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Why did he cross the road?
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  • control speed bag speed boat speed bomb speed bump speed camera speed check speed chess speed climber speed climbing speed cube speed cushion speed date...
    21 KB (2,151 words) - 23:50, 8 December 2024
  • four speed four-speed (plural four-speeds) (attributive, of a transmission) Having four forward speeds. My car has a four-speed transmission. It is not...
    490 bytes (59 words) - 19:54, 11 August 2024
  • my very easy method just speeds up naming planets (astronomy) Synonym of my very educated mother just served us nine pumpkins...
    138 bytes (21 words) - 09:49, 28 September 2019
  • See also: godspeed, Godspeed, and God speed God-speed Alternative form of Godspeed God-speed (plural God-speeds) Alternative form of Godspeed 1667, Francisco...
    800 bytes (156 words) - 13:52, 22 December 2022
  • full steam ahead full speed ahead (usually nautical) A command to move forward at maximum speed. Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! 1918 September–November...
    3 KB (396 words) - 11:58, 30 August 2024
  • downhill) (idiomatic) To worsen or degenerate. I usually run fast enough, but my speed goes downhill when I don't sleep enough. go to pot, go to the dogs; go...
    873 bytes (63 words) - 03:37, 5 November 2024
  • breadth I passed the test by the skin of my teeth. 2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page...
    2 KB (119 words) - 14:19, 2 June 2024
  • (ironic negator): like fuck, my ass, my arse, my butt, my eye, my foot, my thigh; see Thesaurus:bullshit using all strength, speed, effort that one can summon...
    2 KB (164 words) - 03:41, 28 September 2024
  • page 46: I had been doing the cryptic version of the Star's two-speed crossword since my days as a junior proofreader in the Department of Posts and Telecommunications...
    975 bytes (129 words) - 06:12, 4 February 2024
  • not far-off; there puld from my horse, stripped with all speed, my truncks and clokebags rifled, my box taken, my horses, my equipage, and such things as...
    486 bytes (71 words) - 18:28, 31 August 2023
  • deceased person whose absence is keenly felt. 2023, Nell Speed, A House Party with the Tucker Twins: For my part, I am sorrier for the present baronet, Sir Arthur...
    578 bytes (54 words) - 17:29, 2 April 2024
  • wobbles) (informal) Severe vibration and instability of a motor vehicle. I hit a pothole at high speed and my motorbike went straight into a death wobble....
    392 bytes (47 words) - 14:01, 2 December 2024
  • main street and into the afternoon's dust-bowl sky. extremely fast superfast (not comparable) At extremely high speed. at extremely high speed superfats...
    971 bytes (77 words) - 21:59, 23 October 2024
  • (definite accusative sürəti, plural sürətlər) speed sürəti azaltmaq ― to lower the speed işıq/səs sürəti ― speed of light/sound sürətlənmək sürətləndirmək...
    658 bytes (34 words) - 12:38, 2 June 2024
  • See also: godspeed, God-speed, and God speed WOTD – 31 December 2022 God-speed, God speed, godspeed, good speed From Middle English god spede, god speid...
    11 KB (1,439 words) - 01:07, 29 November 2024
  • moaned feebly somewhere near by, and then fetched a deep sigh that made me mend my pace away from there. to speed up modulate regulate synchronize  ...
    541 bytes (98 words) - 15:48, 21 August 2024
  • another. (music) The act of diminishing the rate of speed. (telegraphy) A decrease in the speed of telegraph signalling. The extent to which anything...
    2 KB (231 words) - 05:12, 19 August 2024
  • early this mornin', gave my guard a kick in the tummy that laid him out, and sprinted for the camp. To run etc at top speed for a short period from all...
    8 KB (687 words) - 21:30, 3 December 2024
  • rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 57: I would have liked to have hung around in Birmingham, but my connections are tight...
    2 KB (170 words) - 13:16, 2 June 2024
  • See also: speed run, speed-run, and Speedrun English Wikipedia has an article on: speedrun Wikipedia speed run From speed +‎ run. There are isolated attestations...
    6 KB (577 words) - 15:56, 29 September 2024
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