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On the last evening before a ship returns to home port from a lengthy deployment, there is usually plenty of joviality and hijinks.
armed guard on or in a vehicle who watches for enemy activity and returns fire if attacked. Also a door gunner on a helicopter. Pg. 520
General insult. When the contributor was at school and somebody did you a favour you could easily piss them off by saying "Cheers Benson" instead of saying "Thanks", to imply that they were some sort of servant or slave. This was taken from the name of the butler Benson in TV show Soap and his own spin off show "Benson". For example: 1st Kid "If you are going to the van get me 10 fags" 2nd Kid "Okay no problem" When 2nd Kid returns and hands over the 10 fags the 1st Kid says "Cheers Benson" 2nd Kid "You fucking cheeky cunt I'll never do anything for you again" whilst chasing the 1st kid all over the playground.
The last night at sea before the ship returns home from a long journey. Usually there is a celebration, often legendary. The name is derived from the Royal Navy who would normally be sailing up the English "Channel" on their last night at sea.
Synonymous with 'revengies' in some playgrounds. Useful to know if someone says 'no revengies', then you can with impunity claim returns instead.,
a child who moves out to start his or her own life, then returns home to live (often as a result of the economy, but possibly due to irresponsibility of some kind)
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n.
That which reverts or returns; residue.
n.
That which returns, or comes back, from an investment; the annual rents, profits, interest, or issues of any species of property, real or personal; income.
n.
One who returns to Europe from the East with immense riches: hence, any man of great wealth.
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Yielding large returns; productive or fertile; fruitful; as, rich soil or land; a rich mine.
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By quarters; once in a quarter of a year; as, the returns are made quarterly.
n.
The motion of any body, as a planet or satellite, in a curved line or orbit, until it returns to the same point again, or to a point relatively the same; -- designated as the annual, anomalistic, nodical, sidereal, or tropical revolution, according as the point of return or completion has a fixed relation to the year, the anomaly, the nodes, the stars, or the tropics; as, the revolution of the earth about the sun; the revolution of the moon about the earth.
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One who has relapsed, or fallen back, into error; a backslider; specifically, one who, after recanting error, returns to it again.
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Anything returning daily; especially (Med.), an intermittent fever or ague which returns every day.
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An intermittent fever which returns every fourth day, reckoning inclusively, that is, one in which the interval between paroxysms is two days.
v. t.
To bring by heat into the state of vapor, which, on cooling, returns again to the solid state; as, to sublimate sulphur or camphor.
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That force with which a thread, wire, or rod of any material, returns, or tends to return, to a state of rest after it has been twisted; torsibility.
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An intermittent fever which returns every fifth day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts three days.
v. t.
To control the action of, by management; as, to manipulate a convention of delegates; to manipulate the stock market; also, to manage artfully or fraudulently; as, to manipulate accounts, or election returns.
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Not grateful; not thankful for favors; making no returns, or making ill return for kindness, attention, etc.; ingrateful.
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An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, and the like; as, election returns; a return of the amount of goods produced or sold; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information.
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Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful; as, a saving bargain; the ship has made a saving voyage.
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Affording profitable returns; lucrative; as, a money-making business.
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One who returns.
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A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day.
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Of or pertaining to torsion; resulting from torsion, or the force with which a thread or wire returns to a state of rest after having been twisted round its axis; as, torsional force.
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