What is the meaning of STARTING. Phrases containing STARTING
See meanings and uses of STARTING!Slangs & AI meanings
Short for 'starting a fight' or initiating a violent confrontation. As in 'Are ye start'n on uz like eh?' People in the south of England were more likely to say 'You wanna go?'.
A type of nail are where thin stripes are painted starting at the base of the nail and fad out toward (but not at) the tips of the nails to create the resemblance of a waterfall. (Example)
Starting time (probably from old Negro spiritual "Rise and Shine")
, (RAP-star) n., A man who doesn’t have a main girlfriend, who talks to many different young women. See also playa. Also: Rapstar status. “He is starting to act like a rapstar all the time.â€Â [Etym., African American]
Person just starting to use drugs
The process of starting a large diesel engine using compressed air to turn the engine over.
Peddler who sells magazines, candy, fruit, 'etc., in trains. Usually employed nowadays by Union News Co. Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, was a news butcher in his youth and became deaf when a conductor boxed his ears for accidentally starting a fire while experimenting in a baggage car near Smith Creek, Mich.
Contributor defines this as "when downhill skiing u fall really hard and your skiis, poles and goggle fall off and go everywhere. Starting to be used for lots of sports." In use, for example, you get "Dude, i just saw some poser take a mad yardsale on the double black diamond, I bet he's at the hospital right now."
To be caught starting a fire. Usually an illegal fire on someone elses things.
To initiate that one is successfully in starting a sexual activity, by hissing caressing hugging, etc. [ I do not know why he is saying that he made it with me, when he could not get to first base.]
Starting the ship's boilers.
, (SCHMA-bin) v. pres. participle, Driving fast, burning tire rubber when starting out. Also: driving around in the car with a group of friends, playing the radio loud, shouting out. “Yeah, we were straight schmabbin’ last night.â€Â [Etym., 90’s youth culture]
between sunset and dusk, starting to get dark
Umbrella. Wonderful - it's starting to rain and me without my Auntie Ella.
person just starting to use drugs
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Slangs & AI derived meanings
Liar. Shut up you Bob - yer talking out yer aris. Sergeant Bob Cryer is a character in "The Bill".
Noun. The anus.
Vrb phrs. To perform fellatio.
American Born Chinese
Phrs. Totally unacceptable.
Everything is OK. An individual is OK. (exam. " I just got jumped but I'm straight, they couldn't  hurt me").
To be in prison
Lazy person; dirty, unkempt person who takes no care of their appearance
A portable cooler for food or drinks. See also Coola bin
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superl.
Elevated above any starting point of measurement, as a line, or surface; having altitude; lifted up; raised or extended in the direction of the zenith; lofty; tall; as, a high mountain, tower, tree; the sun is high.
n.
A sudden turn; a starting from the point or line; hence, an artful evasion or subterfuge; a shift; a quibble; as, the quirks of a pettifogger.
adv.
By sudden fits or starts; spasmodically.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Start
n.
The act of one who, or that which, sails; the motion of a vessel on water, impelled by wind or steam; the act of starting on a voyage.
n.
An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race to the competitor possessing inferior advantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing superior advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success; as, the handicap was five seconds, or ten pounds, and the like.
n.
A starting, twitching, or convulsive motion.
superl.
Newly beginning or recurring; starting anew; now commencing; different from has been; as, a new year; a new course or direction.
n.
A device for saving power in stopping and starting a railroad car, by means of a heavy fly wheel.
n.
A venereal sore, resembling a chancre in its seat and some external characters, but differing from it in being the starting point of a purely local process and never of a systemic disease; -- called also soft chancre.
n.
A darting away; a starting off or aside.
n.
A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking; as, the recoil of nature, or of the blood.
n.
Materials, easily lighted, for starting a fire.
n.
A setting out, starting, or beginning.
adv.
By or in a circuit; by a course longer than the direct course; back to the starting point.
n.
A curve, in which a body, starting from a given point, and descending solely by the force of gravity, will reach another given point in a shorter time than it could by any other path. This curve of quickest descent, as it is sometimes called, is, in a vacuum, the same as the cycloid.
a.
To keep back or behind; to prevent from starting or moving forward; to check; to retard; to obstruct; to bring to a full stop; -- often followed by from; as, an accident hindered the coach; drought hinders the growth of plants; to hinder me from going.
a.
Being on the outside; external; farthest or farther from the interior, from a given station, or from any space or position regarded as a center or starting place; -- opposed to inner; as, the outer wall; the outer court or gate; the outer stump in cricket; the outer world.
n.
The act of starting; a sudden spring, leap, or motion, caused by surprise, fear, pain, or the like; any sudden motion, or beginning of motion.
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