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 |
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 |