A fictional ghost in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, who visits Ebenezer Scrooge in order to show him his past, especially certain events of past Christmases that contributed to his later distaste for Christmas.

(humorous) Said when asked the time, humorously indicating that one does not know or does not care to check, or that one is not wearing a wristwatch and that nothing is to be seen on the wrist but hairs and freckles.

To sneak something through a process or inspection; to hide something or conceal a fact; to prevent attention being drawn to something.

(transitive, idiomatic) To deceive, trick, or fool (someone), especially by concealing something.

To become able to look beyond one's own ego and negative emotions; to overcome internal and emotional obstacles.

plural of token-pasting operator

(programming) The operator ## in the C or C++ preprocessor, which permits separate tokens to be joined into a single token.

(Malaysia, Singapore, Singlish, colloquial) Careless; shoddy. / (Malaysia, Singapore, Singlish, colloquial) Incompetent.

present participle of whistle past the graveyard

simple past tense and past participle of whistle past the graveyard