Other Definitions cant (enc) cant (dict)
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Cant| Noun | 1. | cant - stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition | | | 2. | cant - a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal forceincline, slope, side - an elevated geological formation; "he climbed the steep slope"; "the house was built on the side of the mountain" | | | 3. | cant - a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo"bite - a portion removed from the whole; "the government's weekly bite from my paycheck" shakedown - extortion of money (as by blackmail) shakedown - a very thorough search of a person or a place; "a shakedown by the police uncovered the drugs" caff - informal British term for a cafe deck - street name for a packet of illegal drugs gat, rod - a gangster's pistol cert - an absolute certainty; "it's a dead cert" legs - staying power; "that old Broadway play really has legs" street name - a slang term for something (especially for an illegal drug); "`smack' is a street name for heroin" corker - a remarkable or astounding message; "that story was a corker" baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle, taradiddle, tarradiddle - pretentious or silly talk or writing non-standard speech - speech that differs from the usual accepted easily-recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community rhyming slang - slang that replaces words with rhyming words or expressions and then typically omits the rhyming component; "Cockney rhyming slang" burnup - a high-speed motorcycle race on a public road 'hood - (slang) a neighborhood airhead - a flighty scatterbrained simpleton; "she's a total airhead"; "every airhead on a big salary rushed out to buy one" baby, sister - sometimes used as a term of address for attractive young women bad egg - (old-fashioned slang) a bad person boffin - a scientist or technician engaged in military research good egg - (old-fashioned slang) a good person squeeze - (slang) a person's girlfriend or boyfriend; "she was his main squeeze" wog - an offensive slang term used by the British to refer to people of color from Africa or Asia juice - electric current; "when the wiring was finished they turned on the juice" key - a kilogram of a narcotic drug; "they were carrying two keys of heroin" juice - energetic vitality; "her creative juices were flowing" bitch - an unpleasant difficulty; "this problem is a real bitch" bumf, bumph - toilet paper (often used for printed matter that might as well be used as toilet paper) give - occur; "what gives?" feel - pass one's hands over the sexual organs of; "He felt the girl in the movie theater" hoof - dance in a professional capacity chuck, ditch - throw away; "Chuck these old notes" | | | 4. | cant - insincere talk about religion or moralstalk, talking - an exchange of ideas via conversation; "let's have more work and less talk around here" | | | 5. | cant - two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degreesedge - a sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object; "he rounded the edges of the box" splay - an outward bevel around a door or window that makes it seem larger | | | Verb | 1. | cant - heel over; "The tower is tilting"; "The ceiling is slanting"move - move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" cock - tilt or slant to one side; "cock one's head" | |
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