Bamboozled

Fooled, conned. Often, one who is bamboozled becomes embarrassed.

I've been bamboozled; this sandwich contains the lettuce, ham, and mustard, all right, but the tomatoes are nowehre to be found! This is the last time I ever trade lunches with Brock...

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Peep

The tiniest emission of sound, oftentimes coming from a human. Mostly used when describing the abscence of noise.

Luke: And so I came home, expecting this big, loud, surprise birthday party, but there wasn't a peep throughout the house!

Morris: So they forgot your birthday?

Luke: No. As it turns out, they threw me a mime party.

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Ticked

Angry, annoyed; usually caused by someone else (one rarely becomes ticked by a situation). Also called 'ticked off'.

Fred stole my slippers! I'm ticked!

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Outside Reading

Reading done outside of school, usually by choice. After being mandatory in elementary school, pleasure reading was (therefore, perhaps?) regarded as uncool in middle school but trendy in high school.

Pleasure reading makes other people look like intellectuals, but doing my pleasure reading on some type of online dictionary did nothing for me.

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Stink

1) To smell bad.

2) To be bad.

1) This cabbage stinks.

2) This TV show stinks.

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Double-Cross

To break a promise in a way that harms the person with whom the deal was originally struck. To double-cross is to back-stab and to two-time.

Also, double-crossing can be merely 'ratting' someone out.

Vic was double-crossed by his friend Alan, who informed Nelson Fingers of the upcoming deal.

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Tab

The keyboard button that allows one to cycle through all buttons on the computer without using the mouse.

I used the 'tab' key to move from the 'definition and background' section to the 'example' of the word I am currently defining; I didn't even have to move my hand(s) off of the keyboard to touch the mouse!

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