Dictionary Entry
sally
sally is a 5-letter English word with 9 senses as intransitive verb, verb, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To leap or rush out; to burst forth; to issue suddenly; as a body of troops from a fortified place to attack besiegers; to make a sally. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To leap or rush out; to burst forth; to issue suddenly; as a body of troops from a fortified place to attack besiegers; to make a sally.
- 2verb
A leaping forth; a darting; a spring.
- 3verb
A rushing or bursting forth; a quick issue; a sudden eruption; specifically, an issuing of troops from a place besieged to attack the besiegers; a sortie.
- 4verb
An excursion from the usual track; range; digression; deviation.
- 5verb
A flight of fancy, liveliness, wit, or the like; a flashing forth of a quick and active mind.
- 6verb
Transgression of the limits of soberness or steadiness; act of levity; wild gayety; frolic; escapade.
- 7noun
a venture off the beaten path
"a sally into the wide world beyond his home"
- 8noun
a military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position
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- 9noun
witty remark
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