amazon

noun

1. (Greek)A member of a mythical race of female warriors inhabiting the Black Sea area.

   “When, therefore, one envisions a matriarchy, one should not conjure up visions of a gang of Amazons lopping off breasts and testicles to rule by force of arms.”

2. A female warrior.

   “In some parts of Africa, Asia, and South America, amazon cultures still existed during the Middle Ages, such as that ruled by Queen Nzingha in Angola, who led her amazon army against the Portuguese in a series of wars during the first half of the seventeenth century. In Dahomey also in traditionally gynarchal West Africa, the army was made up of amazons even through the nineteenth century.”

3. A tall, strong, or athletic woman.
4. Any of the large parrots from the genus Amazona.
5. A tall, strong, athletic woman.

   “Although the evidence for real Amazons is thin, women athletes are often dubbed amazons.”

6. A fairy chess piece which combines the moves of the queen and the knight.

   “In Triple-guard promotion chess (GPJ) a pawn newly triple-guarded by pieces other than pawns promotes to the combined value of the guarding pieces. Thus after b3 in the opening position a3 promotes to amazon, R+B+N, from triple guard by Ra1, Nb1, Bc1.”

   “The amazon is simply a queen-knight hybrid, capable of moving as either piece.”

7. An amazon parrot.
8. A position for vaginal sex in which the insertive partner lies on their back with their knees pulled back, and the receptive partner, facing the other person, squats onto the penis.

name

1. (attributive, sometimes)A river in South America, that flows through Brazil for about 4000 miles to the Atlantic.
2. (attributive, sometimes)A region including much of this river; specifically, the region of the Amazon Rainforest, or of the Amazon River Basin.

   “Amazon milk frog”

   “In February, a young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe in Brazil made brief contact with the outside world before returning to the Amazon rainforest.”

3. Amazon.com Inc., a very large Internet retailer.

   “Google is one of several Big Tech firms that has made an aggressive push into gaming in recent years, along with Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL) and Facebook (FB).”

verb

1. (transitive)To overwhelm or obliterate, in the context of an Internet start-up vastly outperforming its brick and mortar competition.

   “Those who hesitate risk being "amazoned," forfeiting business to an Internet newcomer, in the way that bookstore chains have lost ground to Amazon.com Inc., the online bookseller.”

   “Venture capitalists' desks are thick with business plans promising ‘we're going to Amazon the insurance/travel/property business...’”

   “Take the example of MetalSite.com, which is owned by steel companies. The steel companies aren't getting "Amazoned" by a start-up but, rather, they are doing the "Amazoning" within their own industry.”

   “Amazon.com may soon be "amazoning" a few more industries.”

   “Gone are the days when they agonized about being "Amazoned", or blind-sided by a dot-com ....”

2. (transitive)To order (something) on Amazon.

   “[…] “There are people who Uber everywhere, who Seamless everything, who Amazon everything, and render their lives completely smooth.””