See oiler on Wiktionary
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"tags": [
"derogatory",
"slang"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English slang"
],
"glosses": [
"A heavy drinker; especially, an alcoholic."
],
"links": [
[
"drinker",
"drinker"
],
[
"alcoholic",
"alcoholic"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang) A heavy drinker; especially, an alcoholic."
],
"senseid": [
"en:heavy drinker of alcohol"
],
"tags": [
"slang"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈɔɪlɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈɔɪlə/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-oiler.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ef/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-oiler.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-oiler.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ef/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-oiler.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-oiler.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɔɪlə(ɹ)"
},
{
"homophone": "Euler"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"lang_code": "bg",
"roman": "mazač",
"sense": "ship operative",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "мазач"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"lang_code": "el",
"roman": "ladás",
"sense": "ship operative",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "λαδάς"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "ship operative",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"person"
],
"word": "nafciarz"
}
],
"word": "oiler"
}
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