(sometimes attributive) A connection. / (slang) A brief sexual relationship or encounter. / (slang) A sexual partner.

(Ireland, idiomatic, said of a woman) fat, chubby, particularly with fat legs.

plural of hooded seal

Exultant, very happy, triumphant.

(basketball) The hoop, holding a string net, through which the basketball must be placed to score

Alternative form of monkshood

A tinamou, Nothocercus nigrocapillus.

(basketball) A shot in which the offensive player gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head.

Describing the state of a telephone (or similar device) when it is available but not in use / (by extension) Describing the idle state of a subscriber or PBX user loop

A grey and black Eurasian crow, Corvus cornix.