BACKGROUNDER | • backgrounder n. (Chiefly US) A briefing or document typically provided prior to a meeting or other event that gives… • backgrounder n. A person employed to draw backgrounds for a comic or cartoon. • backgrounder n. A cattle farmer or rancher who runs a backgrounding operation. |
BARRICADOING | • barricadoing v. Present participle of barricado. • BARRICADO v. to barricade. |
CHARBROILING | • charbroiling v. Present participle of charbroil. • CHARBROIL v. to broil over charcoal. |
CORNBRAIDING | • CORNBRAID v. to braid hair in cornrows, also CORNROW. |
CROSSBARRING | • crossbarring n. A pattern of lines crossing each other. • CROSSBARRING n. the act of fitting with a crossbar. |
CURRYCOMBING | • currycombing v. Present participle of currycomb. • curry-combing v. Present participle of curry-comb. • CURRYCOMB v. to comb with this. |
INCORRIGIBLE | • incorrigible adj. Defective and impossible to materially correct or set aright. • incorrigible adj. Incurably depraved; not reformable. • incorrigible adj. Impervious to correction by punishment or pain. |
INCORRIGIBLY | • incorrigibly adv. In an incorrigible manner. • INCORRIGIBLE adv. incapable of being corrected or amended. |
MICROBLOGGER | • microblogger n. A person who writes a microblog. • MICROBLOGGER n. one who keeps a microblog. |
MICROBREWING | • microbrewing n. Small-scale commercial brewing, as carried out in a microbrewery. • MICROBREWING n. production by a microbrew. |
SUBMICROGRAM | • submicrogram adj. Being or relating to a quantity of less than a microgram. • submicrogram n. An amount that is less than a microgram. • SUBMICROGRAM adj. relating to or having a mass of less than one microgram. |
TURBOCHARGED | • turbocharged adj. Having a turbocharger. • turbocharged v. Simple past tense and past participle of turbocharge. • TURBOCHARGED adj. equipped with a turbocharger. |
TURBOCHARGER | • turbocharger n. Inlet air compressor for an internal combustion engine (either Otto or Diesel cycle), powered from the exhaust air. • TURBOCHARGER n. a centrifugal blower driven by exhaust gas turbines and used to supercharge an engine. |