What is the meaning of LIGHTE. Phrases containing LIGHTE
See meanings and uses of LIGHTE!Slangs & AI meanings
Very dark-skinned Black people. Usually used among lighter-skinned African-Americans to refer to ones of very dark complexion. Made popular in the 1975 movie "Cooley High." Often shortened to "Jig."
Lighten up is slang for to relax, to take things less seriously, calm down, cheer up.
Referring to the color of skin. Used mainly by darker-skinned Blacks to lighter-skinned Blacks. Also Ink Baby or Inkspot.
A crew cut
Ronson lighter is British slang for the anus (shiter).
A name given to any potent liquor.
to heat, with a birch-rind lighted mop, the bottom of a boat hauled up and turned over on the beach and ready to be tarred
a lighter boat used to take fish to a loading vessel
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Slangs & AI derived meanings
Reckoning is Dorset slang for wages.
Clip is slang for to defraud or swindle, especially by overcharging. Clip is British slang for to hit someone with a glancing blow.Clip is British slang for to kill. Clip is American slang for speed. Clip is American slang for each.
Pigeon is slang for an unsuspecting victim of sharpers.
Pronounced 'helmet heed'. Basically a type of haircut, often inflicted by your own mum, not straight round like a basin head, but shaped as it describes. Reminiscent of a helmet worn by German soldiers in WWII.
Marijuana
Butcher's (from Butcher's hook) is British slang for look.
Someone considered to be a bit lacking in the brain department: i.e. "the lights are on but no-one's home.". Always more effective when used as part of the phrase, "You big spastic, you're a mentalist.".
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v. t.
To make less burdensome or afflictive; to alleviate; as, to lighten the cares of life or the burden of grief.
n.
The lighter woodwork in the interior of a building; especially, that used around openings, generally in the form of a molded architrave, to protect the plastering at those points.
n.
A beautiful Australian parrakeet (Platycercus eximius) often kept as a cage bird. The head and back of the neck are scarlet, the throat is white, the back dark green varied with lighter green, and the breast yellow.
a.
Provided with thorough lights or windows at opposite sides, as a room or building.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Lighten
v. i.
To grow lighter; to become less dark or lowering; to brighten; to clear, as the sky.
pl.
of Lighterman
v. t.
To make lighter, or less heavy; to reduce in weight; to relieve of part of a load or burden; as, to lighten a ship by unloading; to lighten a load or burden.
v. t.
To make light or clear; to light; to illuminate; as, to lighten an apartment with lamps or gas; to lighten the streets.
n.
The act of unloading into a lighter, or of conveying by a lighter.
n.
A box containing lighted tinder, formerly carried by soldiers who used matchlocks, to kindle the match.
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The collective lighter equipments or outfit of a bride, including clothes, jewelry, and the like; especially, that which is provided for her by her family.
n. pl.
A division of the Caucasian races, comprising the lighter-colored members.
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One who, or that which, lights; as, a lighter of lamps.
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A person employed on, or who manages, a lighter.
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The price paid for conveyance of goods on a lighter.
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A process which consists in washing ores by violent agitation in water, in order to separate the lighter or earhy particles; -- called also tozing, and treloobing, in Cornwall.
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Remarks concerning a subject or a person designed to excite laughter with a degree of contempt; wit of that species which provokes contemptuous laughter; disparagement by making a person an object of laughter; banter; -- a term lighter than derision.
imp. & p. p.
of Lighten
v. t.
To convey by a lighter, as to or from the shore; as, to lighter the cargo of a ship.
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