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(UK, Ireland, informal, childish) To declare or stake one's claim on an object or concept.
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(transitive, UK dialectal, Yorkshire) To lay hold on; seize; grasp; catch; clutch.
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(transitive) To hang round or about, as ornament or embellishment; suspend; drape.
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(obsolete, transitive, UK dialectal) To test; examine; make a trial of; prove.
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(transitive, dialectal or archaic) To catch, capture; seize.
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(Now chiefly dialectal) A receiver.
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Synonym of hands in the cookie jar
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(African-American Vernacular, obsolete) Pronunciation spelling of fetch. [To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.]
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Alternative form of catch a Tartar [(archaic, colloquial) To discover someone is much stronger, much more dangerous, and/or much more violent than they appeared at first, especially after laying hands on them or (cant, obsolete) in a failed attempt to rob someone who turns out to be a stronger robber.]
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(transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To draw or take in.
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(rare or obsolete) To take off the cap by way of obeisance or salutation.
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(idiomatic, vulgar, imperative) A rude and vulgar directive requesting someone to take a seat.
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(Britain, Australia, slang) To maliciously or dishonestly incriminate someone; to set up (in the sense trap or ensnare)
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(chiefly US, colloquial, idiomatic, somewhat vulgar) To be brave; to show some courage, especially in a situation where one has so far failed to do so.
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(idiomatic) An act of bias or a tactic for cheating which creates a situation that unfairly benefits one party involved in an interaction.
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(obsolete, transitive, UK dialectal) To seize hold of.
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(transitive) To deprive of fangs.
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(rare, obsolete) That which was captured or caught on the previous day or former occasion; a previous day's catch.
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