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Definition of leave high and dry
leave high and dry
verb - transitive
- to abandon a person, without them having proper resources.
Citation from "Chapter 12", Eastbound & Down (TV), Season 2 Episode 6 (2010) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.Last edited on Jan 12 2012. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Jan 12 2012.
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Other terms relating to 'and': | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "assault and battery". | |
| Definitions include: "rain". | |
| Definitions include: Cockney rhyme for ''believe''. | |
| Definitions include: to talk a lot but never take action. | |
| Definitions include: clumsy. | |
| Definitions include: better than all that. | |
| Definitions include: the best. | |
| Definitions include: without substance; all talk and no action. | |
| Definitions include: a lot of money. | |
| Definitions include: to get fouled in basketball and make the basket | |
| Definitions include: used to indicate an extreme condition or an excessive amount. | |
| Definitions include: et cetera. | |
| Definitions include: used to indicate an extreme condition or an excessive amount. | |
| Definitions include: a quantity between 1 and one order of magnitude lower than the quantity previously mentioned. | |
| Definitions include: interjection of agreement. | |
Other terms relating to 'dry': | |
| Definitions include: to take all of a person's money. | |
| Definitions include: a clear matter. | |
| Definitions include: uncommon variant of "drier than a popcorn fart". | |
| Definitions include: See popcorn fart. | |
| Definitions include: to be devoid of people. | |
| Definitions include: to be very thirsty (especially for a beer). | |
| Definitions include: to be very thirsty, especially for beer. | |
| Definitions include: A condition occurring when a single feces of such extreme length that it begins at drain trap and extends above water line and rests on porcelain surface of toilet bowl. | |
| Definitions include: of two people, to grind their genitals together, while still wearing bottom-wear. | |
| Definitions include: to attempt to vomit, but to expel no liquid. | |
| Definitions include: to simulate sex activity, without the removal of clothes. | |
| Definitions include: a practice attempt, without performing the actual action. | |
| Definitions include: simulated sex, without the removal of clothes. | |
| Definitions include: a fart with unexpected anal discharge. | |
| Definitions include: extremely boring. | |
Other terms relating to 'high': | |
| Definitions include: extremely intoxicated from marijuana. | |
| Definitions include: no matter what. | |
| Definitions include: "Galesville Ettrick Trempealeau High School" in Galesville, WI. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "high gravity". | |
| Definitions include: intoxicated from drugs. | |
| Definitions include: very high. | |
| Definitions include: the upper range of an estimated figure. | |
| Definitions include: a person who makes large sums of money. | |
| Definitions include: erect nipples. | |
| Definitions include: of extreme high quality, expensive to a point that it becomes unattainable. | |
| Definitions include: a intelligent, sophisticated person who comes from a poor or middle class family. | |
| Definitions include: see in high cotton. | |
| Definitions include: very high; excessively high. | |
| Definitions include: very high. | |
| Definitions include: pie-in-the-sky, fancy, crazy and elitist. | |
Other terms relating to 'leave': | |
| Definitions include: acronym of "absent without leave." | |
| Definitions include: an uncaring or uninterested retort; "talk to the hand". | |
| Definitions include: see leave (one) hanging. | |
| Definitions include: to abandon a person after a crime has been committed, leaving them with incriminating evidence (literally) or blame (figuratively.) | |
| Definitions include: to leave someone in a bad situation. | |
| Definitions include: give it all you had at a particular activity. | |
| Definitions include: The same as ditto (British). | |
| Definitions include: to forsake a person who has placed their reliance or trust on you. | |
| Definitions include: to die. | |
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