grab bag



bingo, drawing, raffle, sweep, sweepstakes ,









   surface show - appearance, display, exterior, externals, fa?§ade, front, gaudiness, public image, show, speciousness, superficiality ,

   workaday - businesslike, chaste, classic, classical, commercial, common, commonplace, everyday, garden, garden-variety, homely, homespun, household, lowly, materialistic,

   want doing - ask, call for, claim, clamour for, cry for, demand, exact, need, require, want ,

   seaward - anticlockwise, clockwise, counter-clockwise, earthward, heavenward, homeward, in blue water, landward, leeward, leftward, off, off soundings, rightward, windward ,

   not go for - ban, blackball, disallow, disapprove, disapprove of, disbelieve, disfavour, dissent, exclude, frown, not accept, not swallow, object, oppose, ostracise,

   scanning - alliterative meter, analysing, automatic tracking, cadenced, classifying, collating, computer technology, computer typesetting, computing, dactylic, data processing, data retrieval, data transmission, electronic data processing, high-speed data handling,

   take no denial - assert, baulk, call for, contend, demand, dictate, die hard, exact, hold out, impose, insist, insist upon, maintain, not budge, oblige,

   seaman - Davy Jones, Flying Dutchman, Neptune, OD, able seaman, able-bodied seaman, bluejacket, buccaneer, deep-sea man, fair-weather sailor, fisherman, hearty, jack, jack afloat, jack-tar,

   groovy - OK, ace-high, bad, bang-up, boss, bully, but good, cool, corking, dandy, delicious, divine, ducky, fine and dandy, gear,

   peanut butter - almond, kernel, meat, nut, peanut ,