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   save up
         v 1: accumulate money for future use; "He saves half his salary"
               [syn: {save}, {lay aside}, {save up}]

English Dictionary: swoop up by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
scoop up
v
  1. take out or up with or as if with a scoop; "scoop the sugar out of the container"
    Synonym(s): scoop, scoop out, lift out, scoop up, take up
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sea poppy
n
  1. yellow-flowered Eurasian glaucous herb naturalized in along sandy shores in eastern North America
    Synonym(s): horn poppy, horned poppy, yellow horned poppy, sea poppy, Glaucium flavum
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shape up
v
  1. develop in a positive way; "He progressed well in school"; "My plants are coming along"; "Plans are shaping up"
    Synonym(s): progress, come on, come along, advance, get on, get along, shape up
    Antonym(s): regress, retrograde, retrogress
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shape-up
n
  1. a way of hiring longshoremen by the day; applicants gather around a union boss who selects those to be hired
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
she-bop
v
  1. get sexual gratification through self-stimulation [syn: masturbate, wank, fuck off, she-bop, jack off, jerk off]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shove off
v
  1. leave; informal or rude; "shove off!"; "The children shoved along"; "Blow now!"
    Synonym(s): shove off, shove along, blow
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
skibob
n
  1. a vehicle resembling a bicycle but having skis instead of wheels; the rider wears short skis for balancing
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sop up
v
  1. take in, also metaphorically; "The sponge absorbs water well"; "She drew strength from the minister's words"
    Synonym(s): absorb, suck, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck up, draw, take in, take up
  2. take up as if with a sponge
    Synonym(s): take in, sop up, suck in, take up
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
soup up
v
  1. make more powerful; "he souped up the old cars" [syn: {soup up}, hop up, hot up]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
spiff
n
  1. attractiveness in appearance or dress or manner; "he gets by largely on pure spiff"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
spiffy
adj
  1. marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat"
    Synonym(s): dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy, snappy, spruce
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
spiv
n
  1. a person without employment who makes money by various dubious schemes; goes about smartly dressed and having a good time
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
spoof
n
  1. a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way
    Synonym(s): parody, lampoon, spoof, sendup, mockery, takeoff, burlesque, travesty, charade, pasquinade, put-on
v
  1. make a parody of; "The students spoofed the teachers" [syn: spoof, burlesque, parody]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sweep off
v
  1. overwhelm emotionally; "Her swept her away" [syn: {sweep away}, sweep off]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sweep up
v
  1. force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action; "They were swept up by the events"; "don't drag me into this business"
    Synonym(s): embroil, tangle, sweep, sweep up, drag, drag in
  2. take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own; "She embraced Catholicism"; "They adopted the Jewish faith"
    Synonym(s): espouse, embrace, adopt, sweep up
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
swoop up
v
  1. seize or catch with a swooping motion [syn: swoop, {swoop up}]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sea poppy \Sea" pop"py\ (Bot.)
      The horn poppy. See under {Horn}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Spaewife \Spae"wife`\, n.
      A female fortune teller. [Scot.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Suavify \Suav"i*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Suavified}; p. pr. &
      vb. n. {Suavifying}.] [Suave + -fy.]
      To make affable or suave.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Spivey, KS (city, FIPS 67250)
      Location: 37.44823 N, 98.16496 W
      Population (1990): 88 (43 housing units)
      Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 67142

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   spiffy /spi'fee/ adj.   1. Said of programs having a pretty,
   clever, or exceptionally well-designed interface. "Have you seen the
   spiffy {X} version of {empire} yet?"   2. Said sarcastically of a
   program that is perceived to have little more than a flashy
   interface going for it.   Which meaning should be drawn depends
   delicately on tone of voice and context.   This word was common
   mainstream slang during the 1940s, in a sense close to 1.
  
  

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   spoof vi.   To capture, alter, and retransmit a communication
   stream in a way that misleads the recipient.   As used by hackers,
   refers especially to altering TCP/IP packet source addresses or
   other packet-header data in order to masquerade as a trusted
   machine. This term has become very widespread and is borderline
   techspeak.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   spiffy
  
      /spi'fee/ 1. Said of programs having a pretty, clever, or
      exceptionally well-designed interface. "Have you seen the
      spiffy {X} version of {empire} yet?"   This was common
      mainstream slang during the 1940s.
  
      2. Said sarcastically of a program that is perceived to have
      little more than a flashy interface going for it.   Which
      meaning should be drawn depends delicately on tone of voice
      and context.
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   spoof
  
      See {spoofing}.
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Shobab
      apostate. (1.) One of David's sons by Bathseheba (2 Sam. 5:14).
     
         (2.) One of the sons of Caleb (1 Chr. 2:18), the son of
      Hezron.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Shobab, returned; turned back; a spark
  
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