(idiomatic) A small indication of a larger possibility; the first part encountered of a problem that is much bigger than it seems.

(vulgar, Britain, New Zealand, Australian slang) Something easy to achieve.

(idiomatic) No longer maintaining a program of self-improvement or abstinence from an undesirable habit, especially drinking alcohol.

(transitive) To drink up rapidly. / (transitive) To assemble hastily. / (Britain, vulgar, slang, transitive, intransitive) To masturbate. / (transitive) To deliver in an offhand manner.

(informal) Occurring or proliferating in great or excess quantity.

The narrow section of water between the eastern tip of Sicily and the southern tip of mainland Italy.

Britain standard spelling of word of honor.

A non-commissioned officer in the Canadian, US and UK Navy and the US Coast Guard; roughly equivalent to a sergeant in the army

A structure made by stacking playing cards in a pyramidal fashion. / (by extension, often attributive) Any structure with alternating vertical and horizontal layers.

(idiomatic) Despite, irrespective of, notwithstanding.