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duke
verb- to fight with fists US, 1935
- I was going down to the A.C. on Thirty-fifth Street, learning how to duke. — Chester Himes, If He Hollers Let Him Go, p. 105, 1945
- Here’s your chance. Come on, let’s see you duke. — Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, p. 368, 1947
- Me and this black kid duked it out after he said, “Let me hold a quarter.” — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 9, 1975
- What am I talking about? I didn’t even drive tonight. You wanna duke it? Let’s go. — Tin Men, 1987
- Oasis’s attitude helps. They’re still a band who choose to duke it out[.] — Q, p. 10, May 2002
- to give US
- Well, let’s try to duke our bet in again. — Joseph Wambaugh, The Blue Knight, p. 144, 1973
- We duked the parking lot attendant a dollar and were soon among the Friday night North Beach throng. — Bill Cardoso, The Maltese Sangweech, p. 202, 1984
- [T]he guy that ran the men’s room would then duke you whatever the doorman had written on a note. — Herbert Huncke, Guilty of Everything, p. 110, 1990
- to allow US
- Maybe I could convince Scarlet to duke me in with this crowd. — Stephen J. Cannell, The Tin Collectors, p. 260, 2001
- to fool; to deceive US
- Lieutenant Finque ain’t trying to duke you into the Oriental community by using you as a part time community relations officer at Japanese luncheons. — Joseph Wambaugh, The Choirboys, p. 92, 1975
- — Don Wilmeth, The Language of American Popular Entertainment, p. 81, 1981
- — Gene Sorrows, All About Carnivals, p. 15, 1985: “All about sorrows”
- to have sex US
- — People Magazine, p. 72, 19 July 1993
- to short-change someone by palming a coin given as part of the change US
- — Don Wilmeth, The Language of American Popular Entertainment, p. 81, 1981
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