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Definition of sell it to
sell it to
verb - transitive
- to be beaten sorely. 2. dismal failure; defeat. 3. to defeat; to overcome odds. In sports: "We sold it to the other team!" Sometimes used in reference to video games. "Man, this game really sold it to me." Origin: inverse of "You bought it."
Ooh! He sold it to you! / That was a sale!
Last edited on May 17 2011. Submitted by Ryan from Jeffersonville, IN, USA on Feb 21 2003.
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| Definitions include: in support of. | |
| Definitions include: a good estimate. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "as far as I understand it". | |
| Definitions include: to masturbate. | |
| Definitions include: for a male to have sexual intercourse. | |
| Definitions include: to fall and hit the ground. | |
| Definitions include: not showering before bed after working all day. | |
| Definitions include: to display bling-bling. | |
| Definitions include: to completely fail a task. | |
| Definitions include: acronym of "bend over here it comes again." | |
| Definitions include: to vomit. | |
| Definitions include: to move very fast. | |
| Definitions include: to drink heavily. | |
| Definitions include: see about it. | |
| Definitions include: to be in agreement with something or wanting to do something. | |
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| Definitions include: to convince. | |
| Definitions include: to lie or tell someone something very good knowing it isn't true. | |
| Definitions include: to sacrifice one's integrity for personal gain. | |
| Definitions include: to exit a previous arrangement, change one's mind, change one's usual behavior, etc. | |
| Definitions include: to vomit. | |
| Definitions include: to not tell the truth. | |
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| 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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