Synonyms of the word

runner

• n. Agent noun of run; somebody who runs.
• n. (slang) A quick escape away from a scene.
• n. A type of soft-soled shoe originally intended for runners, compare trainer; a sneaker.
• n. A part of an apparatus that moves quickly.
• n. A mechanical part intended for wheels to run on or to slide against another surface.
• n. A strip of fabric used to decorate a table.
• n. A long, narrow carpet for a high traffic area such as a hall or stairs.
• n. (cricket) A player who runs for a batsman who is too injured to run; he is dressed exactly as the injured…
• n. (baseball, softball) A baserunner.
• n. (Australian rules football) A person (from one or the other team) who runs out onto the field during the…
• n. (slang) A part of a cigarette that is burning unevenly.
• n. (botany) A long stolon sent out by a plant (such as strawberry), in order to root new plantlets.
• n. (climbing) A short sling with a carabiner on either end, used to link the climbing rope to a bolt or other…
• n. (poker slang) A competitor in a poker tournament.
• n. A restaurant employee responsible for taking food from the kitchens to the tables.
• n. A leaping food fish (Elagatis pinnulatis) of Florida and the West Indies; the skipjack, shoemaker, or…
• n. (sports slang) An employee of a sports agent who tries to recruit possible player clients for the agent.
• n. (video games, rare) A speedrunner.

athlete

• n. A participant in a group of sporting activities which includes track and field, road running, cross country…
• n. (US, Canada) A person who actively participates in physical sports, especially with great skill; a sportsperson.
• n. An exceptionally physically fit person.

ballplayer

• n. A player of a ball game; especially a basketball, baseball, or football player.

carpet

• n. A fabric used as a complete floor covering.
• n. (figuratively) Any surface or cover resembling a carpet or fulfilling its function.
• n. (obsolete) A wrought cover for tables.
• n. (slang, vulgar) A woman's pubic hair.
• v. To lay carpet, or to have carpet installed, in an area.
• v. (transitive) To substantially cover something, as a carpet does; to blanket something.
• v. (Britain) To reprimand.

carpeting

• n. Carpet or a piece of carpet, especially when speaking of installation or removal.
• n. Cloth or materials for carpets.
• n. (informal) A severe reprimand or telling-off.
• v. present participle of carpet.

contrabandist

• n. A dealer in contraband.

courier

• n. A person who looks after and guides tourists.
• n. A person who delivers messages.
• n. A company that delivers messages.
• n. A company that transports goods.
• n. (Internet) A user who earns access to a topsite by uploading warez.
• v. To deliver by courier.

criminal

• adj. Being against the law; forbidden by law.
• adj. Guilty of breaking the law.
• adj. Of or relating to crime or penal law.
• adj. (figuratively) Abhorrent or very undesirable, even if allowed by law.
• n. A person who is guilty of a crime, notably breaking the law.

crook

• n. A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
• n. A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
• n. A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
• n. (obsolete) A lock or curl of hair.
• n. (obsolete) A gibbet.
• n. (obsolete) A support beam consisting of a post with a cross-beam resting upon it; a bracket or truss consisting…
• n. A shepherd's crook; a staff with a semi-circular bend ("hook") at one end used by shepherds.
• n. A bishop's staff of office.
• n. An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
• n. A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
• n. A pothook.
• n. (music) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
• v. (transitive) To bend.
• v. To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
• adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard.
• adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Ill, sick.
• adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Annoyed, angry; upset.

device

• n. Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
• n. (computing) A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
• n. A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
• n. (Ireland) An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb.
• n. (rhetoric) A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience;…
• n. (heraldry) A motto, emblem, or other mark used to distinguish the bearer from others. A device differs…
• n. (archaic) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
• n. (law) An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
• n. (printing) An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
• n. (obsolete) A spectacle or show.
• n. (obsolete) Opinion; decision.

felon

• n. A person who has committed a felony.
• n. (law) A person who has been tried and convicted of a felony.
• n. (medicine) A bacterial infection at the end of a finger or toe.

jack

• n. A mechanical device used to raise and (temporarily) support a heavy object, e.g. screw jack, scissor jack,…
• n. A man or men in general.
• n. A male animal.
• n. A male ass.
• n. (card games) A playing card with the letter "J" and the image of a knave or prince on it, the eleventh…
• n. (cricket) The eleventh batsman to come to the crease in an innings, derived from the playing card.
• n. (archaic) A knave (a servant or later, a deceitful man).
• n. Mangifera caesia, related to the mango tree.
• n. A surface-mounted connector for electrical, especially telecommunications, equipment.
• n. (sports) A target ball in bowls, etc; a jack-ball.
• n. (games) A small, six-pointed playing piece used in the game of jacks.
• n. (colloquial, euphemistic) Nothing, jack shit.
• n. (nautical) A small flag at the bow of a ship.
• n. (nautical) A naval ensign flag flown from the main mast, mizzen mast, or the aft-most major mast of (especially)…
• n. (military) A coarse and cheap medieval coat of defense, especially one made of leather.
• n. A penny with a head on both sides, used for cheating.
• n. (slang) Money.
• n. (slang, Appalachians) A smooth often ovoid large gravel or small cobble in a natural water course.
• n. The freshwater pike, green pike or pickerel.
• n. A large California rockfish, the bocaccio, Sebastes paucispinis.
• n. Any of the marine fish in the family Carangidae.
• n. (obsolete, nautical) A sailor, a jacktar.
• n. (obsolete) A pitcher or can of waxed leather, supposed to resemble a jackboot; a black-jack.
• n. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A drinking measure holding half a pint or, sometimes, a quarter of a pint.
• n. A mechanical contrivance, an auxiliary machine, or a subordinate part of a machine.
• n. Female ended electrical connector (see Electrical connector).
• n. Electrical connector in a fixed position (see Gender of connectors and fasteners).
• v. (transitive) To use a jack.
• v. (transitive) To raise or increase.
• v. To produce by freeze distillation; to distil (an alcoholic beverage) by freezing it and removing the ice…
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To steal something, typically an automobile. Shortened form of carjacking.
• v. (intransitive) To dance by moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion.
• n. (slang, baseball) A home run.
• v. (transitive, slang, baseball) To hit (the ball) hard; especially, to hit (the ball) out of the field,…
• n. A coarse mediaeval coat of defence, especially one made of leather.
• n. A jackfruit tree.

jock

• n. (slang, archaic) A common man.
• n. (Britain, slang, pejorative) A Scotsman.
• n. (slang, rare, dated) The penis.
• n. An athletic supporter worn by men to support the genitals especially during sports, a jockstrap.
• n. (US, slang) A young male athlete (through college age).
• n. (US, slang, pejorative) An enthusiastic athlete or sports fan, especially one with few other interests…
• n. (US, slang, computing, in combination) A specialist computer programmer.
• v. (slang) to masturbate.
• v. (slang) to humiliate.
• v. (slang) to steal.

malefactor

• n. A criminal or felon.
• n. An evildoer.

messenger

• n. One who brings messages.
• n. (nautical) A light line with which a heavier line may be hauled e.g. from the deck of a ship to the pier.
• n. The supporting member of an aerial cable (electric power or telephone or data).
• n. (law) A person appointed to perform certain ministerial duties under bankrupt and insolvent laws, such…
• v. (transitive) To send something by messenger.

offset

• n. Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.
• n. (international trade) A form of countertrade arrangement, in which the seller agrees to purchase within…
• n. (obsolete, c. 1555) A time at which something begins; outset.
• n. A printing method, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the…
• n. (programming) The difference between a target memory address and a base address.
• n. (signal analysis) The displacement between the base level of a measurement and the signal's real base…
• n. The distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another.
• n. (surveying) A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular…
• n. An abrupt bend in an object, such as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly…
• n. (botany) A short prostrate shoot that takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc.
• n. A spur from a range of hills or mountains.
• n. (architecture) A horizontal ledge on the face of a wall, formed by a diminution of its thickness, or by…
• v. To compensate for something.
• v. To form an offset in (a wall, rod, pipe, etc.).

outlaw

• n. A fugitive from the law.
• n. (historical) A criminal who is excluded from normal legal rights; one who can be killed at will without…
• n. A person who operates outside established norms.
• n. A wild horse.
• n. (humorous) An in-law: a relative by marriage.
• n. (slang) A prostitute who works alone, without a pimp.
• v. To declare illegal.
• v. To place a ban upon.
• v. To remove from legal jurisdiction or enforcement.
• v. To deprive of legal force.

rug

• n. A partial covering for a floor.
• n. (Britain, Australia) A (usually thick) piece of fabric used for warmth (especially on a bed); a blanket.
• n. (historical, now rare) A kind of coarse, heavy frieze, formerly used for clothing.
• n. (historical, now rare) A cloak or mantle made of such a frieze.
• n. (obsolete, rare) A person wearing a rug.
• n. A cloth covering for a horse.
• n. (obsolete, rare) A dense layer of natural vegetation that precludes the growth of crops.
• n. (slang) The female pubic hair.
• n. A rough, woolly, or shaggy dog.
• n. (slang) A wig; a hairpiece.
• n. (colloquial) A dense growth of chest hair.
• v. (Scotland) To pull roughly or hastily; to plunder; to spoil; to tear.

smuggler

• n. One who smuggles things.
• n. A vessel employed in smuggling.

stolon

• n. (botany) A shoot that grows along the ground and produces roots at its nodes; a runner.
• n. (zoology) A structure formed by some colonial organisms from which offspring are produced by budding;…

traveler

• n. American standard spelling of traveller.

traveller

• n. One who travels, especially to distant lands.
• n. (Britain) Someone who lives (particularly in the UK) in a caravan, bus or other vehicle rather than a…
• n. (Ireland) Alternative form of Traveller.
• n. A list and record of instructions that follows a part in a manufacturing process.
• n. (nautical) A metal ring that moves freely on part of a ship’s rigging.
• n. (duplicate bridge) A sheet of paper that is circulated with the board of cards, on which players record…