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race
verb
▶ race for pink slips (pinks)
in drag racing, to compete for the prize of ownership of the opponent’s car US, 2003
▶ race off
to conduct a person away to some other place for the purpose of seduction AUSTRALIA, 1965- If I meet a girl who’s more interested in girls than boys I’m perfectly ready to be friendly as long as she doesn’t try to race me off. — Sue Rhodes, Now you’ll think I’m awful, p. 106, 1967
- Tom told us you were out somewhere. Said he was going to race us off. — Geoff Wyatt, Saltwater Saints, p. 45, 1969
- That’s one bird you won’t race off. — Wilda Moxham, The Apprentice, p. 87, 1969
- — Arthur Chipper, The Aussie Swearer’s Guide, p. 48, 1972
- — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 76, 1977
- — Sandra Jobson, Blokes, p. 141, 1984
- Cocktail Parties do not start at 9 p.m. and end six hours later in a race to race each other off and/or Park the Tiger. — Ignatius Jones, The 1992 True Hip Manual, p. 65, 1992
- An asbestos removalist, Jim “races the wife off to the bedroom as much as possible”. — Picture, p. 58, 5 February 1992
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