v
(informal, transitive) To throw out; discard.
v
(intransitive, aviation, slang) To eject.
v
To easily overcome or go around a safeguard or limit.
v
(transitive, figuratively, by extension) To arrange a situation so as to exclude (someone).
v
(intransitive) To escape, especially forcefully or defiantly.
v
(US, idiomatic, finance, of a money-market fund) Fall below the value of one dollar per share.
v
(Singapore, colloquial, informal) To discard or throw something out.
v
(informal, intransitive) To escape (from); break out.
n
(Australia) Something fitting or occurring at a specified point in a series.
v
(sports, idiomatic) During a one-sided sports contest, to remove the first-string unit of a team from the game after dominating the opponent.
v
To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
n
(slang, humorous) The removal of all of a person's money, usually by voluntary means.
v
(transitive, idiomatic) to discard
v
(transitive) To discard or reject something.
v
(transitive, informal) To discard, to throw away.
v
(transitive, informal) To discard, or throw away.
v
(informal) To evict someone, e.g. from a form of transport, perhaps for unruly behaviour, or because the final destination has been reached.
v
(slang, transitive); To drive out; to turn out (somebody).
v
(slang, archaic) To be released from prison.
v
(of a customer) To stop using a company's product or service.
v
(transitive, informal) To produce a large quantity of (something) rapidly and easily.
v
(informal) To leave abruptly.
v
(transitive) To be victorious in gambling against (someone).
v
(obsolete, transitive) To throw.
v
(informal) To be eliminated.
v
(transitive, sometimes figuratively) To force to leave by crowding; to push out or away through strength of numbers.
v
(idiomatic) To make a display of oneself; to give a conspicuous impression.
v
(US, idiomatic) To reduce bureaucracy.
v
(transitive) To toss (aside); to dismiss.
v
(intransitive, informal) To leave or depart.
v
(transitive) To send (a person or message) for free.
v
(military, of a body of soldiers) To enter into battle.
v
(chiefly military) To get off a bus.
v
(idiomatic) To discard, get rid of, or cancel; to completely put an end to something.
v
(intransitive, US, slang) To decamp; to leave a place hastily.
v
(idiomatic, transitive) To save someone or something from trouble.
v
(transitive, colloquial) To fire or reject.
v
(intransitive, card games) To make a discard; to throw out a card.
v
(transitive, soccer) To give someone a red card; to send off.
v
(transitive) To throw into a ditch.
v
(obsolete) Alternative spelling of do off [(obsolete) To take off (clothing).]
v
(obsolete) To take off (clothing).
v
(idiomatic) get rid of, destroy permanently or stop talking about
v
(idiomatic) to push or to pull, i.e. to force, (someone or something) out of somewhere
v
(simile, transitive, informal) To get rid of or stop doing as quickly as possible.
v
(idiomatic, intransitive) To depart quickly or exit abruptly, especially in a manner which does not attract notice and before a meeting, event, etc. has concluded.
v
(transitive) To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants.
v
(informal, transitive) To discard, to throw away, to toss out.
v
(colloquial) To throw out; to discard.
v
(US, transitive) To compel (a sports player) to leave the field because of inappropriate behaviour.
n
(physics) A particle that is emitted during a reaction, typically the lighter reaction product in a two-body reaction.
n
Someone who is eliminated, especially from a reality show
v
(idiomatic, US, euphemistic) Of an item of merchandise, to come into a person's possession without having been paid for; to be acquired illegally; to have been stolen.
v
(military, intransitive, literally) To leave one's place in the current formation of ranks in order to take one's place in a new formation.
v
(fandom slang, idiomatic) To remove the copyrighted elements from an existing work of fan fiction so that it may be commercially published as original fiction.
v
To throw out, throw away.
v
(intransitive, idiomatic, of a product) To be sold in large quantities, very rapidly.
v
To get rid off (something unwanted) by giving it to someone else.
adj
(archaic) Tossed up; tossed about.
v
(idiomatic, intransitive) to diverge into two or more separate paths.
v
(transitive) To throw off; cast off; reject.
v
(informal, transitive) To consume (eat or drink).
v
(transitive, informal, by extension) To obtain an advantage over another person, by acting before that person.
v
(intransitive) To fire, especially accidentally.
v
(informal, transitive) To throw something out.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To cast or throw; used with on.
v
To rush out, to sally forth.
v
(figuratively) To let go or get rid of as being useless or defective.
n
A separation from a groove, track, etc., that otherwise constrains motion.
v
(idiomatic) To stop, stall, or disconnect suddenly.
v
(idiomatic) To assemble something quickly; to knock up.
v
(transitive) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.
v
(transitive, idiomatic) To deal with or overcome (someone or something) quickly and without difficulty.
v
(transitive, Singapore, Philippines) To switch off.
v
(transitive) to cast off; shed.
n
The act of throwing off; (by extension) liberation
adv
Elaborated form of one's socks off.
v
(intransitive) To fling outward.
v
(figuratively, by extension) To end a relationship; to pursue a certain choice, course of action, etc. in a way that alienates or reduces communication with a partner.
v
(informal) To leave or exit a location or a vehicle in large numbers.
v
(intransitive, car racing) To leave the pits and go out onto the race track
v
To thrust away, or put off promptly.
v
(intransitive, slang) To depart suddenly; to "take a powder".
v
(figuratively) To cause an event or events to occur, especially in someone's benefit or favour; to make something happen.
v
(intransitive, idiomatic, often with “the” or a possessive adjective (such as “his”) before “strings”, pull one's strings) To control a person, organization, or situation by operating behind the scenes, as a puppeteer controls a marionette.
v
Alternative form of pull out of the fire [(transitive, idiomatic) To save from impending failure, destruction, or defeat.]
v
Alternative form of pull the rug out from under [(idiomatic) To suddenly remove support from.]
v
(idiomatic) To suddenly remove support from.
v
(intransitive, aviation) To eject from an airplane.
v
(colloquial, transitive) To eject; to kick out of a place.
v
(idiomatic) To ascribe; to assume to be the cause of a situation.
v
(sports) To knock out: to eliminate from a competition.
v
(chiefly UK, idiomatic) To terminate; to cancel (plans or expectations); to stop something once and for all.
v
(idiomatic, transitive) to expel the holder of an office or other position by means of rigging the election.
v
(transitive) To release (a product) quickly.
v
(idiomatic, especially military, of a fighting person, unit, or vehicle) To make one's opponent pay a very high price to defeat or obtain (a person, unit, vehicle, or territory).
v
(idiomatic, sports) To remove a player from a particular team competition before the conclusion of the event, especially because that player's contribution on this occasion has been below his or her expected level of performance.
v
(New Zealand, transitive) To move (sheep who have lambed) to better pasture.
v
(informal, idiomatic) To disclose some information that was supposed to be secret.
v
(figuratively, journalism) To discard; to decide not to publish or make public.
v
(idiomatic) To begin rapidly.
v
To eject; to throw onto the streets.
v
(intransitive, colloquial, figuratively) To fail; to be refused a request or to have a proposal not be accepted, in particular a request for a (hopefully romantic) date.
v
(intransitive, colloquial, figuratively) To fail while giving little effort.
v
(transitive, idiomatic) to remove someone from a place (where they are not wanted)
v
(informal) To reject or discard something.
v
To arrest someone or to place them in detention.
v
(intransitive, slang, dated) To take drugs; to inject drugs.
v
(colloquial) To win a sporting event, competition, premiership, etc.
v
(idiomatic) To announce something, hoping it will not get much publicity, at a time when it is not likely to be noticed by the news media, for instance on election day or late on Friday afternoon before a holiday weekend.
n
(slang) A taking down: the arrest of a suspect by a police officer.
v
(transitive) To relieve a person of duty, such as a casino worker or wrestler in a tag-team match.
v
(transitive) To eject or cause to fall off.
v
(transitive, idiomatic) to discard.
v
(transitive) To discard (trash, garbage, or the like), to toss out, to put in the trash, to dispose of.
v
(transitive) throw aside; discard
v
(figuratively or symbolically) To go on strike.
v
(transitive, archaic) To inject, as a fluid.
v
(idiomatic) To introduce errors or inaccuracies; to skew.
v
(idiomatic) To offer an idea for consideration.
v
Alternative form of throw the baby out with the bathwater [(idiomatic) To discard, especially inadvertently, something valuable while in the process of removing or rejecting something unwanted.]
v
(transitive) To discard or give up (a plan or project, etc.).
v
(idiomatic) To discard, especially inadvertently, something valuable while in the process of removing or rejecting something unwanted.
v
Synonym of draw the long bow (“to exaggerate; to tell tall tales”)
v
(idiomatic) To throw away as useless.
v
(idiomatic) To discard or dispense with, especially in an abrupt or reckless manner.
v
(idiomatic) To remove or cast out someone or something out of one's protection, such as onto the streets, especially towards predators.
v
(idiomatic, transitive, of a thing, idea, etc.) To discard or disown.
n
An item that is thrown out to an audience or crowd, usually for dramatic effect.
n
Something temporary and disposable.
n
(US, accounting) A practice to avoid untaxed nowhere income by instead assuming the untaxed transaction is taxed in the originating state in a notional proportion to other taxable transactions.
v
(transitive) To dump (refuse).
v
(informal, transitive) To discard; to throw away.
v
(transitive) To deliver in an offhand manner.
v
(transitive, informal) To throw away; to get rid of; to dispose of (something, especially food that has gone bad).
v
(informal, transitive) To expel, eject, or throw out; to turf out.
v
(transitive, informal, usually of a person) To remove or eject from a place.
v
To throw a pass that falls short of the receiver. (May take either the thrown pass or the receiver as its direct object.)
v
(intransitive) To be tossed up.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To send or put (something) out.
n
(education, informal, attributive) A class that is difficult or requires a lot of effort, and thus may cause less able or less dedicated students to drop out.
v
(idiomatic, often derogatory) To employ or bring out (something predictable or perennial).
v
(transitive, idiomatic) to rapidly remove.
v
(transitive, informal) To exhaust; to tire out.
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