This page gathers the 6,610 dictionary entries of which at least one sense is labelled “US” by Wiktionary. The definition shown is that sense; each word leads to its full entry. Page 36 of 66: from “Lovestoneite” to “masher”.
- Lovestoneite noun A member of a small American oppositionist communist movement of the 1930s, led by Jay Lovestone, former General Secretary of the Communist…
- loving adj Euphemistic form of fucking.
- low bono adj Of legal work: offered at a discounted rate, especially to underrepresented communities.
- low key adv Used as a downtoner; kind of.
- low-slope roof noun According to ASTM standard E 1918-97, a roof whose uppermost part is installed at a slope of 2/12 or 1:6 (9.5 degrees) or less.
- lower Ivy noun any of the Ivy League universities, such as Dartmouth, Brown, and Cornell that are generally seen as less prestigious than Harvard, Yale…
- lox noun Salmon that is cured in brine and then smoked at a low temperature so that the flesh remains uncooked.
- loyalist noun A person from the 13 Colonies on the eastern seaboard of North America who remained loyal to the British Empire during the American…
- lugger noun A con artist.
- lumber noun Wood sawn into planks or otherwise prepared for sale or use, especially as a building material.
- lumbering noun The business of felling trees for lumber.
- lunch noun Any small meal, especially one eaten at a social gathering.
- lunch pail noun A lunchbox (food container) shaped more or less like a bucket with a handle.
- lunch shaming noun The practice of drawing attention to a schoolchild who is unable to afford school meals, for example by refusing them a meal or requiring…
- lunchbox Democrat noun A high-ranking member of the Democratic Party with a working-class or blue-collar background, especially one who attempts to leverage this…
- luster noun The ability or condition of shining with reflected light; sheen, gleam, gloss, sparkle, shine, etc.
- lyceum noun A school, especially European, at a stage between elementary school and college, a lycée.
- lymphoblastic leukemia noun An acute form of leukemia characterized by a very large number of lymphoblasts in the circulating blood.
- M-1 noun A student visa for vocational and technical education.
- M1 noun The amount of cash in circulation plus the amount in bank accounts.
- M2 noun (money supply) The amount of cash in circulation plus bank accounts, savings accounts and small deposits.
- M3 noun The amount of cash, all bank accounts, etc., plus foreign currency in circulation.
- ma'am noun A female schoolteacher; a schoolmarm.
- mac noun A person of Scottish descent (used in driving culture to denigrate someone for poor/slow/amateurish driving responses).
- macadam noun Any road or street.
- macchiato noun Ellipsis of latte macchiato.
- machine noun The system of special interest groups that supports a political party, especially in urban areas.
- machine politician noun A politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends.
- mack daddy noun A pimp, especially a prosperous one.
- mad adj Angry, annoyed.
- madman theory noun An element of U.S. President Richard Nixon's foreign policy, by which Nixon was portrayed as irrational and volatile toward leaders of…
- madrone noun Any of three local relatives
- maga adj Following the political philosophy of Donald Trump; Trumpist.
- MAGAtino noun A supporter of Donald Trump who is of Hispanic or Latin American descent.
- maggot noun Alternative form of MAGAt.
- maidenhair noun Either of two ericaceous plants: creeping snowberry (Gaultheria hispidula) or checkerberry (G. procumbens).
- mail noun The letters, parcels, etc. delivered to a particular address or person.
- mail cover noun An investigative technique in which the United States Postal Service, acting at the request of a law enforcement agency, records…
- mail fraud noun A class of felonies, providing for a separate and additional federal penalty for any criminal offense whose perpetration involved the use…
- mailbox noun A collection point for mail intended for onward delivery, a secure box or receptacle for this purpose.
- mailbox rule noun An exception to the general rule of contract law stating that acceptance of an offer takes effect when a letter enters the postal system.
- mailman noun Someone who delivers mail to, and/or collects mail from, residential or commercial addresses, or from public mailboxes.
- mailpiece noun (countable) A piece of mail, that is, an item of (physical) mail; especially, an item of flat envelope form factor as contrasted with an…
- mails noun The mail delivery system.
- main noun The mainland.
- main bitch noun The primary woman with whom a man is romantically involved.
- main road noun A major urban road, off which lead many smaller streets, many of them cul-de-sacs.
- mainer noun A needle for (illicit) drug administration.
- mainline adj Not fundamentalist, charismatic or evangelical.
- mainstream verb To educate (a disabled student) together with non-disabled students.
- mainstreaming noun The practice of educating students with special needs in regular classes.
- major noun The principal subject or course of a student working toward a degree at a college or university.
- major in verb To take (something) as one's major field of study in an institute of tertiary education (such as a college or university).
- majordomo noun A manager of a hacienda, ranch or estate.
- make verb To recognise, identify, spot.
- make like verb To behave as though.
- make nice verb To be friendly or conciliatory towards another, often in the context of maintaining good relations or resolving a conflict with the other…
- make out verb To manage, get along; to do (well, badly etc.).
- make the cheese more binding verb To clinch a deal or agreement.
- make-work noun An activity or task assigned or undertaken for the sake of activity or busy-ness, rather than because of a particular need.
- mall noun A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.
- mallie noun Synonym of mall rat.
- mallspeak noun A form of language, practiced by the young, in which generalized modifiers (especially like and the form be like) are interspersed, often…
- malt noun A milkshake with malted milk powder added for flavor.
- malt liquor noun beer, especially that having a higher than normal alcohol content.
- malted milk noun A milkshake with malted milk powder added for flavour.
- mama noun Synonym of mother (“a female parent”).
- mama's boy noun A male who has a very close bond with his mother, and may consequently be perceived as soft or effeminate.
- mamaw noun One's grandmother, especially one's maternal grandmother.
- mammy noun In the southern United States, a black nanny employed to look after white children; or in the antebellum South, a female slave who was…
- man catcher noun An employment agency.
- man-of-war noun The Arctic skua (Stercorarius parasiticus).
- managed care noun Medical services which are planned, directed, and controlled—especially by a health insurance company—in a manner designed to maximize the…
- mañana adv Tomorrow.
- maneuver noun The planned movement of troops, vehicles etc.; a strategic repositioning; (later also) a large training field-exercise of fighting units.
- mangle noun Any of various trees of the genus Rhizophora, especially the red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle).
- mango noun A green bell pepper suitable for pickling.
- manhaul noun A meal.
- manifold noun The third stomach of a ruminant animal, an omasum.
- mansionette noun A large and somewhat luxurious house.
- manther noun A woman who actively seeks the casual, often sexual, companionship of younger men.
- manual labor noun Work done by hand or using basic tools rather than by machines; usually physically demanding but (sometimes derogatory) unskilled labor.
- maple MAGA noun A Canadian supporter of Donald Trump.
- mara noun A Latin American criminal gang.
- marabou noun A person having five-eighths black ancestry; the offspring of a mulatto and a griffe.
- Marchman Act verb To invoke the Marchman Act, i.e., a means of voluntary or involuntary assessment and stabilization and treatment of a person allegedly…
- marine hospital noun A (land-based) hospital, between 1798 and 1981, existing primarily for the benefit of civilian mariners.
- mark up verb To beat and bruise (someone).
- marker noun Synonym of IOU, an informal record of a debt.
- marketeer noun A specialist in marketing (promoting and selling products and services).
- marketer noun One who sells products or services, for example goods at a market; called a marketeer in UK English.
- markup noun The process by which proposed legislation is debated and amended.
- Markush claim noun A patent claim that identifies multiple functionally equivalent chemical entities allowed in one or more parts of a compound.
- marooning party noun A social excursion party that sojourns several days on the shore or in some retired place; a prolonged picnic.
- marquee noun A projecting canopy over an entrance, especially one with a sign that displays the name of the establishment or other information of it.
- marriage lite noun cohabitation, civil union
- marshal noun A federal lawman.
- mart noun A shop, a store, a market.
- masa noun Maize dough made from freshly prepared hominy, used for making tortillas, tamales, etc.
- masher noun A man who makes often unwelcome advances to women, as in a subway.