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run
verb- to associate; to socialise US
- I found myself running with a literary ex-pug, a pistol-packing rabbi, and a peewee jockey whose onliest riding crop was a stick of marihuana. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 69, 1946
- Some big Afro-wearin’ gangsters. My dad used to run with ‘em. — Menace II Society, 1993
- to smuggle something UK, 1706
- — American Speech, p. 97, May 1956
▶ run a batch by hand
to masturbate US- Oh, what some of those broads would do to tease you . . . suck tongues, blow in your ear, rub your organ, then send you home to run a batch off by hand. — Robert Byrne, McGoorty, p. 35, 1972
▶ run a pot
in poker, to make a sustained, pre-planned bluff on a hand US- — Albert H. Morehead, The Complete Guide to Winning Poker, p. 272, 1967
▶ run blues
to use blue lights in a car’s tail lights US- — Jennifer Blowdryer, Modern English, 1985
▶ run hot
to drive with sirens and flashing lights activated US- There is in fact, no scientific proof that “running hot”–street slang for operating with lights and siren–saves lives. — USA Today, p. 1A, 21 March 2002
▶ run like a hairy goat
(of a racehorse) to run poorly in a race AUSTRALIA, 1941- When a chosen horse “runs like a hairy goat” both sexes “do their dough”[.] — Nancy Keesing, Lily on the Dustbin, p. 61, 1982
▶ run rings round
to defeat someone with absolute ease UK, 1891- Mr Putin was anything but candid. In fact, he ran rings round the US leader. — The Guardian, 5 July 2001
▶ run speed limit
to do something with great speed US
Hawaiian youth usage.- — Douglas Simonson, Pidgin to da Max Hana Hou, 1982
▶ run the gears
to stab someone in the chest and then to move the kinfe up and down as if shifting gears in a car US- There is little doubt that if the inmate had refused to turn down the radio, the murderer would have, as he said later, “run the gears” – a reference to the most effective of stabbing another human being. — Pete Earley, The Hot House, p. 42, 1992
▶ run to seed
with age or lack of care, to become ill-kempt, shabby or undesirable UK, 1837
The imagery of the garden.- Imagination gone mad, fantasy run to seed. — The Guardian, 30 November 2002
▶ run your mouth
to talk too much US- There was no way to stop the man from running his mouth, from telling one lie after another. — Odie Hawkins, Chicago Hustle, p. 7, 1977
▶ run your neck
to make threats or boasts which you are not prepared to back up with actions US- — Jim Goad, Jim Goad’s Glossary of Northwestern Prison Slang, December 2001
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