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bite
noun- a small meal or a snack US, 1899
- Think I’ll go get a bite to eat, then. — Jim Thompson, A Swell-Looking Babe, p. 44, 1954
- I had seen them before, when Brenda and I had gone out for a bite in the afternoon[.] — Philip Roth, Goodbye, Columbus, p. 68, 1959
- “You’re going to have some lunch before you go, aren’t you?” “I’ll get a bite donwtown.” — J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey, p. 117, 1961
- While I grabbed a bite, I called the Naples Cafe, got a number for me to call Art and dialed it. — Mickey Spillane, Me, Hood!, p. 44, 1963
- You wanna grab a bite or something like that? — Manhattan, 1979
- You guys go on inside, get yourselves a bite. — The Blues Brothers, 1980
- the portion of the money bet by gamblers taken as the share for the establishment sponsoring the gambling US
- — George Percy, The Language of Poker, p. 10, 1988
- a price US, 1958
- You want the blue too? The bite is two for fifty slats. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 92, 1969
- — Kenn “Naz” Young, Naz’s Underground Dictionary, p. 15, 1973
- in motor racing, traction between the tyres and track US
- When tires grab the ground, we can say they have bite, too. — Ed Radlauer, Drag Racing Pix Dix, p. 7, 1970
- something that is very disagreeable US
- If they can’t get the car, that’s the way the ball bounces (tough luck) or ain’t that a bite? (too bad). — Newsweek, 8 October 1951
▶ put the bite on
to extort AUSTRALIA, 1919- They put the bite on guys who are afraid to talk or who can’t talk. — Mickey Spillane, Kiss Me Deadly, p. 43, 1952
- And in Denver, in front of the Brown Palace Hotel, I’d put the bite on a big flashy-looking guy for coffee money. — Jim Thompson, Savage Night, p. 25, 1953
- He’ll pop in any minute and put the bite on you, as soon as he has his gymnasts climbing ropes or playing basketball or pulling their dummies. — Evan Hunter, The Blackboard Jungle, 1954
- And don’t get the idea that I’m trying to put a bite on you–Like Goble. — Raymond Chandler, Playback, p. 89, 1958
- I thought I’d pop down to her studio one evening with a view to putting the bite on for some reddy [cash]. — Derek Raymond (Robin Cook), The Crust on its Uppers, p. 31, 1962
- His car had broken down, and he left it in Nygan, and put the bite on me for a lift. — John O’Grady, It’s Your Shout, Mate!, p. 31, 1972
- “Now, if some of you out there are worried about us puttin’ the bite to you, forget it, don’t cost but twenty-five cents to join, and I might add,” he added for emphasis, “if you think of yourself as a black brother, you’ll join.” — Donald Goines, Black Gangster, p. 94, 1977
- I’m not putting in the bite for a lousy quid. — Roy Higgins and Tom Prior, The Jockey Who Laughed, p. 82, 1982
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