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tumble
verb- to discover, to understand, to notice, to realize, to become aware of UK, 1846
- — Joseph E. Ragen and Charles Finston, Inside the World’s Toughest Prison, p. 822, 1962: “Penitentiary and Underworld Glossary”
- Ain’t a chance for their husbands to tumble to what’s going on. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 128, 1969
- I’m not so stupid that I don’t tumble you’re just telling me half of what you know[.] — Ted Lewis, Jack Carter’s Law, p. 7, 1974
- We’ve tumbled you, don’t fuckin’ strong it. — J.J. Connolly, Know Your Enemy, p. 154, 1999
- “You must have known that Sid ... or somebody ... would tumble that you were broke before the picture was finished.” — Wade Hunter, The Sex Peddler, p. 97, 1963
- to have sex with someone UK, 1602
Found in Shakespeare and understood in context if not used heavily today. - Panama would get seriously involved with every passing tramp who tumbled her. — Alexander King, Mine Enemy Grows Older, p. 29, 1958
- Either you’re losing your grip, or you think she’s tood good to tumble. She is, but I’m not! — Jim Thompson, The Grifters, p. 96, 1963
- I’m thinking of what Audrey had said about being barmy carrying on together. I’d had that thought ever since we’d first tumbled[.] — Ted Lewis, Jack Carter’s Law, p. 11, 1974
- There was a girl whom he and I both loved, who actually never tumbled for either of us. — Stephen Gaskin, Amazing Dope Tails, p. 29, 1980
- to get married US
- “I’m getting married as soon as I can get a week off.” “You’re tumbling too?” smiled Serge. — Joseph Wambaugh, The New Centurions, p. 351, 1970
- to seduce into having sex US, 1846
- Just like the louse to forget all the times he had tried to tumble her and how she was almost ready to let him. — Irving Shulman, College Confidential, 1960
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