Definitions

a group of people who continue an activity that others from the same team or organization have been doing previously:

to cause someone or something to be slow or late:

curved and not straight or flat:

When someone is besieged, a lot of people surround them:

If you say that curtains twitch, you mean that someone is very interested in what their neighbours (= people who live near them) are doing and tries to find out by looking out of the window without being seen:

to steal from a place or person, using a gun as a threat:

to add spice to food to make it more interesting:

to choose and emphasize, make clearer, or highlight someone or something:

a large, flat object made of strong plastic that police officers hold in front of their bodies to protect themselves: