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In some senses, ninja is marked as figuratively, slang, dated, informal. Watch for register when choosing this word.
ADJ.
behind, black, concerning, current, female, left, secretive
VERB + NINJA
dressed, learn, learning, like, make, seen, walked
NINJA + NOUN
assassin, dojo, government, halloween, sandra, stealers-in, sympathisers, turtles
PREP.
around, in, up
ADV.
away
noun
A person trained in ninjutsu, especially (historical) one used for espionage, assassination, and other tasks requiring stealth during Japan's shogunate period.
He used to work in the Japanese agency as a ninja.
The men... are now learning to be ninja or ‘stealers-in’.
A person considered similarly skillful to the historical ninja, especially in covert or stealthy operation.
For months the Japanese spoke of national-security adviser Henry Kissinger as a ninja—the magician of Japanese legends who performs supernatural acts and practices sorcery.
Other bankers are dubbing themselves ninja, modern-day descendants of the superspies of 17th century samurai houses.
A person considered similarly skillful to the historical ninja, especially in covert or stealthy operation.
I had TOTK running on my pc 2 weeks before it released on the switch and I'm still here. They can send the ninjas, I'm waiting.
Nintendo ninjas were inside the discord, watching. Now all the Yuzu devs have turned over all electronic devices, websites, logs...
A person considered similarly skillful to the historical ninja, especially in covert or stealthy operation.
A ninja developer can take advantage of this when building large software systems, adding a bit of C# and a dabble of Python.
If you're a Linux ninja, this book still gives you a solid reference on the Raspberry Pi and the version of Linux it uses, but no prior Linux knowledge is required.
A person considered to look like the historical ninja in some way, including (historical slang) an amateur private miner in Mongolia.
He immediately suspected they were ninjas because, he said, they were dressed in black and wore masks, trademarks of the mysterious assassins who have been sowing terror across East Java in recent months.
Yen buyers were more subdued... fearing the Bank of Japan's new strategy of covert intervention to buy U.S. dollars through agent banks—described by some as the central bank's ninjas or secret agents.
adj
Of or related to ninjas in their various senses.
The July 1966 issue had a cartoon concerning a Ninja dojo.
One of the most controversial characters in Japan's current ninja boom is a stout but surprisingly agile man in his mid-forties named Norihiro Iga-Hakuyusai.
Fast and sneaky.
After Marshall fell asleep Elisa eventually jumped into the bed with me while I was turned facing away from her. She was very ninja about it as she put it.
With a meager budget, the decision was made to go to a new construction site after dark to borrow some needed lumber. The ninja theft went as planned.
verb
To act or move like a ninja, particularly with regard to a combination of speed, power, and stealth.
I leapt up, ninja'd over to Gav's bed and wheeched the duvet off.
In our dark house we were ninja-ing around with water guns.
to beat someone to a post; to make the same reply just before the other party finishes typing, making their response redundant.
When I hit post, I saw that Blue Emu had ninja'd me, so I just deleted my reply.
To claim an item through abuse of game mechanics.
That damn warrior ninja'd an epic-quality wand even though he can't even use it!
He used to work in the Japanese agency as a ninja.
WiktionaryThe men... are now learning to be ninja or ‘stealers-in’.
WiktionarySpies prowled Japan from the seventh century, but the secretive ninja left few written records.
WiktionaryThe July 1966 issue had a cartoon concerning a Ninja dojo.
WiktionaryOne of the most controversial characters in Japan's current ninja boom is a stout but surprisingly agile man in his mid-forties named Norihiro Iga-Hakuyusai.
Wiktionary[…]Federal agents in body armor and black ninja uniforms[…]
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In some senses, ninja is marked as figuratively, slang, dated, informal. Watch for register when choosing this word.