(title) Abbreviation of Abbot.

Alternative spelling of A-sharp

(trading) To buy an instrument whose price is falling rapidly. / (trading) To buy an instrument with the unconfirmed assumption that price will reverse.

(informal) Having a streak of good luck or good progress or success.

(idiomatic, frequently imperative) To get busy; to get going; to be productive.

(slang, simile) Drunk to the point of incapacity; inebriated.

(chiefly British, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong) the accident and emergency (casualty) department of a hospital. / Initialism of Arts and Entertainment.

(rare, obsolete, euphemistic) A bawd, the mistress of a brothel.

(obsolete, slang) To be hanged on the gallows.

(obsolete) Sad, as if at death's door. / (idiomatic, archaic) Struck dumb, confounded.