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Shtiks
- noun - (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention; "play it straight with no shtik"
- (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating; "how did you ever fall for a shtik like that?"
- (Yiddish) a little; a piece; "give him a shtik cake"; "he's a shtik crazy"; "he played a shtik Beethoven"
- (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning; "his shtik made us laugh"
Shtups
- noun - slang for sexual intercourse
Shucks
- noun - an expression of disappointment or irritation
- material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
- remove from the shell; "shuck oysters"
- remove the shucks from; "shuck corn"
- something of little value; "his promise is not worth a damn"; "not worth one red cent"; "not worth shucks"
Shunts
- noun - a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current
- a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another; "an arteriovenus shunt"
- implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber; for draining fluids within the body
- provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt
- transfer to another track, of trains
Sialis
- noun - type genus of the Sialidae
Sibyls
- noun - (ancient Rome) a woman who was regarded as an oracle or prophet
- a woman who tells fortunes
Sidles
- verb - move sideways
- move unobtrusively or furtively; "The young man began to sidle near the pretty girl sitting on the log"
Sieges
- noun - company of herons
- the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack
Sieves
- noun - a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles
- check and sort carefully; "sift the information"
- distinguish and separate out; "sift through the job candidates"
- examine in order to test suitability; "screen these samples"; "screen the job applicants"
- separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements; "sift the flour"
Sigehs
- noun - a Shiite tradition of temporary marriage permitted in Iran that allows a couple to specify the terms of their relationship; can last from a few minutes to 99 years; "sigeh legally wraps premarital sex in an Islamic cloak"