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(derogatory) The action of an ambulance chaser.
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(derogatory) To engage in ambulance chasing.
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(juggling) A catch made by bending over forward with one hand between one's legs and catching the prop behind one's buttocks.
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(road transport) A (high-speed) chase between people in two or more cars or other vehicles, normally between the police or other law enforcement and an offender.
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(Britain) A large country estate where game may be shot or hunted.
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(idiomatic) To pursue something illusory, impractical, or impossible.
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(idiomatic) To pursue someone with romantic intentions; to woo.
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(by extension) to investigate the cause of something
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(nautical) A gun moved temporarily from its normal broadside position to fire through the chase ports in the bow or stern of a ship.
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(transitive, idiomatic) To drive someone or something away.
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Alternative form of chase one's tail [(idiomatic) To busily try to perform many tasks or to repeatedly revise one's plans, especially with inefficient use of one's time and limited results.]
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(idiomatic) To busily try to perform many tasks or to repeatedly revise one's plans, especially with inefficient use of one's time and limited results.
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(idiomatic) To pursue unrealistic or fanciful goals.
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(idiomatic) To chase after the promise of a continually fulfilling high from an addictive substance.
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(Britain, New Zealand) To follow up, so as to ensure completion.
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A person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) that chases.
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(Australia) A children's chasing game with multiple players in which one person runs after other players attempting to catch or touch them; a player caught then becomes the new chaser.
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(intransitive) To perform this step.
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(countable) A hunt or pursuit; a chase.
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(transitive, Britain) To pursue as in a hunt.
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Alternative form of chevy [(countable) A hunt or pursuit; a chase.]
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(aviation) To fly an aircraft at low altitude, following the shape of the ground below.
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(transitive) To cause to chase after or pursue game.
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(transitive) To pursue with the intent to catch.
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(Canada and US, ice hockey, idiomatic) To fight.
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A chase or pursuit that takes place on foot (rather than, for example, in vehicles).
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To move into action in pursuit of something.
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(idiomatic, intransitive) To chase or pursue a person.
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To pursue in attempt to catch another.
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(transitive) To hunt something and capture or kill it.
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To pursue, so as to attempt to capture; used with to.
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To pay a penalty to the pool for breaking certain rules or failing to take a trick in lanterloo.
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(transitive) To outrun or overtake.
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(by extension) An administration process involving cross-references between many documents; the following of a paper trail
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(transitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pass, up.
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(also sports, games) In a losing scenario, to take risks in an attempt to regain the lead.
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(figuratively) To make a highly speculative investment or other commitment, or take a wild guess.
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Alternative form of kick into the long grass [(transitive) To postpone action on something.]
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ride, one's, bumper.
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(intransitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, past.
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To begin a chase or hunt for (someone or something).
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(transitive) To set upon; to chase; to attack.
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Alternative form of take one's ball and go home [(figuratively) To cease participating in an activity that has turned to one's disadvantage, especially out of spite, or in a way that prevents others from participating as well.]
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