alligator

1. 1.

   crack and acquire the appearance of alligator hide, as from weathering or improper application; of paint and varnishes

   Broadercrack

Other forms of alligator

plural

alligators·

past tense

alligatorred·

present participle

alligatorring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about alligator

What does alligator mean?

alligator means "leather made from alligator's hide". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in alligator?

alligator has 4 syllables: al-li-ga-tor. The stress falls on "al". In IPA it is /ˈæləˌɡeɪtɚ/.

What is another word for alligator?

Close synonyms include gator. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is alligator a common word?

alligator is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with alligator?

7 words rhyme with alligator. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.