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one-ahead

one-ahead adjective: a form of billet reading in which the supposedly clairvoyant performer is covertly given information about one of the concealed messages beforehand, and then remains one step ahead while "predicting" the rest of the messages.

Adjective

one-ahead (not comparable)

  1. A form of billet reading in which the supposedly clairvoyant performer is covertly given information about one of the concealed messages beforehand, and then remains one step ahead while "predicting" the rest of the messages.

Questions about one-ahead

What does one-ahead mean?
One-ahead means a form of billet reading in which the supposedly clairvoyant performer is covertly given information about one of the concealed messages beforehand, and then remains one step ahead while "predicting" the rest of the messages.
What part of speech is one-ahead?
One-ahead is an adjective.

Words near one-ahead in the dictionary

  1. one's way
  2. one's word is law
  3. one-act
  4. one-acter
  5. one-acters
  6. one-ahead
  7. one-and-a-half-spaced
  8. one-and-done
  9. one-and-dones
  10. one-and-one
  11. one-and-ones

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