| hazard | |
| 1. n. (historical) A type of game played with dice. | |
| 2. n. Chance. | |
| 3. n. The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss. | |
| He encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life. | |
| 4. n. An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally. | |
| The video game involves guiding a character on a skateboard past all kinds of hazards. | |
| 5. n. (golf) A sand or water obstacle on a golf course. | |
| 6. n. (billiards) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard). | |
| 7. n. (obsolete) Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling. | |
| 8. n. (tennis) The side of the court into which the ball is served. | |
| 9. n. (programming) A problem with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction cannot execute in the following clock cycle, potentially leading to incorrect results. | |
| 10. v. To expose to chance; to take a risk. | |
| 11. v. To risk (something); to venture, to incur, or bring on. | |
| I'll hazard a guess. | |
