cheers

—used as a toast

stuff

1

: materials, supplies, or equipment used in various activities: as a obsolete : military baggage b : personal property

2

: material to be manufactured, wrought, or used in construction {clear half-inch pine stuff — Emily Holt}

3

: a finished textile suitable for clothing; especially : wool or worsted material

4

a : literary or artistic production b : writing, discourse, talk, or ideas of little value : trash

5

a : an unspecified material substance or aggregate of matter {volcanic rock is curious stuff} b : something (as a drug or food) consumed or introduced into the body by humans c : a matter to be considered {the truth was heady stuff} {long-term policy stuff} d : a group or scattering of miscellaneous objects or articles {pick that stuff up off the floor}; also : nonphysical unspecified material {conservation and…all kinds of good stuff — Eric Korn}

6

a : fundamental material : substance {the stuff of greatness} b : subject matter {a teacher who knows her stuff}

7

: special knowledge or capability {showing their stuff}

8

a : spin imparted to a thrown or hit ball to make it curve or change course b : the movement of a baseball pitch out of its apparent line of flight : the liveliness of a pitch {greatest pitcher of my time…had tremendous stuff — Ted Williams}

9

: dunk shot

baffle

1

: to defeat or check (as a person) by confusing or puzzling : disconcert

2

: to check or break the force or flow of by or as if by a baffle

helter-skelter

1

: in undue haste, confusion, or disorder {ran helter–skelter, getting in each other's way — F. V. W. Mason}

2

: in a haphazard manner

squelch

transitive verb

1

a : to fall or stamp on so as to crush b (1) : to completely suppress : quell {squelch resistance} (2) : silence {squelched the protesters}

2

: to emit or move with a sucking sound 

 

intransitive verb

1

: to emit a sucking sound

2

: to splash through water, slush, or mire

spawn

intransitive verb

1

: to deposit or fertilize spawn

2

: to produce young especially in large numbers 

 

transitive verb

1

a : to produce or deposit (eggs) —used of an aquatic animal b : to induce (fish) to spawn c : to plant with mushroom spawn

2

: bring forth, generate {the idea spawned controversy}

scarce

1

: deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand : not plentiful or abundant

2

: intentionally absent {made himself scarce at inspection time}

scram

: to go away at once {scram, you're not wanted}

pumpkin

1

a : the usually round orange fruit of an annual vine (Cucurbita pepo) of the gourd family widely cultivated as food b : winter crookneck c British : any of various large-fruited winter squashes (C. maxima)

2

: a usually hairy prickly vine that produces pumpkins

3

: a strong orange color

bedbug

: a wingless bloodsucking hemipterous bug (Cimex lectularius) sometimes infesting houses and especially beds and feeding on human blood

pluck

transitive verb

1

: to pull or pick off or out

2

a : to remove something (as hairs) from by or as if by plucking {pluck one's eyebrows} b : rob, fleece

3

: to move, remove, or separate forcibly or abruptly {plucked the child from the middle of the street}

4

a : to pick, pull, or grasp at b : to play by sounding the strings with the fingers or a pick 

 

intransitive verb

: to make a sharp pull or twitch

psycho

: a deranged or psychopathic person —not used technically

anyway

1

: anywise

2

: in any case : anyhow

pronghorn

: a swift horned ruminant mammal (Antilocapra americana) chiefly of grasslands and deserts of western North America that resembles an antelope —called also pronghorn antelope

thunderbolt

1

a : a single discharge of lightning with the accompanying thunder b : an imaginary elongated mass cast as a missile to earth in the lightning flash

2

a : a person or thing that resembles lightning in suddenness, effectiveness, or destructive power b : a vehement threat or censure

decree

1

: an order usually having the force of law

2

a : a religious ordinance enacted by council or titular head b : a foreordaining will

3

a : a judicial decision of the Roman emperor b : a judicial decision especially in an equity or probate court

flip-flop

1

: the sound or motion of something flapping loosely

2

a : a backward handspring b : a sudden reversal (as of policy or strategy)

3

: a usually electronic device or a circuit (as in a computer) capable of assuming either of two stable states

4

: a rubber sandal loosely fastened to the foot by a thong 

 

— flip–flop intransitive verb

groggy

: weak and unsteady on the feet or in action

seldom

: in few instances : rarely, infrequently

thespian

1

capitalized : of or relating to Thespis

2

often capitalized [from the tradition that Thespis was the originator of the actor's role] : relating to the drama : dramatic