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  • 41back up — {v.} 1. To move backwards. * /The train was backing up./ 2. To help or be ready to help; stay behind to help; agree with and speak in support of. * /Jim has joined the Boy Scouts and his father is backing him up./ * /The principal backs up the… …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 42back up — {v.} 1. To move backwards. * /The train was backing up./ 2. To help or be ready to help; stay behind to help; agree with and speak in support of. * /Jim has joined the Boy Scouts and his father is backing him up./ * /The principal backs up the… …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 43throw-in — (thrōʹĭn ) n. A play used to restart play in soccer after the ball has gone over the sideline, in which a player on the team not responsbile for putting the ball out of bounds flings the ball with both hands over the head back onto the field. * * …

    Universalium

  • 44throw off — index abandon (relinquish), dispel, emit, repel (drive back) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

    Law dictionary

  • 45throw-in — throw ,in noun count in soccer, an occasion when a player throws the ball back onto the field after it has gone out …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 46throw in your lot with someone — throw in/cast/your lot with someone phrase to decide to support or work with a particular person or group of people Once he had thrown in his lot with the rebels, there was no going back. Thesaurus: to support an idea, plan or personsynonym… …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 47back|cast — «BAK KAST, KAHST», noun. 1. a throw or cast to the rear. 2. the upward and backward motion of the fishing rod, line, and fly or other lure that immediately precedes a cast …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 48back|gam|mon — «noun. BAK GAM uhn, BAK GAM ; verb. BAK GAM uhn», noun, verb. –n. 1. a game for two played on a divided board with 12 spaces on each side. Each player has 15 pieces, which are moved according to the throw of the dice. 2. a victory won in this… …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 49throw — throw1 W1S1 [θrəu US θrou] v past tense threw [θru:] past participle thrown [θrəun US θroun] ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(throw a ball/stone etc)¦ 2¦(put something carelessly)¦ 3¦(push roughly/violently)¦ 4¦(make somebody fall)¦ 5¦(move hands/head etc)¦ 6¦(confuse …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 50throw — 1 verb past threw past participle thrown 1 THROW A BALL/STONE ETC (I, T) to make an object such as a ball move quickly through the air by moving your hand quickly: throw sth at/to/towards etc: Someone threw a stone at the car. | Cromartie throws… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English