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Colloq hang-out, Brit digs or diggings, Slang US flop: A few
friends are crashing at my pad while they're in town.
--v. 4 cushion, wad, stuff, fill; upholster: The chair seats
are padded with foam rubber, but the arms are bare. 5 Sometimes,
pad out. expand, inflate, stretch, dilate, lengthen, protract,
extend, blow up, flesh out, puff up, augment, spin out, amplify:
He pads his weekly newspaper column with trivia in order to fill
the space.
paddle n. 1 oar, sweep, scull: A 'crab' occurs when you catch the
water with the paddle blade on the return stroke.
--v. 2 row, scull, oar: Deftly she paddled the canoe over to
the pier. 3 wade: The children were paddling at the water's
edge. 4 spank, paddywhack, thrash, beat, whip, flog: Dad
threatened to paddle me if he caught me playing hookey again.
paddy n. rage, (fit of) temper, fit, tantrum, Colloq Brit paddywhack
or paddywack, wax: She was in a proper paddy when she found out
what you'd done.
pagan n. 1 heathen, unbeliever, idolater, polytheist, infidel,
Gentile: He joined the religion of the pagans and worshipped
the golden calf.
--adj. 2 heathen, infidel, idolatrous, polytheistic,
heathenish, Gentile: Many churchmen condemned Renaissance
scholars for their interest in pagan and pre-Christian writers.
page° n. 1 leaf, folio, side, sheet, verso or recto: On which page
does the index begin? 2 episode, phase, period, time, stage,
point, era, epoch, age, chapter: The early 1940s were among the
darkest pages in Britain's history.
--v. 3 paginate, folio, number: Roman numerals were used in
paging the preface to the book.
pageý n. 1 attendant, page-boy, servant, errand-boy, messenger, Brit
foot-boy, US bellman, bellhop, Offensive used of an adult
bellboy: Please have a page deliver this message to Mr
Simmonds.