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cuts someone's comb

cuts someone's comb is the third-person singular simple present indicative of cut someone's comb.

Meaning of cut someone's comb

Verb

cut someone's comb (third-person singular simple present cuts someone's comb, present participle cutting someone's comb, simple past and past participle cut someone's comb)

  1. To humiliate someone who is conceited.
    • Ha! ha! I can't help thinking of his swaggering self-importance the first time he came here; and how I cut his comb.1877, Timothy Shay Arthur, The Bar-rooms at Brantly; Or, The Great Hotel Speculation, page 423

Questions about cuts someone's comb

What is cuts someone's comb the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Cuts someone's comb is the third-person singular simple present indicative of cut someone's comb.

Words near cuts someone's comb in the dictionary

  1. cuts someone dead
  2. cuts someone loose
  3. cuts someone off at the knees
  4. cuts someone slack
  5. cuts someone some slack
  6. cuts someone's comb
  7. cuts someone's throat
  8. cuts swathes
  9. cuts the baby in half
  10. cuts the bullshit
  11. cuts the cheese

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