v
To circumvent rules, regulations, or conventions, usually by finding loopholes.
v
(US, slang) To bet everything; to have total reliance or confidence in something.
v
(figuratively) To take money from someone until they have none.
v
(reflexive, idiomatic) To reveal that one has fabricated or deliberately misrepresented one's own behavior, situation, or identity for an ulterior motive.
v
(idiomatic) To engage in an honorable fight.
v
(UK, slang, obsolete) To borrow money.
v
(slang, intransitive) To abandon someone without warning.
v
(idiomatic, of something valuable) To cause someone to spend money or be tempted to spend money.
v
(US) To expend more money or effort in gaining something than it is worth.
v
(dated) To have an orgasm.
v
(idiomatic) To make a big fuss, generate a lot of unnecessary talk or activity; make a scene.
v
(figuratively) To earn, or embezzle, a percentage of a profit.
v
To settle for less when money (or resources) is tight.
v
To celebrate a person's death or downfall triumphantly.
v
(Canada) To avoid, go around, or dodge an object, person, or conversation topic; often by using trickery.
v
(Britain, slang) To fake one's own suicide.
v
Alternative form of eat out of someone's hand [(idiomatic) To behave in a docile, submissive way towards someone.]
v
(computing, slang) To use products or services one is selling internally, in order to understand their limitations.
v
(idiomatic) To behave in a docile, submissive way towards someone.
v
(idiomatic) To get revenge against someone.
v
(dated, idiomatic) To embrace someone affectionately or thankfully.
v
Alternative form of fall on someone's neck [(dated, idiomatic) To embrace someone affectionately or thankfully.]
v
Alternative form of feather one's nest [(idiomatic) To achieve benefits, especially financial ones, by taking advantage of the opportunities with which one is presented; to amass a comfortable amount of personal wealth.]
v
(idiomatic, informal) To suffer a hardship, especially significant financial pressure.
v
(slang, transitive) dismiss; fob off; put off by evasion
v
(slang) To excite in order to try to achieve a desired result.
v
(transitive, slang) To experience someone or something, especially by looking or listening.
v
(slang) To engage in a fight.
v
(intransitive, slang, UK) To kiss; to smooch.
v
(slang) To pay for the privilege to do business with people at special events.
v
(transitive, dated, colloquial) To eat or drink.
v
(idiomatic, Britain) To dedicate a large amount of effort towards.
v
(Appalachia, Southern US, African-American Vernacular) To get, begone.
v
(colloquial) To put up a good fight against someone.
v
(chiefly US, idiomatic) To sentence a person to execution by means of the electric chair.
adv
(idiomatic) Quickly or in great quantity, especially in reference to earning money.
v
(idiomatic, by extension) To destroy; to defeat utterly.
v
(slang) To spend time with; to hang out with; to socialize with.
v
(Britain, informal) Used as a fatuous excuse to avoid doing something.
v
(slang) To visit a gym in order to exercise.
v
Alternative form of put a gun to someone's head [(idiomatic) To compel someone (to do something); to create a situation in which someone has no alternative course of action.]
adj
(idiomatic, derogatory) Receiving money from, and under the influence of, a person or group of people, with the expectation that a favour or advantage will be proffered in return.
v
(Australia, New Zealand, UK, idiomatic) Alternative form of kick the tires [(idiomatic, colloquial) To inspect something to ensure it meets expected standards or has favored characteristics, typically before committing to purchasing or otherwise selecting it.]
v
(idiomatic) To seek short-term gain at the sacrifice of long-term profit.
v
(transitive, idiomatic) to dismiss casually
v
(slang) To find oneself in fortunate circumstances.
v
(money) To disguise the source of (ill-gotten wealth) by various means.
v
(transitive, colloquial) To scold or berate.
v
(idiomatic) To attack a group, or the world in general, with great force.
v
(idiomatic) to take money from someone.
v
(idiomatic) To accumulate personal wealth, especially in an illegal or morally objectionable manner.
v
(idiomatic) To commit a murder in order to be respected in a criminal gang.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To send out.
v
(idiomatic, informal) To profit greatly; to get an excessively good deal
v
(transitive) To assault or beat up a person.
v
(transitive, Australia, New Zealand, informal) To find a solution (for something), especially in a group discussion; also, to work out the finer details (of something).
v
Eye dialect spelling of palm off. [(idiomatic) To sell or dispose of (something) with the intent to deceive; to attempt to pass off a counterfeit or inferior product as genuine.]
v
(UK, slang) To put or give away.
n
(figuratively) A profitable area or period; success.
v
(idiomatic) To act rough and ruthless, especially in politics or business.
v
Alternative form of play with edge-tools [To deal carelessly with dangerous matters.]
v
(idiomatic, transitive, obsolete) To receive (an insult, an affront, etc.) without open resentment, or without seeking redress.
v
(slang) To perform extremely well (in a video game or other activity).
v
(idiomatic, obsolete) To extract money from someone (by taking out a loan or by swindling).
v
(UK, slang, archaic) To scupper someone's plans.
v
(slang, transitive) To attack a person as a group or gang.
v
(idiomatic) To say or imply that someone has made a statement or remark which they did not precisely or directly make.
v
(figuratively, colloquial) to receive or to collect a large quantity of (something, especially money)
v
(Australia, slang) To reject or eject; to get rid of.
n
(idiomatic) The means of one's own punishment or downfall.
v
(idiomatic) To act in a haphazard or aimless way; to act frantically or without control.
v
To pursue a course of action that will lead to self-destruction.
n
(figuratively) A victory, especially at the expense of someone else.
v
(idiomatic) To abandon one's spiritual values or moral principles for wealth or other benefits.
n
Alternative form of send-up [A satirical imitation of a work of art or a genre.]
v
(idiomatic, Of an unpleasant event) To happen to someone who is thought to deserve it.
n
Alternative spelling of shakedown [(slang) Extortion, especially through blackmail]
v
(hyperbolic, figuratively) Go to great lengths to save or gain something, particularly money.
v
(idiomatic) To suddenly lose a contest one seemed very likely to win, especially through mistakes or bad judgment.
v
(idiomatic) To suddenly win a contest when it appears that loss is a foregone conclusion, to succeed in an endeavor through reversal of fortune, skill, effort, or good judgment.
v
(transitive, Britain, slang) To attack physically.
v
To frustrate a person's efforts or designs; to undercut, to render helpless.
v
(idiomatic) To betray (somebody).
v
(idiomatic) To detract from someone's accomplishments or glory; to undermine.
v
(UK, law enforcement, slang) To charge someone with an offence.
v
(figuratively, informal) To have sudden good fortune, especially financially.
v
(intransitive) To avoid work, especially by pretending to be ill; to shirk, to malinger.
v
(dated) To check someone or give them a curt answer.
n
(idiomatic) Alternative form of the straw that broke the camel's back [(idiomatic) A small and seemingly insignificant addition to a burden that renders it too much to bear; the small thing which causes failure, or causes inability or unwillingness to endure any more of something.]
v
(idiomatic) To delude or deceive someone.
v
(idiomatic) To spend money foolishly or indiscriminately; to waste money without regard of the consequences.
v
(idiomatic) To steal, especially by surreptitiously removing an unguarded item.
v
(idiomatic, transitive) To obtain or extract, especially by cunning methods.
v
(idiomatic, gangster slang) To take one's share from the financial proceeds of illicit activity.
v
To obtain (something from or out of someone or something) by force.
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