| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | 1. Informal. To let go or get rid of as being useless or defective, for example: discard, dispose of, dump, junk, scrap1, throw away, throw out. Informal : jettison, shuck (off). Slang : ditch. See KEEP. 2. Informal. To put out by force: bump, dismiss, eject, evict, expel, oust, throw out. Slang : boot1 (out), bounce, kick out. Idioms: give someone the boot, give someone the heave-ho (or old heave-ho) , send packing, show someone the door, throw out on one's ear. See KEEP.
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