The Other Dictionary

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tableau: Not many drinks on credit

tablet: Rent out drink credit

tabulate: Accuse drink credit of tardiness

tachograph: Nail a diagram

taco: In debt to the tune of a nail

tactic: Written approval for nail

tactical: Manual stimulation to make nail laugh

tactics: Nail behaves like clock

tactile: Nail down ceramic slab

tadpole Slight rod

tailgate: Walking style of a story

tangent: Bronze a polite man

tangos: Sharp taste departs

tanking: Monarch of sharp taste

tantamount: Apply brown colour to hill

tapering: Bind up finger jewellery

target: Obtain thick black stuff

tax exile: Island of copulation between nails

taxi: Ocean of nails

taxing: Exhort nail to vocalise musically

taxpayer: Nail steriliser

teacake: Hardwood pain

teacup: Rise in price of hardwood

teasing: Vitality inherent in hot drink

teeny: Leg joint in golf ball support

template: Short-term worker not on time

temporises: 1. Short-term worker gets up; 2. Musical beat increases

tempos: Short-term worker is in debt

temptresses: Short-term worker’s thick long hair

tenants: Football team of social insects needs another player

tendency: Ocean of cartilage

tendrils: Not quite a football team of borers

tenet: One football player missed dinner

terrapin: Huge fastener

terrorist: Huge hand/arm joint

testes: Examine simplicity

textile: Computer fashion

texting: Injury caused by cyber scorpion

thinking: Monarch of objects

think up: Object vessel

thorax: Defrost shelves

thought out: Defrost illegal ticket seller

throaty: Fling hot drink

thumping: 1. High-pitched sound made by flicking first digit; 2. Half a game of table tennis played with first digit

ticket: Give it written approval

tiepin: Enter data on computer

tighten: Bind all the fingers

tightrope: Bind figure of speech

timing (Br. En.): Bad smell from cravat

tinted: Small, cuddly metal bear

tiny: Bind leg joint

tirade: Cravat robbery

tire out: Total cravat defeat

tiring: Bind finger jewellery

titan: Result of cravat being left in the sun

titillate: 1. Small songbird had dinner in a state of sickness; 2. Breast delayed

toasting: Poisonous jab with digit

toenail: Bring beer into good condition

toilet: Hiring out of plaything

token: Knowledge of foot digit

topspin: Fastener to 20 on dartboard

torment: Rocky hilltop intended

torpedo: Ripped urine breadmix

torso: Ripped repair

toucan: But one can’t

toupee: And the third goes free

towbar: Place where foot digits drink

toxic: Half of clock sound unwell

toxins: Half of clock sound does wrong

tracings: Crockery carrier vocalises musically

tractable: Follow desk

trade-in: Constant noise from crockery carrier

trainee: Leg joint used to carry drinks

tramping: Half a game of table tennis played on fixed rail city transport

trapezes: Ambush lessens tension

treatable: Woody plant desk

treaty: Hot drink from woody plant

triad: Attempt commercial

trifling: Attempt throw

tripartite: Attempt to reach the expected golf score while drunk

triplet: Small stumble

tripod: Have a go with seed casing

triptych: Written approval for journey

truant: Genuine social insect

trustee: Tie up not drink

trust in: Tie up metal container

turmoil: Pig house written

tweaking Pretty ruler

type in: Cravat fastener

type out: Bind expression of displeasure

type up: Bind baby dog

typist: Cravat drunk

tyrant: Tirade from cravat