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   face off
         v 1: start a game by a face-off [syn: {face off}, {bully off}]

English Dictionary: face-off by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
face up
v
  1. deal with (something unpleasant) head on; "You must confront your problems"; "He faced the terrible consequences of his mistakes"
    Synonym(s): confront, face up, face
    Antonym(s): avoid
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
face-off
n
  1. a hostile disagreement face-to-face [syn: confrontation, encounter, showdown, face-off]
  2. (ice hockey) the method of starting play; a referee drops the puck between two opposing players
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fess up
v
  1. admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error; "the writer of the anonymous letter owned up after they identified his handwriting"
    Synonym(s): make a clean breast of, own up, fess up
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fig up
v
  1. put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive; "She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera"; "The young girls were all fancied up for the party"
    Synonym(s): overdress, dress up, fig out, fig up, deck up, gussy up, fancy up, trick up, deck out, trick out, prink, attire, get up, rig out, tog up, tog out
    Antonym(s): dress down, underdress
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fishwife
n
  1. someone who sells fish
    Synonym(s): fishmonger, fishwife
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fix up
v
  1. find (something or someone) for; "I'll fix you up with a nice girl"
  2. make arrangements for; "Can you arrange a meeting with the President?"
    Synonym(s): arrange, fix up
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fog up
v
  1. get foggy; "The windshield fogged up"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
FSB
n
  1. the internal counterintelligence agency of the Russian Federation and successor to the Soviet KGB; formerly led by Vladimir Putin
    Synonym(s): Federal Security Bureau, FSB, Federal Security Service
  2. a federally chartered savings bank
    Synonym(s): federal savings bank, FSB
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fuck off
v
  1. be lazy or idle; "Her son is just bumming around all day"
    Synonym(s): bum, bum around, bum about, arse around, arse about, fuck off, loaf, frig around, waste one's time, lounge around, loll, loll around, lounge about
  2. leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form; "Scram!"
    Synonym(s): scram, buzz off, fuck off, get, bugger off
  3. get sexual gratification through self-stimulation
    Synonym(s): masturbate, wank, fuck off, she-bop, jack off, jerk off
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fuck up
v
  1. make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
    Synonym(s): botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fuckup
n
  1. someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence [syn: bungler, blunderer, fumbler, bumbler, stumbler, sad sack, botcher, butcher, fuckup]
  2. an embarrassing mistake
    Synonym(s): blunder, blooper, bloomer, bungle, pratfall, foul-up, fuckup, flub, botch, boner, boo-boo
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {Cylinder face} (Steam Engine), the flat part of a steam
            cylinder on which a slide valve moves.
  
      {Face of an anvil}, its flat upper surface.
  
      {Face of a bastion} (Fort.), the part between the salient and
            the shoulder angle.
  
      {Face of coal} (Mining), the principal cleavage plane, at
            right angles to the stratification.
  
      {Face of a gun}, the surface of metal at the muzzle.
  
      {Face of a place} (Fort.), the front comprehended between the
            flanked angles of two neighboring bastions. --Wilhelm.
  
      {Face of a square} (Mil.), one of the sides of a battalion
            when formed in a square.
  
      {Face of a} {watch, clock, compass, card etc.}, the dial or
            graduated surface on which a pointer indicates the time of
            day, point of the compass, etc.
  
      {Face to face}.
            (a) In the presence of each other; as, to bring the
                  accuser and the accused face to face.
            (b) Without the interposition of any body or substance.
                  [bd]Now we see through a glass darkly; but then face
                  to face.[b8] 1 --Cor. xiii. 12.
            (c) With the faces or finished surfaces turned inward or
                  toward one another; vis [85] vis; -- opposed to {back
                  to back}.
  
      {To fly in the face of}, to defy; to brave; to withstand.
  
      {To make a face}, to distort the countenance; to make a
            grimace. --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fishify \Fish"i*fy\, v. t.
      To change to fish. [R.] --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fishwife \Fish"wife`\, n.
      A fishwoman.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fogbow \Fog"bow`\, n.
      A nebulous arch, or bow, of white or yellowish light
      sometimes seen in fog, etc.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Foxship \Fox"ship\, n.
      Foxiness; craftiness. [R.] --Shak.

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   FSF /F-S-F/ abbrev.   Common abbreviation (both spoken and
   written) for the name of the Free Software Foundation, a nonprofit
   educational association formed to support the {GNU} project.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   FCB
  
      {file control block}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   FCP
  
      Flat Concurrent Prolog.
  
      ["Design and Implementation of Flat Concurrent Prolog",
      C. Mierowsky, TR CS84-21 Weizmann Inst, Dec 1984].
  
      (1994-10-20)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   FSB
  
      {front side bus}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   FSF
  
      {Free Software Foundation}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   FSP
  
      {File Service Protocol}
  
  
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