Meaning of stir | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Acronym of short-term interest rate, often referring to a short-term interest rate future or option.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
2. The act or result of stirring (moving around the particles of a liquid etc.)
   countable, uncountable
3. Jail; prison.
   countable, slang, uncountable
4. agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.
   countable, uncountable
5. Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.
   countable, uncountable
6. Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Can you give the soup a little stir?”

“1668, John Denham, Of Prudence (poem). Why all these words, this clamour, and this stir?”

“Consider, after so much stir about genus and species, how few words we have yet settled definitions of.”

“Meantime, the train went on to Brighton without further incident. No small stir was caused by its arrival with No. 61 at its head, resplendent with "East London Line Special" head boards, which at once caught the eye of William Stroudley, who was observing the traffic working from his office window.”

“When the long, hot journey drew to its end and the train slowed down for the last time, there was a stir in Jessamy’s carriage. People began to shake crumbs from their laps and tidy themselves up a little.”

“Being advertised of some stirs raised by his unnatural sons in England.”

“He's going to be spending maybe ten years in stir.”

“The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.”

“Sing Sing was a tough joint in those days, one of the five worst stirs in the United States.”

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