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pound salt en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To grind salt crystals into powder using a mortar and pestle or similar device.
  2. Synonym of pound sand.
    • I was so mad I had a good mind to tell them to go pound salt. 2007, Joseph L. Aiello, Rightsizing Inventory, page 367:
    • But instead of telling her to go pound salt, I realize, as Yogi Berra might say, you can hear a lot just by listening. 2007, William Edgar Schmickle, The Politics of Historic Districts, page 74:
    • He still persisted and, at that point, I guess, being born and raised in New York City, I had had enough of him and I said, 'Hey, you can go pound salt.' 1987, Charles R. Ashman, Pamela Trescott, Diplomatic Crime, page 278:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
pounded salt Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
pounded salt Tense=Past lexicographic
pounds salt Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
pounding salt Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Synonyms

pound sand