To increase or expand rapidly.
Of an aircraft: to plunge alternately up and down.
To go up or voyage in a balloon.
To inflate like a balloon.
To strike (a ball) so that it flies high in the air.
To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
Such an object designed to transport people or equipment through the air.
An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.
A bomb or shell.
The outline enclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
A type of glass cup, sometimes used for brandy.
A woman's breast.
A small container for illicit drugs made from a condom or the finger of a latex glove, etc.
A speech bubble.
Synonym of balloon payment
Such an object as a child’s toy or party decoration.
A sac inserted into part of the body for therapeutic reasons; such as angioplasty.
A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc.
To bring on; to incur; to acquire.
To enter into a contract with.
To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.
To betroth; to affiance.
To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
To gain or acquire (an illness).
To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
An agreement which the law will enforce in some way. A legally binding contract must contain at least one promise, i.e., a commitment or offer, by an offeror to and accepted by an offeree to do something in the future. A contract is thus executory rather than executed.
An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or of fixed duration and usually governed by a written agreement.
The document containing such an agreement.
A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.