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verb- to outsmart someone US, 1929
- But there was something personal about it if the guy was driving down Telegraph grinning, thinking he’d aced him. — Elmore Leonard, Swag, p. 2, 1976
- to work your way somewhere, to engineer something US, 1929
- The scheme is said to have originated among one or more influen-tial groups in San Francisco’s Chinatown, one of which for several years has been acing itself into a favored position with the Nationalist China regime. — San Francisco Call-Bulletin, p. 1, 2 September 1953
- to do well in an examination US, 1957
- — Collin Baker et al., College Undergraduate Slang Study Conducted at Brown University, p. 69, 1968
- You may think that you aced the exam, but then you get back scores only acceptable to a college that advertises in the back of MAD magazine. — Joanne Kimes, Dating Sucks, p. 153, 2005
- to kill someone US, 1975
- Then Amalia told her about the woman’s husband ripping off the Casino Latino with Louis Palo and how Charley had to ace the husband[.] — Richard Condon, Prizzi’s Honor, p. 88, 1982
- — Linda Reinberg, In the Field, p. 1, 1991
- A more likely scenario had the kid getting aced with a gun of his own, a .38 taken off him in a struggle with an arresting officer. — David Simon, Homicide, p. 27, 1991
- Of all the words American troops used to describe death in Vietnam, aced, blown away, bought it, croaked, dinged, fucked up, greased, massaged, porked, stitched, sanitized, smoked, snuffed, terminated, waxed, wiped out, zapped – the one I heard most was “wasted.” — John Laurence, The Cat from Hue, p. 442, 2002
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