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  • 71Send-up — To send someone up is to make fun of them. Or if something is described as being a send up it is equivalent to your take off. Like Robin Williams does a take off on the British accent quite well actually! …

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  • 72send — v. a. 1. Throw, hurl, cast, fling, impel, propel, emit, project, toss, launch, lance, jaculate. 2. Despatch, delegate, depute, send forth, send out. 3. Transmit, forward. 4. Give, bestow, grant, confer. 5. Commission, authorize. 6. Inflict,… …

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  • 73send-up — /ˈsɛnd ʌp/ (say send up) noun Colloquial a satire or parody: *they wheeled shopping baskets along Oxford Street asking for donations in a send up of the cash for comment affair. –aap news, 2000 …

  • 74send-up — n. a parody. □ It was his delightful send up of the current administration that catapulted Roger Rogers to national fame. □ I enjoy a good send up, even if it is about me …

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  • 75send — [OE] English shares send with the other Germanic languages – German senden, Dutch zenden, Swedish sönda, and Danish sende. These all go back to a prehistoric ancestor *santhjan, which originated as a causative derivative of a base denoting ‘go,… …

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  • 76send up — transitive verb Date: 1852 1. to sentence to imprisonment ; send to jail 2. to make fun of ; satirize, parody …

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  • 77send-up — noun /ˈsɛndˌʌp/ A satirical imitation of a work of art or a genre. The clever send up of the horror genre shows a profound understanding of the traditional Hollywood machinations …

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  • 78Send it in — market language: I bought your stock send it in (and possibly more) …

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  • 79send in — phr verb Send in is used with these nouns as the object: ↑application, ↑bailiff, ↑entry, ↑fleet, ↑inspector, ↑query, ↑questionnaire, ↑troops …

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  • 80send on — phr verb Send on is used with these nouns as the object: ↑errand, ↑mission …

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