Bed
Bed verb - To go to one's bed in order to sleep.
Usage example: the campers all bedded down for the night around 9:00 p.m.
Nod
Nod verb - To make short up-and-down movements.
How words are described
| good | good bed | good nod |
| nice | nice bed | nice nod |
| best | best bed | best nod |
| long | long bed | long nod |
| Other adjectives: specific, single, simple, small, real, big, huge, little, apparent, double, giant. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Usagi quickly pulls a magazine from under Rei's bed with a Takarazuka model on the cover, a nod to Rei's longstanding Mistaken for Gay meme.
Source: Takarazuka -
Continuity Nod: Jesse brings up the entire "we're figments of an old lady's Dying Dream" theory they brought up while in bed in Waking Life.
Source: Film / Before Sunrise -
Continuity Nod: When Robby gets out of bed in the middle of the night, Jo refers to Demi doing the same thing at his age in one chapter of Little Women.
Source: Literature / Little Men
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