noun:

• waiting (e.g. at the stage door) for performers or celebrities to arrive - slang ➜ 出待ち

noun:

• long, thin, roofless small boat (used as a river taxi during the Edo period)

noun:

• outset; beginning; starting (things) ➜ 手始め
• resuming work after the New Year's vacation ➜ 仕事始め

noun / ~する noun:

• preparing a rice field for planting by flooding it and tilling the soil

expression:

• talking so fast that even a four-horse coach cannot catch up to the words

noun:

• game similar to rock, paper, scissors, with the hand gestures fox, hunter and village headman

noun:

• paper-covered frame put over a hearth or brazier to make the fire last longer

noun:

• young woman who uses the first person pronoun "boku" - manga slang ➜ オレっ娘

noun:

• getting big laughs just from appearing on the stage (or screen, etc.) ➜ 落ち

expression / godan -いく／-ゆく verb (spec.):

• to do for real; to do in real life; to carry (a story) into actual practice

suffix noun:

• samurai receiving this much rice as a fee - after a quantity
• offering of rice cake containing this much rice
• person receiving this amount of money as a salary - obsolete term

expression:

• in accordance with; according to; as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.)

noun:

• taxing one's ingenuity in devising something; agonizing over designing or creating something; making strenuous efforts to devise good ways and means to do something - four character idiom

noun:

• security police; special police
• special; TV special ➜ スペシャル
• standard-playing (record); SP ➜ ＬＰ
• shore patrol
• sales promotion ➜ セールスプロモーション
• save point - Baseball term ➜ セーブポイント
• short program (in figure skating) - Sports term ➜ ショートプログラム
• structured programming - IT term ➜ 構造化プログラミング

adverb / ~と adverb:

• creaking; squeaking - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / adjectival noun:

• packing in tightly; cramming; squeezing - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• hard (pressing, tying, twisting, etc.); tightly; with force - onomatopoeia

adverb / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• going hard (on someone); tormenting (e.g. with questions) - onomatopoeia

particle:

• or something; for instance ... (though there are other suitable options)
• ... or ... - usu. in the form ...なり...なり
• as soon as; right after - after dictionary form verb
• while still; with previous state still in effect - after past tense verb

noun:

• New Year food for entertaining a guest served in multilayered lacquered boxes
• Kansai New Year decoration (made from food) - Edo name - archaism ➜ 蓬莱飾り【ほうらいかざり】

adverbial noun / noun:

• now; the present time; just now; soon; immediately; (one) more

adverbial noun / noun:

• all members (unanimity); all hands; the whole crew; everyone; everybody

adverb / ~の noun:

• as ever; as usual; the same; still

noun:

• wind power

prefix:

• force (level on the Beaufort wind speed scale)

noun / ~する noun:

• starting a business
• opening a store (for the day)

noun:

• strawberry (esp. the garden strawberry, Fragaria x ananassa)

noun:

• reaching a peak; reaching the limit; plateauing; maxing out

noun / ~する noun:

• drink at home with the evening meal; dinner-time drink