oats

  • 101get oats — get (your) oats British, very informal to have sex regularly. Dan seems a lot happier these days I think he must be getting his oats. (usually in continuous tenses) …

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  • 102rolled oats — noun (plural) especially BrE a kind of oats oats (1), used for making porridge …

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  • 103rolled oats — rolled′ oats′ n. pl. coo oats that are flattened by rollers after hulling and steaming • Etymology: 1885–90, amer …

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  • 104Bohemian oats — A characterization of a contract whereby seed grain of a variety of oats known as Bohemian oats is sold at a very high price under representation that the seller will sell for the purchaser a much larger quantity of the grain at an equally… …

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  • 105rolled oats — ☆ rolled oats n. hulled oats flattened between rollers to make oatmeal …

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  • 106wild oats — n. ☆ 1. a woodland plant (Uvularia sessilifolia) of the lily family, with small, drooping, yellowish flowers, native to E North America 2. any of several wild grasses (genus Avena); esp., the wild progenitor ( A. fatua) of the cultivated oat,… …

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  • 107feel one's oats — phrasal 1. of a horse : to act spirited or frisky 2. a. : to be actively exuberant the children were feeling their oats and running madly around the house b. : to act in a newly self confident and often self important manner * * * feel one s oats …

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  • 108winter oats — noun plural but singular or plural in construction : any of various oats that are sown in the fall and harvested early the following summer * * * oats that are planted in the autumn to be harvested in the spring or early summer …

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  • 109get your oats — british informal phrase to have sex regularly Thesaurus: to have sexsynonym sexual activityhyponym Main entry: oats …

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  • 110side oats — side oats, a kind of oat whose spikelets grow all on one side of the steam instead of spreading out from all sides; horsemane oats …

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