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Colloq hang-out, Brit digs or diggings, Slang US flop: A few<br />

friends are crashing at my pad while they're in town.<br />

--v. 4 cushion, wad, stuff, fill; upholster: <strong>The</strong> chair seats<br />

are padded with foam rubber, but the arms are bare. 5 Sometimes,<br />

pad out. expand, inflate, stretch, dilate, lengthen, protract,<br />

extend, blow up, flesh out, puff up, augment, spin out, amplify:<br />

He pads his weekly newspaper column with trivia in order to fill<br />

the space.<br />

paddle n. 1 oar, sweep, scull: A 'crab' occurs when you catch the<br />

water with the paddle blade on the return stroke.<br />

--v. 2 row, scull, oar: Deftly she paddled the canoe over to<br />

the pier. 3 wade: <strong>The</strong> children were paddling at the water's<br />

edge. 4 spank, paddywhack, thrash, beat, whip, flog: Dad<br />

threatened to paddle me if he caught me playing hookey again.<br />

paddy n. rage, (fit <strong>of</strong>) temper, fit, tantrum, Colloq Brit paddywhack<br />

or paddywack, wax: She was in a proper paddy when she found out<br />

what you'd done.<br />

pagan n. 1 heathen, unbeliever, idolater, polytheist, infidel,<br />

Gentile: He joined the religion <strong>of</strong> the pagans and worshipped<br />

the golden calf.<br />

--adj. 2 heathen, infidel, idolatrous, polytheistic,<br />

heathenish, Gentile: Many churchmen condemned Renaissance<br />

scholars for their interest in pagan and pre-Christian writers.<br />

page° n. 1 leaf, folio, side, sheet, verso or recto: On which page<br />

does the index begin? 2 episode, phase, period, time, stage,<br />

point, era, epoch, age, chapter: <strong>The</strong> early 1940s were among the<br />

darkest pages in Britain's history.<br />

--v. 3 paginate, folio, number: Roman numerals were used in<br />

paging the preface to the book.<br />

pageý n. 1 attendant, page-boy, servant, errand-boy, messenger, Brit<br />

foot-boy, US bellman, bellhop, Offensive used <strong>of</strong> an adult<br />

bellboy: Please have a page deliver this message to Mr<br />

Simmonds.

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