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butterfly verb- to engage in promiscuous sex US, 1946
- — American Speech, p. 120, May 1960: “Korean bamboo English”
- — Linda Reinberg, In the Field, p. 31, 1991
- in the gambling game two-up, to toss the coins so that they flutter in the air and appear to be actually spinning AUSTRALIA, 1949
The object of butterflying is to make the coins fall the way the tosser wishes and is consequently illegal in the game. - All school children to be taught from an early age to spin and butterfly pennies. — Frank Hardy and Athol George Mulley, The Needy and the Greedy, 1975
- to leave someone US
- — Linda Reinberg, In the Field, p. 221, 1991
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