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Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey.
In the days of sailing ships, cannon balls were often stacked in what was called a monkey, usually made of brass. When the weather got really cold the monkeys, being brass, would contract at a different rate than the iron of the cannonballs, forcing the cannon balls to fall onto the ship's deck. (A well-known, but far-fetched explanation.)
Refers to the speed of the list, usually written as a number with four digits – 1234; the first number represents eccentric motion, second number represents isometric hold, third number represents concentric contraction and the last number represents the pause between each rep.
Contract is slang for a criminal agreement to kill a particular person in return for an agreed sum of money.
Contraction of brother, see: Brother.
Agreements and ground rules, some minor and some lifethreatening, between two-man fighter crews or between wingmen.
Exercising a muscle using shortened movements that causes a muscle to cramp, contracting painfully perhaps to the point of temporary fatigue to achieve a greater pump.
Believed to be contraction of Yiddish/German schwatrz (black) and boogie.
Bureau of Ships; Washington, D.C.; in charge of monitoring all Naval vessel activities, especially in regards to civilian contracts.
The likely side-effect of contracting venereal disease.
  Gypsies; half breed gypsies (Romany). (From Didikai, a Rom contraction of Dik akai, or "look here")
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Capability of being contracted; quality of being contractible; as, the contractibility and dilatability of air.
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tending to contract; having the power or property of contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as, the contractile tissues.
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To make an agreement; to covenant; to agree; to bargain; as, to contract for carrying the mail.
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Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun.
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The power possessed by the fibers of living muscle of contracting or shortening.
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Bargained for; betrothed; as, a contracted peace.
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Capable of contraction.
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Contractibility.
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Tending to contract; having the property or power or power of contracting.
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The quality or property by which bodies shrink or contract.
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A marriage contract.
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Contracted; as, a contract verb.
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The state of being contracted; narrowness; meanness; selfishness.
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The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil of the eye, or of a tendion; the contraction produced by cold.
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One who contracts; one of the parties to a bargain; one who covenants to do anything for another; specifically, one who contracts to perform work on a rather large scale, at a certain price or rate, as in building houses or making a railroad.
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Narrow; illiberal; selfish; as, a contracted mind; contracted views.
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A state of permanent rigidity or contraction of the muscles, generally of the flexor muscles.
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Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word or phrase; -- as, plenipo for plenipotentiary; crim. con. for criminal conversation, etc.
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The act of incurring or becoming subject to, as liabilities, obligation, debts, etc.; the process of becoming subject to; as, the contraction of a disease.
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Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
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