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noun
- A Hindu title of respect, equivalent to Mr.; hence, a Hindu gentleman or official.
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1888, Rudyard Kipling, "His Chance in Life", Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio 2005, p. 57:
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:The Babu put on his cap and quietly dropped out of the window
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(context, generally) One who bears.
- Someone who helps carry the coffin or a dead body during a funeral procession.
- A domestic servant in India.
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1888, Rudyard Kipling, "Watches of the Night", Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio 2005, p. 60:
- :The bar of the watch-guard worked through the buttonhole, and the watch"Platte's watch"slid quietly on to the carpet; where the found it next morning and kept it.
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noun
- a thin, often flavored, Indian cigarette made of tobacco wrapped in a tendu leaf
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proper noun
- a Muslim honorific for a high-ranking woman, with its origin in India and Pakistan, that has become a surname in the west
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noun
- a beedi
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noun
- A male deer or goat.
- A male rabbit or hare.
- A male of other species, such as the ferret.
- An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
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(context, US, Canadian English, colloquial) A dollar (one hundred cents).
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(context, Canadian English, colloquial) By extension, one hundred of anything.
The police caught me driving a -forty on the freeway.
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(context , North America, derogatory) A black or Native American man.
- A young buck; an adventurous or high-spirited young man.
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(context, UK, obsolete) Hence, a fop or dandy.
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(rfv-sense) (poker) A plastic disc used to represent the player in dealer position.
- blame, Blame; responsibility; scapegoating; finger-pointing.
- w:Harry S. Truman, Harry S. Truman,
- : The stops here.
verb
- Of a horse: to rise sharply up on its hind legs.
- Of a horse: to leap upward arching its back.
1848: At the same time we got speared, the horses got speared too, and jumped and bucked all about — Statement by Jackey Jackey (an Aborigine) published in William Carron Narrative of an Expedition Undertaken Under the Direction of the Late Mr. Assistant Surveyor E. B. Kennedy (http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty.htmlcarron at Project Gutenberg Australia)
- By extension, to move in any sharp or jerking manner.
- By extension, to resist obstinately.
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