thicket, n. copse, Chiefly Brit, coppice, Brit, spinney, small wood, grove, bosket, Archaic, bosk, brake, canebrake; brushwood, Southwestern U.S. chaparral, underbrush, undergrowth, Hunting, covert; scrub, shrubbery, hedges; bush, jungle, thickhead, n. blockhead, dunce, lunkhead, bone-head, knucklehead, fathead, pinhead, numskull; fool, tomfool, dope, nincompoop, ninny, lightweight; oaf, boor, lout, dolt, dullard, Inf chump, lummox, looby, SI. klutz; idiot, simpleton, half-wit, lamebrain, pin-brain, moron, cretin, imbecile; All SI. chump, sap, dumbbell, dingbat, ding-a-ling, meatball, meathead, jerk, booby, boob, noodle, blubberhead, nudnik, schmuck, schlemiel, U.S. schmo. thickheaded, adj. stupid, unintelligent, dull-witted, duncish, obtuse, Inf. cretinous, half-witted, dense, thick. See thick (def 10). thickness, n. 1. denseness, density, body, bulk, bulkiness, heaviness, weight; measure, width, breadth, diameter; consolidation, compactness, closeness, crowdedness.
2. inspissation, condensation; viscosity, viscidity, glutinousness; coagulation, congelation, jellification, gelatinization, solidification.
3. layer, stratum, ply, sheet. thickset, adj. 1. dense, close-packed, crowded. See thick (def 2).
2. stocky, heavyset, thick, solid, stodgy; stout, sturdy, burly, beefy, brawny; squat, stubby, Inf. stumpy, thickskinned, adj. 1. pachydermatous, elephantine, hippopotamic, rhinocerotic.
2. callous, tough, obdurate, hardened, hard, hard-boiled, steeled; inured, casehardened; insensitive, insensate, numb, unfeeling, insentient, insensible, thief, n. 1. pilferer, filcher, SI. ripoff or rip-off artist, purloiner, stealer, Inf. crook, SI. ganef; shoplifter, pickpocket, cutpurse, purse-snatcher, lightfingered Louie, SI. dip; Psychol, kleptomaniac.
2. burglar, robber, housebreaker, SI. cracksman, picklock, Raffles, sneak thief, cat burglar, Inf. second-story man; Inf. hold-up man, SI. stick-up man, mugger; safecracker, Jimmy Valentine.
3. swindler, fleecer, bilker, rook, trickster, sharper, Inf. hawk, cardsharper, bunko steersman, blackleg; confidence man, con artist, flimflam artist, racketeer, highbinder, thimblerigger, Brit. SI. magsman, Australian. spieler; defaulter, SI. welsher; embezzler, peculator.
4. highwayman, footpad, SI. yegg or yeggman, bandit, Sp. bandolero, Southwest U.S. ladrone, Australian. bushranger, brigand, picaroon, desperado; outlaw, gangster, criminal, mafioso; thug, ruffian, rogue, (in India and Burma) dacoit.
5. kidnapper, abductor, rustler; hijacker, skyjacker, air or sky pirate; pirate, rover, viking, corsair, privateer, buccaneer; marauder, freebooter, (in the Scottish Highlands) cateran.
6. poacher, deerjacker; smuggler, contrabandist, runner, bootlegger; fence.
7. extortioner, extortionist, blackmailer; usurer, loan shark, SI. bleeder.
8. forger, counterfeiter, Brit. Inf. coiner; plagiarist, plagiarizer, Inf. cheater, Inf. copier. thieve, v. 1. steal, rob, pilfer, purloin, finger, filch, Inf. snitch, cabbage, abstract, Chiefly Brit, prig, Euph. borrow; peculate, embezzle, misappropriate; shoplift, SI. boost, walk off or away with; burglarize, burgle, break in; All SI. heist, pinch, hook, swipe, hustle, rip off, frisk, crook, cop, lift.
2. appropriate, expropriate, arrogate, usurp; commandeer, hijack, skyjack; pirate, plagiarize, copy, Inf.