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Word: spider (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order ''Araneae'', most of which spin webs to catch prey.
  • a part of a crank, which the chainrings are attached
  • chiefly|Australian|and|NZ A ?float?; a drink made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade).
  • snooker|billiards A stick with a convex arch-shaped notched head used to support the cue when the cue ball is out of reach at normal extension. Also called a bridge.
  • cookware A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open hearth cookery. They were generally called spiders both in England and in America.
  • heroin a street drug
  • internet A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.
  • slang A man who persistently approaches or accosts a woman in a public social setting, particularly in a bar.
  • slang A spindly person.

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Verb:

  • of a computer program to follow links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.

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