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pick bids off the wall

pick bids off the wall verb: of an auctioneer, to acknowledge nonexistent bids, so as to fraudulently drive up the price for the actual competing bidders.

Verb

pick bids off the wall (third-person singular simple present picks bids off the wall, present participle picking bids off the wall, simple past and past participle picked bids off the wall)

  1. (informal) Of an auctioneer, to acknowledge nonexistent bids, so as to fraudulently drive up the price for the actual competing bidders.

Forms of pick bids off the wall

third-person singular presentpicks bids off the wall
present participlepicking bids off the wall
past participlepicked bids off the wall
pastpicked bids off the wall

Questions about pick bids off the wall

What does pick bids off the wall mean?
Pick bids off the wall means of an auctioneer, to acknowledge nonexistent bids, so as to fraudulently drive up the price for the actual competing bidders.
What part of speech is pick bids off the wall?
Pick bids off the wall is a verb.
What is the past tense of pick bids off the wall?
The past tense of pick bids off the wall is picked bids off the wall.

Words near pick bids off the wall in the dictionary

  1. pick and pop
  2. pick and roll
  3. pick apart
  4. pick at
  5. pick away at
  6. pick bids off the wall
  7. Pick bodies
  8. Pick body
  9. pick by order
  10. pick by voice
  11. PICK chart

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