brannigan

noun

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as in souse

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  1. souse
  2. bum
  3. bender
  4. escapade
  5. toot
  6. caper
  7. prank
  8. field day
Noun
  • Taste traditional home cooking If fish is for Friday, the traditional Bajan dish of pudding and souse is the staple of Saturday.
    Patrick Scott, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The meat in souse is first tenderized through boiling and then marinated in lime, cucumbers, peppers and seasonings to pickled perfection.
    Essence, Essence, 25 Nov. 2024
Definition of souse
Noun
  • This was all done with a bum wrist, which posed as an inconvenience to him at times.
    Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2024
  • Tommy, left to prosecute the case against Rusty, has inherited a bum gig.
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 26 July 2024
Definition of bum
Noun
  • Awards, previously invoked a 72-hour bender in explaining a career-jarring 2021 incident where he was caught on video shouting a racial slur at a friend.
    Christie D’Zurilla, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The end result is a little bit bubbly R&B, a little bit finger-picky Glen Campbell and a whole lot of pure Billie Eilish on a lovestruck bender.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 7 Dec. 2024
Definition of bender
Noun
  • Athena Returns Home After nine terrifying days for Comer, who worried about what her already skittish dog could have encountered on her escapade, the owner got a Ring video notification from her doorbell at 2:30 a.m.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Because of her alleged escapades, locals have compared Flynn to Brady, the former New England Patriots quarterback who is widely considered the greatest football player ever.
    Louis Casiano, Fox News, 26 Dec. 2024
Definition of escapade
Noun
  • Even if zero toots escape, moving your body can, again, encourage those gut contractions that pass food through your bowels and toward your colon.
    Erica Sloan, SELF, 26 Nov. 2024
  • On Kelly Ripa’s Let’s Talk Off Camera podcast, Sonnenfeld told a tale of a toot.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2024
Definition of toot
Noun
  • Powell scooped up a best actor Globe nod for the stranger-than-fiction crime caper, but his luck ran out when SAG nominations rolled around.
    Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2025
  • The scrappy theatrical love letter to this wild caper has been getting raves on the West End for two years.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
Definition of caper
Noun
  • Some prank culture now is short-attention-span theater.
    Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Dylan's vision was a kind of variety show gone wild, packing the evening with songs, costumes, poetry, and pranks, much of it caught on film.
    Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 11 Jan. 2025
Definition of prank
Noun
  • The Radical Left Democrats are having a field day, however, trying to hook me into whatever policies are stated or said.
    Joyce Orlando, The Tennessean, 12 July 2024
  • There's a new kind of casting call in Washington, and Stephen Colbert is having a field day with it.
    Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of field day
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