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n.
1) to blow; wipe one's ~
2) to pick one's ~
3) an aquiline, Roman; bulbous; pug, snub, turned-up ~
4) a bloody; running, runny ~ (the child has a runny ~)
5) through the ~ (to breathe through the ~)
6) a ~ bleeds; runs
7) ( misc. ) to bury one's ~ in a book ('to become absorbed in a book'); to count ~s ('to count those present'); to cut off one's ~ to spite one's face ('to harm one's own interests'); to lead smb. by the ~ ('to order smb. around'); to pay through the ~ ('to pay an exorbitant price'); to keep one's ~ out of smb. else's business; to poke, stick one's ~ into smb. else's business; to thumb one's ~ at smb. ('to defy smb.'); to keep one's ~ to the grindstone ('to work long and hard'); under smb.'s (very) ~ ('in smb.'s plain sight'); to turn up one's ~ at ('to sneer at'); on the ~( AE ; colloq. ) ('exactly'); a ~ for scandal ('an ability to ferret out scandal'); by a ~ ('by a small margin'); to follow one's ~ ('to go straight forward'); to tweak ('pinch') smb.'s ~
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v.
1) ( colloq. ) ( D ; intr. ) to ~ into (to ~ into smb.'s affairs)
2) ( P ; tr. ) she ~d the car into the street