checkmate
mate | a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king |
berth
bunk
built in bed | a bed on a ship or train, usually in tiers |
| bunk | a rough bed (as at a campsite) |
| bunk feed bunk | a long trough for feeding cattle |
bunk bed
bunk | beds built one above the other |
| match mate | an exact duplicate, when a match is found an entry is made in the notebook |
nonsense
bunk nonsensicality
meaninglessness
hokum | a message that seems to convey no meaning |
bunk
bunkum
buncombe
guff
rot
hogwash | unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) |
| mate | South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate |
couple mates
match | a pair of people who live together, a married couple from Chicago |
| bunkmate | someone who occupies the same sleeping quarters as yourself |
| mate first mate | the officer below the master on a commercial ship |
| mate | informal term for a friend of the same sex |
| mate | the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner), he loved the mare and all her mates, camels hate leaving their mates |
| running mate | a nominee for the lesser of two closely related political offices |
| soul mate | someone for whom you have a deep affinity |
sparring partner
sparring mate | a boxer who spars with another boxer who is training for an important fight |
spouse
partner married person
mate
better half | a person's partner in marriage |
teammate
mate | a fellow member of a team, it was his first start against his former teammates |
mate
Paraguay tea
Ilex paraguariensis | South American holly, leaves used in making a drink like tea |
mate
fellow | one of a pair, he lost the mate to his shoe, one eye was blue but its fellow was brown |
bed down
bunk down | go to bed, We bedded down at midnight |
checkmate
mate | place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game, Kasparov checkmated his opponent after only a few moves |
| match mate couple pair twin | bring two objects, ideas, or people together, This fact is coupled to the other one, Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?, The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project |
copulate
mate
pair
couple | engage in sexual intercourse, Birds mate in the Spring |
d scat
run scarper
turn tail
lam
run away
hightail it
bunk
head for the hills
take to the woods
escape fly the coop
break away | flee, take to one's heels, cut and run, If you see this man, run!, The burglars escaped before the police showed up |
| bunk | provide with a bunk, We bunked the children upstairs |
| beat bunk | avoid paying, beat the subway fare |
bunk off
play hooky
,u | play truant from work or school, The boy often plays hooky |