Night. A sleeping couple is lying in a bed. Door bell rings. A couple wakes up. Woman: "Quick! My husband is back!" Man jumps out from a window. Flying down he starts to think: "Shit! But I am the husband!"
- joc. Or offens. Sexually attractive woman or women. [origin uncertain]
CRUMPLE
—v. (-ling) (often foll. By up) 1 crush or become crushed into creases or wrinkles.
- collapse, give way. —n. Crease or wrinkle. [obsolete crump curl up]
CRUNCHY
adj. (-ier, -iest) hard and crisp. crunchiness n.
CRUPPER
n. - strap looped under a horse's tail to hold the harness back.
- hindquarters of a horse. [french: related to *croup2]
CRUSADE
—n. - hist. Any of several medieval military expeditions made by europeans to recover the holy land from the muslims.
- vigorous campaign for a cause. —v. (-ding) engage in a crusade. crusader n. [french: related to *cross]
CRUZADO
n. (pl. -s) chief monetary unit of brazil. [portuguese]
CRYBABY
n. Person who weeps frequently.
CRYPTIC
adj. Obscure in meaning; secret, mysterious. cryptically adv.
CRYSTAL
ball n. Glass globe used in crystal-gazing.
- —n. - a transparent colourless mineral, esp. Rock crystal. B piece of this.
- a highly transparent glass; flint glass. B articles of this.
- crystalline piece of semiconductor.
- aggregation of molecules with a definite internal structure and the external form of a solid enclosed by symmetrically arranged plane faces. —adj. (usu. Attrib.) Made of, like, or clear as crystal. [greek krustallos]
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