as a falcon.
▸ noun: (entomology) Any of various species of dragonfly of the genera Apocordulia and Austrocordulia, endemic to Australia.
▸ noun: (politics) An advocate of aggressive political positions and actions.
▸ noun: (game theory) An uncooperative or purely selfish participant in an exchange or game, especially when untrusting, acquisitive or treacherous. Refers specifically to the prisoner's dilemma, a.k.a. the Hawk-Dove game.
▸ noun: (US, especially Chicago, and nationwide in African-American, often with "the") Cold, sharp or biting wind.
▸ verb: (transitive) To hunt with a hawk.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk.
▸ noun: A plasterer's tool, made of a flat surface with a handle below, used to hold an amount of plaster prior to application to the wall or ceiling being worked on: a mortarboard.
▸ verb: (transitive) To sell; to offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle.
▸ noun: A noisy effort to force up phlegm from the throat.
▸ verb: (transitive, intransitive) To expectorate, to cough up (something, such as mucus) from one's throat; to produce (something) by coughing or clearing one's throat.
▸ verb: (transitive, intransitive) To try to cough up something from one's throat; to clear the throat loudly; to cough heavily, especially causing uvular frication.
▸ noun: A surname.
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pitch,
monger,
huckster,
peddle,
vend,
war hawk,
clear the throat,
hawk-eagle,
accipitrine,
sparrowhawk,
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