To engage in attrition; to quit or drop out.
To be reduced in quantity through attrition.
To lose, or to kill, troops by attrition due to sustained firepower.
To wear down through attrition, especially mechanical attrition.
One who voluntarily or involuntarily leaves a company; a termed employee.
To amuse oneself, to play.
To display; to have as a notable feature.
To close (a door).
To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal.
To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
To divert; to amuse; to make merry.
To represent by any kind of play.
Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.
A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question)
Term of endearment used by an adult for a child, usually a boy.
A sportsman; a gambler.
One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.
A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, fishing.
Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport.
A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. The term encompasses both mutants and organisms with non-genetic developmental abnormalities such as birth defects.