| BACKLIFT | • backlift n. (Cricket) The lifting of the bat in preparation for hitting the ball. • BACKLIFT n. the backwards lifting of a bat. |
| BOATLIFT | • boatlift n. The (often clandestine) transportation of a large number of people or amount of goods by boat, especially… • boatlift n. (Also boat lift) A mechanism for lifting boats from the water, or between water on different elevations. • boatlift v. (Transitive) To transport (A large exodus of people, etc.) by boat. |
| DEADLIFT | • deadlift n. (Weightlifting) A weight training exercise where one lifts a loaded barbell off the ground from a stabilized… • deadlift n. Any lift performed without help or leverage. • deadlift n. (Figurative, by extension) An effort made under discouraging conditions. |
| FACELIFT | • facelift n. Plastic surgery to the face to remove wrinkles, fat or various signs of aging. • facelift n. (By extension) Any activity undertaken to renew, revamp, update, or improve the appearance of something. • facelift v. To perform a facelift upon. |
| FORELIFT | • forelift v. (Obsolete) To lift up in front. • FORELIFT v. (Spenser) to lift up in front. |
| FORKLIFT | • forklift n. A small industrial vehicle with a power-operated fork-like pronged platform that can be raised and lowered… • forklift v. To move or stack with, or as if with, such a vehicle. • FORKLIFT v. to raise or move by machine. |
| HELILIFT | • helilift v. (Transitive) To transport (troops) by helicopter. • helilift n. The operation of transporting troops by helicopter. • HELILIFT v. to transport by helicopter. |
| MANSHIFT | • manshift n. The amount of work that can be done by one person in one work shift. • MANSHIFT n. the work done by one person in one shift. |
| REDSHIFT | • redshift n. (Physics) A change in the wavelength of light, in which the wavelength is longer than when it was emitted… • redshift n. (US politics) The statistical bias towards Republican (or Blue Dog) candidates of US federal elections… • red␣shift n. (Astronomy) Light spectra shifted towards red, as by elongation of light waves from a source moving… |
| SHOPLIFT | • shoplift n. (Obsolete) A shoplifter. • shoplift v. (Transitive) To steal something from a shop or store during business hours, usually by means of hiding merchandise. • shoplift v. (Intransitive) To steal from shops / stores during trading hours. |
| UNTHRIFT | • unthrift n. A lack of thriftiness; prodigality. • unthrift n. (Now rare) Someone who is not thrifty; a spendthrift, someone who is not careful with their money. • unthrift adj. Unthrifty. |