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coat
verb- to belittle someone, to defeat someone with words UK
From the sense “to reprimand someone.” - Woodsy [a comedian] spent five minutes just coating ‘im [a heckler] until everyone in the place was crying with laughter. — Colin Butts, Is Harry on the Boat?, p. 93, 1997
- He [...] coated all the nonces and wrong uns. — Noel “Razor” Smith, A Rusty Gun, p. 49, 2010
- to reprimand someone, especially of a warder reprimanding a prisoner UK
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 38, 1996
- to ostracise someone AUSTRALIA
- — Jim McNeil, The Chocolate Frog [and] The Old Familiar Juice, 1973
- in tournament pool, to obscure the view of the tournament judge when making a shot, thus jeopardising the point US, 1972
- — Mike Shamos, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Billiards, p. 1972, 1993
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