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read
verb- in poker, to try to discern an opponent’s hand US
- — John Scarne, Scarne’s Guide to Modern Poker, p. 288, 1979
- in sports, to anticipate an opponent’s movement US
- [A] linebacker has to “read” before he reacts[.] — Dan Jenkins, Life Its Ownself, p. 108, 1984
- in transsexual usage, to detect a person’s genetic sex US, 1987
- & — Maledicta, p. 173, Summer/Winter 1986–1987: “Sexual slang: prostitutes, pedophiles, flagellators, transvestites, and necrophiles”
▶ read a shirt
to look for signs of body lice US- — Don Wilmeth, The Language of American Popular Entertainment, 1981
▶ read between the lines
said when three fingers are raised in an insolent gesture UK, 2005
The index finger is the one “between the lines”; this is, therefore, a catchphrased elaboration of a familiar insulting gesture. Reported by a variety of mothers in Cardiff and Bristol during April 2005 and generally credited to 8-year-old children.▶ read (someone) the riot act
to give someone a very stern lecture or reprimand UK
From a law enacted by George I limiting the activities of groups of 12 or more.- What I can’t understand is why a man with a high temper like yourself wouldn’t at least take the opportunity to go over there and tell this goniff what you just told me. Read him the fucking riot act. — Robert Campbell, Boneyards, 1992
▶ read the riot act
to instruct a prisoner who is about to be released on the legal restrictions concerning firearms UK
From the sense “to give someone a very stern lecture or reprimand”.- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, 1996
▶ you wouldn’t read about it
you wouldn’t believe such bad luck! AUSTRALIA, 1950- So they took bloody Tobruk without me, eh? Those Grey Caps and Bludgers! You wouldn’t read about it would you? — George Johnston, My Brother Jack, 1964
- — Frank Hardy, The Yarns of Billy Borker, 1965
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