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collar
verb- to grab someone by the collar, literally or figuratively; to arrest someone UK, 1613
- We collared everybody on campus; we applied all possible pressures. — Max Shulman, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, p. 34, 1951
- And being a girl, I supposed they figured they’d collar me. — James Mills, The Panic in Needle Park, p. 101, 1966
- I’m going to collar the rats who operate this ring or else! — The Sweeney, p. 29, 1976
- Didn’t I tell you, when I collared you, your next step was going to be the place where they’re so concerned about whether you get nightmares, that they keep guards around all night? — George V. Higgins, The Rat on Fire, p. 178, 1981
- He didn’t look like a guy who shot alligators or collared offenders. — Elmore Leonard, Maximum Bob, p. 94, 1991
- The geezer said if we’re collared doing anything untoward in the firm’s uniform, that was it–curtains. — Martin King and Martin Knight, The Naughty Nineties, p. 53, 1999
- I was sober when I was collared[.] — Danny King, The Burglar Diaries, p. 148, 2001
- to appropriate something; to steal something UK, 1700
- [H]e slipped from the mess tent, collaring a bottle of rum as he went. — Chris Ryan, The Watchman, p. 63, 2001
- to understand something, to grasp something US, 1938
- I began to collar that all the evil I ever found came from ounce-brain white men who hated Negroes and me both, while all the good things in life came to me from the race. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 44, 1946
- in horse racing, to run neck and neck US
- — David W. Maurer, Argot of the Racetrack, p. 21, 1951
- (from a male perspective) to have sex AUSTRALIA
A shortening of HOP INTO THE HORSECOLLAR- — Barry Humphries, Bazza Pulls It Off!, 1971
▶ collar a hot
to eat a meal US- — Marcus Hanna Boulware, Jive and Slang of Students in Negro Colleges, 1947
▶ collar the jive
to understand what is being said US- — Marcus Hanna Boulware, Jive and Slang of Students in Negro Colleges, 1947
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