Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- interj. Nautical Used as a command to stop or desist.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- interj. hold fast!; desist!; stay!.
- interj. listen!; pay attention!.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- interj. Cease; stop; stay.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Nautical, stop! hold! cease! stay!
Etymologies
Examples
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January 19, 2010 at 7: 37 AM avast is ok its always crashes my system when i load the program i have window media center
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Krauthammer lands 'is shots sqare avast' is bow! redneck_hippie
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Time was, you'd interview a pirate spokesman and every other word would be "avast" or "arrr."
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Don't think I could keep up the 'avast's and 'me hearties' during all that time, sorry.
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Souls too timid to say things like "avast" and "arrr" and "shiver me timbers" out loud in public can consider the comments thread a safe place to Post Like A Pirate all day.
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But a sharp "avast" stopped them, and four or five cabin-boys gambolled out on it ashore.
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In a few minutes the second mate came up, hallooing to us to "avast," and laughing.
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Spend the day filling your posts with 'avast', 'it be ...' and general pirate mayhem.
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The answer turned out to be "avast," revealing the wickedness of the puzzle maker because the clue and the answer don't exactly match.
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June 08, 2009 at 1: 30 PM my suggestions: sdigsby pdigin mediamonkey songbird sugarsync dropbox avast avg
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Jubjub commented on the word avast
5 examples here, but only one uses the word avast. Avast, a bug!
February 1, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word avast
It's a verb, I've always heard. Why would one say it's defective?
September 28, 2009
qroqqa commented on the word avast
What part of speech be avast? Karl 'Peg-leg' Hagen be concludin' 'tis a defective verb.
September 28, 2009
ecbrenner commented on the word avast
"a nautical command to stop or cease" --Merriam-Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
May 21, 2009