(informal, figuratively) To deliberately do or say something to worsen a difficult situation or increase a person's distress, irritation, or anger.

plural of pillar of the community

Security measures which are intended to, or do, provide a feeling or illusion of improved security, while doing little or nothing to actually improve security.

To tighten something that is slack so that it is taut. / To do work that would otherwise be left undone. / To provide extra needed resources.

(idiomatic) Something of quality unbefitting to those who possess it.

(intransitive) To speak at a public meeting.

(idiomatic) To dally; to fail to make progress. / To settle in one place rather than moving to another.

Alternative form of the bomb (as in a nuclear bomb)

(historical, attributive) Operated by a nickel, especially of an early jukebox or slot machine.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of know someone in the biblical sense