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Definition of wait on pins and needles
wait on pins and needles
- to wait excitedly.
Last edited on Aug 11 2009. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 11 2009.
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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 'needle': | |
| Definitions include: something hard to find. | |
Other terms relating to 'on': | |
| Definitions include: seemingly accidental but with a secret motive. | |
| Definitions include: secret sexual activity with a person other than one's partner. | |
| Definitions include: See on (one's) plate. | |
| Definitions include: useless. | |
| Definitions include: absolutely futile; pointless, worthless, inept or absurd; good-for-nothing or idiotic. | |
| Definitions include: doing better after an unfavorable event. | |
| Definitions include: returned to one's meth or crack addiction. | |
| Definitions include: to insult for fun; "make fun of". | |
| Definitions include: to leave (a relationship) or abandon. | |
| Definitions include: to attempt to attract verbally; "hit on". | |
| Definitions include: to test something before it is released or presented. | |
| Definitions include: See barge in. | |
| Definitions include: used to describe a person that is angry and is scolding at someone. | |
| Definitions include: to be involved with. | |
| Definitions include: to be present in large numbers. | |
Other terms relating to 'pin': | |
| Definitions include: Normally used as slang in describing the "near-felonious promiscuity" of a woman. As in where one could say that the tramp that gave him herpes, took more pricks daily than any seamstresses pin-cushion could in a week. Hence: "That bitch is such a Pin-cushion! I bet you anything she gave me strains of herpes that haven't even been discovered yet. I'm afraid to go to the doctor cause they'll probably name one of them after me and shit. Like I'm the fucking Christopher Columbus of STD'S or something." | |
| Definitions include: to chastise. | |
| Definitions include: legs. | |
| Definitions include: to assign the blame unfairly to. | |
| Definitions include: to delay a topic until a future time. | |
Other terms relating to 'wait': | |
| Definitions include: do not mess with underage girls. | |
| Definitions include: to expend significant effort waiting on (helping, being an assistant to) a person. | |
| Definitions include: disparaging term for the world wide web. | |
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