What is the meaning of ALONG. Phrases containing ALONG
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Jolly along is British slang for to encourage someone.
When I'm standing patiently in the checkout queue at Tesco I like to chivvy along the old ladies in front of me. If only they would stop fannying around and hurry up!
Bat along is American and Canadian slang for to discuss an idea, proposition, etc. informally.
Back along is Dorset slang for some time ago.
Lamp along is Irish slang for to go along at a great pace.
Along for the ride is slang for being unofficially associated with.
Tool along is slang for to move casually.
When I'm standing patiently in the checkout queue at Tesco I like to chivvy along the old ladies in front of me. If only they would stop fannying around and hurry up!
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Slangs & AI derived meanings
Chuff adder is British slang for a male homosexual.
Cocaine
Cocaine; heroin
A strong believer in Christianity.
Polvo Blanco is slang for cocaine.
Sweet pea was old London Cockney rhyming slang for tea.
A mission, in TIE fighter pilot slang.
To throw up, vomit or regurgitate. 2. To throw or toss. e.g. "That's good, Amanda, pick up the ball and chuck it to uncle Dove." 3. Perform, Stage, act. e.g. "Talk about undisciplined kids, if the neighbours ankle biter doesn't get his own way, he chucks a fit!"
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n.
A short scale made to slide along the divisions of a graduated instrument, as the limb of a sextant, or the scale of a barometer, for indicating parts of divisions. It is so graduated that a certain convenient number of its divisions are just equal to a certain number, either one less or one more, of the divisions of the instrument, so that parts of a division are determined by observing what line on the vernier coincides with a line on the instrument.
v. t.
To cause to move or go in a wavy manner, or by the impulse of waves, as of water or air; to bear along on a buoyant medium; as, a balloon was wafted over the channel.
prep.
A large and handsome American butterfly (Basilarchia, / Limenitis, archippus). Its wings are orange-red, with black lines along the nervures and a row of white spots along the outer margins. The larvae feed on willow, poplar, and apple trees.
v. t.
To run or pass under; especially (Naut.), to pass along and under, as a cable, for the purpose of taking it in, or of examining it.
v. i.
To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate, but without running, or lifting one foot entirely before the other touches the ground.
n.
Certain sets or strakes of the outside planking of a vessel; as, the main wales, or the strakes of planking under the port sills of the gun deck; channel wales, or those along the spar deck, etc.
n.
A kind of pleasure wagon, uncovered and with seats extended along the sides, designed to carry six or eight persons besides the driver.
adv.
Along the shore or coast.
v. i.
To sail alongshore.
prep.
From a lower to a higher place on, upon, or along; at a higher situation upon; at the top of.
v. i.
To walk with short steps, swaying the body from one side to the other, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles.
n.
Hence, anything found, or without an owner; that which comes along, as it were, by chance.
adv.
Along or by the side; side by side with; -- often with of; as, bring the boat alongside; alongside of him; alongside of the tree.
prep. & adv.
Along.
v. t.
To pull or draw with great effort; to draw along with continued exertion; to haul along; to tow; as, to tug a loaded cart; to tug a ship into port.
n. .
A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; -- distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel.
v. i.
To be in action or motion; to move; to get along; to progress; to stir.
n.
Any one of numerous species of long, slender Alcyonaria belonging to Virgularia and allied genera of the family Virgularidae. These corals are allied to the sea-pens, but have a long rodlike rhachis inclosing a slender, round or square, calcareous axis. The polyps are arranged in transverse rows or clusters along each side of the rhachis.
a.
Having only one axis; developing along a single line or plane; -- opposed to multiaxial.
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