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Definition of run into

run into

verb

  • to come into close contact with someone, in an unplanned way.
    I ran into your mom at the grocery store last week.
                                                                                                                                     

    Citation from "You've Got Male", Happy Endings (TV), Season 1 Episode 9 (2011) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.
                                                  

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

                                                 

    Citation from "Might Have Been", Rookie Blue (TV), Season 2 Episode 2 (2011) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.
                              

                                                                              

    Citation from "The New Guy", Warehouse 13 (TV), Season 3 Episode 1 (2011) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

    Last edited on Oct 14 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 11 2009.

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Other terms relating to 'into':

Definitions include: to enter suddenly and uninvitedly.
Definitions include: to physically beat someone causing extensive injury.
Definitions include: to see someone, in an unplanned way.
Definitions include: to reach a point in one's development where one's comfortable with one's self.
Definitions include: a phrase used to describe a person setting another person straight.
Definitions include: to do.
Definitions include: to have sex with someone.
Definitions include: to consume.
Definitions include: interested in.
Definitions include: to work closely with someone.
Definitions include: to verbally attack.
Definitions include: to eat voraciously.
Definitions include: angry, looks bad, pissed, annoyed, unusual looking.
Definitions include: connected to a social scene, source of knowledge, etc.
Definitions include: of a drunk person, to put.

Other terms relating to 'run':

Definitions include: shoplifting beer by grab and run tactics.
Definitions include: very crazy.
Definitions include: to separate one's self from something, and then run away.
Definitions include: a practice attempt, without performing the actual action.
Definitions include: An acronym for eat and run.
Definitions include: To eat a meal at a restaurant and leave without paying.
Definitions include: To express extreme exasperation, shock, or dismay.
Definitions include: This definition is questionable and is pending deletion.
Definitions include: see home run.
Definitions include: In the "sexual contact as baseball achievement" metaphor, means sexual intercourse.
Definitions include: the future.
Definitions include: to leave or go.
Definitions include: male masturbation
Definitions include: to operate in a way that is most displeasing to the reasonable person's point of view.
Definitions include: to cheat on one's significant other.

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