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- I(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)v. t. nibble, bite; cut, snip, pinch, chip, shorten; sip. —n. pinch, bite; sip; chill. See deduction, disjunction, contraction, cold, stealing.II(Roget's IV) n. v.III(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus)In.drink, dram, sip, jiggerful, *taste, *swallow, shot, swig, *snort.IIv.bite, nibble, pinch, cut, snip, squeeze.IV(Roget's Thesaurus II) verb Informal. To take alcoholic liquor, especially excessively or habitually: drink, guzzle, imbibe, tipple. Slang: booze, lush2, soak, tank up. Idioms: bend the elbow, hit the bottle. See DRUGS.V(Roget's Thesaurus II) verb 1. To grasp at (something) eagerly, forcibly, and abruptly with the jaws: catch, snap, snatch, strike. See REACH. 2. To spoil or destroy: blast, blight, dash. See HELP. 3. Slang. To take (another's property) without permission: filch, pilfer, purloin, snatch, steal, thieve. Informal: lift, swipe. Slang: cop, heist, hook, pinch, rip off, snitch. Idiom: make (or walk) off with. See CRIMES, GIVE. 4. Chiefly British. To move swiftly: bolt, bucket, bustle, dart, dash, festi-nate, flash, fleet, flit, fly, haste, hasten, hurry, hustle, pelt2, race, rocket, run, rush, sail, scoot, scour2, shoot, speed, sprint, tear1, trot, whirl, whisk, whiz, wing, zip, zoom. Informal: hotfoot, rip. Slang: barrel, highball. Idioms: get a move on, get cracking, go like lightning, go like the wind, hotfoot it, make haste, make time, make tracks, run like the wind, shake a leg, step (or jump) on it. See MOVE.VI(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun Informal. A small amount of liquor: dram, drop, jigger, shot, sip, tot1. Informal: slug1. Slang: snort. See BIG, INGESTION.
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