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noun
- A (usually disastrous) overflow of water from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
- (figuratively) A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.
verb
- To overflow.
- To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
- The floor was flooded with beer.
- They flooded the room with sewage.
- (figuratively) To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with.
- The station's switchboard was flooded with listeners making complaints.
- (context, internet, computing) To paste numerous lines of text in IRC, usually resulting in an automated kick or ban.
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noun
- The fruit forbidden to w:Adam, Adam.
- (idiom) Illicit pleasure; something that one should not take or get involved with, such as an another person's spouse.
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noun
- a runner at the front or ahead
- a precursor or harbinger, a warning ahead
- a forebear, an ancestor, a predecessor
- (philately) a postage stamp used in the time before a region or area issues stamps of its own
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noun
- A small carnivore (Vulpes vulpes), related to dogs and wolves, with red or silver fur and a bushy tail.
- Any of numerous species of small wild canids similar to the red fox, this term describing members of at least five genera (see the w:Fox, Wikipedia article on the fox).
- A fox terrier.
- A cunning person.
- (slang) An attractive woman.
verb (fox, es)
- (transitive) To trick, fool or outwit (someone) by cunning or ingenuity.
- (transitive) To confuse or baffle (someone).
- This crossword puzzle has completely foxed me.
- (intransitive) To act slyly or craftily.
- (intransitive). To discolour paper. Fox marks are spots on paper caused by humidity.
- The pages of the book show distinct foxing.
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