| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | To throw (a coin) in order to decide something: toss. Idioms: call heads or tails. See LUCK, MOVE. | | ADJECTIVE: | Informal. Rude and disrespectful: assuming, assumptive, audacious, bold, boldfaced, brash, brazen, cheeky, contumelious, familiar, forward, impertinent, impudent, insolent, malapert, nervy, overconfident, pert, presuming, presumptuous, pushy, sassy, saucy, smart. Informal : brassy, fresh, smart-alecky, snippety, snippy, uppish, uppity. Slang : wise1. See ATTITUDE, COURTESY. | | PHRASAL VERB: | flip through To look through reading matter casually: browse, dip into, glance at or (over) or (through), leaf (through), riffle (through), run through, scan, skim, thumb (through). See INVESTIGATE, WORDS.
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