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rag collapse: a boisterous practical joke (especially by college students); a small piece of cloth or paper; a week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities; break into lumps before sorting; "rag ore"; play in ragtime; "rag that old tune"

backpedal collapse: modify one's opinion, make it less strong; step backwards, in boxing; pedal backwards on a bicycle

have at collapse

make the scene collapse

strike out collapse: set out on a course of action; "He struck out on his own"; put out or be put out by a strikeout; "Oral struck out three batters to close the inning"; make a motion as with one's fist or foot towards an object or away from one's body; be unsuccessful in an endeavor; "The candidate struck out with his health care plan"

eke out collapse: obtain with difficulty; "He eked out some information from the archives"; make by laborious and precarious means; "He eked out a living as a painter"; supplement what is thought to be deficient; "He eked out his meager pay by giving private lessons"; "Braque eked out his collages with charcoal"; live from day to day, as with some hardship; "He eked out his years in great poverty"

chock collapse: a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object; as completely as possible; "it was chock-a-block full"; support on chocks; "chock the boat"; secure with chocks

sail into collapse

put in collapse: make an application as for a job or funding; "We put in a grant to the NSF"; devote (time, effort, etc.) to a task; "He put in three hours every day at the hospital"

break through collapse: penetrate; "The sun broke through the clouds"; "The rescue team broke through the wall in the mine shaft"; pass through (a barrier); "Registrations cracked through the 30,000 mark in the county"

recoup collapse: reimburse or compensate (someone), as for a loss

feign collapse: make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"

turn to collapse: direct one's interest or attention towards; go into; "The pedophile turned to boys for satisfaction"; "People turn to mysticism at the turn of a millennium"

roller skate collapse: a shoe with pairs of rollers fixed to the sole; travel on shoes with steel or rubber rollers attached to their soles; "In some fashionable restaurants, the waiters roller skate around"

ice skate collapse: skate consisting of a boot with a steel blade fitted to the sole; move along on ice skates

damper collapse: a depressing restraint; "rain put a damper on our picnic plans"; a device that decreases the amplitude of electronic, mechanical, acoustical, or aerodynamic oscillations; a movable iron plate that regulates the draft in a stove or chimney or furnace

kick back collapse: spring back, as from a forceful thrust; "The gun kicked back into my shoulder"; pay a kickback; make an illegal payment

four flush collapse

pitch into collapse

stand for collapse: tolerate or bear; "I won't stand for this kind of behavior!"

relent collapse

go through the motions collapse: pretend to do something by acting as if one was really doing it; "She isn't really working--she's just going through the motions"

nail down collapse: succeed in obtaining a position; "He nailed down a spot at Harvard"

make money collapse

make it collapse

atone collapse

get ahead collapse

scrape along collapse: manage one's existence barely; "I guess I can squeeze by on this lousy salary"

requite collapse: make repayment for or return something

sleep with collapse

on the go collapse

sailplane collapse: fly a plane without an engine

on the move collapse

sleigh collapse

pretend collapse: put forward a claim and assert right or possession of; "pretend the title of King"

underestimate collapse: an estimation that is too low; an estimate that is less than the true or actual value; make too low an estimate of; "he underestimated the work that went into the renovation"; "Don't underestimate the danger of such a raft trip on this river"

make advances collapse

aboard collapse: on first or second or third base; "Their second homer with Bob Allison aboard"; on a ship, train, plane or other vehicle; part of a group; "Bill's been aboard for three years now"; side by side; "anchored close aboard another ship"

go to it collapse

beg leave collapse

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