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run around
vb (intr, adverb)
1. (often foll by with) to associate habitually (with)
2. to behave in a fickle or promiscuous manner
n
3. informal deceitful or evasive treatment of a person (esp in the phrase give or get the run-around)
4. (Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) printing an arrangement of printed matter in which the column width is narrowed to accommodate an illustration
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Verb | 1. | run around - play boisterously; "The children frolicked in the garden"; "the gamboling lambs in the meadows"; "The toddlers romped in the playroom" play - be at play; be engaged in playful activity; amuse oneself in a way characteristic of children; "The kids were playing outside all day"; "I used to play with trucks as a little girl" |
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run
verb1. To move swiftly on foot so that both feet leave the ground during each stride:
2. To move swiftly:
bolt, bucket, bustle, dart, dash, festinate, flash, fleet, flit, fly, haste, hasten, hurry, hustle, pelt, race, rocket, rush, sail, scoot, scour, shoot, speed, sprint, tear, trot, whirl, whisk, whiz, wing, zip, zoom.
Chiefly British: nip.
Idioms: get a move on, get cracking, go like lightning, go like the wind, hotfoot it, make haste, make time, make tracks, run like the wind, shake a leg, step on it.
3. To leave hastily:
4. To move or proceed away from a place.Also used with along:
Idioms: hit the road, take leave.
5. To be with as a companion.Also used with around:
Slang: hang out.
Idiom: rub elbows.
6. To look to when in need:
Idioms: fall back on, have recourse to.
11. To proceed on a certain course or for a certain distance:
23. To have charge of (the affairs of others):
run across
To find or meet by chance:
bump into, chance on (or upon), come across, come on (or upon), find, happen on (or upon), light on (or upon), run into, stumble on (or upon), tumble on.
Archaic: alight on (or upon).
Idiom: meet up with.
run after
To follow (another) with the intent of overtaking and capturing:
Idioms: be in pursuit, give chase.
run away
To break loose and leave suddenly, as from confinement or from a difficult or threatening situation:
Informal: skip (out).
Slang: lam.
Regional: absquatulate.
Idioms: blow the coop, cut and run, give someone the slip, make a getaway, take flight, take it on the lam.
run down
1. To lose so much strength and power as to become ineffective or motionless:
Slang: poop out.
2. To pursue and locate:
Idiom: run to earth.
run in
1. Slang. To take into custody as a prisoner:
run into
1. To find or meet by chance:
bump into, chance on (or upon), come across, come on (or upon), find, happen on (or upon), light on (or upon), run across, stumble on (or upon), tumble on.
Archaic: alight on (or upon).
Idiom: meet up with.
run on
phrasal verb
run out
2. To prove deficient or insufficient:
run through
1. To use all of:
Informal: polish off.
run up
noun
4. A number of things placed or occurring one after the other:
chain, consecution, course, order, procession, progression, round, sequence, series, string, succession, suite, train.
Informal: streak.
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