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gimlet

verb

Definition of gimlet

as in to pike

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While the gold seemed all-but hers, Andrade came up short on her second vault, a comparatively simple Lopez vault, piking down and stepping over the line to incur a neutral deduction.

— Caroline Price, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
This works best for larger pike fillets (pike in the 22-inch to 30-inch range).

— Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 15 Sep. 2023

Definition of pike

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Arches made of brick and perforated metal panels will be constructed near the sidewalks.

— Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 23 Sep. 2026
Eschewing the classic perforated upper, the styles modeled by Grace include the Unfurgettable Vegan Suede and Vegan Suede Quilted clogs, which are lined with faux fur but can still be decorated with Jibbitz along the backstrap.

— Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of perforate

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Of the 300,000 Chinese slaughtered by the Japanese Imperial Army during a six-week period, most were civilians who were were bayoneted, machine-gunned and burned alive.

— Martha Ross, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
There were injuries this time, with some students bayoneted for not retreating.

— Paula Schleis, cincinnati.com, 2 May 2020

Definition of bayonet

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Then Kekere-Ekun will quill piece by piece using colored paper, ribbons and parts of canvases before it's eventually completed.

— CNN, CNN, 2 Nov. 2022
For six weeks last summer the DC-8 and a pair of Twin Otters similarly quilled with atmospheric-sampling instruments flew through more than 100 different columns.

— Kyle Dickman, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2020

Definition of quill

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Those trends were backed up by the Federal Reserve’s latest Beige Book survey of business and economic conditions, which was riddled with red flags about higher fuel prices across the country.

— Jason Ma, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026
Unsurprisingly, public support for watching an incarcerated man be riddled with bullets on the internet was extremely low.

— Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of riddle

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Longer prongs diffuse less heat on your hair, providing softer curl definition.

— Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2025
The solutions, according to the Bay Area Equity Atlas report and Price’s work, have to be multi-pronged in order to really tackle the problems of housing affordability.

— Bay City News Service, The Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2019

Definition of prong

Verb

Some, including the Idaho Potato Commission, swear that the way a baked potato is opened affects the texture, eschewing a knife for a fork to gently poke a plus sign into the surface.

— Rebecca Firkser, Bon Appetit Magazine, 8 Oct. 2026
From ceviche and poke to pasta and tacos, the menu revolves around the catch of the day, which is sourced from local markets.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of poke

Verb

Rams left tackle Alaric Jackson’s suspension for punching a Buffalo Bills player after a game has been reduced from two games to one, an NFL spokesman said Wednesday.

— Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026
For Lee, the true measure of a man is how many other men, and women, want to punch his lights out.

— Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2026

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