sally
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Is sally a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (figuratively) A witty statement or quip, usually at the expense of one's interlocutor.Examples: "Till then she had never formed an idea of one so gifted and so charming. She listened with astonishment to her companion's gay sallies, and answers, as piquant as they were ready."; "Bull snuffed; he never paid any attention to her sallies but he heard them."; "The stakes are low and the story beats are incidental amid the rush of largely mild visual gags and verbal sallies like “Blood Island! So called because it’s the exact shape of some blood!”"figuratively
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To make a sudden attack (e.g. on an enemy from a defended position).Examples: "The troops sallied in desperation."; "A feeding strategy of some birds is to sally out from a perch to snatch an insect and then returning to the same or a different perch."intransitive
2. (intransitive) To set out on an excursion; venture; depart (often followed by "forth").Examples: "So I tucked my violin under my arm, and sallied out after the old budgy ragman, determined to ease him of his load at the very first lonesome corner I could track him to."; "Adverse comment begins with uncomplimentary observations on the somewhat harder seats, then reaches a crescendo when it is discovered that the perverse and unhurried train is actually going to wait for another connection which is running late, instead of sallying forth at once for the benefit of those already on board and leaving latecomers stranded."; "Along the Manchurian frontier was a 160km strip of land the US pilots dubbed 'MiG Alley'. Beyond it lay the North Korean, Chinese and Russian squadrons. From those airbases, MiGs sallied forth to attack the bombers striking North Korea."intransitive
3. (intransitive) To venture off the beaten path.intransitive
noun (English)
1. (New Zealand, slang) A member of the Salvation Army.Synonyms: SalvoNew-Zealandslang
noun (English)
1. (slang, drugs, Canada, US) The crystalline or powdered form of MDA.CanadaUSslang
name (English)
1. (British, slang) A nickname for the Salvation Army.Britishslang
noun (English)
1. (slang, drugs, Canada, US) Alternative letter-case form of sally: the crystalline or powdered form of MDA.CanadaUSalt-ofslang
Definition source: Wiktionary