biscuit

plural biscuits

1. AustraliaCanadaIndiaIrelandNew ZealandUKcountablesometimesuncommonuncountableA 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.

   1992 October 3, Edwina Currie, Diary

2. CanadaUScountablerareuncountableA 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. IrelandMalaysiaPhilippinesSingaporeUKcountableuncountableA cracker.

   water biscuits

   2 more examples

   cheese and biscuits

   digestive biscuits

4. countableespeciallyuncountablenauticalAny 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

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   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.

   1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Knights and Squires”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 125

   Synonyms: tack, bread

5. countableuncountableA form of unglazed earthenware.

   An overfired biscuit has insufficient porosity for glazing.

   2004, Frank Hamer with Janet Hamer, The Potter's Dictionary of Materials and Techniques, 5th edition, London; Philadelphia, Penn.: A & C Black; University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 248

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

   1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 87

   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.

   1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 202

   Synonyms: biscuitware, biscuitry

6. countableuncountableA light brown colour.
7. countableuncountableartsA 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.

   Synonyms: dowel, finger joint, glue strip, spline

8. UScountableslanguncountableA plastic card bearing the codes for authorizing a nuclear attack.
9. UScountableslanguncountableentertainmentA handgun, especially a revolver.

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

   2007, Army of the Pharaohs, “Bloody Tears”, in Ritual of Battle

10. countableuncountableshuffleboardhobbiesA puck (hockey puck).
11. countableslanguncountableThe head.

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

    2022 January 12, YOUNGESTSAV, “District”, PressPlay, 0:26 and oftener

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

    2012 April 2, Nicki Minaj, “Beez in the Trap” (track 4), in Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded

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

    2013 September 17, Jeezy featured by YG, “My Nigga”, in My Krazy Life, track 7

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

    2019 October 4, Lil Tjay featured by Pop Smoke, “War”, in Meet The Woo 2, track 13 0:47

12. New ZealandcountableuncountableAn inner tube used in the sport of tubing, or biscuiting.
13. UScountableslanguncountableA young woman.

present singular third person biscuits · participle present biscuiting · participle past biscuited · past biscuited

1. transitiveTo fire (pottery) in a kiln, without a ceramic glaze.
2. New ZealandintransitiveTo take part in the sport of tubing, riding down a river on an inner tube.