Meaning of biscuit | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie.
   Australia, Canada, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, countable, rare, sometimes, uncountable
2. pasta
3. paste, dough
4. A small, usually soft and flaky bread, generally made with baking soda, which is similar in texture to a scone but which is usually not sweet.
   Canada, US, countable, rare, uncountable
5. A cracker.
   Ireland, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, UK, countable, uncountable
6. money, dough
7. Any of several hard bread or breadlike foodstuffs, especially those formerly supplied to naval ships and armies, made with very little water, kneaded into flat cakes, and slowly baked, and which often became infested with weevils.
   countable, especially, uncountable
8. ellipsis of pasta de cocaína (“cocaine paste”)
9. A form of unglazed earthenware.
   countable, uncountable
10. A light brown colour.
    countable, uncountable
11. A thin oval wafer of wood or other material inserted into mating slots on pieces of material to be joined to provide gluing surface and strength in shear.
    countable, uncountable
12. A plastic card bearing the codes for authorizing a nuclear attack.
    US, countable, slang, uncountable
13. A handgun, especially a revolver.
    US, countable, slang, uncountable
14. A puck (hockey puck).
    countable, uncountable
15. The head.
    countable, slang, uncountable
16. An inner tube used in the sport of tubing, or biscuiting.
    New-Zealand, countable, uncountable

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Examples

“Weighed myself at the gym and have hit 10st 8lb, a sure sign of things getting out of control—so I can’t even console myself with a chocolate biscuit.”

“cheese and biscuits”

“water biscuits”

“digestive biscuits”

“Near-synonyms: tack, bread”

“He was a long, earnest man, and though born on an icy coast, seemed well adapted to endure hot latitudes, his flesh being hard as twice-baked biscuit.”

“Charm'd by your touch, the kneaded clay refines, / The biscuit hardens, the enamel shines […].”

“In 1740, Thomas Whieldon of Little Fenton made 'toys' in either the clay or biscuit state. They were coloured with zaffre, copper, manganese, etc. and glazed with black, red or white lead.”

“An overfired biscuit has insufficient porosity for glazing.”

“I shoot my biscuit in the air until the sky is gone”

“Damn, damn, what they say about me? I don't know man, fuck is on your biscuit”

“Me and my down ass nigga get twisted Nigga get to trippin', knock the gravy out your biscuit”

“Henny right here, I'ma sip it You try me, it's shots at your biscuit”

“[…] Risk it, you get slapped in your biscuit”

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