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chisel
verb- to cheat UK, 1808
- And he was proud of his chiseling. He felt the crisp five-dollar bill in his pocket. — James T. Farrell, Saturday Night, p. 18, 1947
- Can you imagine people that can afford to drive thirty- and forty-thousand-dollar cars chiseling an insurance company for five hundred bucks? — Gerald Petievich, To Die in Beverly Hills, p. 209, 1983
- Serenity never tried to chisel her girls and wouldn’t stand for it in return. — Joseph Wambaugh, Floaters, p. 13, 1996
- to place small, conservative bets US
- — The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, p. 122, May 1950
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