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Preempt
- noun - a high bid that is intended to prevent the opposing players from bidding
- acquire for oneself before others can do so
- gain possession of by prior right or opportunity, especially so as to obtain the right to buy (land)
- make a preemptive bid in the game of bridge
- take the place of or have precedence over; "live broadcast of the presidential debate preempts the regular news hour"; "discussion of the emergency situation will preempt the lecture by the professor"
Revamps
- verb - provide (a shoe) with a new vamp; "revamp my old boots"
- to patch up or renovate; repair or restore; "They revamped their old house before selling it"
Scrimps
- verb - subsist on a meager allowance; "scratch and scrimp"
Scrimpy
- adjective - deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare"
Scrumpy
- noun - strong cider (as made in western England)
Shrimps
- noun - any of various edible decapod crustaceans
- disparaging terms for small people
- fish for shrimp
- small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible
Shrimpy
- adjective - (used especially of persons) of inferior size
Triumph
- noun - a successful ending of a struggle or contest; "a narrow victory"; "the general always gets credit for his army's victory"; "clinched a victory"; "convincing victory"; "the agreement was a triumph for common sense"
- be ecstatic with joy
- dwell on with satisfaction
- prove superior; "The champion prevailed, though it was a hard fight"
- the exultation of victory
- to express great joy; "Who cannot exult in Spring?"
Unkempt
- adjective - not neatly combed; "wild unkempt hair"
- not properly maintained or cared for; "an unkempt garden"; "native vistas and unkempt rambling paths"; "an ukempt appearance"
- scruffy