biscuit

noun

1. 1

   A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie.

   Weighed myself at the gym and have hit 10st 8lb, a sure sign of things getting out of control—so I can’t even console myself with a chocolate biscuit.

2. 2

   rareA small, usually soft and flaky bread, generally made with baking soda, which is similar in texture to a scone but which is usually not sweet.

3. 3

   A cracker.

   cheese and biscuits

   water biscuits

   digestive biscuits

4. 4

   Any of several hard bread or breadlike foodstuffs, especially those formerly supplied to naval ships and armies, made with very little water, kneaded into flat cakes, and slowly baked, and which often became infested with weevils.

   Near-synonyms: tack, bread

   He was a long, earnest man, and though born on an icy coast, seemed well adapted to endure hot latitudes, his flesh being hard as twice-baked biscuit.

5. 5

   A form of unglazed earthenware.

   Charm'd by your touch, the kneaded clay refines, / The biscuit hardens, the enamel shines […].

   In 1740, Thomas Whieldon of Little Fenton made 'toys' in either the clay or biscuit state. They were coloured with zaffre, copper, manganese, etc. and glazed with black, red or white lead.

   An overfired biscuit has insufficient porosity for glazing.

6. 6

   A light brown colour.

7. 7

   A thin oval wafer of wood or other material inserted into mating slots on pieces of material to be joined to provide gluing surface and strength in shear.

8. 8

   slangA plastic card bearing the codes for authorizing a nuclear attack.

9. 9

   slangA handgun, especially a revolver.

   I shoot my biscuit in the air until the sky is gone

10. 10

    A puck (hockey puck).

11. 11

    slangThe head.

    Damn, damn, what they say about me? I don't know man, fuck is on your biscuit

    Me and my down ass nigga get twisted Nigga get to trippin', knock the gravy out your biscuit

    Henny right here, I'ma sip it You try me, it's shots at your biscuit

    […] Risk it, you get slapped in your biscuit

12. 12

    An inner tube used in the sport of tubing, or biscuiting.

13. 13

    slangA young woman.

verb

1. 1

   To fire (pottery) in a kiln, without a ceramic glaze.

2. 2

   To take part in the sport of tubing, riding down a river on an inner tube.

Forms

plural

biscuits

past tense

biscuited

past participle

biscuited

present participle

biscuiting

third person singular

biscuits