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▸ adjective: (figurative, of policies and rules and their application and enforcement) Inflexible; rigid.
▸ adjective: (of a person) Formal in behavior; unrelaxed.
▸ adjective: (colloquial) Harsh, severe.
▸ adjective: (of muscles or parts of the body) Painful as a result of excessive or unaccustomed exercise.
▸ adjective: Potent.
▸ adjective: (informal) Dead, deceased.
▸ adjective: (of the penis) Erect.
▸ adjective: Having a dense consistency; thick; (by extension) Difficult to stir.
▸ adjective: (cooking, of whipping cream or egg whites) Beaten until so aerated that they stand up straight on their own.
▸ adjective: (mathematics) Of an equation, for which certain numerical solving methods are numerically unstable, unless the step size is taken to be extremely small.
▸ adjective: (nautical) Keeping upright.
▸ adjective: (golf) Of a shot, landing so close to the flagstick that it should be very easy to sink the ball with the next shot.
▸ adjective: (professional wrestling, of a strike) Delivered more forcefully than needed, whether intentionally or accidentally, thus causing legitimate pain to the opponent.
▸ noun: (slang, chiefly Canada, US) An average person, usually male, of no particular distinction, skill, or education.
▸ noun: (slang) A person who is deceived, as a mark or pigeon in a swindle.
▸ noun: (slang) A cadaver; a dead person.
▸ noun: (slang) A flop; a commercial failure.
▸ noun: (US, slang) A person who leaves (especially a restaurant) without paying the bill.
▸ noun: (US, slang, by extension) A customer who does not leave a tip.
▸ noun: (blackjack) Any hard hand where it is possible to exceed 21 by drawing an additional card.
▸ noun: (finance, slang) Negotiable instruments, possibly forged.
▸ noun: (prison slang) A note or letter surreptitiously sent by an inmate.
▸ verb: To fail to pay that which one owes (implicitly or explicitly) to another, especially by departing hastily.
▸ verb: To cheat someone
▸ verb: To tip ungenerously.
▸ verb: (slang) To kill.
▸ verb: (informal) To be unsuccessful.
▸ adverb: (nautical) Of the wind, with great force; strongly.
▸ noun: A surname.
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