walk-in

An astute manager will have a table or two set aside for important regular customers or demanding walk-ins.

1996, Kazuo Nishiyama, Welcoming the Japanese visitor: insights, tips, tactics, page 85:

Any patient with such a history and any woman who has not received prenatal care or who is a walk-in—an unexpected patient with no prenatal chart—will have toxicology labs done,

1996, Susan L. Diamond, Hard Labor, page 275:

others may be getting their first medication through the new Doorway program at Lakes Region General Hospital, which works with walk-ins as well as people referred by the state's 2-1-1 health services crisis line.

2019 May 3, “As the roads to addiction differ, so do the paths to recovery”, in The Laconia Daily Sun:

A customer, job applicant or similar who visits a restaurant, medical facility, car dealership, etc. without a reservation, appointment, or referral.

Still, a rapidly formed working group of Mossad wise men debated the risk in dealing with a walk-in, a volunteer who shows up bearing gifts.

2007 April 10, “Who Killed Ashraf Marwan?”, in The New York Times, retrieved 2015-09-18:

A defector (or similar) who walks into an embassy (etc) unannounced.


walk-in

Aspen is a walk-in tent campground with sites tucked in among the pine

2007, Fred Dow, Suzanne Dow, U. S. National Forest Campground Guide:

(US, of a facility) Accessed by walking, either exclusively, as a campground, or together with drive-in access, as at some drive-in movie theaters.


walkout

walkouts (plural)
walk-out (alternative)

Many people agreed this play did not belong in the festival: this tied with House on Mayhem Street for most walkouts, and was the subject of much angry discussion afterwards.

1986 April 26, Mara Math, “Controversy or Compromise? Feminism Gets Lost Off-stage”, in Gay Community News, page 14:

The protest group — conducting a virtual “walkout” of sorts since most Facebook employees are working from home because of the coronavirus pandemic — was one of a number of clusters of employees pressing Facebook executives to take a tougher stand on Mr. Trump’s posts.

2020 June 1, Sheera Frenkel, Mike Isaac, Cecilia Kang, Gabriel J. X. Dance, “Facebook Employees Stage Virtual Walkout to Protest Trump Posts”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A similar mass action of people leaving a place as a form of protest.

(weightlifting) A part of the squat exercise wherein one has to step out from the rack (“walk out” the weight) in order not to hit it during execution.


walk-up

Deverbal from walk up; (northern flicker): imitative of the bird's call.

Colaptes auratus
Colaptes auratus#Translingual


cave-in

We were warned away from the rickety old mine because of the danger of cave-ins.

The act of something collapsing or caving in.

落磐

the act of something collapsing or caving in

We couldn't get past the cave-in blocking the tunnel.

The location where something has caved in.

sortuma

the location where something has caved in


lockdown

en-noun

lockdown (countable and uncountable, plural lockdowns)

lockdowns (plural)
lock-down (alternative)

→ Dutch: lockdown

→ German: Lockdown

→ Italian: lockdown

→ Japanese: ロックダウン (rokkudaun)

→ Polish: lockdown

→ Romanian: lockdown

→ Russian: локда́ун (lokdáun)

At the time of writing, no decisions had been made by the Government as to when or how lockdown restrictions might begin to be lifted. However, discussions were taking place in the industry about how social distancing could be maintained on the railway if some patronage were to return soon.

2020 May 20, Andrew Haines talks to Stefanie Foster, “Repurpose rail for the 2020s”, in Rail, page 29:

Fans relished the traditional FA Cup fanfare from the Coldstream Guards and the hymn Abide With Me before throwing themselves wholeheartedly into an experience they have been largely deprived of since the first coronavirus lockdown began in March 2020.

2021 May 15, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 0-1 Leicester”, in BBC Sport:

When a column of smoke appeared on Thursday over the Sitong Bridge overpass in the Haidian district of Beijing, it drew attention to a protester who had hung banners openly bashing China’s top leader by name and criticizing the country’s “zero Covid” policy, including one calling for “freedom and not lockdowns.”

2022 October 14, Daisuke Wakabayashi, Claire Fu, “China’s Internet Censors Race to Quell Beijing Protest Chatter”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-10-14, Asia Pacific:

The confinement of people in their own rooms (e.g., in a school) or cells (in a prison), or to their own homes or areas (e.g., in the case of a city- or nation-wide issue) as a security measure after or amid a disturbance or as a non-pharmaceutical intervention in a pandemic.

staat van inperking

confinement of people as a security measure

The rafts were made up of strings of logs about seventeen feet wide, held together by poles across them. Each log was pinned to the poles by wooden pegs and lockdowns.

1931, State University of Iowa. Bureau of Business Research, Iowa studies in business (issues 10-15, page 24)

(US) A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting.


giveback

A reduction in pay or conditions as a result of unfavourable economic conditions.


workup

workup (countable and uncountable, plural workups)

The first time I saw Amity we were in front of her house playing work-up, a baseball variation where you move from position to position by outs until you get to bat.

2014, Tom Bentley, Flowering: And Other Stories:


wrap-up

A brief condensation or recapitulation as a final summary, especially to a news programme.


write-up

write-ups (plural)
writeup (alternative)

The film had poor write-ups, but I ended up enjoying it anyway.

A review published in the print or online media for a film, book, etc.


fit-out

Well, thought her parents and the neighbors, the old coger is going to do the handsome thing for little Sally, perhaps when she gets married, in the shape of a nice fit-out; he may give her a snug little cottage, who knows […]

1851, Carpet-bag: A Literary Journal, volume 1:

In a project update released on October 21, Crossrail also said that by the end of 2019 the final fit-out, testing and commissioning is due to be completed at many of the new stations.

2019 November 6, “Network News”, in Rail, page 26:


rubdown

(typography, attributive) Synonym of dry transfer


runaround

runarounds (plural)
run-around (alternative)
run around (alternative)

A whitlow running around the fingernail but not affecting the bone.


run-through

(railroad) In which trains continue without stopping while going through a station.


run-up

run-ups (plural)
runup (alternative)
run up (alternative)

The candidates were very nervous in the run-up to the election.

Politicians on TikTok will no longer be able to use the app tipping tools, nor access advertising features on the social network, as the company tightens its policies around political issues in the run-up to the US midterm elections in six weeks’ time.

2022 September 21, Alex Hern, “TikTok tightens policies around political issues in run-up to US midterms”, in The Guardian:

Further trials and commissioning of the newly laid track will take place in the run-up to the launch of passenger services in June.

2023 April 19, “Network News: First tram on Wolverhampton extension”, in RAIL, number 981, page 12, image caption:

A period of time just before an important event.


dropdown

Coordinate term: pull-down

Click the Colours button on the toolbar to show a dropdown menu of available colours.

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing, graphical user interface, of a widget) Dropping down from above; being a specific type of selection control that hides its contents until activated.


sendoff

sendoffs (plural)
send-off (alternative)

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A party to recognize the passing (death) of a friend and allow survivors to reminisce about the person's life.


flashover

flashover (countable and uncountable, plural flashovers)

The overhead line was energised at 25,000 volts and the height of the contact wire was reduced to 11 in. above the chimney, then to 5 and finally to 2 in.; at this last, short distance the flashover occurred, but all the men were perfectly safe because the current went direct to earth through the locomotive.

1960 April, “Talking of Trains: Safety with 25kV a.c.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 203:

An unintended electric discharge or arc over or around an insulator.


put-down

put-downs (plural)
putdown (alternative)

When he called you a know-it-all, he meant it as a put-down.

An insult or barb; a snide or demeaning remark.


shutdown

shutdown (countable and uncountable, plural shutdowns)

shutdowns (plural)
shut-down (alternative)

→ Japanese: シャットダウン (shattodaun)

→ Korean: 셧다운 (syeotdaun)

→ Russian: шатда́ун (šatdáun)

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I retreated into myself and allowed myself to be swallowed into a typically autistic shutdown.

2018, Laura James, Odd Girl Out: My Extraordinary Autistic Life, unnumbered page:

I may even reach the point where I have an autistic shutdown, which means I'll be unable to communicate, interact or socialize.

2020, Siena Castellon, The Spectrum Girl's Survival Guide: How to Grow Up Awesome and Autistic, page 34:

Their [autistic girls'] distress could come out in all sorts of ways and result in meltdown or shutdown.

2021, Carly Jones, Safeguarding Autistic Girls: Strategies for Professionals, pages 61–62:

(psychology, autism) An autistic response to stress or sensory overload, in which the individual freezes up and becomes silent, motionless, and unresponsive.

mutismo

reciprocation that renders the other person wordless


clean-up

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work-to-rule

work-to-rules (plural)
work to rule (alternative)

A labor protest in which employees do only the minimum work required by the rules of a workplace, following safety or other regulations to the letter in order to cause a slowdown.

按章工作

labor protest in which the minimum work is carried out

λευκή απεργία f (lefkí apergía, literally “white strike”)

италья́нская забасто́вка f (italʹjánskaja zabastóvka, literally “Italian strike”)

італі́йський страйк m (italíjsʹkyj strajk, literally “Italian strike”)


callback

callbacks (plural)
call-back (alternative)

Historically, all viable frameworks have always provided a mechanism to implement callbacks. C# goes one step further and encapsulates callbacks into callable objects called delegates.

2010, Trey Nash, Accelerated C# 2010, page xxvi:

(programming) A function pointer passed as an argument to another function.

takaisinkutsufunktio

function pointer passed to another function


call-in

(of a TV or radio programme) In which members of the public telephone the studio and talk live to the presenter.


call-in

A TV or radio programme allowing members of the public to telephone the studio and talk live to the presenter.


call-up

Fly-half Aaron Cruden hyper-extended his knee horribly in contact and was carried off the pitch, forcing Graham Henry to bring on Donald - a man who was fishing for whitebait a fortnight ago before injuries to Dan Carter and Colin Slade triggered his emergency call-up.

2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport:

In addition, the call-up placed an enormous strain on the nation's railroads, suddenly faced with having to provide hundreds of trains to rush guardsmen to the border.

2015, Charles H. Harris, Louis R. Sadler, The Great Call-Up, page 6:

An order to report for military service.


spin-off

spin-offs (plural)
spinoff (alternative)

→ Russian: спин-о́фф (spin-óff)

carveout

partial spin-off in a corporate reorganization

tie-in

work of fiction based on an original media property

The formation of a subsidiary company that continues the operations of part of the parent company; the company so formed.

分流企業 /分流企业

formation of a subsidiary, the company so formed


buyback

buyback (countable and uncountable, plural buybacks)

(countable) A free drink given to a patron by a bartender.


sit-in

a sit-in kayak

a sit-in bath


carryover

carryover (countable and uncountable, plural carryovers)

The damaging condition where water droplets are carried out of a steam boiler along with the dry steam.


catchup

catchup (countable and uncountable, plural catchups)


stakeout

The police had a stakeout in place where they expected the crime to occur.

The act of watching a location or people, generally covertly.


stirabout

stirabout (countable and uncountable, plural stirabouts)

/ˈstɜːɹəˌbaʊt/

He's really an awful bother, what with green shades for Tom's eyes at night and making him do the dumb-bells, and forcing Eva to eat the stirabout.

1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “The Dead”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 222:


changeover

changeovers (plural)
change-over (alternative)

The train runs slowly with frequent slacks for bridge and culvert repairs. At one point occurs the changeover from left- to right-hand running.

1949 September and October, “The "Nord Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 336:

Changeover from diesel to electric power can take place at any time while the locomotive is running and does not involve stopping the train.

1962 April, “The design of the S.R. electro-diesels”, in Modern Railways, page 393:

The changeover from dank, winding alleys to the openness, light and tranquility of the garden is utterly unexpected

1999, Rob Aben, Saskia de Wit, The Enclosed Garden:

The hotel receptionist added that the message came late last night. Unfortunately it had got mislaid with the changeover from the night manager.

2004, Stewart Dalby, The Friends of Rathlin Island:

The station is blessed with a cafe and staff accommodation, as it's an important crew changeover point, although this can be problematic when services are late.

2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 79:

A conversion or transition from one thing to another.

verwerking

of ingredients or products, to a new product

ombouw

of machines or buildings, to a new purpose


strikethrough

en-verb

strikethrough (third-person singular simple present strikesthrough or strikethroughs, no present participle, simple past and past participle struckthrough)

strikesthrough (present singular third-person)
strikethroughs (present singular third-person)
struckthrough (participle past)
struckthrough (past)

Deverbal of strike through; the verb, in at least some cases, is a back-formation from the noun, despite being redundant to strike through.

2001, Rachel Webster, XHTML Simplified, A.D.R. (London) Limited, →ISBN, page 113,
The next requirement is to strikethrough, “Yoga is just massage.
Inline style element <strike> carries out this task easily. It strikes through text.

2003, Doug Sahlin, How to Do Everything with Adobe Acrobat 6.0, McGraw-Hill Professional, →ISBN, page 37,
Cross-Out Text This tool is used to strikethrough selected text. You can change the color of the strikethrough and you can create a pop-up note with the Strikethrough Text tool as well.

2006, Editors of BottleTree Books LLC, Myspace Maxed Out: Explode Your Popularity, Buzz Your Band and Secure Your Privacy on Myspace, BottleTree Books LLC, →ISBN, page 59,
To strikethrough text do this: <s>Strikethrough Text Goes Here</s>

(nonstandard) Alternative form of strike through


shout-out

en-noun

shout-out (plural shouts-out or shout-outs)

shouts-out (plural)
shout-outs (plural)
shoutout (alternative)

(entertainment) An unscripted mention of the name of a viewer or audience member when on stage, television, etc.

A section of a web page, profile or blog containing these greetings.


start-up

start-up (countable and uncountable, plural start-ups)


check-in

check-in (countable and uncountable, plural check-ins)

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The hotel never charges for a late check-out or for an early check-in . . .

The implication was that Ms Purkiss had been stereotyped by the check-in staff as ‘foreign'.

1999, Pamela Brown, Tackling Racism: One Day Training Workshop:

The act of checking in at a hotel, airport, etc.


checkoff

checkoff (countable and uncountable, plural checkoffs)

Frye can help Seattles defense recognize formations, checkoffs and tendencies.

2007 November 4, The Associated Press, “Early Trade Turned Browns Season Around”, in New York Times:

(US) The collection of union dues or other fees from employees via deductions from their wages.


clampdown

clampdowns (plural)
clamp-down (alternative)

Coordinate term: crackdown

The suspension of the writ of habeas corpus is merely one step towards the imposition of martial law, toward a total clampdown on all forms of peaceful struggle for meaningful change.

There is already in the EU a clamour for barriers against competing products from Eastern Europe and Asia, and for a Europe-wide clampdown on 'aliens'.

1994, Vincent Cable, The World's New Fissures: Identities in Crisis:

Will there be any further restrictions on travel?
Only if the Government imposes them, although it seems unlikely that any further clampdowns will be made on domestic rail travel in case it risks the movement of key workers and essential goods at this critical time. [...]

2020 April 8, “Network News: COVID-19: Questions and Answers”, in Rail, page 11:

A sudden repressive or punitive restriction or control.


speedup

speedup (countable and uncountable, plural speedups)

speedups (plural)
speed-up (alternative)

(chiefly computing) The relationship between time taken and number of processors used.


beatdown

beatdown (countable and uncountable, plural beatdowns)

Deverbal of beat down; influenced by earlier throwdown.

(music) A subgenre of hardcore punk influenced by heavy metal.


dust-up

There's market gardening, a ruined abbey with an isolated belltower, a battlefield trail and festival recalling a dust-up of 1265, and a plaque on the old Midland station.

2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and fact behind railway plaques: Evesham (1870)”, in RAIL, number 947, pages 58–59:


sell-off

sell-offs (plural)
selloff (alternative)

The large-scale selling of goods or financial assets (e.g., real estate, equipment, stocks, bonds, subsidiaries).


shutout

The score wasn't just lopsided: it was a shutout.

(sports) A game that ends with the losing side being held scoreless.

на нула

game that ends with one side not having scored


slowdown

slowdowns (plural)
slow-down (alternative)

A reduction in speed, or a decrease in the level of production, economic activity, etc.

забавяне

a reduction in speed, or a decrease in the level of production, etc.


sit-down

I need a sit-down and a nice cup of tea.

Let's have a sit-down and talk about this properly.

An act of sitting down, sometimes with other people in some form of social exchange.

Sitzpause

an act of sitting down, sometimes with other people


shut-in

A shut-in is a geological feature similar to a gorge that “shuts-in” the river.

2024 January 16 (last accessed), Missouri Department of Natural Resources, “Swimming at Johnson's Shut-ins State Park”, in Missouri State Parks:

A narrow river gorge confined by resistant rock layers; a type of rock formation in which a stream is confined to a narrow bed of resistant stone.


shutoff

shutoffs (plural)
shut-off (alternative)

The fire raged for hours because they were unable to reach the shutoff for the gas line.


comedown

comedowns (plural)
come-down (alternative)

Coordinate term: downgrade (noun)

He had two subjects of conversation, the shame and come-down of being a tramp, and the best way of getting a free meal.

1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXVIII, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:

I have to say it again, my Dearest Friend. What a wonderful Comedown for the Godhead! What a wonderful Comeuppance for Humankind! That’s because You, Lord God, Creator, Bellows Maker of All That Breathes, deigned to come to my hovel of a soul; once there, to fatten up the leanness of my soul with the plumpitude of Your Sacrament; that’s to say, with the plenitude of Your Divinity and Humanity.

2000, Thomas à Kempis, “[The Sacrament of the Altar: How to Prepare for It & What It Tastes Like] Frequency”, in William Griffin, transl., The Imitation of Christ: How Jesus Wants Us to Live […] A Contemporary Version, HarperSanFrancisco, →ISBN, page 238:

“So how are you getting on at UCL?” said Penny kindly, as if it must be a sorry comedown after Oxford.

2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 5, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:

A sudden drop to a lower status, condition or level; a disappointment or letdown.


crackup

crackups (plural)
crack-up (alternative)

They shook the head of the unconscious pilot and when the latter opened his eyes, blinking wildly, the other members of the family lifted up the tail of the overturned crate sufficiently high enough to enable the dazed pilot, after releasing his belt, to fall out of the cockpit head first and disengage himself from the crack-up.

1936, Joseph R. James, "More Gates Air Circus Antics" (Popular Aviation, November 1936)

A crash or wreck, generally involving a car or airplane.


cutoff

cutoffs (plural)
cut off (alternative)
cut-off (alternative)

изключване

point at which something terminates or to which it is limited

A road, path or channel that provides a shorter or quicker path; a shortcut.


jackoff

(slang, vulgar, derogatory) A jerkoff (mean, nasty, or obnoxious person), a jerk, an asshole.


phaseout

phaseouts (plural)
phase-out (alternative)

Coordinate term: phasedown

The action of phasing out; an incremental removal or reduction.


breakup

breakups (plural)
break up (alternative)
break-up (alternative)

Several factors led to speculation that the accident might have been caused by a bomb or missile strike, including heightened safety and security concerns because of the 1996 Olympics then being held in the United States, the fact that TWA flight 800 was an international flight, and the sudden and catastrophic nature of the in-flight breakup.

2000 August 23, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.12 Wreckage Recovery and Documentation Information”, in Aircraft Accident Report: In-flight Breakup Over the Atlantic Ocean, Trans World Airlines Flight 800, Boeing 747-131, N93119, Near East Moriches, New York, July 17, 1996, archived from the original on 2022-07-11, page 65:

The act of breaking up; disintegration or division.

բաժանում

the act of breaking up, disintegration, or division


handover

handovers (plural)
hand-over (alternative)

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The daytime team got an urgent handover from the afterhours department.

The information passed on in such a case.


readout

readouts (plural)
read-out (alternative)

Most of us first found out when we heard the readout from the summit meeting.

Once the call is over, both sides typically publish a readout of what was discussed. However, readouts have been known to differ between governments.

2018 July 24, Kaitlan Collins, “Exclusive: White House stops announcing calls with foreign leaders”, in CNN:

In a readout of the conversation posted on Truth Social, Trump said, “We discussed Ukraine, the Middle East, Energy, Artificial Intelligence, the power of the Dollar, and various other subjects.”

2025 February 12, Kaitlan Collins and Kevin Liptak, “After Putin call, Trump says negotiations to end Ukraine war will start ‘immediately’”, in CNN:

An account of the topics discussed in a meeting, especially in diplomatic or political contexts.


lock-in

The youth group will have their annual lock-in this weekend.

(US) A sleepover party, usually held in a public place such as a church or school, in which the participants are not allowed to leave until the next morning.


logon

The user's desktop is displayed shortly after logon.


shakeup

shakeups (plural)
shake-up (alternative)

A vigorous reorganization, especially of the personnel or procedures of an organization.


smashup

(informal) A violent collision involving one or more vehicles.


step-down

(of a transformer etc) That reduces a voltage


step-up

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(exercise) A workout movement wherein one leg stands on an elevated surface and lifts in the concentric part the rest of the body up onto it to target – depending on angle and starting distance of the other leg and weights applied by the arms – the femoral and gluteal muscles variously.


falloff

falloffs (plural)
fall-off (alternative)

Jazz symbols include many contoured articulations and inflections, such as doits, fall-offs, and scoops.

1995, Music & Computers, volume 1, numbers 2-4, page 57:

(music) A note immediately followed by a rapidly descending group of notes.


flyover

flyovers (plural)
fly-over (alternative)

(US) A low-level flight, especially of military aircraft, of a ceremonial nature; a flypast (British).

They form part of the vast electrification and reconstruction schemes which have been in hand for a number of years at Liverpool Street, and in suburban Essex, and include the rearrangement of tracks, of which the Ilford flyover forms part; the modern signal boxes, now needed only at key points; the electric control or sub-stations; and a large electric car shed.

1951 January, R. A. H. Weight, “A Railway Recorder in Essex and Hertfordshire”, in Railway Magazine, page 44:

As our train to Paris dashed through the labyrynthine flyovers at Porchefontaine, barely a mile from Versailles, the 75 m.p.h. limit was already almost attained.

1961 November, H. G. Ellison, P. G. Barlow, “Journey through France: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 670:

The sales of toy motor-cars were enormous, and not only are there cars, there are all the accessories to go with them. In 1960 there were road sections with flyovers and banked corners on which sports and saloons could whizz along at a speed of 250 m.p.h, which apparently was a real speed of from six to seven miles per hour.

1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 89:

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, Philippines) A road or railway that passes over another, allowing routes to cross without interruption.

(US) A high-level overpass built above main overpass lanes.

Boom Town may not be a definitive text—save that for the historians—but it’s a significant update, one that exchanges the dusty pop-cultural clichés of a “flyover” city for the spark of a sincerely enlightening place.

2018 September 26, Carson Vaughan, “'Boom Town' Explodes the Notion of ‘Flyover’ Territory”, in The Atlantic:

If Democrats end up flipping state houses in places Trump won in 2016, they will have proved themselves capable of winning in the places coastal elites derisively refer to as “flyover America.”

2018 October 30, Rahm Emanuel, “The Biggest Story of the Midterms Is One the Democrats Aren’t Telling”, in The Atlantic:

(US, informal, attributive) Middle America, noncoastal America.


flareup

All the legendry, of course, white and Indian alike, died down during the nineteenth century, except for occasional atavistical flareups.

1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 1, in The Whisperer in Darkness:


flare-up

flare-ups (plural)
flareup (alternative)

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Although Crohn disease and ulcerative colitis are chronic, they are characterized by periods of remission that last for varying amounts of time, interrupted by flare-ups, when symptoms of the disease become more evident.

2000, Jon Zonderman, Ronald Vender, Understanding Crohn Disease and Ulcerative Colitis:

An inflammation such as of tendons (tendonitis) or joints (osteoarthritis).


trade-off

trade-offs (plural)
tradeoff (alternative)

In writing, there's often a trade-off between being concise and being complete.

Individual episodes are still thrilling and often quite striking, give or take some pitch-black battle scenes. But the gradual ramping up of the plotting that has grown steadily in the past three seasons crossed some invisible Maginot line this year, where the formerly acceptable trade-offs of focus for fun are no longer quite so taken for granted.

2019 May 19, Alex McLevy, “The final Game Of Thrones brings a pensive but simple meditation about stories (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2019-05-22:

All of these are of vital importance to the effective functioning of GBR. They all require the judgement of Solomon to handle the myriad and complex trade-offs between running trains and maintaining the railway, and deciding how capacity on any particular route can be optimised with all the competing demands from varying operators to run on it.

2024 June 12, Sir Michael Holden, “A manifesto for our railway to thrive”, in RAIL, number 1011, page 42:

Any situation in which the quality or quantity of one thing must be decreased for another to be increased.

折衷

situation in which one thing must be decreased for another to be increased


foldout

foldouts (plural)
fold-out (alternative)

A bed that folds out from a closed position.

вкле́йка

сфальцо́ванная


foldout

Coordinate term: fold-up

a foldout map

a foldout book


follow-through

follow-through (countable and uncountable, plural follow-throughs)

follow-throughs (plural)
followthrough (alternative)

(sports) The continued action of a stroke, or of the delivery of a ball, after it has been hit or released.


follow-up

en-verb

follow-up (third-person singular simple present follows-up, present participle following-up, simple past and past participle followed-up)

follows-up (present singular third-person)
following-up (participle present)
followed-up (participle past)
followed-up (past)
followup (alternative)


cleanout

Coordinate term: drainout

An opening or drain leading into a plumbing system to provide a location to insert a snake or other implement for cleaning.


frame-up

Then he burst into a stream of horrible profanity. "What's the game?" he cried, glaring round him. "Do you think I am easy and that you can play me for a sucker? Is it a frame-up, or what? You've chose the wrong man for a try-on of that sort."

1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:


frameup

frameups (plural)
frame-up (alternative)

"What's the game?" he cried, glaring round him. "Do you think I am easy and that you can play me for a sucker? Is it a frame-up, or what? You've chose the wrong man for a try-on of that sort."

In the provincial communications machinery repair factory, the cadres, workers and veteran models who had once been persecuted and falsely charged began to play an active role in production after the cadre policy was carried out.[…]In Hsinping County as many as 22,000 people were involved in these political frameups. Among these people there were leading cadres at the county, commune and brigade levels, ordinary cadres and poor and lower-middle peasants. Some were disabled or even beaten to death.

1978 August 4 [1978 July 23], “Yunnan Reverses Verditcs on Large Number of Unjust Cases, Rehabilitates Many Cadres Persecuted and Falsely Charged by the 'Gang of four'”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 151, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page E 10:

A false incrimination of an innocent person; a scheme to frame an innocent person for a crime.


freakout

freakouts (plural)
freak-out (alternative)

From freak + out, as a deverbal of freak out.

(slang) A frightening or disorientating experience, especially one that results from the use of a hallucinogenic drug.

(slang) An occurrence of unrestrained or irrational behaviour.


drive-through

Coordinate term: drive-in (adj)

I switched banks so that I could use a drive-through branch near my home.

Of an establishment, providing service to occupants of automobiles while they are in their still-running vehicle, especially when the vehicle does not park in a parking space and the goods received are not consumed until the vehicle vacates the lane.


throwaway

Water was provided in throwaway plastic bottles, but the more ecologically minded of us refilled our initial bottles from the fountain.

More people means that more synthetic compounds and dangerous throwaway plastics are manufactured, many of which add to the growing toxification of the Earth.

2021 January 13, Phoebe Weston, “Top scientists warn of 'ghastly future of mass extinction' and climate disruption”, in The Guardian:

Disposable; intended for a single use prior to being discarded.

The host made a throwaway remark about the president that was later repeated on the television news.

As the film opens, a martial-drum-dominated version of the "Star Wars" theme and the inevitable bottom-to-top print crawl inform us that the Clone Wars, a conflict that originated as a throwaway line in the original 1977 film... https://web.archive.org/web/20150911134648/http://www.nysun.com/arts/star-wars-clone-wars-painted-in-the-stars/83922/

I was intrigued by the exchange in one of the opening scenes where the Warden says to Snake: "You flew the wing-five over Leningrad, didn't you?" It turns out to be just a throwaway line, but for a moment it worked like the best SF, where a casual reference can imply a lot. https://web.archive.org/web/20120125090151/http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/gibson_interview.html

In one throwaway visual gag, the towering filing cabinet behind his desk is shown to have no drawers at all, but several concealed mirrors instead.

2021 February 5, Nicholas Barber, “The Great Dictator: The film that dared to laugh at Hitler”, in BBC:

Given in a casual manner, either deliberately or unconsciously, with apparent disregard for effect.


throwaway

Some [of the essays] appeared originally in writer's^([sic]) forums and bookstore throwaways, others in more academic contexts […]

2016, Dr Eric Murphy Selinger, Dr William A Gleason, Romance Fiction and American Culture:

Any printed material that need not be kept after being read; especially, a flyer or brochure.

Something temporary and disposable, as:
(Internet) A burner account.

Something temporary and disposable, as:
A burner account.


make-up

en-noun

make-up (usually uncountable, plural make-ups)

From Whitemoor, left at 6.45 p.m., the train's make-up usually includes also some Continental ferry wagons, originating from Harwich.

1961 December, “Motive Power Miscellany: Eastern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 760:

Alternative spelling of makeup. See usage notes there.


make-up

Joe and Joanne had a big fight, and then apologized and had incredible make-up sex.

(informal) Of or relating to a reconciliation.


tryout

Coordinate term: try-on

Oh, there's only one spot open right now, so we're gonna have tryouts.

2008 July 14, Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan, The Dark Knight, spoken by The Joker (Heath Ledger), Warner Bros. Pictures, DC Comics, Legendary Pictures:

A test of the suitability or effectiveness of a person or thing, especially an audition for a performer or athlete, or the advance staging of a play at a small theatre.


make-do

en-adj

make-do (comparative more make-do, superlative most make-do)

more make-do (comparative)
most make-do (superlative)


phone-in

Coordinate term: phone-out

(broadcasting) A show requiring members of the public to telephone the studio.


cut-off

cut-off (comparative more cut-off, superlative most cut-off)

more cut-off (comparative)
most cut-off (superlative)

Having had shirt sleeves or pantlegs shortened by cutting material from the end.


pullback

pullbacks (plural)
pull-back (alternative)

The act or result of pulling back; a withdrawal.

Your disorders are a pull-back for your good qualities.

1710 November 1 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Jonathan Swift, “[Dr. Swift’s Journal to Stella.] (please specify |letter=I–LXV).”, in Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, editors, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, […], new edition, volume (please specify |volume=I to XIX), London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1801, →OCLC:

(dated or archaic) Something that holds back; a drawback; a hindrance.

(finance) A reduction in the price of a financial instrument after reaching a peak

differential geometry
differential geometry

(differential geometry) The map between cotangent bundles of manifolds corresponding to a smooth map between smooth manifolds, which at each point is the dual map to the corresponding pushforward.

(category theory) Within a Cartesian square (which has a pair of divergent morphisms and a pair of convergent morphisms) the divergent morphism which is directly opposite to a given one of the convergent morphisms, said to be “along” the convergent morphism which is between that pair of opposite morphisms. (The pullback is said to be “of” the given morphism.)


pin-up

Deverbal of pin up, because such a photograph is often extracted from the publication and pinned up on a wall.

Coordinate term: poster child

She was Nicolas Sarkozy's pin-up for diversity, the first Muslim woman with north African parents to hold a major French government post. But Rachida Dati has now turned on her own party elite with such ferocity that some have suggested she should be expelled from the president's ruling party.

2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in Guardian:

(figuratively) Figurehead, person who represents an idea, cause etc.


tie-up

Goods values increase as businesses limit their stocks in order to reduce capital tie-up.

(finance) The act of tying up (or immobilizing) a capital.


holdout

If Facebook chooses to remain a holdout, it will not be as the head of a countercoalition but as a cranky recluse.

2007 November 4, Randall Stross, “Why Google Turned Into a Social Butterfly”, in New York Times:

One of Otto’s first moves after Viserys’ death is to make the lords and ladies of the Red Keep bend the knee to Aegon. The two holdouts are swiftly carted away by the guards, while the third, Rhaenyra’s faithful Lord Caswell (Paul Hickey), reluctantly kneels.

2022 October 16, Jenna Scherer, “An enticing House Of The Dragon crowns Westeros' new ruler”, in AV Club:

One who refuses to give consent to an agreement in the hope of an improved offer; one who holds out; one who clings to a cause that has been mostly abandoned.

He is probably working a vest or sleeve hold-out. Some clumsy or audacious sharpers will go so far as to hold out cards in their lap, or stick them in a "bug" under the table.

1897, Robert Frederick Foster, Foster's Complete Hoyle, page 195:

(card games) A device for cheating at card games by covertly holding a card out of play until it is wanted.


walkthrough

walkthroughs (plural)
walkthru (alternative)
walk-through (alternative)

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software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering) The process of inspecting algorithms and source code by following paths through the algorithms or code as determined by input conditions and choices made along the way.

läpikävely

(software engineering) process of inspecting algorithms and source code


payout

The maximum payout from this fruit machine is £20.

According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.

2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:


putout

(baseball) A play in which a batter is retired.

Jones recorded 15 putouts in the first half of the season.

(baseball) The statistic of the number of outs a defensive player directly caused.


markdown

Deverbal of mark down. The computing sense is a pun on markup (language).

A reduction in price in order to stimulate sales.


drop-off

drop-offs (plural)
dropoff (alternative)

en:landform with downward slope or cliff

The precipitous outer side of a coral reef, facing the open sea.

Fifty car parking spaces, a drop-off point, five spaces for blue badge holders and lighting masts are all included in the plan, as is cycle parking on the station forecourt and ticket vending machines.

2020 May 20, “Network News: Plan submitted for £18.6 million station at Soham”, in Rail, page 21:

en:space reserved for detraining or debussing

(especially US) A space reserved outside a bus or railway station for vehicles stopping to drop off passengers for onward transit.

These signs are friendly reminders for road users to slow down during drop-off and pick-up.

2021 February 1, Living in Brisbane, Brisbane, page 1:

A time during which passengers, such as school children, are dropped off; the event or act of dropping them off.


click-through

en-noun

click-through (countable and uncountable, plural click-throughs)

click-throughs (plural)
clickthrough (alternative)
click-thru (alternative)
clickthru (alternative)

(Internet) The act or an instance of clicking through from one webpage to another.

(Internet, especially advertising) An online advertising performance metric representing an individual responding to an ad by clicking on it.


hookup

The predominant way of finding a hookup or sexual partner would be going online.

I bought more bungee cords and made my way to my hookup’s house via slower, more manageable back roads.

2015, Tyler Oakley, Binge, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:


callout

I had to pay for the callout of the plumber after the pipe burst.

An instance of being summoned to visit a certain place in order to provide assistance; an instance of summoning someone who is on call.

So many people attended the basketball callout that the coach decided to form two teams.

(US) A meeting or rally held in order to find interested participants, e.g. for an activity or sports team.

Ancient Egypt: Civilization in northeastern Africa that gives reference volumes a chance to change up the pace a little and break up the monotonous, text-heavy format with more graphical elements, timelines, and a few callout boxes.

2012, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge, page 64:

(typography, graphic layout) A pull quote: an excerpt from an article (such as in a news magazine) that is duplicated in a large font alongside the article so as to grab a reader's attention and indicate the article's topic.

An annotation that pertains to a specific location in a body of text or a graphic, and that is visually linked to that location by a mark or a matching pair of marks.

On this particular day, I felt ill, mostly from exhaustion, and had to call out from work. This callout caused a stir and a display of animosity.

2015, Pearley Rufus-Lusan, The Baby Boomer Nurse:

The act of calling out from work, i.e. announcing that one cannot attend; the act of calling in sick.


writedown

If Chelsea were to fall foul of profit and sustainability, they would be expected to cite unforeseen circumstances, much as some clubs have claimed Covid writedowns: their books would have been sound but for the pandemic.

March 11 2022, David Hytner, “Chelsea are in crisis but there is no will to leave club on their knees”, in The Guardian:

(accounting) An adjustment; a precise amount adjusted by an act of writing down or entering an asset and its value; a reduction of an asset, written down or otherwise recorded as such.

Abschreibung

adjustment; precise amount adjusted by an act of writing down an asset


throw-down

Deverbal of throw down; for more, see throwdown § Etymology.


screwup

screwups (plural)
screw-up (alternative)

The Ford administration emerged in better shape than it deserved from the fantastic screw-up that preceded the release of the Rockefeller...

1977, John Osborne, White House watch: the Ford years, page 147:

(colloquial) A substantial mistake, usually causing problems for more people than just the person or group who made it.


let-off

(engineering) A device for letting off, releasing, or giving forth, as the warp from the cylinder of a loom.


keepie-uppie

keepie-uppie (countable and uncountable, plural keepie-uppies)

The children were playing keepie-uppie to amuse themselves.

(uncountable) The action of continuously bouncing a soccer ball in the air without the use of the hands.

hooghouden

My record is 50 keepie-uppies!


fallaway

(basketball) Of a shot, taken while moving away from the basket.


fallaway

(basketball) A shot taken while moving away from the basket.


reach-around

reach-arounds (plural)
reacharound (alternative)

I bet you're the kind of guy that would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reach-around. I'll be watching you.

1987, Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, Gustav Hasford, Full Metal Jacket (motion picture), spoken by Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (Ronald Lee Ermey):

Tom adored to give pleasure while Gore has always liked to boast that he has never knowingly or intentionally gratified any of his partners. Not even a sighing reach-around by the sound of it.

2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 153:

Congress recently increased federal funding for abstinence-only education from abo-from about 50 to 75 million dollars per year, and at least part of that money gets matched by the states, which means that students are still being exposed to abstinence-centered programs, (uh) but with names like WAIT (uh) which stands for “Why Am I Tempted?,” (uh) GO APE (uh) or “Abstinence Protects Everyone,” and No Screwin’ Around (uh) which I presume stands for (uh) “No One Should Copulate Regularly Except Wedded Individuals. (uh) Now, A Reach-around Occasionally Ultimately Not Disastrous.”

2015, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Sex Education”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 2, episode 24, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:

Manual stimulation of a sexual partner's genitals during anal or vaginal intercourse from behind.

(idiomatic) An ostensibly thoughtful gesture, especially one performed to win favour or mitigate unfair treatment.

(basketball) A passing style in which the ballhandler performs a crossover step in the direction of the intended pass and then extends his or her arms to throw the pass around the defender.


die-hard

en-adj

die-hard (comparative more die-hard, superlative most die-hard)

more die-hard (comparative)
most die-hard (superlative)


throwdown

throwdowns (plural)
throw-down (alternative)

Deverbal of throw down. Fight and music senses from earlier idiom throw down the gauntlet (“issue a challenge”).

(slang, wrestling) A fall, indicating defeat.

(slang, rare) A weapon planted at a crime scene in order to mislead investigation, especially in situations where deadly force would only have been justified if the victim were armed. Also an untraceable weapon kept in readiness for such use.

a hip-hop throwdown

(slang, hip-hop) A performance by a rapper or DJ that is intended to be particularly hardcore or intense.

(Australia, informal) A 250 ml bottle of beer.

(Australia) A type of small firework that explodes with a loud noise when thrown violently onto the ground.


talkback

en-noun

talkback (countable and uncountable, plural talkbacks)

A system in broadcasting and recording studios that enables the director to communicate with others (host, presenter, anchor) during performance.

(by extension) Communication from members of the public to the makers of a broadcast transmission while it is happening.


blowdown

blowdown (countable and uncountable, plural blowdowns)

chemical engineering
chemical engineering

(chemical engineering) The removal of liquid and solid hydrocarbons from a refinery vessel by the use of pressure.

(industrial engineering) Cooling fluid discharged from a plant at the end of its cycle.

At higher airspeeds, the 737's maximum rudder deflection is limited by blowdown, helping to prevent flight-control inputs from overstressing the aircraft's vertical stabilizer.

According to Boeing, these movements were consistent with the effects of blowdown on those surfaces as documented during flight tests. However, the outboard aileron split recorded by the FDR after about 0150:27, which is discussed later in this section, was not consistent with the flight test data.

2002 March 13, National Transportation Safety Board, “Accident Sequence Study”, in Aircraft Accident Brief: EgyptAir Flight 990, Boeing 767-366ER, SU-GAP, 60 Miles South of Nantucket, Massachusetts, October 31, 1999, archived from the original on 2022-05-11, page 38:

(aviation) The action of aerodynamic forces to tend to cause a deflected control surface to return to its neutral position, or prevent the surface from deflecting past a certain point.

Give these parts a blowdown with your air hose before you put them in the ultrasonic cleaning tank.

(manufacturing, informal) An instance of blowing down with compressed air.


clawback

clawback (countable and uncountable, plural clawbacks)

Deverbal of claw back. In the financial senses, refers to something being "clawed back", or reclaimed; in the sense of a flatterer, it suggests the idea of a person's back being scratched (see scratch someone's back).

(US law of evidence) A rule that permits a party to take back evidentiary materials that were mistakenly turned over to the other party but to which the other party would not have been entitled.

(US taxation law) Money that a party is entitled to keep under one tax provision but is taken by another tax provision.

The airline got a clawback provision in the event of failure of the engines to meet fuel-consumption targets.

(US, business) Any recovery of a performance-related payment based on discovery that the performance was not genuine.

malus

business: recovery of performance payment


meet-and-greet

meet-and-greets (plural)
meet and greet (alternative)

A method of contact between a service provider, such as a hotel collection service, or car hire provider, and the arriving client at an airport or railway station, usually involving the display of a board with the client's name written on it.


lookahead

lookahead (countable and uncountable, plural lookaheads)

Our computer chess program uses lookahead to avoid difficult endgames.

(computing, software compilation) The analysis in advance of subsequent decisions that would be made if a particular branch of an algorithm was followed.


breakopen

In electric arc testing, a material response evidenced by the formation of one or more holes in the material which may allow thermal energy to pass through the material.


look-out

Very well—very good indeed. We may get to the coast; but to cross the wide sea, we know not whither, is a dreary look-out.

1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 148:

The gang was working without a look-out, six of them with their backs to approaching trains.

2021 September 22, Dr Mike Esbester, “Trackside safety: a permanent problem”, in RAIL, number 940, page 78:


rollout

rollouts (plural)
roll-out (alternative)

The growing use of social media to spread anger and dissent in the Arab world has been hailed by western governments as one of the chief justifications for a completely unfettered internet. The US is reportedly funding the secret rollout of technology in Iran in an effort to undermine internet censors in the country.

2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian:

They were also impressed with the speed of the rollout, considering that the idea was only realised once the pandemic took hold.

2021 September 22, “National Rail Awards 2021: Automated Intelligent Video System”, in RAIL, number 940, page 54:

An act of rolling out; gradual deployment.


cooldown

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I had to wait for the cooldown to finish before recasting the spell.

Private Terminal: After using a power, you must wait for it to recharge before using it again.
Private Terminal: This is called the cooldown period. When a power is in cooldown, its icon is gray. A red icon indicates that the power cannot affect the current target.

2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Tactical Mastery: Advanced Power Use:

(video games) The minimum length of time that the player needs to wait after using an ability or item before it can be used again.

(by extension) A particular ability with a powerful effect but long cooldown period, making it important to track when it was last used and when it can be used again.

(sports) The rest period between sets or workout sessions, when cooling of body temperature may occur.

(by extension) Any rest period between sessions of an activity or event.


logout

(computing) The act or process of logging out.


writeup

I will be the first to concede that my writeups for the fourth season of The Simpsons have so far been suspiciously devoid of criticism.

2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:


bail-out

Since the interview, TfL has received a £1.6bn bail-out, while TfGM has been given £13.3 million to keep it operational until the end of August.

2020 June 17, Jim McMahon tells Richard Clinnick, “Stepping out of the shadows”, in Rail, page 39:


do-over

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Avoid the frustration of time-consuming do-overs on school projects. Try Crayola Erasable Markers, Crayons & colored pencils.

2006, Binney & Smith, Crayola^® Markers, advertisement on carton

(US, childish) A repeat of a previous activity, with the hope of greater success.


fall-through

fall-through (countable and uncountable, plural fall-throughs)

fall-throughs (plural)
fallthrough (alternative)

Deverbal of fall through.
switch (x) {
case 1:
 printf("Printed when x=1");
 break;
case 2:
 printf("Printed when x=2");
case 3:
 printf("Printed when x=2 or x=3");
 break;
}
A case statement in the C programming language containing a fall-through. Because the second case has no "break" at the end, execution will "fall through" to the third case.

text float box

<tt>switch (x) {
case 1:
 printf("Printed when x=1");
 break;
case 2:
 printf("Printed when x=2");
case 3:
 printf("Printed when x=2 or x=3");
 break;</tt>
}

It is a good idea to comment the (rare) cases in which a fall-through is intentional so that an uncommented fall-through can be assumed to be an error.

1997, Bjarne Stroustrup, The C++ Programming Language: Language Libraries and Design:

If you place default elsewhere, then a break will be required to prevent fall-through.

2001, Graham M Seed, Barry J Cooper, An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming in C++:

Specifically, it prohibits fall-through conditions in almost all cases.

(programming) In certain programming constructs, the situation where execution passes to the next condition in a list unless explicitly redirected.


meetup

We had our meetup in the local library, because of its central location.


wipeout

wipeouts (plural)
wipe-out (alternative)
wipe out (alternative)

Ha ha! Did you see that wipeout?

I'd like to show you what a wipeout looks like from the board. I'm pretty good at getting wiped out, so I'll be the stooge.

1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer:

(surfing) The act of falling off one's surfboard.


smackdown

Deverbal of smack down (“to defeat utterly and decisively, especially in a humiliating way”), from smack (“sharp blow, slap”, noun) + down. Influenced by earlier throwdown. Popularized by:
* the United States professional wrestling television programme WWF SmackDown! (first broadcast on April 29, 1999), now called WWE SmackDown and produced by World Wrestling Entertainment; and
* the phrase lay (or put) the smack down (“to start a fight”).

deverbal

A significant or humiliating setback or defeat; a beating, a thrashing.


pull-in

(British) A rest stop; a place at the side of a road where drivers can rest.


signup

The deal was a critical part of filling loopholes in Microsoft's distribution strategy, ensuring that IE and not Netscape had widespread distribution to new users with new PCs and to existing PC users new to the Internet at the time of ISP signups.

2012, Josh Lerner, Scott Stern, The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited, page 258:


laydown

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Of (usually nuclear) bomb delivery: designed to land the bomb on the ground and wait for some time before detonation.


knock-up

knock-ups (plural)
knockup (alternative)

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One of those unadorned late-fifties hillside knockups posing as intentionally contemporary but really the product of a tight construction budget.

2000, Jonathan Kellerman, Monster, page 47:

Something constructed shoddily or hastily.


turndown

Also, the amenities vary between the paradors: almost all that we visited had hairdryers, many had small refrigerators in the room, and some even had bathrobes and turndown service.

2006, June Eveleigh Brown, Karen Brown, Lorena Aburto Ramirez, Karen Brown's Spain, page 38:

(hotels) The service of turning down the bedcovers and often leaving chocolates, etc., on the pillow.


flowthrough

en-noun

flowthrough (countable and uncountable, plural flowthroughs)

Deverbal of flow through, from flow + through.

(taxation) A legal entity intended to not incur (income) taxation at the entity, but solely at the beneficiaries.


jumpoff

Most men are not going to admit that they have a girlfriend, or a wife, or a jumpoff on the side.

2007, T. White, Understanding Richard, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 10:

Now I’m not saying that she needs to be on the level of a valedictorian and super model at the same time to be “jumpoff” material either.

2008, “Your Royal Flyness”, From MySpace to My Place: The Men’s Guide to Snagging Women Online, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 18:

It’s going to be an interesting Father’s Day for this well known Sports Commentator. Both his jumpoff and girlfriend recently revealed their baby plans.

2009, pusssykatt@aol.com, “UNDERGROUND BUZZ 01/08/09 **BLIND ITEMS**”, in alt.gossip.celebrities (Usenet):

You in love with the bitch but to us she a jumpoff

2018 March 25, 2 Eleven (lyrics and music), “Blood Walk”:

I hit your bitch, she a jumpoff
Cartier bracelets for her, they don't come off

2018 December 21, Lil Baby in 21 Savage (lyrics and music), “Can’t Leave Without It”:

(slang) A sexual partner who is more than a one-night stand but with whom one does not intend to form a long-term romantic relationship.


knockabout

They denounced the peasant's passions as animal lusts and complained that vagabonds and knockabouts were "generally given to horrible uncleanness. They have not particular w1ves, neither do they range themselves into families, but consort together as beasts.

1983, Michael MacDonald, Mystical Bedlam: Madness, Anxiety and Healing in Seventeenth Century England, page 91:

The guests were mostly reformed drunks and knockabouts who wanted to talk about their troubled trek through life

2008, Hunter James, Smile Pretty and Say Jesus: The Last Great Days of PTL:

The Virginia assembly in 1670 disfranchised most of the landless knockabouts, accusing them of “having little interest in the country” and causing “tumults at the election to the disturbance of his majesty's peace.”

2009, David M. Kennedy, Lizabeth Cohen, Thomas A. Bailey, The American Pageant, Volume I: A History of the American People, page 70:

A person living in rough, violent conditions.


slipup

And I went to the cemetery and I had the guide check the names, all of the names, I did not want any slipup.

1957 February 8, Martin Kenneth Tytell (witness), “Testimony of Martin Kenneth Tytell, Accompanied by Chester T. Lane and Byron N[icholson] Scott, as Counsel”, in Scope of Soviet Activity in the United States: Hearings before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-fifth Congress, First Session on the Scope of Soviet Activity in the United States: […] Part 66 […], Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 4111:

He [Joseph M. Heiser Jr.] praises the ordnance soldier and logistician and blames improperly used systems, misunderstandings as to how programs were to work, poor communications and leadership as the problems for many of the slipups in logistical support to the Army in the field, especially in the combat areas in World War II, Korea and Vietnam.

1992 February, Edward C. Starnes, “Book Review: A Soldier Supporting Soldiers: Joseph M. Heiser Jr., LTG (USA, Retd.): Center of Military History, Washington, D.C., 1991, 323 pages. …”, in Claire B. Starnes, editor, Ordnance: The Professional Bulletin of the Ordnance Soldier (PB; 9-92-1), Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.: U.S. Army Ordnance Center and School, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 63, column 2:

How difficult is it to pick 10 playoff games correctly? [...] Even the current leader Alan Sasso, who earned 261 points through the conference championships had one slipup.

2009 January 22, Andrew Das, “Bitter days turn sweet for fans of Cardinals”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-05-12:


lash-up

The home-made raft was a lash-up, but it floated.

It is, in mitigation, a faintly understandable confusion, the films having become down the decades such a lash-up of stylistic tics, fashion anachronisms, "humour", believable gunplay, cartoon violence and casual sexism that it's a wonder anyone can remember the Bond of the books as opposed to the brand Bond.

2013 October 7, Euan Ferguson, “Solo: A James Bond Novel by William Boyd – review”, in The Guardian:

When a six-car Class 158 lash-up arrives at Platform 17, I have to take refuge behind a post to avoid getting swept away by a tsunami of disembarking passengers.

2024 November 27, Paul Bigland, “Around the UK on nearly 80 trains...”, in RAIL, number 1023, page 48:

(informal) A crude improvisation or bodged effort.


cutup

'I think I should mention, Candy,' said Mrs. Chasen, 'that Harold does has his eccentric moments.' 'Oh, yes!' said Candy, finally comprehending. 'That's all right. I've got a brother who's a real cut-up too.'

1971, Collin Higgins, Harold and Maude, page 47:

Jeff (Daniel Eric Gold), who has whittled his academic pursuits to one course at his local community college, is the Philosopher; his best friend, Tim (Peter Scanavino), a Navy veteran, is the Combustible Alcoholic, and Buff (Mr. Culkin), a stoner skateboarder, is the Cut-Up.

2006 September 29, Ben Brantley, “Bogosian’s Youthful Rage and Alienation, Retrofitted for BlackBerries”, in New York Times:

Although Dek can be a cutup, his explanation for his obsessive search for the truth — “It was about respect” — reveals the bedrock of decency that makes him a seriously good guy.

2009 January 25, Marilyn Stasio, “A Need for Noir”, in New York Times:

Someone who cuts up; someone who acts boisterously or clownishly, for example, by playing practical jokes.


dieback

The National Trust reports that 30,000 ash trees on its land will have been felled this year owing to ash dieback. “Dieback” sounds like a gentle, seasonal withdrawal. In fact, ash dieback is a devastating disease caused by a fungus, Hymenoscyphus fraxineus, likely to have been carried into the UK on imported ash saplings in the early part of this century.

2021 December 12, “The Guardian view on ash dieback: a tiny chink of hope”, in The Guardian:

(phytopathology) The browning and death of a plant shoot starting at the tip, due to either disease or climate conditions.

(botany) The withering of a plant, especially the cyclical withering in autumn and winter; distal parts die off but core parts stay alive (and semidormant or dormant).


touchup

But she dabbed at an eye, cried out for a touchup and had someone turn up Grace Jones on the MP3 player.

2009 February 1, Dakota Lane, “Elaine Griffin and Michael McGarry”, in New York Times:


teardown

Every new shop manual that our team writes is based on a complete teardown.

Professional teardown reports often cost a few thousand dollars and include component photos, descriptions, comparison tables, and access to an online database of teardown data.

2014, Elizabeth Woyke, The Smartphone: Anatomy of an Industry, New Press, The, →ISBN:

The process of opening and disassembling a device to inspect, showcase, or refurbish its components.

desmuntatge

The process of opening and disassembling a device to show its components


situp

The girls giggled during the kick line and forced smiles during push-ups, situps and twists.

2007 April 2, Jessica Kowal, “Lacking Big-City Luster, Junior Miss Carves a Niche”, in New York Times:


dropoff

[…] Ms. Wallace will be charged with maintaining the program’s lead in the ratings […] while trying to staunch a dropoff in the program’s viewership.

2007 March 6, Jacques Steinberg, “NBC Names New Chief for News Program”, in New York Times:


fadeout

fadeouts (plural)
fade-out (alternative)

The scene ends with a fadeout to unconsciousness.

2009 February 17, Howard W. French, “Surviving a Hitch in an Army of Boys”, in New York Times:

Radio fadeouts in the arctic are caused by solar explosions and sunspot activity.

1959, United States, Rescue and Survival Specialist, Department of the Air Force, pages 3–22:


bounceback

List management company and rental order service. Includes AMERICAN CONSUMER (10,372,518 names) covering such subject lists as horticultural products, art prints, books, jewelry and fashion items, diet products, beauty and cosmetics, housewares and gifts, general merchandise, catalog offers, bouncebacks, […]

1977, Richard D. Millican, National Mailing-list Houses, page 5:

It is not unusual to get as high as 15 or 20 percent return in bounceback orders if customer satisfaction with the original order is high and the appeal for a follow-up order is strong.

1991, Herman Holtz, Starting and Building Your Catalog Sales Business, page 11:

Bouncebacks encourage customers […]

1996, Night Club & Bar, volume 12, page 16:

(marketing) A customized order form sent out with previously ordered goods, encouraging the customer to make a further order, perhaps motivated by a discount or free gift.


logoff

(computing) The process or an instance of logging off.


burnoff

burnoff (countable and uncountable, plural burnoffs)


shoutout

“Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits” at the International Center of Photography is a praise song in pictures, a shoutout to history.

2007 May 11, Holland Cotter, “The Glittering A-List of Black History”, in New York Times:


go-slow

(UK, Ireland) A period of time spent in an unusually slow fashion.


roll-on

Roll-ons and lastex^([sic]) corsets in tube form were a lighter type of corset mostly worn by young women and under summer clothes.

1997, Marianne Thesander, The Feminine Ideal, page 139:

We've had […] the Dior padded hips and bosoms, bustles for big bums, roll-ons for flat bums, and who remembers Sabrina in the 50s? She had to be hour-glass shape.

2007 November 6, Michele Hanson, The Guardian:

(dated, often in the plural) A type of corset which is rolled on to the body.


carryon

One is that new fees on checked bags have created more carryon volume, and some passengers may be overloading seatback pockets — though they said they had not considered this to be a problem.

2009 August 25, Joe Sharkey, “Seatbacks in Position and Empty, Please”, in New York Times:


carryon

carryon (countable and uncountable, plural carryons)


makeout

a makeout spot

A potentially funny 15-minute skit dragged out to an hour, Killspree spoofs two entertainment genres: teen makeout horror films, with their propensity for shock effects at the expense of plot and character development, and late-night gay plays like the long-running Party (playing right next door), parodied in Killspree's peppy camaraderie, safe-sex sermonizing, gratuitous nudity, and simulated screwing.

1994 July 8, Albert Williams, “Dressing Room Divas; Camp Killspree”, in Chicago Reader:

Sussman’s defense of sluts feels dated (its superb evocation of adolescent makeout sessions notwithstanding); Daphne Merkin’s reflections on the penis, while canny in form, are indulgent in content.

2007 August 26, Lynn Harris, “Lying and One-Night Stands”, in New York Times:

(often attributive) An act of making out; passionate kissing or petting.


readthrough

The process of reading through something; a perusal.

(film, television, theater) An organized reading of the screenplay or script by all of the actors, prior to the actual performance.

(genetics) The situation where a modified stop codon allows transcription to continue beyond the usual point.


die-off

A serious drought in 1785 and 1786 caused a die-off of cattle, which ruined many peasant families, especially in the south.

2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 361:

(chiefly biology) An incident or episode in which a particular species or organism dies off, especially in large numbers.


holdoff

Coordinate term: standoff

The ladder holdoff enabled him to clean the gutters easily without the ladder's weight damaging them.

A fixture or attachment intended to prevent direct contact between two objects.


clear-out

clear-outs (plural)
clearout (alternative)

Dave Kearney was straight over the ball in a jackal, and Mul made a brilliant clear-out.

2016, Gerry Thornley, Front Up, Rise Up: The Official Story of Connacht Rugby:

Leading British rugby correspondent Brendan Gallagher, writing in The Rugby Paper on 31 December 2017, produced a withering indictment of the practice, saying: “Sort out the thuggery at clear-out time, start reffing it properly. The clear out doesn't exist in law and certainly shouldn't be used as an excuse for players who are not bound to launch themselves off their feet like an Exocet and take out-injure-maim players who are behind the ball and legally bound on. Or sometimes just trying to reach the ruck."

(rugby) The act of removing opponents from a ruck or scrum in order to secure possession of the ball.


backout

(aerospace) A reversed countdown (i.e. ascending numbers) in response to problems leading up to a launch.


blowoff

blowoffs (plural)
blow-off (alternative)

It is evident that if the outlet pipes were only of the same total area as the blowoff from the boiler the pressure in the tank would very soon equal that in the boiler .

1910 July 12, Wilbur Arnold, “Blowoff Tank”, in Power and the Engineer, volume 32, page 1265:

However, the cirrus blowoff from the top of the cumulonimbus clouds indicates an easterly component, or less of a westerly component, in the upper troposphere.

1974, Skylab 4 Visual Observations Project Report, pages 12-4:

Often the blowoff from numerous thunderstorms combine to form an extensive cirrostratus shield as seen at D in Figure 39

1986, Peter S. Parke, Satellite Imagery Interpretation for Forecastors- Volume 55, page 7:

All blowoffs were effected by slowly decreasing the burner pressure at intervals of air temperature, airflow, and fuel flow.

1959, Robert J. Bacigalupi, Erwin A. Lezberg, Blowoff of Propane and Hydrogen Diffusion Flames at High Mach Number, Ramjet Conditions, page 4:

Some investigators claim that snow blowoff from cropland in prairie areas not protected by shelterbelts may be as much as 50 to 75 percent (Gorshenin et al. 1934), and, as a consequence, protected fields get 2½ to 3 times as much moisture from snow as unprotected land.

1962, John Milton Webber, Fiber Qualities and Culture of Phormium in California, page 4:

Some of you will argue this point because you've used it for everything, everything but the only purpose for bottom blowoff.

2005, Kenneth E. Heselton, Boiler Operator's Handbook:

There may have been blowoff in early Titan's history, but on an icy body there are plenty of volatile resrvoirs available to restock an atmosphere.

2010, Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, Principles of Planetary Climate, page 578:

For the materials mixed at 0.3 and 0.9 ks , no toner can be seen after blowoff at the highest pressure .

2012, K.L. Mittal, Particles on Surfaces 1: Detection, Adhesion, and Removal, page 173:

Between fuel concentrations A and B, the blowout of a lifted flame occurs at a lower velocity than the flame blowoff from the port.

2024, Allan T. Kirkpatrick, Kenneth K. Kuo, Principles of Combustion, page 289:

The act of blowing off (steam, water, atmosphere, etc.)

Often this throwing-in-the-towel mentality is pure crowd following and results in entry at the blowoff phase of the trend .

2005, Richard L. Weissman, Mechanical Trading Systems, page 68:

A crash in china would reverberate across Asia, and a blowoff that resulted in political instability would have dire consequences.

2014, Barton Biggs, Biggs on Finance, Economics, and the Stock Market, page 221:

All the questions refer to trades made in the blowoff phase of the market , whether stated or not.

2015, Robert J. Seifert, Profiting from Weekly Options:

If the current trend doesn't resolve itself in a rounding top/bottom and costs begin to accelerate at a much steeper angle than the sustainable 45-degree rate, the market will more than likely end in a blowoff.

2022, Nathan Bell, Options trading strategies:

(finance) A period of rapid and usually unsustainable increase (or, sometimes, decrease) in market prices.

Then comes the blowoff, by which they get rid of him .

1956, Chic Conwell, Edwin Hardin Sutherland, The Professional Thief, page 65:

White grifters call it the blowoff.

1969, Iceberg Slim (,Robert Beck), Trick Baby, page 123:

At the last moment something goes wrong, the money is lost (taking off the touch), and a physical altercation or other looming drama hurries the sucker out the door – and preferably out of town (the blowoff).

2023, Alan Prendergast, Gangbuster, page 43:

(crime) The stage in a con game in which one gets rid of the mark after taking his or her money.

Not in the girlie shows, stripping naked for the yokenecks who give up a couple of bucks for the blowoff. The aftershow.

1969, Henry W. Clune, O'Shaughnessy's Cafe, page 216:

Some showmen reserve their best acts or exhibits for the blowoff.

2005, Joe Nickell, Secrets of the Sideshows, page 77:

Since the inside talker was also usually the magician, he'd do his brief magic act for the ladies and children while the gents paid a little extra to go behind the curtain to see the blowoff.

2012, Tony Gangi, Carny Sideshows:: Weird Wonders of The Midway, page 203:

In some minor shows the blowoff was promoted as "for adult males only," giving the impression that the customer was buying a peek at nudity–which in some instances he was.

2014, Robert Bogdan, Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit, page 104:

An extra attraction offered to the audience of a sideshow or carnival act, usually hidden behind a curtain and requiring an additional payment; aftershow.


burnup

burnup (countable and uncountable, plural burnups)

(physics) A measure of the consumption of fuel in a nuclear reactor.


signoff

signoff (countable and uncountable, plural signoffs)

signoffs (plural)
sign-off (alternative)

The act or process of signing off (approving with a signature).


buildout

buildout (countable and uncountable, plural buildouts)

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w:Oxford University Press

The growth, development, or expansion of something.


buy-out

In the event, higher sale proceeds were achieved by allowing EWS Railway to acquire all but Freightliner, which was sold as a management buy-out.

2024 January 10, 'Industry Insider', “Success built on liberalisation and market freedom”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 69:


tagalong

Not much of a fighter, he is a quiet, tag-along mascot.

1979 April 14, Pat M. Kuras, “Street Fantasy”, in Gay Community News, page 12:

We started about 6 o'clock with a few tagalongs and our little group got smaller and smaller with each bar until it was just the three of us.

2003, John Hoover, How to work for an idiot:

Being in love is one of the greatest experiences you can have, but it also opens the door for all kinds of tagalongs, such as attachment […]

2008, Sharon Janis, Spirituality For Dummies:


lay-off

Pogba zipped a pass to Cavani and his lay-off went to the ever-lurking Fernandes. Once more, his return ball to Cavani was instant, and the Uruguayan smacked home for his 11th goal this season.

2021 April 29, Jamie Jackson, “Edinson Cavani and Bruno Fernandes help Manchester United hit Roma for six”, in The Guardian:


takeup

takeup (countable and uncountable, plural takeups)


passthrough

passthrough (countable and uncountable, plural passthroughs)

passthroughs (plural)
passthru (alternative)
pass-through (alternative)

(electronics, networking) As of a signal through a device or network.

Boston's projected $50 to $70 per thousand jump in the property tax rate, which will hit gays, poor and blacks alike with about an 8% pass-through rent increase this year.

1976 August 21, A. Nolder Gay, “Another View”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 8, page 4:

The airlines called the fuel surcharge a passthrough, but did not rescind it until well after fuel prices had returned to previous levels.

(business, economics) As of increased costs through a business entity to its customers through increased prices.

A wall opening intended to allow something to be passed through it.

Partnerships, limited-liability companies, and Subchapter S corporations are the main US passthroughs.

(taxation) A legal entity intended to not incur (income) taxation at the entity, but solely at the beneficiaries.


build-up

Steve Gohouri was guilty of losing possession deep inside his own half, allowing Davies to find Ngog for Bolton's second, before Antolin Alcaraz was dispossessed in the build-up to their third.

2011 October 15, Michael Da Silva, “Wigan 1-3 Bolton”, in BBC Sport:

Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."

2013 June 21, Chico Harlan, “Japan pockets the subsidy …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 30:

The rest were undergoing special underbody cleaning safety checks at TfW depots, after speculation that the cause of the incidents may have been a build-up of engine oil and combustible material such as fallen leaves and general detritus.

2023 March 22, “Network News: Class 175s withdrawn for safety checks after fires”, in RAIL, number 979, page 13:


patdown

patdowns (plural)
pat-down (alternative)

To avoid such charges, airline screeners moved to random processes that led to patdowns of congressional representatives and mild-mannered elderly women...

2006, Yoram Wind, Colin Crook, Robert E. Gunther, The power of impossible thinking:

(US, informal) An act of patting somebody's clothes to check for concealed weapons, etc.


throwup

throwup (countable and uncountable, plural throwups)

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Alternative spelling of throw-up (type of graffiti)


throw-up

throw-up (countable and uncountable, plural throw-ups)

Alternative spelling of throwup (“vomit”)


knockback

knockbacks (plural)
knock-back (alternative)

He got a few knockbacks today when he tried to give his resume out at the local shops.

The only other knockback in the Port Kembla-Wollongong district was from Benny Westwood of the Advance Tyre Service. He, too, ordered us off the premises.

1987, Rupert Lockwood, War on the Waterfront: Menzies, Japan, and the Pig-Iron Dispute, page 199:

1995, Heather Hogarth, Your First Job: Getting It, Keeping It, and Going Further, MacMillan Education Australia, page 82,
So you′ve had a knockback. All right, we don′t all get the first job we apply for.

They asked matter-of-fact questions about harrowing tales that the victims had been trying to tell other media outlets, only to receive knockback after knockback for more than a year.

2010, Chris Rau, Dealing With the Media: A Handbook for Students, Activists, Community Groups and Anyone Who Can′t Afford a Spin Doctor, page 3:

Nicole Kidman got a knockback because Su-Man was too busy whipping a certain Oscar-winning French actress into shape.

2010, Tony Parsons, Tony Parsons on Life, Death and Breakfast, unnumbered page:

(UK, Australia, informal) A rejection; a refusal.


pastedown

Holonym: endpaper

Comeronym: flyleaf

The part of an endpaper that is pasted to a book's cover.


turnback

turnback (countable and uncountable, plural turnbacks)

(attributive) Part of a garment that is turned back.

Most basketmakers make their turnbacks in a particular section of the weaving on the sides or in the middle of the basket.

1991, Rachel Nash Law, Cynthia Wieboldt Taylor, Appalachian White Oak Basketmaking: Handing Down the Basket (page 86)

(basketry) The turning back of a weaver around another element.

Coordinate term: turnaway

The information commissioner, Professor John McMillan, ruled that requests for watch officer logs and authorisations for turnbacks were exempt from release because they could have a “substantial adverse effect” on the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (ACBPS).

2015 July 20, Paul Farrell, “Details about asylum seeker turnbacks to remain secret, commissioner rules”, in The Guardian:

The act of turning back a boat containing immigrants.

(US) A cadet at a military academy who fails a class and has to retake it.


score-off

There were a thousand and one gems of café-chatter, of tit-for-tattle – of score-offs and well-rubbed-ins.

1930, Wyndham Lewis, The Apes of God, page 354:

[…] the Minister should come in here and use the occasion of the making of his statement on such an important matter as the Estimate for his Department as a political score-off on his opponents.

1955, Oireachtas [Irish Parliament], Díosbóireachtaí párlaiminte: tuairisc oifigiúil [Parliamentary debates: official report], volume 150, p. 294:

(rare) The action or result of scoring off someone (a rebuttal, a point won).


pushdown

From push + down; by analogy with a spring-loaded stack of plates in a cafeteria.

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Since indexed grammars are context-free grammars with pushdowns, the generalization of Thatcher's result shows that they generate the yields of the tree languages recognized by deterministic pushdown tree automata.

2003, Wilfried Brauer, Hartmut Ehrig, Juhani Karhumäki, Formal and Natural Computing: Essays:


wash-out

"I thought you was goin' into the business yourself." / "That's a wash-out," snarled Silas. "Don't you talk of it. It's finished."

1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Where Silas Linden Comes into His Own”, in The Land of Mist, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, published 1926, →OCLC, page 190:

[Chapter XX] "And what you do, Bertie, is get out that car of yours and scour the countryside for Glossop. It may be possible to head him off. Come on, come on, let's have some service. What are you waiting for?” I hadn't exactly been waiting. I'd only been thinking that the enterprise had more than a touch of looking for a needle in a haystack about it. You can't find loony-doctors on their afternoon off just by driving around Worcestershire in a car; you need bloodhounds and handkerchiefs for them to sniff at and all that professional stuff. Still, there it was. “Right-ho,” I said. “Anything to oblige.” [Chapter XXI] And, of course, as I had anticipated from the start, the thing was a wash-out. I stuck it out for about an hour and then, apprised by a hollow feeling in the midriff that the dinner hour was approaching, laid a course for home.

1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “CHAPTERS XX–XXI”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:


carveout

carveouts (plural)
carve-out (alternative)

The selling of a minority stake in a subsidiary by a parent company; a partial spinoff.


stripdown

Before commencing the engine stripdown itself, ensure that you have the correct workshop manual for your particular machine.

2004, Mick Walker, Moto Guzzi Twins Restoration, page 54:

The disassembly of a mechanical system into its separate components.


readback

Deverbal from read back, as in read that back to me, please.

OK, now let's do a readback before you send this off.

The judge ordered a readback of a portion of the testimony.

(dictation, stenography) The reading aloud by a transcriptionist, court reporter, or stenographer of draft correspondence or of testimony previously taken down in dictation, usually at the request of the presiding judge or parties involved in a deposition (courtroom contexts) or of the manager dictating the correspondence (business contexts).


rubout

A direct manipulation editor would support, for example, a single rubout key that uses the cursor to find the appropriate character for deletion […]

1990, Michael D. Harrison, Harold Thimbleby, Formal methods in human-computer interaction, page 130:

The TS-1000 had ENTER instead of NEW LINE and DELETE instead of RUBOUT.

2002, Brotha G, “ZX81 Prototype Keyboard”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet):

(computing, uncountable, by extension, dated) Synonym of backspace.


put-out

en-adj

put-out (comparative more put-out, superlative most put-out)

more put-out (comparative)
most put-out (superlative)


send-off

A send-off occurs when a player commits a serious violation and is ordered by the referee to leave the field for the rest of the game.

2009, Mathew Brown, Patrick Guthrie, Greg Growden, Rugby For Dummies, →ISBN, page 333:

Some of the players tried to heavy or sweet-talk the referee into reversing his decision, even as the threat of a send-off loomed.

2009, Shireen Lolesi, Wives and Girlfriends, →ISBN, page 12:

Dally had a running battle with the referee, who accused him of kneeing an opponent — though, given a punch was enough to earn a send-off, perhaps the official was unsure of what he saw as Dally was not asked to leave the field.

2011, Sean Fagan, Dally Messenger III, The Master, →ISBN:

(sports) A penalty for a serious infraction of the rules in which the player is ordered to leave for the rest of the game; red card


roundoff

roundoffs (plural)
round-off (alternative)

(mathematics) The act of rounding off a number.


set-up

en-adjective

set-up (comparative more set-up, superlative most set-up)

more set-up (comparative)
most set-up (superlative)

set-up time. The time taken to SET UP a machine or to change it from making one product to another.

1990, John Bessant, Richard Lamming, Macmillan Dictionary of Production Technology and Management, Palgrave Macmillan UK, page 153:

(chiefly British) Alternative form of setup


set-up

Stevenage's first-half performance forced a change of formation from Newcastle at the break, as they brought on Nile Ranger for Leon Best and switched to a 4-2-3-1 set-up.

2011 January 8, Paul Fletcher, “Stevenage 3 - 1 Newcastle”, in BBC:

A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays. This set-up solves several problems […].

2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly):


stockout

stockouts (plural)
stock out (alternative)
stock-out (alternative)

Deverbal of stock out, ultimately from the prepositional phrase out of stock.

Coordinate term: overstock

(business) An instance of an item being out of stock; the situation where an order cannot be fulfilled from current inventory.


lie-down

have a lie-down; have a little lie-down; have a wee lie-down

After a long morning working, he decided to have a little lie-down before cooking lunch.

(especially Commonwealth English) A short period of rest while lying.


stand-out

Luiz was Chelsea's stand-out performer, although Ferguson also had a case when he questioned how the £21m defender escaped a red card after the break for a hack at Rooney, with the Brazilian having already been booked.

2011 March 1, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC:

This is the stand-out lesson of Carmont. We MUST respond to extreme weather not only much more rapidly, but also on a more granular basis.

2022 March 23, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Drains, trains and Control”, in RAIL, number 953, page 3:


read-through

A read-through cache presents a simple abstraction to the calling code, which no longer has to handle the case where the information is available but not cached.

(computing) A cache that will fetch information from the original source when asked for information that is not yet cached.


foldup

A storage wall supports a desk, two drawers, two shelves, a bookcase, a reading light, a foldup table and the bed frame.

2007 November 30, Wendy Moonan, “From City to City, 20th-Century Art and Furniture”, in New York Times:


foldup

A card table, three foldups, the bulging single bed, and an ice chest served as furniture.

2002, Gary Paul Nabhan, The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in O'Odham Country, page 30:

Judy was attracted to Mesa Flats Resort primarily because of the ballroom, which could be converted into a performance venue with stage and lighting. Granted the chairs were fold-ups, the stage was small with only one dressing room, […]

2015, George T. Lindsey, Mesa Flats Resort Predators and Politics, page 56:


cutdown

A customized scooter with parts of the bodywork removed or cut away.


seethrough

en-adj

seethrough (comparative more seethrough, superlative most seethrough)

more seethrough (comparative)
most seethrough (superlative)

1969: Barbra Streisand’s seethrough, bell-bottom Scaasi pajamas.

2008 February 17, Anita Gates, “There Will Be Memories”, in New York Times:


shootdown

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, who personally gave the order to go ahead with the satellite shootdown Wednesday, told reporters in Hawaii on Thursday that he was prepared to share some details of the operation with China to ease its concerns that the debris might still prove dangerous.

2008 February 22, Thom Shanker, “An Errant Satellite Is Gone, but Questions Linger”, in New York Times:

The shooting down of an aircraft, satellite, etc.


sign-out

sign-outs (plural)
signout (alternative)

An instance of signing out; a procedure executed when exiting a facility, ending a computer session, etc.


rollup

rollups (plural)
roll-up (alternative)
roll up (alternative)

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In some cases, you may want to add custom rollups that change the way a measure is calculated on a specific level.

2013, Simon Lidberg, Getting Started with SQL Server 2012 Cube Development:

That which is rolled up; a summation; an aggregation; a total.


closedown

en-noun

closedown (countable and uncountable, plural closedowns)

(radio, television) The point when a radio or television station shuts down transmission and goes off the air for a predetermined period, as used to happen overnight.

Sendeschluss

the point when a radio or television station shuts down transmission


tideover

a tideover allowance

Designed to support someone through a brief but often difficult period, especially financially.


runover

CBS ranked No. 1 on Sunday night, aided by “60 Minutes” and an 18-minute runover into the 7 o’clock hour of live basketball coverage from the afternoon.

2009 March 31, Felicia R. Lee, “Television Ratings”, in New York Times:

(television) The situation where a television programme overruns its scheduled slot.


lookover

Originally, whole-body imaging was proposed as an alternative for the relatively few passengers chosen for secondary screening, allowing them to opt for a machine lookover rather than a physical pat-down.

2009 April 14, Joe Sharkey, “Looking You Over, With a Shameless Gaze”, in New York Times:


line-up

The result in Greece meant Tottenham could not progress, no matter how many goals they scored against Rovers but, after making nine changes to his starting line-up, Harry Redknapp will be pleased with the performance of his fringe players.

2011 December 15, Marc Higginson, “Shamrock Rovers 0 - 4 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport:

The railway faces a line-up of strong-willed metro mayors with four-year terms and a new big-majority government covering the same period.

2024 November 13, Peter Plisner, “Rail's role in Labour's "devolution revolution"”, in RAIL, number 1022, page 61:


rolldown

Then he rolled down the wooden blinds inside, opened the door and pulled halfway down the metal rolldown shutter outside.


lookaside

lookaside (countable and uncountable, plural lookasides)

(computing) The technique of searching for something in a precalculated cache before attempting a more time-consuming search elsewhere.


putaway

If a putaway is done incorrectly, it is difficult to find an item, or verify that an incorrect part number or quantity has been used.

2005, Steven M. Bragg, Inventory accounting: a comprehensive guide, page 73:

The process of storing goods in a warehouse etc. as they are received.


winddown

winddown (usually uncountable, plural winddowns)

Keeping this power apart from the Fed also prevents it from being drawn into the political maelstrom of whether to lend funds to a weakened institution or to seize it for an orderly winddown.

2009 August 2, “Letters: Risk and Regulation”, in New York Times:


let-up

It rained for a week with no let-up.

There's no let-up in the ship-bound sector.

2022 January 26, Tom Allett, “A gateway to freight growth”, in RAIL, number 949, page 48:


stand-off

France's own stand-in stand-off Trinh-Duc missed with a drop-goal when well set but then set off on a curving run through a scattered defensive line which carried him deep into enemy territory until Weepu's desperate tap-tackle finally brought him down.

2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport:


scaleback

Budgetary constraints led to a scaleback in quality.

An operation by which something is scaled back or reduced.


kickup

kickup (countable and uncountable, plural kickups)

Coordinate term: kickoff

(countable) A controlled kick that sends a ball upwards.


oversail

en-verb

oversail (third-person singular simple present oversails, present participle oversailing, simple past and past participle oversailed)

oversails (present singular third-person)
oversailing (participle present)
oversailed (participle past)
oversailed (past)

(transitive, architecture) To project from a structure above (something); to overhang.


ridealong

Bouza also confirmed that the police had brought two civilians with tem, including the 19-year-old son of one officer who helped to carry out the beer which was seized as evidence. Both were registered as "ride alongs" that night and their presence did not violate any laws, but Bouza saw this as another instance in which the officers showed "questionable judgment."

1983 August 20, Ruth Borenstein, “Harassment, Bad Judgment Cited in Twin Cities Bust”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 6, page 6:


clearout

But tries from Marlie Packer and Amy Cokayne pulled Mitchell's side clear before Khalfaoui saw her dangerous ruck clearout upgraded to a red card by the television match official 'bunker' system.

2024 April 27, Alastair Telfer, “England beat France to seal Grand Slam hat-trick”, in BBC Sport:


follow-on

Baby formula (breast milk substitute) for slightly older infants.


burndown

Deverbal of burn down. In the software-development sense, perhaps suggesting a burning fuse.

Avoid creating separate status reports for management; these reports duplicate information in the sprint burndowns[…]

2012, Mark C. Layton, Agile Project Management For Dummies, page 85:

(software engineering) In agile software development, a chart showing how much work remains to be completed.


pindown

solitary confinement
solitary confinement

(UK) solitary confinement, formerly used as a method of punishment in children's homes


turn-up

Why does all this fluff accumulate in the turn-ups?

Fabric turned up at the bottom of trousers to make them shorter.

маншет

fabric turned up at the bottom of trousers

I'll bet $10 that the next turn-up is an ace.

(card games) The next card taken from the top of a pack of cards and displayed.

Despondent settled down favourite, but ran badly, and the fielders had a fine turn up by the success of Carlton Spring, on whom Allsopp jumped off in front and stayed there.

1896, Henry Smurthwaite, Racing Illustrated, volume 3, page 236:

I thought ‘now here's a turn up’, for I was not to know I would be invited to drinks every day for the next three years.

2001 December 9, Andrew Martin, “We like drinking too much, so why do we do it so badly?”, in The Observer:

turn up for the book
turn up for the book#English

(figurative) A stroke of good luck; something that appears unexpectedly; especially in turn up for the book.


check-up

(often used attributively) Alternative form of checkup


answerback

(telecommunications) A response to a message, originally in radio but now through other media.


roll-up

a roll-up door

a roll-up display banner

Capable of being made into a cylinder shape by rolling.


phasedown

Coordinate term: phaseout


set-off

(dated) That which is used to improve the appearance of anything; a decoration; an ornament.

уравняване

extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors