chew
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chew
1. verb, informal To chew tobacco. I took up chewing as a way of giving up smoking. I hate it when they chew in here. They always leave the glasses they spit into lying around the place. Nah, I don't chew any more. I stick to bubble gum these days.
2. noun, informal Chewing tobacco. Hey, bud—got any chew? I'm fresh out. Yeah, chew isn't harmless, you know. Oral cancer is closely associated with it. Our coach in the minors was quite the character, always spitting chew and spouting expletives.
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chew
in. to eat. Man, I’m hungry. It’s time to chew!
chewed
mod. abused. After that argument at the office yesterday, I really felt chewed.
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McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
- angry enough to chew nails
- Are you talking to me or chewing a brick?
- bite off more than (one) can chew
- bite off more than can chew
- bite off more than one can chew
- bite off more than one can chew, to
- bite off more than you can chew
- chew
- chew (away) at (something)
- chew (one's) ear
- chew (one's) ear(s) off
- chew (one's) own tobacco
- chew at
- chew away
- chew cud
- chew face
- chew it finer
- chew off
- chew on
- chew on (something)
- chew on that
- chew on the scenery
- chew on this
- chew out
- chew over
- chew own tobacco
- chew someone out
- chew something over
- chew the
- chew the cheese
- chew the cud
- chew the cud, to
- chew the fat
- chew the fat/rag, to
- chew the meat and spit out the bones
- chew the rag
- chew the scenery
- chew the/(one's) cud
- chew up
- chew up the scenery
- chewed
- give (one) something to chew on
- I don't chew my cabbage twice
- mad enough to chew nails
- mad enough to chew nails and spit rivets
- rag-chewing
- walk and chew gum (at the same time)