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run-in
Also run in.
1. An act of running in; spec. in Rugby football, an act of running over the touch-line of the opposite side with the ball; also, the home stretch in a run at hare-and-hounds, or in a race.
1857G. A. Lawrence Guy Liv. ix, The down⁓hill run-in favours his vast stride. 1857Hughes Tom Brown i. vii, I know we're close to the run in. 1864Field 403/2 After several severe scrimmages..a run-in was obtained. 1895J. G. Millais Breath fr. Veldt (1899) 220 [He] had got first run-in at the big herd of buffaloes..and killed nine.
2. colloq. (chiefly U.S.). A quarrel, argument, or row; a clash or fight. Usu. in phr. to have a run-in (with someone).
1905‘H. McHugh’ You can search Me 82 Sorry we had the run in but it was all my fault. 1912C. Mathewson Pitching in a Pinch viii. 180 Fred Tenny has said for a long time that Mr. Klem gives him a shade the worst of it on all close ones because he had a run in with that umpire one day when they came to blows. 1920I. Ostrander How Many Cards? xii. 145 The cook at the de Forests' two doors away had a run-in with that Sarah, the butler's wife, and she won't speak to any of them. 1930D. Runyon in Collier's 20 Dec. 32/3, I am all tired out..from getting a slug in my chest in the run-in with Jerk Donovan's mob in Jersey. 1945G. Marx Let. 16 Feb. (1967) 50 Your father and I have many run-ins these days... He can't get it into his thick skull that I have come of age. 1952A. Barin With Hope, Farewell 44, I 'ad a run-in with the caterers, too. 1962A. Lurie Love & Friendship ii. 31, I had a run-in with the Administration about it last spring. 1979‘A. Hailey’ Overload i. iii. 19, I hear you had a run-in with Nancy Molineaux.
3. The approach of an aircraft to a dropping point or landing place; = run-up 1 d.
1943Combined Operations (Min. of Information) ii. 19 Two lights—a red switched on when the pilot is beginning his run-in to the dropping zone and a green indicating that the moment to jump has arrived. 1944Hutchinson's Pict. Hist. of War 27 Oct. 1943–11 Apr. 1944. 366/2 An aircraft would be mortally wounded during its attacking run in but would not crash until after that attack had been well and truly pressed home. 1958‘Castle’ & ‘Hailey’ Flight into Danger x. 137 We must have plenty [of fuel] in hand for a long run-in over the ocean, if I decide..to ditch. 1958P. Kemp No Colours or Crest (1960) v. 88 On the first run-in the aircraft would loose the containers and the ‘free drops’. 1971R. Dentry Encounter at Kharmel ix. 158 Alden reached his bedroom window in time to see the Cherokee..lose height for its run-in on to the strip.
4. An introductory statement or event; an approach (to a subject).
1961Clergy Rev. Oct. 627 Mr Derrick provides a run-in to Fr Brown's story in the form of a Prologue. 1962A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio viii. 140 Remember not to start fading up until the run-in is complete. 1966‘A. Hall’ 9th Directive i. 13 He sensed I would try to refuse the mission... He poured some more lime to give himself a last chance of planning his run-in. ‘This is a special job,’ he began.
5. Criminals' slang. A place to which stolen goods are driven and in which they are concealed.
1959J. Gosling Ghost Squad iii. 43 He tipped us off to the whole plot, gave the address of the ‘run-in’—the place where the stolen goods were cached—and the names of the thieves. Ibid. x. 130 The normal method was to hire a van from a small lorry-owner, run the van to the warehouse, break in, load the van, take the contents to a ‘run-in’—usually a shed or garage in the central London area—and return the van. 1962D. Warner Death of Bogey iv. v. 163 Just waiting to hear that the lorry reached the run-in. It's late. Ibid. 170 Sapper Neal and a bunch of the Sparrow boys been seen cruising around this manor in a car like they was looking for something. Is the run-in round here? 1970P. Laurie Scotland Yard vi. 129 It's a run-in for stolen lorries.
6. Comb., as run-in groove, on a gramophone record, the blank groove traversing the annular area outside the grooves carrying the recording; run-in shed U.S., an open-fronted shelter in which horses are housed.
1962A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio viii. 146 If the disc is being played from the start, or if there is no sound definite enough to be used as a cue, it will be necessary to count the revolutions from the run-in groove. 1976Gramophone Sept. 510/1 It..moves the stylus to the run-in groove of the record.
1964Blood-Horse 26 Dec. 1874/1 Kelly has built a pair of L-shaped run-in sheds... The run-in sheds—unlike three sided Madden sheds used on many Blue Grass horse farms—are closed on only two sides, the north and west. 1977J. W. Evans et al. Horse xxiii. 723 Flies, hot weather, cold rains, and strong, cold winds seem to bother horses, and run-in sheds provide adequate protection from these conditions. |