(medicine) A surgical procedure in which the cervix is dilated and the lining of the uterus is scraped with a curet.

Going from one place or position to another and back again.

(set phrase) Primarily; most importantly.

Tranquility; freedom from stress or interruptions.

A system for verifying that the bearer of a debit card or credit card is the owner, involving cards that contain a silicon chip storing the PIN of the card; the bearer confirms ownership of the card by inserting it into a machine and entering the PIN, which is compared with the one stored on the chip.

(music) A style of music combining elements of jazz and blues, with syncopated rhythms and a strong backbeat, originating among African Americans in the 1940s. / (Cockney rhyming slang) shoes

(US, slang) Fifteen years.

(US, idiomatic, colloquial) Small time; operating on a small scale; involving small amounts of money; petty or cheap.

(US, idiomatic, colloquial) To charge, or be charged, several unexpected small amounts of money, often in the form of fees, taxes, or related expenses to a venture, which when taken as a whole add up to a significant unexpected cost.

(cricket) The direction (line) and point at which a delivery hits the pitch (length) of a delivery considered as a whole, especially that of a group of a particular bowler's deliveries.