spad

About 0.06 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A government adviser, often in a political or media role.
2. noun A nail one or two inches long, of iron, brass, tin, or tinner iron, with a hole through the flattened head, used to mark stations in underground surveying.
3. noun Clipping of spadona/spadone.

Similar words

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