Police in Los Angeles had good luck with a robbery suspect who just couldn’t control himself during a lineup.
When detectives asked each man in the lineup to repeat the words, “Give me all your money or I’ll shoot,”
the man shouted, “That’s not what I said!”
—n. Dent. —v. Mark with dints. by dint of by force or means of. [old english and old norse]
DIRE
adj. - a calamitous, dreadful. B ominous. C (predic) colloq. Very bad.
- urgent (in dire need). [latin]
DIRK
n. Short dagger. [origin unknown]
DIRT
cheap adj. & adv. Colloq. Extremely cheap.
- n. - unclean matter that soils.
- a earth, soil. B earth, cinders, etc., used to make the surface for a road etc. (usu. Attrib.: dirt track).
- foul or malicious words or talk.
- excrement. treat like dirt treat with contempt. [old norse drit excrement]
DISC
brake n. Brake employing the friction of pads against a disc.
- jockey n. Presenter of recorded pop music.
- n. (also disk esp. Us and in sense 4a) 1 a flat thin circular object. B round flat or apparently flat surface or mark.
- layer of cartilage between vertebrae.
- gramophone record.
- a (usu. Disk; in full magnetic disk) flat circular computer storage device. B (in full optical disc) disc for data recorded and read by laser. [latin *discus]
DISH
—n. - a shallow flat-bottomed container for food. B its contents. C particular kind of food or food prepared to a particular recipe (meat dish).
- (in pl.) Crockery, pans, etc. After a meal (wash the dishes).
- a dish-shaped object or cavity. B = *satellite dish.
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