creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire | a conspicuous success |
an offensive or indecent word or phrase | a border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the forehead |
any fungus of the order Ustilaginales | a sudden very loud noise |
destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores | a vigorous blow |
a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink | the swift release of a store of affective force |