plural of US-American

(slang) The reason that people dislike us is because of they are jealous of us.

simple past tense and past participle of use a sledgehammer to crack a nut

A group of islands in the Caribbean that is a territory of the United States. Official name: Virgin Islands of the United States.

(Cockney rhyming slang) To think.

Unit of measure for areas, defined as 43,560 square feet,https://web.archive.org/web/20041204052555/http://ts.nist.gov/ts/htdocs/230/235/appxc/appxc.htm or 4,046.8564224 square meters. A square mile has 640 acres.

(idiomatic) To survive to the present day; to be extant in some form.

plural of US survey acre

A unit of length equal to ¹²⁰⁰⁄₃₉₃₇ of a meter, used in some states for measuring land.

(linguistics, philosophy) A distinction between the use of a word for its meaning (as in "Cheese is derived from milk") and the mention of a word as a lexical unit (as in " 'Cheese' is derived from a word in Old English").