caler

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to wedge (open) (a door)
  2. (transitive) to jam (machinery etc.), to stall (an engine)
  3. (intransitive) to stall (of driver, engine)
  4. (transitive) to fill (someone) up
  5. (colloquial, intransitive) (of person eating) to be full
  6. (transitive) to synchronize
  7. (Quebec, transitive) to chug (an alcoholic beverage)
  8. (Quebec, transitive) to be bald or balding, to go or be going bald

Frequency

31k
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ka.le/
Etymology

In summary

Borrowed from Old Occitan calar, from Ancient Greek χαλάω (khaláō).

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