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Irate, à la Ralph Kramden
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steaming
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In UK slang, steaming is a robbery performed on train or bus passengers by a gang or large group and often involving some level of violence. It is often used interchangeably with mugging , referring to a specific subcategory of that crime. Several cases ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. emitting moisture in the form of vapor or mist; "a steaming kettle"; "steaming towels" adv. (used of heat) extremely; "the casserole was piping hot" [syn: piping ]
Wiktionary
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1 Giving off steam 2 Extremely drunk 3 Very angry n. 1 The action of steam on something. 2 The method of cooking by immersion in steam. 3 (context UK informal English) A form of robbery in which a large gang moves swiftly and violently through a bus, train, ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adverb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES boiling/scalding/steaming hot (= used about liquid that is extremely hot ) ▪ The coffee was scalding hot. PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES be steaming (mad) ▪ Pierce was steaming mad after he got the second penalty. ▪ A ...
Usage examples of steaming.
Twenty minutes later, Jake sat waist-deep in a steaming galvanized iron bath, set out alfresco under the mahogany trees.
Our waiter returned with the coffee and desserts, and right as he was pouring a steaming cup for Elizabeth, the beeper on my belt went off.
When Osman and al-Noor reached his double storeyed house in the south quarter, which lay between the Beit el Mai, the treasury, and the slave market, dawn was breaking and a dozen of his aggagiers were sitting in the courtyard being fed by the house slaves a breakfast of honey-roasted lamb and dhurra cakes with steaming pots of syrupy black Abyssinian coffee.
Poet was steaming, Byglave was shouting, Besar was like an anthill some fool put the boot to.
Steaming along came an ocean monitor, a bigger version of the river craft the USA and CSA both used: basically, one battleship turret mounted on a raft.
Although it was lying fairly Aat, the blob was slightly larger than a human being, and it had spread across the bridge in a pile of steaming ooze.
Below there was a reserve of speed that would allow her to close with Blucher in fifty minutes of steaming always -A provided she was not smashed into a fiery shambles long before.
Mugza offered, accepting a steaming bowl of mud soup from Brockle Buhn.
First the bowls were filled with the steaming cawl, and then the wooden platters were heaped with the pink slices of home-cured bacon, and mashed up cabbages.
His nose led him to a panetteria where stevedores were already buying hot ciabatta, before going on to a stall where a butcher was selling liver and tripe ragout from a steaming pot, at a copper a dip of the loaf.
He plucked the steaks from the salted pan, set them steaming on two big metal plates, and deglazed the pan with whiskey.
His eyes flickered momentarily to Dor, then back to the steaming metal.
I knew it was a good place because of the menu, part of which I could see steaming away on a centre table: roast duckling dripping with orange sauce.
The meal always ended with steaming pork-and-cabbage dumplings, all handmade by our niang.
She paused, and Saken and Erdene picked up the kettle and poured steaming water down over the wool, hair, and mat, soaking every inch.