English noun: cant |
| 1. | cant (communication) stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition |
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| Synonyms | buzzword |
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| Broader (hypernym) | bunk, hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality |
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| 2. | cant (object) a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force |
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| Synonyms | bank, camber |
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| Broader (hypernym) | incline, side, slope |
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| 3. | cant (communication) a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) |
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| Samples | They don't speak our lingo.
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| Synonyms | argot, jargon, lingo, patois, slang, vernacular |
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| Broader (hypernym) | non-standard speech |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | rhyming slang, street name |
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| Domain usage members | 'hood, airhead, applesauce, arse, arsehole, ass, asshole, babe, baby, bad egg, baloney, bay window, besotted, big bucks, big money, bilgewater, bitch, bite, blind drunk, blotto, blowjob, Boche, boffin, boloney, bolshy, bosh, bun-fight, bundle, bunfight, bunghole, bunk off, burnup, butch, butch, buy it, caff, can-do, cert, Chinaman, chink, chuck, clean, cock sucking, cockeyed, codswallop, corker, corporation, crocked, dago, deck, dekko, dibs, dike, ditch, dreck, drool, drop-dead, dyke, feel, folderol, freaky, fuck, fucking, fuddled, gat, ginzo, give, good egg, gook, greaseball, grotty, Guinea, guvnor, hand job, heebie-jeebies, heist, honkey, honkie, honky, hood, hooey, hoof, humbug, Hun, hymie, Injun, jacking off, Jap, jerking off, Jerry, jitters, juice, juice, key, kike, Kraut, Krauthead, legs, loaded, mean, megabucks, Mickey Finn, nick, niff, Nip, nookie, nooky, nosh-up, old man, out-and-outer, paleface, pie-eyed, piece of ass, piece of tail, pile, pint-size, pint-sized, pip out, pissed, pixilated, plastered, play hooky, plum, plumb, pong, poor white trash, poppycock, pot, potbelly, power trip, red man, Redskin, rip-off, rod, roll in the hay, rubbish, runty, sawed-off, sawn-off, schlock, schlockmeister, screaming meemies, screw, screwing, shag, shakedown, shakedown, sheeny, shlock, shlockmeister, shtup, sister, skin flick, skinful, slam-bang, slant-eye, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, some, soup-strainer, soused, sozzled, spic, spick, spik, square, square-bashing, squeeze, squiffy, stiff, straight, stroppy, stuff, stuff and nonsense, suit, swiz, taradiddle, tarradiddle, the shits, the trots, tight, tommyrot, toothbrush, tosh, trash, tripe, tripper, trumpery, tummy, twaddle, uncool, wank, wet, white trash, whitey, wish-wash, wog, wop, yid |
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| 4. | cant (communication) insincere talk about religion or morals |
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| Synonyms | pious platitude |
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| Broader (hypernym) | talk, talking |
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| 5. | cant (artifact) two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees |
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| Synonyms | bevel, chamfer |
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| Broader (hypernym) | edge |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | splay |
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