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Definition of read the meter
read the meter
verb
- See you and check you out and make sure everything's alright between us. (from Clockwork Orange).
I'm just here to read the meter.
Last edited on Sep 06 2010. Submitted by Patrick B. from River Ridge, LA, USA on Nov 27 1999.
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Other terms relating to 'meter': | |
| Definitions include: to put coins into a parking meter. | |
| Definitions include: a city worker who gives tickets to illegally parked cars. | |
Other terms relating to 'read': | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "Guardian Reader Of Low Intelligence in Ethnic Skirt", an insult used by doctors in the UK on medical charts. | |
| Definitions include: rappers that only have the ability to rhyme using single-syllable words. | |
| Definitions include: Knowing exactly where another person is 'coming from' and telling the person about it esp. in front of the crowd if any. | |
| Definitions include: to look for hidden subtext. | |
| Definitions include: "pay close attention." | |
| Definitions include: to reprimand. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "Read the fucking manual." | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "read the manual". | |
| Definitions include: See tl;dr. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "too long; didn't read." | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "too long; will read later". | |
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. | |
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