amazon

1. (sometimes attributive) A river in South America, that flows through Brazil for about 4000 miles to the Atlantic.attributivesometimes

2. (sometimes attributive) A region including much of this river; specifically, the region of the Amazon Rainforest, or of the Amazon River Basin.Examples: "Amazon milk frog"; "In February, a young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe in Brazil made brief contact with the outside world before returning to the Amazon rainforest."attributivesometimes

1. (transitive) To overwhelm or obliterate, in the context of an Internet start-up vastly outperforming its brick and mortar competition.Examples: "Those who hesitate risk being "amazoned," forfeiting business to an Internet newcomer, in the way that bookstore chains have lost ground to Amazon.com Inc., the online bookseller."; "Venture capitalists' desks are thick with business plans promising ‘we're going to Amazon the insurance/travel/property business...’"; "Take the example of MetalSite.com, which is owned by steel companies. The steel companies aren't getting "Amazoned" by a start-up but, rather, they are doing the "Amazoning" within their own industry."transitive

2. (transitive) To order (something) on Amazon.Examples: "[…] “There are people who Uber everywhere, who Seamless everything, who Amazon everything, and render their lives completely smooth.”"transitive

1. (chess) A fairy chess piece which combines the moves of the queen and the knight.Examples: "In Triple-guard promotion chess (GPJ) a pawn newly triple-guarded by pieces other than pawns promotes to the combined value of the guarding pieces. Thus after b3 in the opening position a3 promotes to amazon, R+B+N, from triple guard by Ra1, Nb1, Bc1."; "The amazon is simply a queen-knight hybrid, capable of moving as either piece."