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cross someone's palm with silver en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of cross someone's palm.
    • As we drove off I was inclined to ask myself, a little bitterly — and perhaps unjustly — if it were not characteristic of the average London policeman to almost forget the most important part of his information, — at any rate to leave it to the last and only to bring it to the front on having his palm crossed with silver. 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:

Forms

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crossing someone's palm with silver Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
crosses someone's palm with silver Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
crossed someone's palm with silver Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
crossed someone's palm with silver Tense=Past lexicographic