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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
name
Initialism of Turner Network Television, a U.S. television channel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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noun
Abbreviation of trinitrotoluene (an explosive substance used in blasting)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: explosive
noun
Dynamite or any weak explosive.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Qualifier: erroneous
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noun
An illegal immigrant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Philippines, informal
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noun
explosive consisting of a yellow crystalline compound that is a flammable toxic derivative of toluene
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: trinitrotoluene
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: explosive compound
History
All senses by acronymy or initialism formation or by metonymic relation thereto. The third sense is an initialism of Tagalog tago nang tago (literally “hide and hide”).
