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nail
verb- to apprehend; to arrest UK, 1732
- They’d nail him anyhow, so he waited to bluff it out. — Hal Ellson, The Golden Spike, p. 5, 1952
- “Remember our story if we get nailed,” Roy said. — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 48, 1953
- They nailed him two months later shacked up in Seattle with a red-headed whore. — Darryl Ponicsan, The Last Detail, p. 30, 1970
- Nail this guy and make us all look good. — 48 Hours, 1982
- Jimmy Swaggart, a 52-year-old howler from Baton Rouge known in some quarters as “the Mick Jagger of TV evangelism,” got nailed in a nasty little sting operation down in New Orleans[.] — Hunter S. Thompson, Generation of Swine, p. 21, 1988
- I forgot for a minute there it was Gibbs convicted Sonny and nailed you on the dope charge. — Elmore Leonard, Maximum Bob, p. 116, 1991
- And we nailed over a thousand of them. — Point Break, 1991
- And last month Dougie got nailed for fencing stolen goods out of his house. — Janet Evanovich, Seven Up, p. 26, 2001
- to kill UK, 1824
- She’s a Commie pig. We’re going to nail every last one. — Harold and Maude, 1971
- If you can think of a better way for nailing this fucker I’m on for it, believe me. — Chris Ryan, The Watchman, p. 227, 2001
- to have sex US, 1957
- ALLISON: He nailed me. CLAIRE: Very nice. ALLISON: I don’t think that from a legal standpoint what he did can be construed as rape since I paid him. — The Breakfast Club, 1985
- Mary and Robert, married for six years, recounted how Robert first nailed Mary in his car, then just rolled off. — Anka Radakovich, The Wild Girls Club, p. 115, 1994
- Name me one chick in our senior class that Rick Derris didn’t nail, for Christ’s sake. — Chasing Amy, 1997
- I decided not to nail her when she was too drunk to remember it. — Ten Things I Hate About You, 1999
- I wonder if I can nail that dumb bitch. — Marty Beckerman, Death to All Cheerleaders, 2000
- I came home and she was on the kitchen table naked ‘cause she just wanted me to nail her. — The 40 Year-Old Virgin, 2005
- to get right, to master US, 1989
- We’ve never really taken to public speaking, though undoubtedly it is one of those things we simply nail with practice. — Kevin Sampson, Clubland, p. 51, 2002
- (of a wave) to knock a surfer from the surfboard US
Always in the passive voice. - — Gary Fairmont R. Filosa II, The Surfer’s Almanac, p. 190, 1977
▶ nail someone’s bollocks to the door
to physically beat up, to figuratively neuter and mentally defeat UK- You robbed me of my natural sense of humour / And then you nailed my bollocks to the door — Ian Dury, Bed O’ Roses No 9, 1998
▶ nail the core
in the language of hang gliding, to find the centre of a thermal and ride it up US- — Erik Fair, California Thrill Sports, p. 328, 1992
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