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wear
verb- to tolerate or accept something UK, 1925
Originally military. - [H]e wouldn’t “wear the mush [man]”[.] — Butch Reynolds, Broken Hearted Clown, p. 31, 1953
- I made a few attempts at trying to charm the hostesses into initiating us into their legendary “Mile High Club” but they weren’t wearing it. — Dean Cavanagh, Mile High Meltdown (Disco Biscuits), p. 212, 1996
- to use a name US
- So I dug out my purse an shows my cards. Cost me three bills for this man t’make ’em out so’s I can wear my new name. — Robert Gover, JC Saves, p. 125, 1968
▶ wear American gloves
among Canadian military personnel, to have your hands in your pockets CANADA- “Wearing American gloves” while in uniform was considered a practice too casual for proper military decorum, and refers to the American reputation for having a lower standard of military deportment than Canada. “O’Toole! Take off those American gloves!” — Tom Langeste, Words on the Wing, p. 10, 1995
▶ wear buttons
to be extremely gullible US- — John R. Armore and Joseph D. Wolfe, Dictionary of Desperation, p. 22, 1976
▶ wear it
to take the blame, and punishment, for another’s crime UK- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 122, 1996
▶ wear stripes
to serve a prison sentence US- — Vincent J. Monteleone, Criminal Slang, p. 249, 1949
▶ wear the face off
to vigorously French kiss someone IRELAND- I’m getting my first snog off this bird...and I’m wearing the face off her, half my mind wondering what I’m supposed to do with my tongue[.] — Paul Howard, Ross O’Carroll-Kelly, p. 105, 2003
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