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run-around
Also as one word.
[f. run v.]
1. A felon or whitlow. Also called run-round. U.S. colloq.
1857Knickerbocker XLIX. 97 There comes us a ‘run-round’ on the end of our pen-finger. 1872Talmage Serm. 224 Some hypochondriac with a ‘run-around’ or a ‘hang-nail’. 1913J. London Valley of Moon iii. iv. 352 His finger was hurting too much, he said... ‘It might be a run-around,’ Saxon hazarded. 1968Leider & Rosenblum Dict. Dermatol. Words 364 Run(-)around.., is colloquial for inflammatory conditions of the soft parts about nails and conveys the idea of tendency to extend circularly.
2. colloq. (orig. U.S.). Deceit, evasion; behaviour likely to mislead or cause inconvenience, esp. in phr. to give (someone) the run-around.
1915Chicago Herald 2 Dec. 13/4 Pitts is satisfied that he is the victim of the grandest run-around ever put over on a boxing promoter. 1924H. C. Witwer in Cosmopolitan Jan. 84/2 If you wanted to give William a run around why not say we were Cleopatra and Salome and be done with it? 1929J. P. McEvoy Hollywood Girl i. 3 All I get is the run around—that nothing today, my dear, but keep in touch with us, you never know what is liable to turn up. 1933Sun (Baltimore) 24 Nov. 20/4 The fans were given the runaround in the third race here yesterday. 1934E. S. Gardner Case of Lucky Legs xiii. 191 A small-town dentist.., and you think that fits you to give me a run-around in a murder case. 1938O. Nash I'm Stranger here Myself 115 Humanity must continue to follow the sun around And accept the eternal run-around. 1944‘N. Shute’ Pastoral ii. 27 Perhaps her boy friend was giving her the run around. 1950‘S. Ransome’ Deadly Miss Ashley ix. 109 He had already taken more than enough of a run-around from her. 1960W. Haggard Closed Circuit iv. 43 My instructions are to..give him the runaround and soften him up. 1973J. Wainwright Devil You Don't 176, I don't trust you... It could be a runaround. 1979E. Newman Sunday Punch xix. 164 We were seeing a deliberate run-around by Smith.
3. Printing. Type set in shorter measure so as to fit at the side of an illustration.
[1934V. Steer Printing Design & Layout 327/2 Run Round Block, type set to surround a block.] 1949Melcher & Larrick Printing & Promotion Handbk. 260/2 The use of run-arounds increases the cost of type composition and is often avoided on that account. 1978Verbatim May 7/1 It is extremely difficult (and expensive) to program a computer to set run-arounds.
4. colloq. (orig. U.S.). A short journey or excursion. Also attrib. and fig.
1954Ties (U.S.) Dec. 14/2 Steve operates the Little Southern's passenger train and local freight on regular-style train orders, with ‘meets’ and ‘runarounds’ carefully scheduled. 1976Broadcast 29 Nov. 7/3 Over 1600 [people] have said they would become ‘runaround drivers’, ferrying around the elderly and infirm. 1977Time Out 28 Jan.–3 Feb. 15/3 LBC's runaround with Alexander Walker on the week's new films. |