biscuit

noun

(UK, Ireland, Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia) A cracker.

(especially nautical) Any of several hard bread or breadlike foodstuffs, especially those formerly supplied to naval ships and armies, made with very little water, kneaded into flat cakes, and slowly baked, and which often became infested with weevils.

(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.

A light brown colour.

A form of unglazed earthenware.

(ice hockey, shuffleboard) A puck (hockey puck).

(New Zealand) An inner tube used in the sport of tubing, or biscuiting.

(US, slang) A plastic card bearing the codes for authorizing a nuclear attack.

(US, slang, hiphop) A handgun, especially a revolver.

(slang) The head.

(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.

verb

(New Zealand, intransitive) To take part in the sport of tubing, riding down a river on an inner tube.

(transitive) To fire (pottery) in a kiln, without a ceramic glaze.

Roots

bisbis- · Latin · twice, two coquo-cuit · Latin · cook, ripen

Synonyms for biscuit

cookien shortbreadn crackern saltinen macaroonn ladyfingern hardtackn pretzeln zwiebackn

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