Nouns denoting acts or actions
- crackdown
- severely repressive actions
- cupping
- a treatment in which evacuated cups are applied to the skin to draw blood through the surface
- share-out
- a distribution in shares
- rustling
- the stealing of cattle
- swoop
- a swift descent through the air
- fall
- a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity
- boot sale
- an outdoor sale at which people sell things from the trunk of their car
- darning
- the act of mending a hole in a garment with crossing threads
- Parcheesi
- a modern board game based on pachisi
- gamble
- a risky act or venture
- trespass on the case
- an action brought to recover damages from a person whose actions have resulted indirectly in injury or loss
- drag
- a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)
- shutting
- the act of closing something
- interim overhaul
- an overhaul between the regular times for overhauling
- logrolling
- act of exchanging favors for mutual gain; especially trading of influence or votes among legislators to gain passage of certain projects
- gray market
- an unofficial market in which goods are bought and sold at prices lower than the official price set by a regulatory agency
- sales campaign
- an advertising campaign intended to promote sales
- five hundred
- a card game similar to ecarte; each player is dealt 5 cards and the player making trump must take 3 tricks to win a hand
- punch
- (boxing) a blow with the fist
- Borodino
- Napoleon defeated the Russians in 1812 in a pitched battle at a village in western Russia west of Moscow, but irreparably weakened his army
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