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  • 61deck — 1. tv. to knock someone to the ground. □ Fred decked Bob with one blow. □ I was so mad I almost decked him. 2. n. a pack of cigarettes. □ Can you toss me a deck of fags, please? □ …

    Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • 62deck — [15] Ultimately, deck (both the noun and the verb) is the same word as thatch. The meaning element they share is of a ‘covering over the top’. The noun was borrowed from Middle Dutch dec, which meant ‘covering’ in general, and more specifically… …

    Word origins

  • 63Deck — (englisch), waagerechte Unterteilung und oberer Abschluss des Schiffskorpers. Das Festigkeitsdeck, Verbandsdeck oder Hauptdeck ist das oberste durchlaufende Deck; es bildet mit dem Schiffsrumpf den wasserdichten Abschluss. Uber dem Hauptdeck… …

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  • 64deck up — vb to prepare for injection or to inject a drug, usually heroin. A phrase from the jargon of drug users and prisoners in the UK. The verb derives from the noun deck, meaning a quantity of a narcotic …

    Contemporary slang

  • 65deck —    American    a packet of illicit narcotics    Usually heroin, from being wrapped in paper like a pack of cards. To deck up is to pack heroin for retail sale …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 66deck n — Why didn t anyone play cards on Noah s Ark? Because Noah sat on the deck …

    English expressions

  • 67deck — v. a. 1. Adorn, embellish, decorate, ornament, array, beautify. 2. Dress, clothe, apparel, robe. 3. Cover with a deck, cover, cover in …

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  • 68deck — 1. verb 1) the street was decked with streamers Syn: decorate, bedeck, adorn, ornament, trim, trick out, garnish, cover, hang, festoon, garland, swathe, wreathe; embellish, beautify, prettify, enhance …

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  • 69deck — Verb. To physically knock down, onto the deck …

    English slang and colloquialisms

  • 70deck — v outfit, deck out, Archaic. bedight, array, bedeck, bedizen, emblazon, Inf. trick out; adorn, decorate, embellish, ornament, garnish, enhance, trim, spangle; furbish, refurbish, preen, Inf. spruce up; beautify, enrich, elaborate, grace …

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