Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
SUPERMAN
acid, back breaker, battery-acid, dose, dot, Elvis, loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, pane, superman, window pane, Zen
(noun) street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
demigod, superman, Ubermensch
(noun) a person with great powers and abilities
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Proper noun
Superman (countable and uncountable, plural Supermen)
A fictional comic-book superhero with superhuman strength and speed, x-ray vision, and the ability to fly. [from 1933.]
Coordinate terms
• Supergirl
Noun
Superman (plural Supermen or Supermans)
Alternative letter-case form of superman: a strong, tough or resistant man.
(motorcycling, plural Supermans) A stunt in which the rider releases both hands from the handlebars in mid-air.
A flavor of ice cream that is a mixture of blue moon ice cream, and other ice cream flavors that are colored red and yellow.
Anagrams
• manpurse, per nasum
Etymology
Noun
superman (plural supermen)
(chiefly, philosophy) An imagined superior type of human being representing a new stage of human development; an ĂĽbermensch, an overman. [from 1903.]
A person of extraordinary or seemingly superhuman powers.
Antonyms
• netherman
Anagrams
• manpurse, per nasum
Source: Wiktionary
Su"per*man`, n.
Definition: = Overman, above.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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HYDRAULIC
(adjective) moved or operated or effected by liquid (water or oil); “hydraulic erosion”; “hydraulic brakes”
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