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cry off en · VERB
Pronunciation
Meanings
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(ambitransitive) To cancel something previously arranged with someone.
Sorry, but I have to cry off the game on Saturday, as my mother-in-law is coming to visit.
"I—I am very sorry, Mr Carrados," stammered the curate, "but, after all, I am afraid that I must cry off. This week—"
"If the distance takes up too much of your time, may I send a car?"
1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:
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(intransitive) To leave.
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(intransitive, slang) To confess; to snitch or inform on (someone).
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Synonyms
beg off