落

Sumo

demotion from ōzeki ranking

Computing

shielding; reverse clipping

plant community

makeup remover wipes

Linguistics

haplology

server outage; server failure; server crash

testing one's children by putting them through hardship

burakumin area

Sumo

rear pull down

lakh; 100,000 (Indian numbering system)

Sumo

rear lifting body slam

"drop the handkerchief" children's game

Nidan verb (upper class)

to think of something bizarre; to suddenly have a whacky idea

Proverb; Nidan verb (upper class)

all returns to dust; the fruit of the tree falls to the roots

Colloquial; Esp. in fiction

joining the dark side; joining the forces of evil

a circuit breaker trips

Proverb

make your dear ones face trials so that they may grow; spare the rod, spoil the child; the lion drops its cubs into the abyss (only raising the ones who climb back up)

fashion leader; fashionista

Historical term

sharebon; late Edo-period novelette about life in the red-light districts

Historical term

Fall of Berlin (1945)

Archaic/formal form of na-adjective

impertinent

Archaic/formal form of na-adjective

fresh; fashionable

Common noun

prostitute

blackmail; extortion; coercion

Obsolete term; 'taru' adjective

mixed; mingled

Rare term

flourishing and declining