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weigh off en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (UK, slang, transitive) To sentence (a prisoner).
    • If he is a prisoner from one of the Higher Courts he will probably arrive some time after 5 p.m.; if he has been 'weighed off' at 'the Bailey' or London Sessions he will probably come in a police van […] 2013, Terence Morris, Pauline Morris, Pentonville: A Sociological Study of an English Prison, page 102:

Forms

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weighs off Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
weighing off Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
weighed off Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
weighed off Tense=Past lexicographic