The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word GAGE which also is the latest solution we found used in Boston Globe in 2012.
Token of defiance crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| GAGE | 100 % | 4 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Token of defiance
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Crossword Answer definitions
GAGE noun- Something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative).
- Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom.
- To give or deposit as a pledge or security; to pawn.
- To wager, to bet.
- To bind by pledge, or security; to engage.
- A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard
- An act of measuring.
- An estimate.
- Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things
- A thickness of sheet metal or wire designated by any of several numbering schemes.
- The distance between the rails of a railway.
- A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.
- The number of stitches per inch, centimetre, or other unit of distance.
- Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind.
- The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
- (plastering) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to make it set more quickly.
- That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles.
- A unit of measurement which describes how many spheres of bore diameter of a shotgun can be had from one pound of lead; 12 gauge is roughly equivalent to .75 caliber.
- (by extension) A shotgun (synecdoche for 12 gauge shotgun, the most common chambering for combat and hunting shotguns).
- A tunnel-like ear piercing consisting of a hollow ring embedded in the lobe.
- To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.
- To estimate.
- To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of.
- To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it.
- To mix (a quantity of ordinary plaster) with a quantity of plaster of Paris.
- To chip, hew or polish (stones, bricks, etc) to a standard size and/or shape.
- A subspecies of plum, Prunus domestica subsp. italica.
- A quart pot.
- A pint pot.
- (metonymically) A drink.
- A tobacco pipe.
- A chamberpot.
- A small quantity of anything.
- Marijuana
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