释义 |
cackle verb- to chatter; to talk inconsequentially UK, 1530
- [C]ome on lads, we might as well nip down the pub and leave the cackling to the women. — Mark Steel, Reasons to be Cheerful, p. 165, 2001
- to confess and/or to inform on others US
- — Vincent J. Monteleone, Criminal Slang, p. 41, 1949
- as part of a controlled roll of dice, to give them the appearance and sound of being shaken while actually preventing their turning US
- — John S. Salak, Dictionary of Gambling, p. 37, 1963
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