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bite the curb en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic, slang) To be curb stomped.
    • Watch out those crazy skinheads! They made someone bite the curb the other night.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bite, the, curb.
    • Having someone bite the curb and kicking him in the back of the head is a painful way to kill someone. Often, as in the movie American History X, it is used as punishment for insubordinate blacks. 2013 November 12, Shehu Sani, Hatred for Black People, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 348:
    • If the horse be in the bad habit of taking the arms of the curb-bit between his teeth (bite the curb), a small strap (lip-strap) may be placed between the arms and through the extra ring on the curb-chain. 1911, Martin Christinius Grimsgaard, Original Handbook for Riders: A Complete Guide to Modern Horsemanship:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
bites the curb Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
biting the curb Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
bit the curb Tense=Past lexicographic
bitten the curb Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic