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send
verb- to excite someone; to please someone US, 1935
- Albert really sent that audience singing Some Sweet Day. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 26, 1946
- A “solid” driving beat is produced that “sends” the dancers. — William Sansom, A Public for Jive [The Public’s Progress], p. 58, 1947
- “Ross,” the exec said, “is the only officer I know who could really do a job on this. Provided it really sends him.” — William Brinkley, Don’t Go Near the Water, p. 16, 1956
- “Oh, man,” she moaned happily, “this beat does it. Man, it sends me.” — Robert Gover, This Maniac Responsible, p. 84, 1963
- to produce a drug intoxication US
- They are sufficiently strong to “send” the kids. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Chicago Confidential, p. 148, 1950
▶ send a boy to do a man’s work
in poker, to make a small bet with a good hand in the hope of luring players with inferior hands to continue betting US- — American Speech, p. 101, May 1951
▶ send out a salesman
in gin, to discard in a manner that is designed to lure a desired card from an opponent US, 1965- — Irwin Steig, Play Gin to Win, p. 138
▶ send packing
to dismiss someone; to reject someone with immediate effect UK, 1594- [Y]ou will join the ranks of the unemployed and be sent packing back to the ranch. — Michael Moore, Dude, Where’s My Country?, p. 162, 2003
▶ send the little sailor to sea
to have sex US- Another way to say “intercourse” [...] Sending the little sailor to sea[.] — Erica Orloff and JoAnn Baker, Dirty Little Secrets, p. 88, 2001
▶ send to Long Beach
to flush a toilet US
Long Beach is a community to the south of Los Angeles.- Giving her a proper burial, I flushed the commode. As the saying goes, I sent her to Long Beach. — Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice, p. 8, 1968
- — Current Slang, p. 41, Fall 1968
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