(transitive) To bully, harass, or make fun of a victim; to bother or harass. / (transitive) To select (a person) for a task, etc.

(idiomatic) To begin an enterprise or recover from a setback without any outside help; to succeed only by one's own efforts or abilities.

(informal) To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce. / (informal) To calculate.

(historical) A series of air engagements between the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and the German Luftwaffe during World War II for air superiority over southern England and the English Channel prior to any German invasion of the British Isles.

(UK, informal) To fail to perform a promised or planned action due to lack of courage or nerve.

The primary woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony.

(idiomatic) A mistake in speech.

(idiomatic, euphemistic, colloquial) To perform oral sex upon (a person of either sex).

(figuratively, of a male) To spread one's genes around by impregnating many females. / (by extension, of a male or female) To engage in premarital or extramarital flings.

Official name of Iran