broad
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Is broad a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (writing) Unsubtle; obvious.Examples: "Lee: I wrote that line for you. Maeve: A bit broad, if you ask me."
2. (dated) Gross; coarse; indelicate.Examples: "a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humour"dated
3. (of an accent) Strongly regional.Examples: "She still has a broad Scottish accent, despite moving to California 20 years ago."
4. (Gaelic languages) Velarized, i.e. not palatalized.
noun (English)
1. (UK) A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk.UK
2. (UK, historical) A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656.UKhistorical
3. (film, television) A kind of floodlight.Examples: "[…] fresnel spotlights, old-type broads, sky-pans, cone-lights, etc."; "Some broads have barn doors (see page 115) to block gross light spill into other set areas; others have even an adjustable beam, […]"; "Light bounced from large white surfaces (e.g., matte reflector boards, or a white ceiling). Floodlights include scoops, broads, floodlight, banks, internally reflected units, strip lights, and cyclorama lights."
4. (slang, archaic) A playing card.Examples: "I reckon as old Sol couldn't ha' lived without a pack of broads. If he couldn't find anybody to play with him, he'd play alone, […]"archaicslang
noun (English)
1. (dated) A prostitute, a woman of loose morals.Examples: "“Now we go up Bowery Street look at broads. Me pay.”"Synonyms: abandons, alley cat, almah, bangtail, Bankside lady, bargirl, bat, beotchdated
2. (US, colloquial, slang, sometimes dated) A woman or girl.Examples: "They always hook you in the end, them broads. This whole trouble is on account of a dame reads a book."; "Hey, man, Truck, you got to understand, she's a no class broad and you a gross son of a bitch. Naturally, she don't like you."; "The grunts resumed their bitching at the heat, the hills, and the lack of cold beer and hot broads."Synonyms: babe, baggage, bim, bint, bird, bitch, blone, broadUScolloquialdatedslangsometimes
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