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ghost

slang
1. To ignore someone until they stop pestering or trying to get in touch with one, rather than directly expressing one's disinterest. Typically used in reference to failed or would-be romantic connections. That guy I went out with last week kept texting me, but I just wasn't interested, so I had to ghost him. Look, I know you feel awkward about telling the guy you're not interested, but don't ghost him—it's just childish and cowardly. A: "If you're not into this girl, why are you still talking to her?" B: "What am I supposed to do, ghost her?"
2. To kill someone. The boss told Ray to ghost the informant. The man said he'd ghost me if I told anyone that I'd seen him burying the money in the field. Because she's the prosecution's star witness, I'm worried the defendant will ghost her before she ever gets a chance to testify against them.

ghosting

slang The practice of ignoring someone until they stop pestering or trying to get in touch with one, rather than directly expressing one's disinterest. Typically used in reference to failed or would-be romantic connections. Look, I know you feel awkward about telling the guy you're not interested, but ghosting is a really hurtful and cowardly thing to do. That guy I went out with last week kept texting me, but I just wasn't interested, so I'm ghosting him. A: "If you're not into this girl, why are you still talking to her?" B: "What should I be doing, ghosting her?"
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ghost someone

tv. to kill someone. Mooshoo threatened to ghost the guy.
See also: ghost, someone
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As the Ghost rolled her side out of water, the boat was lifted snugly against her, and before the return roll came, we had heaved it in over the side and turned it bottom up on the deck.
While I toiled up the fore-shrouds the Ghost slowly paid off.
Once more the Ghost bore away before the storm, this time so submerging herself that for some seconds I thought she would never reappear.
As before, the Ghost swung out of the trough, lifting her deck again out of the sea, and dashed before the howling blast.
And when he put the wheel hard over and the Ghost's bow swung off, there was nothing for the hunters to do but obey and make the best of a risky chance.
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"As we two sat weeping and talking thus sadly with one another the ghost of Achilles came up to us with Patroclus, Antilochus, and Ajax who was the finest and goodliest man of all the Danaans after the son of Peleus.
"When I had told him this, the ghost of Achilles strode off across a meadow full of asphodel, exulting over what I had said concerning the prowess of his son.
I made a drink-offering to all the dead, first with honey and milk, then with wine, and thirdly with water, and I sprinkled white barley meal over the whole, praying earnestly to the poor feckless ghosts, and promising them that when I got back to Ithaca I would sacrifice a barren heifer for them, the best I had, and would load the pyre with good things.
"Thus did we converse, and anon Proserpine sent up the ghosts of the wives and daughters of all the most famous men.
"The ghosts of other dead men stood near me and told me each his own melancholy tale; but that of Ajax son of Telamon alone held aloof--still angry with me for having won the cause in our dispute about the armour of Achilles.
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`The whole time,' said the Ghost. `No rest, no peace.
The Ghost, on hearing this, set up another cry, and clanked its chain so hideously in the dead silence of the night, that the Ward would have been justified in indicting it for a nuisance.
`Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again.
`Hear me!' cried the Ghost. `My time is nearly gone.'
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Here, on the edge of the forest, I rested awhile, and ate a little food that I had brought with me in the bag, for now I must gather up my strength to meet the ghosts, if ghosts there were.
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