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come across
verb- (generally of a woman) to take part in sexual intercourse AUSTRALIA
- [B]ecause he’s bought you three meat pies, and two seats at the movies, and you haven’t come across, you’re suddenly a waste of time. — Sue Rhodes, Now you’ll think I’m awful, p. 98, 1967
- By cripes if she doesn’t come across after the show tonight the Pope’s a Jew. — Barry Humphries, The Wonderful World of Barry McKenzie, p. 19, 1968
- Starve the lizards! No doubt about you sheilas. I mean, one minute you’re coming across, now you’re not! — The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, 1972
- “I have a job for you.... Will you come across?” “Don’t I always?“ — Kings Cross Venus, p. 20, 1 November 1972
- to have sex as the result of persuasive insistence US, 1921
- He had gone dancing there a week ago, picked up a dame, shot her a line, and she had come across. — James T. Farrell, The Life Adventure, p. 182, 1947
- “Yeah,” another one agreed, “a babe would have to come across to ride in that car with me.” — Irving Shulman, The Amboy Dukes, p. 52, 1947
- Jazz groupies in those days came across as weird but did not necessarily come across. — Larry Rivers, What Did I Do?, p. 50, 1992
- [I]f Mel hadn’t of come across with the goods when she did[.] — Danny King, The Burglar Diaries, p. 29, 2001
- to agree to become an informer US
- You’d better realize that if you come across, you’ve got to come across all the way; we don’t want to hear anything from you that isn’t true just because you think we’d like to hear it. — Leonard Shecter and William Phillips, On the Pad, p. 50, 1973
- to give the appearance of having a specified characteristic UK
- [H]e always come across like he was half-bevvied [drunk]. — Kevin Sampson, Clubland, p. 112, 2002
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