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put the cabosh on en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of put the kibosh on.
    • Nicholson's reputation with the ladies apparently put the cabosh on his affair with Anspach. 1991, Barbara Siegel, Scott Siegel, Jack Nicholson: The Unauthorized Biography, page 55:
    • As long as an ill-timed freeze hasn't put the cabosh on the blossoms, the sight around the Tidal Basin is breathtaking. 1999, Beth Rubin, Washington, page 7:
    • That's when NASA, in the midst of the Mercury space flight program, put the cabosh on our women's astronaut program. 1988, Jacqueline Cochran, Maryann Bucknum Brinley, Maryann Busknum, Jackie Cochran: An Autobiography, page 332:
    • These two thieves, for the time being anyway, put the “cabosh” on their plans. 2008, M.L. Lindberg, The Cutting Edge, page 100:

Forms

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put the cabosh on Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
put the cabosh on Tense=Past lexicographic
putting the cabosh on Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
puts the cabosh on Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic