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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prima donna |
| Synonyms: | famous singer, lead singer, opera singer |
| Main Entry: | dive |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dirty, sleazy establishment |
| Synonyms: | bar, barroom, beer garden cabaret, dump, flea trap, flophouse, hangout, hole, honky-tonk, joint, lounge, night club, pool hall, pub, saloon, taproom, tavern |
| Main Entry: | dive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | descend, usually going underwater |
| Synonyms: | belly flop, dip, disappear, drop, duck, fall, go headfirst, gutter, header, jump, leap, lunge, nose-dive, pitch, plumb, plummet, plunge, spring, submerge, swoop, vanish, vault |
| Antonyms: | ascend, go up, jump |
| Main Entry: | actress |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | woman actor |
| Synonyms: | diva, ingenue, leading lady, prima donna, starlet |
| Main Entry: | cabaret |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nightclub with musical performances |
| Synonyms: | after-hours joint, bar, café, disco, discothèque, dive, hideaway, hot spot, night spot, nightery, speakeasy, supper club, tavern, watering hole |
| Main Entry: | casino |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gambling establishment |
| Synonyms: | Monte Carlo, bank, betting house, big store, club, clubhouse, dance hall, dice joint, dive, gambling den, hall, honky-tonk, house, joint, pool hall, roadhouse, rotunda, saloon, track |
| Main Entry: | comedown |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | letdown, blow |
| Synonyms: | anticlimax, blow, collapse, comeuppance, crash, cropper, decline, defeat, deflation, demotion, descent, disappointment, discomfiture, dive, down, downfall, failure, fall, flop, humiliation, pratfall, reverse, ruin, setback, undoing, wreck |
| Antonyms: | ascent, boon, boost, fortune, promotion |
| Main Entry: | crash |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fall |
| Synonyms: | bite the dust, bump, collapse, collide, crash-land, ditch, dive, drive into, drop, fall flat, fall headlong, fall prostrate, give way, go in, hurtle, lurch, meet, overbalance, overturn, pancake, pitch, plough into, plunge, prang, slip, smash, splash down, sprawl, topple, tumble, upset, washout |
| Main Entry: | decline |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lessening |
| Synonyms: | abatement, backsliding, comedown, cropper, decay, decrepitude, degeneracy, degeneration, descent, deterioration, devolution, diminution, dissolution, dive, downfall, downgrade, downturn, drop, dwindling, ebb, ebbing, enfeeblement, failing, failure, fall, falling off, flop, lapse, on the skids, pratfall, recession, relapse, senility, skids, slump, wane, waning, weakening, worsening |
| Notes: | one declines (or accepts) something that is offered; one refuses (or agrees) to accept something offered |
| Antonyms: | betterment, improvement, increase, rise |
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