Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A nearly level area at the bottom of an undrained desert basin, sometimes temporarily covered with water.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In geology, a general name for various desiccated lake-basins in the Western States.
- n. In geology, a general name for the plain of silt or mud that marks the bottom of a desiccated lake-basin in the western United States.
Wiktionary
- n. a level spot temporarily covered with water which subsequently becomes dry by evaporation; an alkali flat or salt pan.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A beach; a strand; in the plains and deserts of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, a broad, level spot, on which subsequently becomes dry by evaporation.
Etymologies
- Spanish, from Late Latin plagia, hillside, shoreline, probably from Greek, sides, from neuter pl. of plagios, oblique, sideways; see plagio-. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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“A body of water which is not permanent, but comes and goes with the seasons, we call a playa lake.”
“He would be a bit of a skunk, perhaps, but in the schism of high society, he would also be known as a playa, and his peers and fans would wink and throw him High Fives.”
“At least four energy companies are interested in building on the playa, which is near the energy grid, City Manager Vicki Mayes said.”
“It's like Hillary calling Obama a "playa" who doesn't care about laid off white people.”
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“The greedy city council couldn’t give a crap about many people opposed to this new development called playa vista.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘playa’.
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pabouche, pabulous, pabulum, pacable, pace, pachydermia, pachyglossal, pachymeter, pachynsis, paciferous, pacificate, pactolian and 1766 more...
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Landforms
A Cyclopedia of Landforms.
plain, mountain, canyon, cliff, hill, arch, cave, plateau, mesa, butte, chimney, peneplain and 169 more...
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gangster
random gangster lingo and street slang with extra absurdities.
( open list, randomness )
related:
http://www....swagga, chinga, slams, blitzy, earf, manor, code name, rekkid, weight, feather, kong, swisher and 324 more...
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Pet Rocks and Carbon Footprints
Soil samples for stone soup.
palynology, stratigraphy, tse'bit'ai, tse bitai, tse bit ai, bitai, minette, maar, lithosphere, peridotite, gneiss, gabbro and 115 more...
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Desert ingredients
dune, sand, wind, cactus, wadi, oasis, gibber, barchan, bilby, arroyo, mirage, heat and 59 more...
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Things from my memory
nigger baby, mexican jumping bean, puddle jumper, mood ring, pet rock, cat scratch fever, taxman, hippie, vaseline, argyrol, mercurchrome, methiolade and 655 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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thunderfuck, incredible, merp, sara, flopparoo, smother, fugly, buer, plum, canny, nefelibata, cuntbucket and 2411 more... -
No Hablo Español
Despite seven years of classes and being half-Puerto Rican.
uno, dos, tres, quatro, cinco, seis, siete, ocho, nueve, diez, once, doce and 198 more...
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the earth
Planetary chaos: terrain, landscape and geology excluding rocks. (See "the geologist" list for the latter.)
butte, karst, caldera, mesa, laccolith, cwm, crater, alp, precipice, sierra, badlands, prairie and 122 more...
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mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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Lay of the Land
all kinds of scapes
steppe, veld, veldt, campo, llano, taiga, krummholz, elfinwood, tundra, sward, lea, heath and 197 more...
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It's Wet and It's Land--Wetlands!
names for types of wetlands
pocosin, bog, peatland, mangrove, reservoir, creek, saltflat, stream, spong, vernal pool, estuary, spring and 45 more...
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al sur del rio
hablabamos, mija, colombiano, playa, porque, conmigo, venga, cantar, bailar, prevenir, peatonal, tequila and 65 more...
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ovando's Words
alfa, luna, durazno, laberinto, griego, sol, beta, gama, delta, omega, épsilon, iota and 41 more...
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Mangomousse's Favorites :]
sfumato, aardvark, cwm, agog, alpenglow, amok, anomaly, apogee, apricity, balalaika, bibulous, bilious and 87 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for playa.
treeseed A playa; also known as an alkali flat, sabkha, or salt flat; is a dry lakebed, generally the shore of, or a remnant of, an endorheic lake. Such flats consist of fine-grained sediments infused with alkali salts. Their surface is generally very dry, hard and smooth in the summer months, but wet and very soft in the winter months. Playas are small, round depressions in the surface of the ground. A playa lake is formed when rain fills this hole with water, creating a small lake. Playas can also form when the water table intersects the surface and water seeps into them.
_Wikipedia Feb 11, 2008