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take a fall out of en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, slang, transitive) get the better of
    • and they had it back and forth across the table—a good old-fashioned family spat. Jennie mixed in; Jeff took a fall out of her and wished mighty soon that he hadn't. 1916 March 11, Charles E. Van Loan, “His Folks”, in Saturday Evening Post:
    • Besides, how they do love to “take a fall out of” the bourgeois–épater is their word for it. 1919 June 8, “Intolerance at Zurich”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Forms

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takes a fall out of Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
took a fall out of Tense=Past lexicographic
taken a fall out of Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
taking a fall out of Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic