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Cheap but strong wine.
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violate
To cite (a person) for a parole violation.
violation
The act or an instance of violating or the condition of being violated. — An insult, especially a severe one.
viper
A person who smokes marijuana.
viqueen
A member of the Minnesota Vikings, a professional American football team.
virtual season
An unofficial season of episodes (or scripts for episodes) produced collaboratively by fans of a television series.
vitamin D
A dick (“penis”), especially in a sexual context.
vitamin H
Haloperidol.
vitamin K
The drug ketamine.
vitamin P
Prozac, an antidepressant.
vitamin R
Ritalin, an amphetamine-like psychopharmaceutical, prescribed for ADHD.
vitamin V
The drug sildenafil citrate, used to treat erectile dysfunction.
vocaboomer
someone who entered the VOCALOID fandom prior to ~2010
voice like a foghorn
A very loud, unpleasant voice.
vokills
vocals performed in the death growl style
volun-told
Nominally voluntary but understood to be an order.
vomit comet
A reduced-gravity aircraft, an airplane that briefly provides a nearly weightless environment by flying on a parabolic flight path; used to train astronauts or conduct research.
vomitrocious
Causing a desire to vomit; disgusting or gross.
vomworthy
Disgusting, nauseating, gross; contemptible.
vonce
Marijuana; cannabis, especially used as a drug.
voodoo economics
Supply-side economics, particularly in reference to policies based on the Laffer curve.
vore
The genre of creative work appreciated by vorarephiles, involving characters being eaten or swallowed, or any creative works that fall under this category.
vorish
Of characters, behaviors, or themes, related to or characteristic of the genre of vore.
vorkosiverse
The fictional universe which serves as the setting for the Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold.
vote in
To collectively approve a nominee for an office or position as a result of voting.
vote out
To expel the holder of an office or other position through an act of voting.
vote up
To signal support or approval of something by voting for it; to achieve enough support to pass.
vro
Genderless synonym for bro, also used as "very rare one".
vugly
Extremely ugly.
vuilgoed
filth, trash
vulcan
A person who, like the fictional Vulcans, seems to lack emotion or is overly analytical and boring.
vulcan cannon
Any electric Gatling gun.
vurp
A belch where a small amount of stomach acid is brought up into the mouth, creating a taste similar to that of vomit.
V-for Victory
On January 14th, 1941, M. Victor de Lavaleye, a member of the exiled Belgian government in London, proposed in a broadcast to Belgium that the letter V should be used as a simple substitute for the letters R.A.F. which were being chalked up on walls, etc., in Belgium.
vacabondes
The Fraternatye of, as well as of ruflyng Vacabones, as of beggerly, of Women as of Men, of Gyrles as of Boyes, with their proper Names and Qualities, with a Description of the Crafty Company of Cousoners and Shifters, also the XXV. Orders of Knaves; otherwyse called a Quartern of Knaves, confirmed by Cocke Lorell, 8vo. Imprinted at London by John Awdeley, dwellyng in little Britayne strete, without Aldersgate. 1575.
vadge
The vagina.
vagaries
Frolics, wild rambles.
vagitarian
A lesbian.
vagitarianism
A predilection for performing cunnilingus.
vaj
The vagina.
vakeel
A barrister.—Anglo-Indian.
vale of tears
A state of suffering or hardship
valentine
The first woman seen by a man, or man seen by a woman, on St. Valentine's day, the 14th of February, when it is said every bird chuses his mate for the ensuing year.
Valentine and Orson
The Good Samaritan* Noah's Ark, Simon the Tanner, and Gospel Oak all have a biblical flavour, and old ecclesiastical manorial rights are responsible for many tavern signs (see The Three Kings, below). Myth and legend are represented by houses named The Apollo, Hercules, Phcenix, KingLud, Merlin's Cave, Man in the Moon, Punch, Robin Hood, The Moonrakers, etc.
Valiant as an Essex lion
Said ironically of a timid person. Cp. COTSWOLD. Estate (O.Fr. estat, Lat. status from stare, to stand). Estates of the realm. The powers that have the administration of affairs in their hands, that on which the realm stands. The three estates of Britain are the Lords Spiritual, the Lords Temporal, and the Commons; popularly speaking, the public press is termed the "fourth estate" (q.v.).
Vallary Crown
The same as a mural crown (see under CROWN).
Valley Forge
A village in south Pennsylvania where George Washington set up the winter quarters of his army, amid great privations, in the campaign of 1777-78.
Valley of Arpaia
It was here that the Roman army, under the consuls T. Veturius Calvmus and Sp. Postumius, fell into the hands of the Samnites (321 B.C.), and were made to pass under the yoke.
valley of death
A period of extreme difficulty or uncertainty
valley of the shadow of death
A situation or place of great danger or fear
vamoose
To run away (from); to flee.
vamos
VAMOUS, or VAMOOSH, to go, or be off. Spanish, VAMOS, "Let us go!" Probably NAMUS, or NAMOUS, the costermonger’s word, was from this.
vamp
To spout, to leave in pawn. Also to cobble, as, "a VAMPED play," and "a VAMPED accompaniment," both terms reflecting discredit on the work, but not necessarily upon the musician.
vamp up
To repair; mend.
vamps
Old, or refooted stockings. From VAMP, to piece.
van
Madam Van; see MADAM.
van-neck
Miss or Mrs. Van-Neck; a woman with large breasts; a bushel bubby.
vandyke beard
A pointed beard such as those frequently shown in Van Dyck's portraits, especially of Charles I.
vanish to the four winds
To disappear or disperse completely and suddenly
Vanity Fair
In Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, a fair established by Beelzebub, Apollyon, and Legion, in the town of Vanity, and lasting all the year round. Here were sold houses, lands, trades, places, honours, preferments, titles, countries, kingdoms, lusts, pleasures, and delights of all sorts.