gage
gage is a 4-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A pledge or pawn; something laid down or given as a security for the performance of some act by the person depositing it, and forfeited by nonperformance; security. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A pledge or pawn; something laid down or given as a security for the performance of some act by the person depositing it, and forfeited by nonperformance; security.
- noun. A glove, cap, or the like, cast on the ground as a challenge to combat, and to be taken up by the accepter of the challenge; a challenge; a defiance.
- noun. A variety of plum; as, the greengage; also, the blue gage, frost gage, golden gage, etc., having more or less likeness to the greengage. See Greengage.
- noun. To give or deposit as a pledge or security for some act; to wage or wager; to pawn or pledge.
- noun. To bind by pledge, or security; to engage.
- noun. A measure or standard. See Gauge, n.
- transitive verb. To measure. See Gauge, v. t.
- noun. a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc.
- noun. street names for marijuana
- verb. place a bet on
"Which horse are you backing?"
"I'm betting on the new horse"
Synonyms
gauge, dope, grass, locoweed, pot, sens, sess, skunk, smoke, weed, back, game, punt, stake
Common word forms
gaged, gager, gages, gaging, gageable
Words from these letters
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