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noun
A once-popular game of cards played by three people.
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Usage: uncountable
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noun
Three of the same cards held in one hand; three of a kind.
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Usage: countable
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noun
A jest or scoff; trick or deception.
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noun
An enticing glance or look.
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noun
A stream of saliva from a person's mouth.
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Usage: informal
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noun
A geek who is involved in a glee club, choir, or singing.
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Usage: slang
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noun
A fan of the television show Glee.
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Usage: slang
Topics: lifestyle
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verb
To ridicule, or mock; to make sport of.
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Usage: obsolete, transitive
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verb
To jest.
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Usage: intransitive, obsolete
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verb
To pass time frivolously.
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Usage: intransitive, obsolete
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verb
To discharge a long, thin stream of liquid (including saliva) through the teeth or from under the tongue, sometimes by pressing the tongue against the salivary glands.
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Usage: informal
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History
From Middle French glic, from Old French glic (“a game of cards”), of Germanic origin from or related to Middle High German glücke, gelücke (“luck”) and Middle Dutch gelīc (“like, alike”). More at luck, like.
Related to Etymology 1. Of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse *gleikr, leikr (“sport, play, game”), from Proto-Germanic *galaikaz (“jump, play”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyg-. Cognate with Old English ġelācan (“to play a trick on, delude”), Scots glaik (“a glance of the eye, deception, trick”, n.), Scots glaik (“to trick, trifle with”, v.). More at lake.
Blend of glee + geek.
Blend of Glee and geek
Across languages
37 source translations are retained for this English entry.
