| BLOOPER | • blooper n. (Informal) A blunder, an error. • blooper n. (Baseball, slang) A fly ball that is weakly hit just over the infielders. • blooper n. (Film, informal) A filmed or videotaped outtake that has recorded an amusing accident and/or mistake. |
| CARPOOL | • carpool n. An arrangement whereby several people travel together in the same car in order to save costs, reduce pollution etc. • carpool n. The group of people who participate in such a pool. • carpool v. To travel together in such a pool. |
| LOOPERS | • loopers n. Plural of looper. • Loopers prop.n. Plural of Looper. • LOOPER n. a caterpillar of the Geometridae, so called from its mode of walking. |
| LOOPIER | • loopier adj. Comparative form of loopy: more loopy. • LOOPY adj. full of loops. |
| POLARON | • polaron n. (Physics) The object (a quasiparticle) that results when an electron (or hole) in the conduction band… • POLARON n. a free electron trapped by polarization charges on the surrounding molecules. |
| POOLERS | • poolers n. Plural of pooler. • POOLER n. a person taking part in pool. |
| PORLOCK | • Porlock prop.n. A coastal village and civil parish in Somerset West and Taunton district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref SS8846). • PORLOCK v. to hinder by an irksome intrusion or interruption. |
| PRECOOL | • precool v. (Transitive) To cool in advance. • PRECOOL v. to cool beforehand. |
| PROLOGS | • prologs n. Plural of prolog. • PROLOG v. to preface, also PROLOGUE. |
| PROLONG | • prolong v. (Transitive) To extend in space or length. • prolong v. (Transitive) To lengthen in time; to extend the duration of. • prolong v. (Transitive) To put off to a distant time; to postpone. |
| RESPOOL | • respool v. (Transitive) To wind back onto a spool. • respool v. (Transitive, computing) To place (data) back on a queue for later transmission. • RESPOOL v. to spool again. |
| ROLLMOP | • rollmop n. A fillet of herring, rolled and flavoured with sliced onion and spices then pickled in brine. • ROLLMOP n. a fillet of herring rolled up in onion. |
| ROLLTOP | • rolltop adj. Alternative spelling of roll-top. • roll-top adj. Having a top that rolls away when not needed. • ROLLTOP adj. having a flexible, sliding cover. |
| SPOOLER | • spooler n. (Textiles) A device for winding thread onto a spool. • spooler n. (Computing) A program or process that spools (places data in a queue to be accessed later). • SPOOLER n. a device for transferring data to a memory store for later printing or processing. |
| TROLLOP | • trollop n. (Derogatory) A strumpet; a whore. • trollop v. To act in a sluggish or slovenly manner. • trollop v. (Scotland) to dangle soggily: become bedraggled. |