palm
/pɑm/ verb C2- To hold or conceal something in the palm of the hand, e.g., for an act of sleight of hand or to steal something.
- To hold something without bending the fingers significantly. · John palmed the ball.
- To move something with the palm of the hand.
- To use one's palm as identification to get through a door or security checkpoint. · I palmed in to work.· She palmed the door as she talked to the security guard.
He/she/it palms · Past palmed · Past participle palmed · -ing form palming
Verb forms
- Base form
- palm
- He/she/it
- palms
- Past
- palmed
- Past participle
- palmed
- -ing form
- palming
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“As many times as there are nuts on that palm,” said Mowgli, who, naturally, could not count.
But I caught Tabaqui by the tail and swung him twice against a palm-tree to teach him better manners.”
Those nut-stealers and pickers of palm leaves have stolen away our man-cub of whom thou hast perhaps heard.”
She had made friends with the spring down in the hollow--that wonderful deep, clear icy-cold spring; it was set about with smooth red sandstones and rimmed in by great palm-like clumps of water fern; and beyond it was a log bridge over the brook.
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