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*word (from someone or something)

messages or communication from someone or something. (*Typically: get ~; have ~; hear ~; receive ~.) We have just received word from Perry that the contract has been signed.

Word

1. and Word up. interj. Correct.; Right. I hear you, man. Word.

2. interj. Hello. (see also What’s the (good) word?.) Word. What’s new? A: Word. B: Word.

See:

• (upon) my word
• a buzz word
• a dirty word
• a four-letter word
• a good word for everybody
• a household name
• a kind word for everybody
• a man of few words
• a man of his word
• a picture paints a thousand words
• a play on words
• a war of words
• a wild card word for words beginning with
• a woman of her word
• a word to the wise
• a word to the wise is enough
• able to get a word in edgewise
• Actions speak louder than words
• as good as (one's) word
• as good as word
• at a loss
• at a loss for words
• at a word
• bad word
• be as good as (one's) word
• be as good as word
• be lost for words
• be the last word in
• believe a word of it
• beyond words
• bizzle a wild card word for words beginning with
• break one's word
• break word
• breathe a word
• buzz word
• by word of mouth
• chizzle a wild card word for words beginning with
• didn't exchange more than three words with
• dirty joke
• dirty word
• dizzle a wild card word for words beginning with
• eat (one's) words
• eat one's words
• eat words
• exchange no more than
• famous last words
• fighting words
• Fine words butter no parsnips
• fizzle
• for want of a better word
• four-letter word
• from the word go
• F-word
• get a word in edgeways
• get a word in edgewise
• get a word in edgewise and get a word in edgeways
• get in the last word
• get the word
• give (someone) (one's) word
• give (someone) the word
• give the word
• gizzle a wild card word for words beginning with
• go back on word
• good as (one's) word
• good as one's word, as
• good word
• hang on (someone's) words
• hang on every word
• hang on someone's words
• Hard words break no bones
• have a way with words
• have a word
• have a word in ear
• have a word with
• have no words for
• have the final word
• have to eat words
• have words
• have words stick in throat
• have words with
• hear word
• hizzle a wild card word for words beginning with
• household word
• I'd like a word with you. and Could I have a word with you?
• if (the) word gets out
• in a word
• in brief
• in other words
• in so many words
• in words of one syllable
• jizzle a wild card word for words beginning with
• keep one's word
• keep word
• kizzle a wild card word for words beginning with
• know the meaning of the word
• last word
• last word, the
• leave word
• leave word for
• lizzle a wild card word for words beginning with
• loaded word
• lost for words
• man of few words
• man of his word
• Many a true word is spoken in jest
• mark my word
• mark my words
• mince matters
• mince words
• mizzle a wild card word for words beginning with
• Mum's the word
• not breathe a word
• not mince words
• not open mouth
• not open one's mouth
• not utter a word
• of few words
• of few words, man of
• of word
• once (the) word gets out
• one final word
• one's word is bond
• or words to that effect
• parrot (someone's) words
• picture is worth a thousand words
• picture is worth a thousand words, one
• pizzle a wild card word for words beginning with
• play on words
• portmanteau word
• put in a good word
• put in a good word for
• put into words
• put the hard word on someone
• put the make on
• put the make on someone
• put words in mouth
• put words in someone's mouth
• receive word
• rizzle a wild card word for words beginning with
• say a few words
• say the word
• send word to
• sizzle a wild card word for words beginning with
• spoken word
• spread the word
• sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me
• suit actions to words
• swallow one's words
• take at word
• Take my word for it
• take one at word
• take someone at his or her word
• take the words out of mouth
• take the words out of someone's mouth
• take word for
• take word for it
• the last word in
• the operative word
• Them's fighting words!
• There's many a true word spoken in jest
• tizzle a wild card word for words beginning with
• to that effect
• too for words
• too funny for words
• took the words right out of my mouth
• true to word
• twist words
• upon my word
• utter a word
• vizzle a wild card word for words beginning with
• war of words
• weasel word
• weasel words
• weigh one's words
• weigh words
• What’s the good word?
• What’s the word?
• What's the magic word?
• What's the word?
• when (the) word gets out
• wizzle a wild card word for words beginning with
• woman of few words
• won't breathe a word
• won't hear a word against
• word
• word by word
• word for word
• word gets around
• word hole
• word is good
• word is law
• word of honor
• word of mouse
• word of mouth
• word of mouth, by
• word on the street
• word on the wire
• word spoken is past recalling
• word to the wise
• word to the wise, a
• Word up.
• word with
• wordplay
• words fail me
• Words fail me!
• words of one syllable
• words of one syllable, in
• words stick in (one's) throat
• words to live by
• words to that effect
• yizzle a wild card word for words beginning with
• zizzle a wild card word for words beginning with