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nounadjectiveproper nouncommon in dialogue

Not OK. Initialism of no good.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of natural gasInitialism of natural gas.

  2. 2

    Variant of nitroglycerineInitialism of nitroglycerine (nitroglycerin).

  3. 3

    Variant of newsgroupInitialism of newsgroup.

    Could someone please re-post the FAQ to the NG?

  4. 4

    Variant of narrow gaugeInitialism of narrow gauge.

  5. 5

    Variant of necrotizing gingivitisInitialism of necrotizing gingivitis.

Etymology

Abbreviation. * no good: attested in The Comprehensive Standard Dictionary of the English Language (1909) and in Students’ Edition of a Standard Dictionary of the English Language (1915).

adjective

  1. 1

    Not OK. Initialism of no good.

  2. 2

    Variant of nasogastricInitialism of nasogastric.

  3. 3

    Variant of next-generationInitialism of next-generation

proper noun

  1. 1

    Variant of NewgroundsInitialism of Newgrounds.

  2. 2

    Variant of National GeographicInitialism of National Geographic.

  3. 3

    Variant of New GuineaAbbreviation of New Guinea

Forms

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The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).