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in a bake

in a bake prepositional phrase: very angry.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic, informal) Very angry.
    • O, Dedalus, he cried, Doyle is in a great bake about you.1916, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC

Questions about in a bake

What does in a bake mean?
In a bake means very angry.
What part of speech is in a bake?
In a bake is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in a bake in the dictionary

  1. imzadi
  2. imzadis
  3. in
  4. in a bad spot
  5. in a bad way
  6. in a bake
  7. in a big way
  8. in a bind
  9. in a blink
  10. in a body
  11. in a box

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