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- cokehead — a person who takes cocaine regularly
- coleader — a fellow leader
- colorado — a state of the central US: consists of the Great Plains in the east and the Rockies in the west; drained chiefly by the Colorado, Arkansas, South Platte, and Rio Grande Rivers. Capital: Denver. Pop: 4 550 688 (2003 est). Area: 269 998 sq km (104 247 sq miles)
- compadre — a male friend
- comrades — A companion who shares one's activities or is a fellow member of an organization.
- conehead — a stupid person.
- conelrad — a US defence and information system used between 1951 and 1963 in the event of air attack
- conrad i — died a.d. 918, king of Germany 911–918.
- copyread — to subedit
- coronado — Franˈcisˈco Vásquez de (fʀɑnˈðisˈkɔ vɑskɛð ðɛ) ; fränthēsˈk^ō väsˈketh the) 1510?-54?; Sp. explorer of what is now the Southwest in the U.S.
- corraded — Simple past tense and past participle of corrade.
- corrades — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of corrade.
- coumadin — Synonym of warfarin.
- couvades — a practice among some peoples, as the Basques of Spain, in which a man, immediately preceding the birth of his child, takes to his bed in an enactment of the birth experience and subjects himself to various taboos usually associated with pregnancy.
- cradling — a framework of iron or wood, esp as used in the construction of a ceiling
- crashpad — a place to sleep or live temporarily
- crawdads — Plural form of crawdad.
- croupade — a type of horse leap in which the hind legs are drawn towards the belly
- crusaded — (often initial capital letter) any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
- crusader — A crusader for a cause is someone who does a lot in support of it.
- crusades — (often initial capital letter) any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
- cut dead — to snub completely
- cyclades — a group of over 200 islands in the S Aegean Sea, forming a department of Greece. Capital: Hermoupolis (Ermoupoli, on Syros). Pop: 112 615 (2001). Area: 2572 sq km (993 sq miles)
- cycladic — of or relating to the Cyclades or their inhabitants
- dad rock — a type of classic rock music that tends to appeal to adults, often played by middle-aged musicians
- daddling — Present participle of daddle.
- daladier — Édouard (edwar). 1884–1970, French radical socialist statesman; premier of France (1933; 1934; 1938–40) and signatory of the Munich Pact (1938)
- dalriada — a former Gaelic kingdom (5th century ad–9th century ad) comprising Argyll, parts of the Inner Hebrides, and parts of modern Antrim
- dead air — the loss or suspension of the video or audio signal during a television or radio transmission.
- dead arm — temporary loss of sensation in the arm, caused by a blow to a muscle
- dead end — If a street is a dead end, there is no way out at one end of it.
- dead key — a key on the keyboard of a typewriter which does not automatically advance the carriage when depressed
- dead leg — temporary loss of sensation in the leg, caused by a blow to a muscle
- dead man — Building Trades. a log, concrete block, etc., buried in the ground as an anchor.
- dead men — empty bottles
- dead run — a steady run at top speed: The centerfielder caught the ball on the dead run.
- dead sea — a lake between Israel, Jordan, and the West Bank, now 420 m (1378 ft) below sea level; originally 390 m (1285 ft): the lowest lake in the world, with no outlet and very high salinity; outline, esp at the southern end, reduced considerably in recent years. Area: originally about 950 sq km (365 sq miles); by 2003 about 625 sq km (240 sq miles)
- dead set — absolutely
- dead-end — terminating in a dead end: a dead-end street.
- deadbeat — If you refer to someone as a deadbeat, you are criticizing them because you think they are lazy and do not want to be part of ordinary society.
- deadbeef — (convention, storage) /ded-beef/ The hexadecimal pattern used to fill words of freshly allocated memory under a number of IBM environments including the RS/6000; equal to decimal 3,735,928,559 (unsigned) or -559,038,737 (32-bit signed). As in "Your program is DEADBEEF" (meaning gone, aborted, flushed from memory).
- deadbolt — a locking bolt that is turned by the key rather than a spring
- deadborn — (dated, rare) Stillborn.
- deadened — Simple past tense and past participle of deaden.
- deadener — to make less sensitive, active, energetic, or forcible; weaken: to deaden sound; to deaden the senses; to deaden the force of a blow.
- deadeyes — Plural form of deadeye.
- deadfall — a type of trap, used esp for catching large animals, in which a heavy weight falls to crush the prey
- deadhead — A deadhead is someone who uses a free ticket to see a show, or for a plane or train trip.
- deadlier — causing or tending to cause death; fatal; lethal: a deadly poison.
- deadlift — a type of lift where the weight or barbell is lifted off the ground until the lifter is standing up straight