biscuit
IPA: bˈɪskʌt
noun
- (UK, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, sometimes Canada, rare in the US and the Philippines) A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie.
- (chiefly Canada, US, rare in Scotland and Guernsey) A small, usually soft and flaky bread, generally made with baking soda, which is similar in texture to a scone but which is usually not sweet.
- (UK, Philippines) A cracker.
- (nautical) The "bread" formerly supplied to naval ships, which was made with very little water, kneaded into flat cakes, and slowly baked, and which often became infested with weevils.
- A form of unglazed earthenware.
- A light brown colour.
- (woodworking) A thin oval wafer of wood or other material inserted into mating slots on pieces of material to be joined to provide gluing surface and strength in shear.
- (US, slang) A plastic card bearing the codes for authorizing a nuclear attack.
- (US, slang, hiphop) A handgun, especially a revolver.
- (ice hockey, shuffleboard) A puck (hockey puck).
- (slang) The head.
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Examples of "biscuit" in Sentences
- Therein lies the crux of the biscuit.
- A nice biscuit is a coconut flavoured biscuit.
- A water biscuit is a type of biscuit or cracker.
- The title is a pun on the biscuit of the same name.
- This was the first firing of the raw basic biscuit ware.
- Meticulous records were kept of the actual number of biscuits produced.
- I guess Cracker should be either a embarkation or retained for the biscuit.
- The leavening causes the biscuit to at least double in height during baking.
- Can you add the tone for the second syllable in the pinyin of Almond biscuit
- A salesclerk of a giant biscuit firm was shot and killed in a broad daylight robbery.
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