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"text": "a bulge in my pocket where I kept my wallet",
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"text": "Haz sits in the trailer for 10 hours straight, eyes trained on the patrons. If he sees the makings of a drug deal or a fight, he notifies the club’s in-house security by walkie-talkie. It amazes him how indiscreet drug dealers can be—with the bulges in their socks and their melodramatic handovers—despite the presence of security guards.",
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"The bilge or protuberant part of a cask."
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"ref": "2010, Micky Livingston, Seventeen Inches",
"text": "Max looked down and sure as crap, his bulge was huge, and he started to stammer and stutter and without hesitation said, Holy crap Sandy, look at what you do to me.",
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"ref": "2012, D.H.Clark/I.B.Long, A Grasp for Life: The continuing story of Howard Walker, page 75",
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"ref": "2017, Dee Dawning, Extramarital",
"text": "He walked right up to me, the knife poking him in the abdomen, just above his bulge.",
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"ref": "2020 November 11, “What’s it like to be a post-orchiectomy non-op trans woman”, in elilla & friends’ very occasional blog thing, archived from the original on 2023-09-03",
"text": "I'm wearing the same tight panties here as in the video clip above, with girldick nonerect, out to the front and pointing up, which is the position I prefer her to be. This absurdly tight skirt clearly shows too much bulge (along with hip bones, tummy, specks of dust etc). Personally I think bulges are super cute and I'm pissed off that I have to hide mine, but society feels otherwise so let’s try to offset it. (I mean, IRL I still won’t wear this skirt ever ofc 😇, but for science.)",
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"ref": "1930, Stanford University, Wheat Studies of the Food Research Institute, volume 7, page 204",
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"text": "Haz sits in the trailer for 10 hours straight, eyes trained on the patrons. If he sees the makings of a drug deal or a fight, he notifies the club’s in-house security by walkie-talkie. It amazes him how indiscreet drug dealers can be—with the bulges in their socks and their melodramatic handovers—despite the presence of security guards.",
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"ref": "2020 November 11, “What’s it like to be a post-orchiectomy non-op trans woman”, in elilla & friends’ very occasional blog thing, archived from the original on 2023-09-03",
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"sense": "something sticking out",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "something sticking out",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "bony"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "something sticking out",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "protuberància"
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{
"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "gǔbāo",
"sense": "something sticking out",
"word": "鼓包"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "lóngqǐ",
"sense": "something sticking out",
"word": "隆起"
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{
"code": "cs",
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"sense": "something sticking out",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"code": "cs",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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},
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"code": "cs",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "výstupek"
},
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bult"
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "something sticking out",
"word": "malglataĵo"
},
{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "something sticking out",
"word": "kohouma"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "something sticking out",
"word": "pullistuma"
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{
"code": "fr",
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"tags": [
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "something sticking out",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "something sticking out",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "protubérance"
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{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "something sticking out",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cotobelo"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
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"code": "gl",
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"tags": [
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"word": "gurupela"
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{
"code": "gl",
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"tags": [
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"word": "nórnega"
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{
"code": "gl",
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"tags": [
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],
"word": "balume"
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"code": "gl",
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"tags": [
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],
"word": "pote"
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{
"code": "gl",
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"tags": [
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],
"word": "rombo"
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{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "something sticking out",
"tags": [
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],
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},
{
"code": "gl",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "noiro"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "something sticking out",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "protuberancia"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "something sticking out",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Ausbuchtung"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "something sticking out",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Beule"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Delle"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "something sticking out",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Wölbung"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "something sticking out",
"word": "dudor"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "something sticking out",
"word": "kitüremkedés"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "something sticking out",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sporgenza"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "something sticking out",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "protuberanza"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "something sticking out",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "rigonfiamento"
},
{
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"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
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"sense": "something sticking out",
"word": "出っ張り"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "burutung'i",
"sense": "something sticking out",
"word": "부루퉁이"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
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"sense": "something sticking out",
"word": "뾰루지"
},
{
"code": "ko",
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"sense": "something sticking out",
"word": "혹"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "something sticking out",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "protuberantia"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "something sticking out",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "wypukłość"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "something sticking out",
"word": "protuberância"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "something sticking out",
"word": "saliência"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "something sticking out",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bojo"
},
{
"code": "ro",
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"sense": "something sticking out",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "protuberanță"
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{
"code": "ro",
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"sense": "something sticking out",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "umflătură"
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{
"code": "ru",
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"sense": "something sticking out",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "буго́р"
},
{
"code": "ru",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "вы́ступ"
},
{
"code": "ru",
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"sense": "something sticking out",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "вы́пуклость"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "something sticking out",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bulto"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "something sticking out",
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],
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "something sticking out",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "protuberancia"
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "something sticking out",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "bula"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "something sticking out",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "knöl"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "something sticking out",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
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}
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],
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"word": "bulge the onion bag"
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"singular",
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},
{
"text": "He stood six feet tall, with muscular arms bulging out of his black T-shirt."
},
{
"ref": "1922, Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, in Jacob's Room",
"text": "The wind actually stirred the cloth on the chest of drawers, and let in a little light, so that the sharp edge of the chest of drawers was visible, running straight up, until a white shape bulged out; and a silver streak showed in the looking-glass.",
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"(intransitive) To stick out from (a surface)."
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"ref": "1739, William Broome, “The Battle of the Gods and Titans”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: Henry Lintot, page 253",
"text": "Fatal to Man! at once all Ocean roars,\nAnd scattered navies bulge on distant shores.",
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],
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"tags": [
"UK"
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"tags": [
"US"
]
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"ipa": "/bʊld͡ʒ/",
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"US"
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"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "to stick out from",
"word": "gufohem"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izpǎkvam",
"sense": "to stick out from",
"word": "изпъквам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izduvam se",
"sense": "to stick out from",
"word": "издувам се"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to stick out from",
"word": "sobresortir"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "tūchū",
"sense": "to stick out from",
"word": "凸出"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "túchū",
"sense": "to stick out from",
"word": "突出"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to stick out from",
"word": "pullottaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to stick out from",
"word": "pullistua"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to stick out from",
"word": "pullistella"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to stick out from",
"word": "bomber"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to stick out from",
"word": "déformer"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to stick out from",
"word": "hervorstechen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to stick out from",
"word": "hervortreten"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "blita",
"sense": "to stick out from",
"word": "בליטה"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to stick out from",
"word": "kidudorodik"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to stick out from",
"word": "kitüremkedik"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to stick out from",
"word": "sporgere"
},
{
"alt": "ふくれる",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "fukureru",
"sense": "to stick out from",
"word": "膨れる"
},
{
"alt": "つきでる",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "tsukideru",
"sense": "to stick out from",
"word": "突き出る"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "bureuda",
"sense": "to stick out from",
"word": "부르다"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "bulgeojida",
"sense": "to stick out from",
"word": "불거지다"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to stick out from",
"word": "prominere"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to stick out from",
"word": "whererei"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to stick out from",
"word": "protuberar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vydavátʹsja",
"sense": "to stick out from",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "выдава́ться"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vypjáčivatʹsja",
"sense": "to stick out from",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "выпя́чиваться"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ottopýrivatʹsja",
"sense": "to stick out from",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "оттопы́риваться"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vypirátʹ",
"sense": "to stick out from",
"tags": [
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"word": "выпира́ть"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to stick out from",
"word": "abultar"
}
],
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