scalability
A small component's ability to grow within a larger system.
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scaldrum dodge
A beggar's trick of burning the body with a mixture of acids and gunpowder, so as to appear to have been injured in an accident.
scale back
To make a reduction in the amount, extent, etc. of something.
scale down
To reduce the size of something whilst maintaining proportion.
scale in
To incrementally enter a position on an oversold market in view of indications of a rebound trend.
scale out
To scale up (a system) by adding more servers or nodes.
scale up
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see scale, up.
scalie
A strikebreaker.
scallison
The ship of characters Scott McCall and Allison Argent from the television series Teen Wolf.
scalp
To resell, especially tickets, usually for an inflated price, often illegally.
scam
To seek out a partner for casual sex; to hit on.
scamazon
Amazon.com Inc.
scammer
A person who commits fraud by making dishonest scams and business deals: swindler, cheat, grifter.
scamper juice
Whiskey (alcoholic drink).
scamsung
Samsung Electronics
scandahoovian
American and of Scandinavian ancestry.
scandie
Scandinavian
scanless
Scandalous, shameful.
scanmag
Slander; gossip.
scante
The drug methamphetamine hydrochloride, crystal meth.
scaper
A fan of the American science-fiction television series Farscape.
scarab
The currency sign ¤.
scaramouche
A tumbler; an acrobat.
scarbs
Diminutive word for Scarborough, Toronto.
scarce as hen's teeth
Synonym of rare as hen's teeth.
scare away
Synonym of scare off.
scare into
To frighten (someone) to get them to do (something).
scare the bejeebers out of
To terrify thoroughly.
scare the hell out of
To frighten (someone or an animal).
scare the shit out of
To make someone scared shitless.
scare up
To frighten (an animal, especially a game animal) into appearing from cover.
scared spitless
Very frightened, terrified.
scarf
To eat very quickly.
scarf down
To eat (something) quickly.
scarf up
Synonym of scarf down.
scarfable
Able to be devoured.
scarfer
One who scarfs or guzzles food.
scarfie
A university student, especially one from the University of Otago.
scarlem
An area in eastern Toronto, Canada, with certain poor neighbourhoods and youth gangs, loosely likened to Harlem in New York.
scarlet fever
Romantic attraction to soldiers in preference to other people.
scaroused
Both scared and aroused.
scarper
Chiefly in scarper the letty: to depart quickly or run away from (a place); to flee.
scarper the letty
To depart quickly from a rented place without paying.
scary-ass
A cowardly person.
scatty
Scatterbrained; flighty.
scavvy
The tropical shrub Scaevola taccada.
scene pack
A curated collection of scenes from a larger work (typically a film or TV series) featuring a particular character or set of characters, often used to make fancams or fanvids featuring the characters depicted.
scenery-chewer
One who "chews the scenery", performing melodramatically or flamboyantly.
scent out
To locate by following a scent.
schafskopf
A fool; an idiot.
schism-shop
A Dissenters' meetinghouse.
schitzy
schizophrenic
schiz
An insane person.
schiziness
The fact or state of being schizy.
schizo
Schizophrenic.
schizo car
Synonym of schizophrenic ride.
schizophrenic ride
A vehicle that is completely covered in writings, bumper stickers, and various physical objects; these vehicles typically broadcast conspiracy theories, religious manifestos, political rants or notions of perceived external threats.
schizy
schizoid, schizophrenic
schizz out
To go mad; to behave irrationally.
schizzy
schizoid, schizophrenic; crazy
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