| 单词 | weed-whack |
| 释义 | > as lemmasweed-whack weed-whack v. (also weed-wack) North American intransitive and transitive to cut weeds, grass, etc., with a weed-whacker; (also figurative, in figurative contexts, and in extended use) to clear a way through; to cut back drastically or eliminate. ΚΠ 1988 W. J. Chancellor & S. R. Francis Sustainable Agric. Surv. Project vi. §F.1 Region-D... Cultivation-Weed Control... Only have to mow or weed whack around emittors before harvest. 1994 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 17 Sept. d4 He goes over his..lawn with an electric mower like a man hunting coins with a metal detector. He weed-wacks the fringes. 1995 Fusion Sept. 15/3 It takes time to weedwhack through the Internet's overgrowing and ever-expanding briar. 2004 J. Sills Comfort Trap vii. 186 Amy needed to weed-whack her old, familiar refrain ‘I don't deserve better’. 2014 S. Costa Basil Instinct xii. 234 ‘Joe,’ I went on, wondering about the back-ground sounds of machinery on his end... Was he weed-whacking? < as lemmas |
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