palming

Verb

palm (third-person singular simple present palms, present participle palming, simple past and past participle palmed)

1. To hold or conceal something in the palm of the hand, e.g., for an act of sleight of hand or to steal something.
2. To hold something without bending the fingers significantly.
   • John palmed the ball.
3. To move something with the palm of the hand.
   • The home side's goalkeeper Asmir Begovic managed to palm the drive on to the post but the sheer pace of the shot forced the ball into the net.2010 December 28, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham”, in BBC
4. (intransitive, transitive) To use one's palm as identification to get through a door or security checkpoint.
   • I palmed in to work.
5. (UK, obsolete, slang, transitive) To bribe.
   • He never again appeared in the house where practices of this description are carried on every night, and where officers of the police are palmed (bribed) for their forbearance.1845, George Smeeton, Doings in London, page 78

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