Iron
Mean
Mean adjective - Being about midway between extremes of amount or size.
How words are described
| best | best iron | best mean |
| common | common iron | common mean |
| true | true iron | true mean |
| real | real iron | real mean |
| Other adjectives: big, huge, little, extra, giant. | ||
Common collocations
| point | iron point | mean point |
Both words in one sentence
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They take either pebbles or iron balls as ammo; pebbles mean infinite ammo, iron balls do more damage but are limited and reload a little slower.
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Noodle Incident: In the second episode of the first series Moss and Roy reference an incident in which a unattended soldering iron caused a golf... I mean fire.
Source: Series / The IT Crowd - A mean kid from high school, who treated the protagonist like dirt and ruled over the class with an iron fist turns up again.
Source: Reformed Bully
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