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light
verb
▶ light a shuck
to depart suddenly, to move fast CANADA, 1903
This phrase is derived from the use of flaming cornhusks for light.- So I lit a shuck back to my regular old pad and jumped into a differ-ent tog. — Bruce Jackson, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, p. 86, 1965
- “You lightin’ a shuck?” “I have to go,” she said. — George Bowering, Caprice, p. 196, 1987
▶ light the rugs
in drag racing, to accelerate in a fashion that makes the tyres smoke US- — John Lawlor, How to Talk Car, p. 69, 1965
- — Lyle K. Engel, The Complete Book of Fuel and Gas Dragsters, p. 152, 1968
▶ light the wienies
in drag racing, to smoke the tyres when the race begins US- — John Lawlor, How to Talk Car, p. 69, 1965
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