Reverse Dictionary: PLAN

ADJECTIVES
► CAST calculated, planned → c1400 obs.
► ON planned; hence, in progress → a1881 colloq.

NOUNS
► ADVISEMENT the result of thinking; a thought, opinion, resolution, plan → 1535 obs.
► CARD a map or plan → 1527 obs.
► CARTE a chart, map, plan, diagram → 1502 obs.
► CAST plan, design; shape, conformation, of a building, etc. → a1300 obs.
► COLLOGUE a private talk; a secret plan or scheme → E19
► COUNTERDRIFT a plan, plot, or scheme in opposition → 1602 obs.
► DART a plan, an aim, a scheme, an idea → 1887 Aust. sl.
► DICKER a plan, fashion → 1904 Amer. dial.
► FIX a well thought-out plan with criminal intent → 1975 Aust. sl.
► GAG a plan, a scheme → M19 sl.
► LAY a line or plan of business, occupation, adventure, etc. → 1707 sl.
► LAYOUT a plan, a scheme → 1867 Amer. dial.
► LURK a scheme, a plan of action, a ruse → 1916 Aust. & NZ sl.
► MACHINATION the act or process of contriving or planning; contrivance, intrigue, plotting; an intrigue, plot, scheme → 1549
► MAXIM a plan, contrivance; an experiment; a fad; a crotchet → 1882 Eng. dial.
► NAVATION a contrivance, scheme, plan → 1628 obs.
► NIFTY a joke, a funny story, a clever plan → 1918 US sl.
► NONSELLER a plan that almost certainly will be rejected → 1986 US sl.
► ORDINANCE the arrangement of plans; devising, contriving, planning; a device, contrivance, plan → a1330 obs.
► RACKET a plan, a scheme, a trick → 1900s US sl.
► SCAM a plan, a scheme → 1940s sl.
► SCAMUS a plan, a scheme → 1940s sl.
► TABLE a sketch, plan, scheme → a1577 obs.
► WRAP-UP a promising deal or plan → 1940s US criminal’s sl.
► Xs AND Os the basic elements of a plan → 1984 US sl.

NOUNS – PERSON
► MODELLER a planner, schemer, contriver → 1790 (Bk.)

PHRASES
► IN CAHOOTS WITH conspiring or planning with someone → 1829 US sl.

VERBS
► AUGUR to plan, to scheme → 1923 Amer. dial.
► BETHINK to devise, to contrive, to plan, to arrange → a1225 obs.
► BLOCK to plan, to devise → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► CALCILATE to calculate; to plan; to intend → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► CAST to put into shape, dispose, arrange, or order; to lay out in order, to plan, to devise → a1300 obs.
► CHALK OUT to sketch out, to plan → 1999  (Bk.)
► CLOCK to plan → 1959 Amer. sl.
► COUNTERDRIFT to plan, plot, or contrive in opposition → 1602 obs.
► CRUMB THE DEAL to spoil a plan or plot → 1974 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► CUT to make ready, to prepare, to plan → 1645 obs.
► ETTLE to plan, to arrange for, to contrive to the greatest advantage; to deal out in small quantities, to use sparingly and stingily → 1843 Eng. dial.
► FANIGLE ► FINAGLE to plot and plan; to conspire; to arrange something → 2006 US sl. (Bk.)
► GET A FIX ON to make a plan of action → 1955 US sl.
► HACK IT OUT ► HACK IT OVER to work out a plan → 1967 Amer. dial.
► HAMMER to devise plans laboriously; to ‘cudgel one’s brains; to debate or deliberate earnestly → 1591 obs.
► HASH UP to work out a plan → 1969 Amer. dial.
► IMAGE to devise, to plan → c1440 obs.
► LAY ABOUT to contrive, to plan, to take measures to do something; to look out or make a search for → a1618 obs.
► LAY IT ON THE LINE to organize, to arrange, to plan → c1930 Brit. sl.
► LAY OFF to plan, to intend → 1843 Amer. dial.
► LAY OUT to intend, to plan, to arrange → 1828 Amer. dial.
► MACHINATE to lay plots; to intrigue; to scheme; to contrive; to plot; to plan → 1600
► MAKE MEDICINE to hold a conference, to plan some action → 1945 US Western usage (Bk.)
► MAKE ONE to put together plans for a crime, esp. a robbery, and then carry out that crime → 1970s UK criminals’ sl.
► MARK to trace out boundaries for; to plot out ground; to set out the ground plan of a building; to plan out, to design → c888 now poetic
► ORDAIN to plan, to devise, to contrive → 1340 obs.
► PRETEND to intend, to plan → a1450 obs.
► PURVEY to arrange in advance; to prepare; to plan → c1300 obs.
► SCHEME ► SCHEME ON to make plans → 1960s sl., orig. African-American
► SUBTLE to scheme, to plan craftily → c1380 obs.
► THINK UP to arrange, to plan, to originate → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TIP THE HOLE CARD to give one’s plans away → 1945 US Western usage (Bk.)
► TRIGGER to scheme, to contrive, to lay plans → 1888 Amer. dial.