pilgarlic

noun

Definition of pilgarlicnext
as in mockery

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  1. mockery
  2. target
  3. victim
  4. lightning rod
  5. sitting duck
  6. prey
  7. butt
  8. laughingstock
Noun
  • Social media videos of him hitting tennis balls and baseballs while listing his policy proposals have provided a font of online mockery.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 19 Oct. 2026
  • To yield in the face of public mockery would be especially difficult and out of character.
    — Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of mockery
Noun
  • More than half of the DOGE firing targets were Black, the Post found, while nearly one-third were white, 13% were Asian, and 8% were Hispanic.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Its target lay thousands of miles away in northwestern Russia.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of target
Noun
  • The attack shocked the nation, and Jordan declared three days of mourning for the victims.
    — Omar Akour, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026
  • On Sunday, Jordan’s Queen Rania and Crown Prince Hussein bin Abdullah attended a funeral held for the victims while Jordan’s King Abdullah II visited the injured in the hospital earlier.
    — Aoife Walsh, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2026
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  • But for some reason, the WNBA has decided to stick a lightning rod in the national anthem, too.
    — Patricia Babcock McGraw OutKick, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2026
  • The Texas Railroad Commission — which oversees the state’s oil and gas industry, not railroads — has become a political lightning rod after former Tarrant County GOP chair Bo French won the Republican nomination for the seat.
    — Emily Holshouser, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of lightning rod
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  • Only the ridiculous American League could turn Red Sox chief baseball officer Craig Breslow from a sitting duck into a potential candidate for Executive of the Year in less than a week.
    — Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 30 June 2026
  • In Ukraine, tanks—the backbone of 20th-century armies—have become sitting ducks for drones.
    — Nancy A. Youssef, The Atlantic, 17 June 2026
Definition of sitting duck
Noun
  • In Alaska, salmon are one of the main prey sources for belugas—and the fish need cold water to develop their eggs, keep their metabolism stable and prevent energy depletion during long migratory journeys.
    — Ryan Green, Scientific American, 26 Oct. 2026
  • But even the slower, more deliberate decision-making can fall prey to any number of cognitive biases.
    — Shayla Love, Vox, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of prey
Noun
  • The committee heard substantial evidence that construction workers had smoked on site, and several cigarette butts and some partially burned materials, such as cardboard boxes, were found on the flat roof.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Just ask this unfortunate Alaskan bear recently spotted with several multi-foot long tapeworms hanging out of its butt.
    — Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of butt
Noun
  • The Panthers went from weakling to bully, while the Falcons transformed from laughingstock to punch line.
    — Ken Sugiura, AJC.com, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Maryland’s absurdly gerrymandered districts will become the laughingstock of the nation.
    — Chris West, Baltimore Sun, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of laughingstock
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