An important or critical situation.
The claw of a predatory animal or bird.
A brood of chickens or a sitting of eggs.
A device to interrupt power transmission, commonly used to separate the engine and gearbox in a car.
A fastener that attaches to the back of a tack pin to secure an accessory to clothing. (See Clutch (pin fastener).)
A small handbag or purse with no straps or handle.
A group or bunch (of people or things).
Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.
A grip, especially one seen as rapacious or evil.
The pedal in a car that disengages power and torque transmission from the engine (through the drivetrain) to the drive wheels.
A difficult maneuver
Performing or tending to perform well in difficult, high-pressure situations.
To unexpectedly or luckily succeed in a difficult activity.
To hatch.
To seize, as though with claws.
To grip or grasp tightly.
To win in a 1vX (one versus X) situation.
Something or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation.
An element of a set to be sorted that is chosen as a midpoint, so as to divide the other elements into two groups to be dealt with recursively.
Any of a row of captioned elements used to navigate to subpages, rather like tabs.
A quarterback.
The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place while the company or line moves around him in wheeling.
A circle runner.
A shift during a general election in a political candidate's messaging to reflect plans and values more moderate than those advocated during the primary.
A player with responsibility for co-ordinating their team in a particular jam.
An element of a matrix that is used as a focus for row operations, such as dividing the row by the pivot, or adding multiples of the row to other rows making all other values in the pivot column 0.
A pivot table.
A thing on which something turns; specifically a metal pointed pin or short shaft in machinery, such as the end of an axle or spindle.
Act of turning on one foot.
To shift a political candidate's messaging during a general election to reflect plans and values more moderate than those advocated during the primary.
To turn on an exact spot.
To change the direction of a business, usually in response to changes in the market.