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  1. To reverse a vehicle into a space.
  2. To bet that a player or team will win, as opposed to bet that they will lose.
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“‘God forgive you!’ cried Madame Charpentier, throwing up her hands and sinking back in her chair.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 60 · B2
Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies’ eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods, with dark secrets of pool and cascade; but by the time it reached Lynde’s Hollow it was a quiet, well-conducted little stream, for not even a brook could run past Mrs.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 1 · C1
Come, father” added Dantès, “put this money back in your box—unless neighbor Caderousse wants anything, and in that case it is at his service.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 16 · C1
“Jean Baptiste Greuze,” Holmes continued, joining his finger tips and leaning well back in his chair, “was a French artist who flourished between the years 1750 and 1800.
The Valley of Fear, p. 14 · C1

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