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push the boat out

push the boat out verb: to do something, especially spend money, more extravagantly than usual, particularly for a celebration.

Verb

push the boat out (third-person singular simple present pushes the boat out, present participle pushing the boat out, simple past and past participle pushed the boat out)

  1. (UK, idiomatic) To do something, especially spend money, more extravagantly than usual, particularly for a celebration.

Forms of push the boat out

third-person singular presentpushes the boat out
present participlepushing the boat out
past participlepushed the boat out
pastpushed the boat out

Questions about push the boat out

What does push the boat out mean?
Push the boat out means to do something, especially spend money, more extravagantly than usual, particularly for a celebration.
What part of speech is push the boat out?
Push the boat out is a verb.
What is the past tense of push the boat out?
The past tense of push the boat out is pushed the boat out.

Words near push the boat out in the dictionary

  1. push shit uphill
  2. push shot
  3. push shots
  4. push someone's buttons
  5. push string uphill
  6. push the boat out
  7. push the edge of the envelope
  8. push the envelope
  9. push the limit
  10. push the right buttons
  11. push through

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