dart

A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; for example, a short lance or javelin.

Any sharp-pointed missile weapon, such as an arrow.

(figuratively, sometimes)(sometimes figurative) Anything resembling such a missile; something that pierces or wounds like such a weapon.

A small object with a pointed tip at one end and feathers at the other, which is thrown at a target in the game of darts.

(Australia, Canada, colloquial)A cigarette.

2017, April 18, Craig Little, The Guardian, Hawthorn are not the only ones finding that things can get worse The Tigers will also face Jesse Hogan, still smarting from missing a couple of games but not life inside the AFL bubble, where you can’t even light up a dart at a music festival without someone filming it and sending it to the six o’clock news.

(military) A dart-shaped target towed behind an aircraft to train shooters.

(Australia, obsolete)A plan or scheme.

A sudden or fast movement.

Soon as I felt the floor tremor I made a dart for the door.

(sewing) A fold that is stitched on a garment.

A dace (fish) (Leuciscus leuciscus).

Any of various species of hesperiid butterfly.

(transitive)To throw with a sudden effort or thrust; to hurl or launch.

(transitive)To send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot.

As the sun darted forth his beams, she darted a meaningful glance at me.

(transitive)To shoot with a dart, especially a tranquilizer dart.

They had to dart the animal to get close enough to help

(intransitive)To fly or pass swiftly, like a dart; to move rapidly in one direction; to shoot out quickly.

The flying man darted eastward.

(intransitive)To start and run with speed; to shoot rapidly along.

The deer darted from the thicket.

The fish darted under a stone.