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Definition of keep (one's) ear to the ground

keep (one's) ear to the ground

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Other terms relating to 'ear':

Definitions include: to be prepared to listen intently.
Definitions include: to talk to.
Definitions include: to mark one's place in a book by folding down the corner of the page.
Definitions include: contact between an ear and a boob (breast.)
Definitions include: something pleasing to listen to, especially music-related.
Definitions include: a metaphorical "orgasm of the ears" due to hearing something immensely satisfying, having a good ear cleaning, etc.
Definitions include: to eavesdrop.
Definitions include: someone who enjoys listening to and spreading gossip.
Definitions include: a song or song fragment that gets stuck in one's head.
Definitions include: to get a haircut.
Definitions include: for something heard to not have any effect.
Definitions include: very high; excessively high.
Definitions include: to monitor new information or rumors.
Definitions include: to beat someone up
Definitions include: to listen to someone.

Other terms relating to 'ground':

Definitions include: soldiers.
Definitions include: to succeed initially.
Definitions include: to hide.
Definitions include: lighting underneath the body of a car, which shines on the ground.
Definitions include: the initial phase of an opportunity.
Definitions include: Desirable food item found abandoned on the ground.
Definitions include: to monitor new information or rumors.
Definitions include: to be competent.
Definitions include: to vomit.
Definitions include: to lose progress.
Definitions include: to cause to fail.

Other terms relating to 'keep':

Definitions include: "keep buggering on", i.e. don't give up.
Definitions include: to hide.
Definitions include: to monitor new information or rumors.
Definitions include: to supervise a person.
Definitions include: to watch for.
Definitions include: to remain courageous.
Definitions include: to restrain from laughing.
Definitions include: to keep one's composure.
Definitions include: sardonic retort to "No shit, Sherlock!"
Definitions include: from football, but referring to an object that you like.
Definitions include: statement of encouragement.
Definitions include: to tell the truth.
Definitions include: to keep it real.
Definitions include: doing things in way a gangster would.
Definitions include: to not be promiscuous.

Other terms relating to 'the':

Definitions include: the real information or the proof, instruction, the know how, where, when, and why about something or someone.
Definitions include: walking, generally as opposed to driving.
Definitions include: interrogation.
Definitions include: extremely intoxicated
Definitions include: information.
Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting.
Definitions include: a good estimate.
Definitions include: a secret advantage.
Definitions include: inclusive.
Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.
Definitions include: with the amount of time left to finish a task rapidly disappearing.
Definitions include: having an opinion or belief prior to it becoming common or popular.
Definitions include: of a male, to urinate.
Definitions include: Someone being butthurt over having something, they do to others regularly, done to the them
Definitions include: secret sexual activity with a person other than one's partner.

Other terms relating to 'to':

Definitions include: extremely intoxicated
Definitions include: See nine to five.
Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.
Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.
Definitions include: a declaration of victory or superiority.
Definitions include: sex in which anal sex is immediately followed by fellatio.
Definitions include: to revisit one's past.
Definitions include: to go back to the beginning.
Definitions include: extreme; "all out".
Definitions include: to be vastly superior.
Definitions include: to perform an activity before someone else.
Definitions include: to be unintelligible.
Definitions include: to do.
Definitions include: more important things to deal with.
Definitions include: to kill or destroy.

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