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chill
verb- to kill someone US
- — Marcus Hanna Boulware, Jive and Slang of Students in Negro Colleges, 1947
- Remember the night Stein got chilled out front? — Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister, p. 247, 1949
- to calm down; to be calm US, 1979
- Chill, brah. You know who this is? — Point Break, 1991
- “Griff,” Todd said, “just chill, man.” — Francesca Lia Block, I Was a Teenage Fairy, p. 109, 1998
- to idle US
- [E]ver since I first sat chilling and rocking to things like John Coltrane’s Africa / Brass[.] — Lester Bangs, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, p. 104, 1972
- All are talking, drinking and chilling. — Boyz N The Hood, p. 67, 1990
- to suddenly slow down while driving after spotting a police car US
- — American Speech, p. 267, December 1962: “The language of traffic policemen”
▶ chill like a megavillain
to relax US
Especially effective in the participle form–“chillin.”- — Surfer Magazine, p. 30, February 1992
▶ chill the beef; chill the rap
to escape prosecution by bribery or intimidation of witnesses US- — Hyman E. Goldin et al., Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, p. 43, 1950
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