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scream verb- to complain US
- — Inez Cardozo-Freeman, The Joint, p. 528, 1984
- to inform the police or prison authorities UK, 1903
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 102, 1996
- To give him his due, he never screamed, but I think he was well pleased to see me shipped off to Brixton [prison] later on. — Lenny McLean, The Guv’nor, p. 211, 1998
▶ scream like Tarzan; scream like ten Tarzans to shout loudly TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 1989- — Lise Winer, Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003
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