| devil | |
| 1. n. (theology) A creature of hell. | |
| 2. n. (theology) (the devil or the Devil) The chief devil; Satan. | |
| 3. n. The bad part of the conscience; the opposite to the angel. | |
| The devil in me wants to let him suffer. | |
| 4. n. A wicked or naughty person, or one who harbors reckless, spirited energy, especially in a mischievous way; usually said of a young child. | |
| Those two kids are devils in a toy store. | |
| 5. n. A thing that is awkward or difficult to understand or do. | |
| That math problem was a devil. | |
| 6. n. (euphemistically, with an article, as an intensifier) Hell. | |
| What in the devil is that? What the devil is that? | |
| She is having a devil of a time fixing it. | |
| You can go to the devil for all I care. | |
| 7. n. A person, especially a man; used to express a particular opinion of him, usually in the phrases poor devil and lucky devil. | |
| 8. n. A dust devil. | |
| 9. n. (religion, Christian Science) An evil or erring entity. | |
| 10. n. (dialectal, in compounds) A barren, unproductive and unused area.Dictionary of Regional American English | |
| devil strip | |
| 11. n. (cookery) A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper. | |
| 12. n. A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc. | |
| 13. n. A Tasmanian devil. | |
| 14. n. (cycling, slang) An endurance event where riders who fall behind are periodically eliminated. | |
| 15. v. To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil. | |
| 16. v. To annoy or bother; to bedevil. | |
| 17. v. To work as a ‘devil’; to work for a lawyer or writer without fee or recognition. | |
| 18. v. To grill with cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper. | |
| 19. v. To finely grind cooked ham or other meat with spices and condiments. | |
| 20. v. To prepare a sidedish of shelled halved boiled eggs to whose extracted yolks are added condiments and spices, which mixture then is placed into the halved whites to be served. | |
