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dip out verb- to come off worse; to miss out on an opportunity; to fail UK
- — Nigel Foster, The Making of a Royal Marine Commando, 1987
- to back out of AUSTRALIA, 1952
- — John Wynnum, Tar Dust, p. 32, 1962
- Dip out now, and you’ll wait three weeks. — John Wynnum, Jiggin’ in the Riggin’, p. 23, 1965
- — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 29, 1977
- (used of a member of crack cocaine-selling crew) to remove small amounts of crack from the vials for sale, for later personal use US
- — US Department of Justice Street Terms, October 1994
- on a bird-watching trip, to fail to see the object of the quest UK
- [W]e nearly dipped out when two water authority men walked past in the open and sent the birds up. — New Society, 17 November 1977
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