Joseph force/fɔrs, foʊrs/Show Spelled[fawrs, fohrs]Show IPA, 1889–?, a judge of the New York State Supreme Court: his mysterious disappearance on August 6, 1930, has never been solved.
a fairly large container, usually made of wooden slats or wickerwork, used for packing, storing, or transporting goods
2.
slang an old car, aeroplane, etc
—vb
3.
(tr) to pack or place in a crate
[C16: from Latin crātis wickerwork, hurdle]
'crater
—n
'crateful
—n
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the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
the bowl-shaped opening at the top or side of a volcano or top of a geyser through which lava and gases are emitted
2.
a similarly shaped depression formed by the impact of a meteorite or exploding bomb
3.
any of the circular or polygonal walled formations covering the surface of the moon and some other planets, formed probably either by volcanic action or by the impact of meteorites. They can have a diameter of up to 240 kilometres (150 miles) and a depth of 8900 metres (29 000 feet)
4.
a pit in an otherwise smooth surface
5.
a large open bowl with two handles, used for mixing wines, esp in ancient Greece
—vb
6.
to make or form craters in (a surface, such as the ground)
7.
slang to fail; collapse; crash
[C17: from Latin: mixing bowl, crater, from Greek kratēr, from kerannunai to mix]
'cratered
—adj
'craterless
—adj
'crater-like
—adj
Crater (ˈkreɪtə)
—n , Latin genitiveCrateris
a small faint constellation in the S hemisphere lying between Virgo and Hydra
1613, from Gk. krater "bowl for mixing wine with water," from kera- "to mix." used in L. for bowl-shaped mouth of a volcano. Applied to features of the Moon since 1860.
A bowl-shaped depression at the top of a volcano or at the mouth of a geyser. Volcanic craters can form because of magma explosions in which a large amount of lava is thrown out from a volcano, leaving a hole, or because the roof of rock over an underground magma pool collapses after the magma has flowed away.
A shallow, bowl-shaped depression in a surface, formed by an explosion or by the impact of a body, such as a meteorite.
n. an acne scar. : Walter was always sort of embarrassed about his craters.
in. to collapse and go down as with a falling stock price. : The stock cratered and probably won't recover for a year or two.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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