tekv.
/tɛk/ U.S. (in African-American use) and regional.
= take v.
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1904 Penny Cuts (Trinidad) 23 July He tell de poleeceman to tek me in chaage becos ah com quite inside he proparty.
1924 M. W. Beckwith in Mem. Amer. Folk-lore Soc. 17 76 Him couldn't get away from de woman until rain tek him in de yard.
1938 C. Himes Pork Chop Paradise in Black on Black (1973) 165 W'en de panic cum an' de Lawd tek yo' food..den laff.
1981 Westindian World 2 Oct. 4/1 One of London's better known Radio London presenters tek time off te go compere beauty show.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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v.1904- to give a person no road
- to give a person noogies
- to give a person one's hat
- to give a person one's mother for a maid
- to give a person one's word
- to give a person out
- to give a person pelters
- to give a person picong
- to give a person plenty of rope to hang himself
- to give a person rats
- to give a person road
- to give a person roast meat and beat etc with the spit
- to give a person roast meat and beat her with the spit
- to give a person roast meat and beat him with the spit
- to give a person roast meat and beat with the spit
- to give a person rope
- to give a person rope to hang himself
- to give a person running shoes
- to give a person sauce
- to give a person shit
- to give a person some one's compliments
- to give a person some one's kind regards
- to give a person some one's love
- to give a person some slack
- to give a person some sugar