pole

Definition

  • noun: a Polish person
  • noun: a long slender usually cylindrical object (as a length of wood)
  • verb: to move (a boat) by using a pole to push against the bottom of a river, lake, etc.
  • verb: to act upon with a pole
  • synonyms: polander, rod, perch

Examples

  • I 'wouldn't touch it with a 10-foot pole'. [=I do not want to get near it; I do not want to discuss it or be involved with it at all]

  • Though they were generally 'poles apart' politically, they did agree on this one issue.

  • They have a couple of bird feeders hanging from a 'pole' in the backyard.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Yeah, you heard the same thing? Out west we hear, back east..back east hear it's here out west. And it's all just nonsense. You know, you're like a penguin on the north pole, hear the south pole is really nice this time of year. There are no penguins on the north pole. You wanna feel how hard (..)
    2009 Zombieland