(Canada, US, informal) A nuisance; a source of trouble or annoyance.

(intransitive) To increase the focal length of a zoom lens in order to obtain a magnified image, or a close-up.

(idiomatic, informal) To join a conversation or situation in which one is not welcome or invited; to interject (connotes a rude or discourteous interruption).

(idiomatic) To misspeak, to say something embarrassing or wrong, or to make a mistake in public, or a social blunder, that is embarrassing or offensive.

an entrance

(duration, idiomatic) For a hopelessly long time; used especially in respect to discussing, explaining, insisting, etc.

To enclose with a fence. / (idiomatic, by extension) To restrict freedom.

(US) a government form of performance-based contracting that moves risk to industry

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: Without light; somewhere that is dark. / (idiomatic) Without information.

(idiomatic) Of stocks, to buy when both demand and price are low, so as to sell when demand and price are high.