Pound

  • 61pound —   1. To strike. Ku i.   Also: ho oku i, ku i pehi, hāku i, pāku i, āku i, kīmō, kīmōmō, kīpō, kīkēkē; kāpa i (as a masseur); āpohopoho, lumi (as surf); ho ohāhā, pākī, pāluku; luluā ina (as sea urchins); ku ikā (smooth).    ♦ Pounded by the sea,… …

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  • 62pound — tv. to drink something quickly. (See also pound a beer.) □ Dan said he could pound the cup of coffee in thirty seconds. □ You don’t have to pound your milk. Take your time …

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  • 63pound — see in for a penny, in for a pound an ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves penny wise and pound foolish …

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  • 64pound up — verb shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits The prisoners are safely pounded • Syn: ↑pound • Derivationally related forms: ↑poundage (for: ↑pound) • Hypernyms: ↑ …

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  • 65pound — 1. noun /paʊnd/ a) Short for pound force, a unit of force/weight. b) A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 37 g) Syn: lb, lb t, £, pound sterling, punt …

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  • 66pound — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 measure of weight 2 money {{Roman}}II.{{/Roman}} verb Pound is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑blood, ↑ear, ↑fist, ↑foot, ↑footstep, ↑head, ↑heart, ↑music, ↑rain, ↑ …

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  • 67pound — When two people make a fist turned on its side and each person taps the other persons fist one on top of the other. Used when someone does something good his/her friend would give him/her a pound. Yo! I heard you are got an A on that test. Give… …

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  • 68pound — When two people make a fist turned on its side and each person taps the other persons fist one on top of the other. Used when someone does something good his/her friend would give him/her a pound. Yo! I heard you are got an A on that test. Give… …

    Dictionary of american slang

  • 69pound — £ 1) The standard monetary unit of the UK, divided into 100 pence. It dates back to the 8th century AD when Offa, King of Mercia, coined 240 pennyweights of silver from 1 pound of silver. When sterling was decimalized in 1971 it was divided into… …

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  • 70pound — I verb 1) the two men pounded him with their fists Syn: beat, strike, hit, batter, thump, pummel, punch, rain blows on, belabor, hammer, thrash, set on, tear into; informal bash, clobber, wallop, beat the living daylights out of …

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