(rare) Great Britain, Ireland and surrounding smaller islands; the British and Irish Isles. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see islands, North Atlantic.

(UK, law, historical) A legal provision by which clergymen (and, later, anybody who could read) could claim that they were outside the jurisdiction of the secular courts and be tried instead in an ecclesiastical court under canon law.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in, middle, of. / (often followed by the -ing form of a verb) Engaged in, but not finished with, often with something unpleasant.

(slang) mad, deranged, insane / (slang) stupid, retarded, slow

plural of official scorer

Suspension of disbelief.

plural of hill of beans

(history) The deconstruction of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and 1990.

plural of point of tangency

(geometry) The point where a tangent line and its curve meet