(simile) To appear messy or dishevelled.

maintenance and sustenance (of something, organic or otherwise)

The way something is generally done.

With one's body bent over so that the knees and palms of the hands are touching the floor.

To start to pay attention suddenly.

A village in County Tipperary, Ireland.

In enacting formulae of bills and in other legal or constitutional contexts, the situation where a weak executive branch of a government enacts something previously approved of by the legislative branch or where the legislative branch concurs and approves something previously enacted by a strong executive branch.

A human lifespan. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see four, score, ten. 90.

(telecommunications) Of cable television and similar networks: consisting of a main central cable with a separate cable branching off it to each subscriber.

(US, television) The department at a television network that is responsible for the moral, ethical, and legal implications of what is broadcast.