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    [Adjective]  | "dusk" | \ ˈdəsk \


    1: dusky


    Origin: 13th century ;

     Middle English dosk, alteration of Old English dox; akin to Latin fuscus dark brown, Old English dunn dun, dūst dust;

    [Verb]  | "dusk" 


    1: to become dark

    2: to make dark or gloomy


    Origin: 13th century ;

     See: ;

    [Noun]  | "dusk" 


    1: the darker part of twilight especially at night

    2: darkness or semidarkness caused by the shutting out of light


    Origin: 1567 ;

     See: ;

    [Idiom]  | "from dawn to/until dusk" 


    1: from early morning until early evening

    [Adjective]  | "dusk" 


    1: being without light or without much light;


      * e.g., " ... under a dusk sky, the campers wearily bedded down for the night "





    [Noun]  | "dusk" 


    1: the time from when the sun begins to set to the onset of total darkness;


      * e.g., " ... we stopped playing at dusk, since it was getting too dark to see the ball "





    2: a time or place of little or no light;


      * e.g., " ... legends of fearsome beasts living in the dusk of the great forest "





    3: partial darkness due to the obstruction of light rays;


      * e.g., " ... the forbidding dusk of Germany's famed Black Forest "



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    [Verb]  | "dusk" 


    1: to grow dark;


      * e.g., " ... the grief-stricken woman continued to sit in the dusking room until she was completely enveloped in darkness "





     [ "dusk" ]

    1:  to put the hand, finger, etc., on or into contact with (something) to feel it; touch. to touch something, anything with a connotation suggestive of mischief or prohibited behavior. to touch it...preferably in Miami.

      * e.g.,  ... "Y'all don't want beef in these streets, trust the boy/...like I said, even Jerry couldn't dusk the boy." "Chrissy dusked it in Miami." 

     [ "dusk" ]

    1: adjective, meaning ugly or horrible

      * e.g.,  ... person 1 - josie's bare dusk 


     [ "dusk" ]

    2: pronounced doosk.

      * e.g.,  ... person 2 - awh thats mean. 

     [ "Dusking" ]

    1: To dusk it.

      * e.g.,  ... "Aye bro, we dusking it tonight?" "Yeah man, as alwayz." 


     [ "Dusking" ]

    2: Drinking/drugs/partying/clubbing thru the night.


     [ "Dusking" ]

    3: Taken to mean "are we going to carry out the plans we had tonight"


     [ "Dusking" ]

    4: Ussually said "duskin'" as opposed to "dusking".

     [ "dusking" ]

    1: to confuse someone -- the opposite of saying "it dawned on me" Comes from dusk, the time of day when the light is fading. Origin is a well known Penn State psychology professor.

      * e.g.,  ... "You're dusking me -- I haven't the slightest idea what you are talking about." 

     [ "Dusk" ]

    1: A Dusk is an intelligent breed of wolf/human. She reads wayyyy too much and laughs a lot too. A Dusk will kick butt if you mess with her, but can also be nice and caring. She will always take good care of her balloon childs.

      * e.g.,  ... Dusk saved the balloon while reading her book! 

     [ "Dusking" ]

    1: To dusk it.

      * e.g.,  ... "Aye bro, we dusking it tonight?" "Yeah man, as alwayz." 


     [ "Dusking" ]

    2: Drinking/drugs/partying/clubbing thru the night.


     [ "Dusking" ]

    3: Taken to mean "are we going to carry out the plans we had tonight"


     [ "Dusking" ]

    4: Ussually said "duskin'" as opposed to "dusking".

     [ "Dusk" ]

    1: A type of extreme anger in which one gets so angry they begin expressing other emotions (i.e. sadness, joy, hysteria, apathy, etc.)

      * e.g.,  ... The man became so angry with the customer service representative, that he couldn’t help but start laughing hysterically. In that moment he felt pure dusk. 


     [ "Dusk" ]

    2: Any extreme form of an emotion that causes one to express a different emotion.

     [ "Dusk" ]

    1: Dusk is a name for a huge lesbian who is sick and tired of her dad's gender stereotypes. They always try to act like they're innocent but they really aren't, and constantly retain emotional imbalance. They're probably emo.

      * e.g.,  ... She's so angry, she's acting like such a Dusk. 

     [ "Dusk Rider" ]

    1: The word is a variation of "night rider" but in the case of a "dusk rider", it describes a female ;(usually white but not always); who mostly has sex or has relationships with "brown people" which can consist of men of indian, middle eastern, south asian, etc origin.

      * e.g.,  ... N: yo Z, isnt that chick such a dusk rider! 

     [ "dusk sparks" ]

    1: dusk is a sky blue pegasus with a need for speed. not only is she awesome but makes sick youtube videos

      * e.g.,  ... Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Its Dusk Sparks! 

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