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Betta

//ˈbɛtɑː(ɹ)// adj, adv, noun, slang

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Pronunciation spelling of better, comparative of good. alt-of, pronunciation-spelling

    "'I think no savvy. This one mo' betta,' he added, pointing to the house where the drunken captain slumbered: 'Take-a-sun all-e-time.'"

Adverb
  1. 1
    Pronunciation spelling of better, comparative of well. alt-of, pronunciation-spelling

    "“Now she be lookin' betta,” one of the women said. “Like she has a chance to make it.”"

  2. 2
    Pronunciation spelling of better (“had better”). alt-of, pronunciation-spelling, slang

    "“Boy, if I done told you once, I done told you a thousand times, you betta leave them white girls alone before one of their boyfriends or husbands roll up on you, and put a hurtin on yo lil behind.”"

Noun
  1. 1
    Any fish of the genus Betta, especially Betta splendens (the Siamese fighting fish).

    "Rather than simply waiting for a clockwise turn and then presenting the mirror, past experience with another betta suggested that the turning behavior could be established more rapidly using a shaping procedure."

Etymology

From the genus name.

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