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cutting someone's comb

cutting someone's comb is the present participle and gerund 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 cutting someone's comb

What is cutting someone's comb the present participle and gerund of?
Cutting someone's comb is the present participle and gerund of cut someone's comb.

Words near cutting someone's comb in the dictionary

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

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