(cooking) Caramelized remnants of meat left in a pan after the cooking of the meat, which are often re-cooked in wine or other liquids and then absorbed into cut vegetable pieces in order to make sauce or gravy.

simple past tense and past participle of bite the bullet

simple past tense and past participle of chomp at the bit

plural of curb bit

plural of bit of crumpet

plural of bit map

(informal) Miscellaneous items.

(computing) A computer program that defeats some copy protection schemes by reading a disk one bit at a time, and directly interacting with the disk drive hardware.

(nautical) A turn of the cable about the end of the windlass, without the bits.

plural of weather-bit