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    [Noun]  | "oat" | \ ˈōt \


    1: any of several grasses (genus Avena); especially : a widely cultivated cereal grass (A. sativa)

    2: a crop or plot of the oat; also : the seed of an oat —usually used in plural but singular or plural in construction

    3: a reed instrument made of an oat straw

    Origin: before 12th century ;

     Middle English ote "the grain of the oat plant, the plant itself," going back to Old English āte (weak feminine noun), of uncertain origin;

      * Note : Old English āte has been compared with regional Dutch aate, oote "wild oats" (West and Zeeland Flanders), West Frisian and Groningen Dutch oat. (These contrast with Dutch haver, denoting cultivated oats, a reflex of the Common Germanic word for the grain.) Michiel de Vaan, in an addenda to the online etymologiebank.nl, believes that the Flanders words are semantic extensions of regional aat "food," of general Germanic origin (see: {eat:2|eat:2}), though this hypothesis would scarcely explain the Old English word. Jan de Vries (Nederlands Etymologisch Woordenboek, Brill, 1971) hypothesizes that the Low Country words may have been borrowed from English.;

    [Noun]  | "oat cell" 


    1: any of the small round or oval cells with a high ratio of nuclear protoplasm to cytoplasm that resemble oat grains and are characteristic of a small-cell lung cancer

    Origin: 1903 ;

    [Noun]  | "oat grass" 


    1: wild oat; broadly : any of several grasses resembling the oat

    Origin: 1578 ;

    [Noun]  | "oat milk" 


    1: a liquid made from ground oats and water that is usually fortified (as with calcium and vitamins) and used as a milk substitute

    Origin: 1980 ;

    [Noun]  | "wild oat" 


    1: any of several Old World wild grasses (genus Avena); especially : a Eurasian annual weed (A. fatua) common in meadows and pastures

    2: offenses and indiscretions ascribed to youthful exuberance —usually used in the phrase sow one's wild oats

    Origin: 15th century ;

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     [ "oat" ]

    1: of all time, goat = greatest of all time, oat = of all time

      * e.g.,  ... Kanye west has the best discography oat 

     [ "oat" ]

    1: Acronym for Of All Time

      * e.g.,  ... omgz ShinjixKaworu from NGE r lyk my OTP OAT!!! 

     [ "oat" ]

    1: a fit, good-looking girl

      * e.g.,  ... i got with a girl last night, she was an oat. 

     [ "oat" ]

    1: Over Achieving Teenagers, implies to anyone who is working too much, is stressed, and just tries too hard. Often people who gets grades such as C's and B's but still consider they failed and did not do enough.

      * e.g.,  ... Person A: What did you get on the test? Person B: Man i friggen missed up. The multiple choice screwed me over. Person A: (Looks at Person B test paper) ... you got a 96 -_- Person B: It's horrible. Person A: you friggen oat -_- 

     [ "oat" ]

    1: rural maratime slang for balls, package, nuts. Used when describing a person jerking off.

      * e.g.,  ... "he's feeling his oats" = he's jerking off 

     [ "oat" ]

    1: acronym for One Ah Tiong, or a PRC (chinese from China) Can be used in plural tense, oats, to indicate multiple ah tiongs.

      * e.g.,  ... I walked past a group of oats singing Wondergirl "Nobody" 

     [ "oats" ]

    1: A reward or tribute given to a male after he has had sex with a woman.

      * e.g.,  ... In the Schrute family, we have a tradition, where when the male has sex with another woman, he is rewarded with a bag of wild oats left on his door step by his parents. You can use these oats to make oatmeal, bread, whatever you want. I don’t care - they’re your oats. 

     [ "Oats" ]

    1: The greatest food of all time.

      * e.g.,  ... Brother, may I have some oats, I am starving. Sorry, but there are not enough rations for sharing 

     [ "Oats" ]

    2: Sometimes people will ask you for your oats but you will not give it to them.

     [ "oats" ]

    1: Noun. Sperm, with regard to being seeds. Used in phrases such as sow one's oats, which essentially alludes to procreation but at its most basic to having to sexual intercourse. Sex. The informal phrase get ones oats meaning to have sex. E.g

      * e.g.,  ...  "Drew Pal is off to the barn dance to sew his oats" "You look a bit happy! Did you get your oats last night?" 

     [ "Oat" ]

    1: Slang term for money, similar to paper.

      * e.g.,  ... "Yo we hustle at the box factory to get that oat!" 

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