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puts horns on

puts horns on is the third-person singular simple present indicative of put horns on.

Meaning of put horns on

Verb

put horns on (third-person singular simple present puts horns on, present participle putting horns on, simple past and past participle put horns on)

  1. (transitive) To cuckold, to be unfaithful to or make someone’s partner so.
    • City Comedies depicted the pursuit of wealth, status, and women in Jacobean London. In a typical plot, a ne'er-do-well young gentleman dupes his older relatives out of money, while lower-class rascals play cruder tricks on respectable citizens. For example, in Thomas Middleton's A Mad World, My...1983, Wendy Griswold, “The Devil's Techniques: Cultural Legitimation and Social Change”, in American Sociological Review, volume 48, number 5, page 672 of 668–680

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What is puts horns on the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Puts horns on is the third-person singular simple present indicative of put horns on.

Words near puts horns on in the dictionary

  1. puts forth
  2. puts forward
  3. puts hair on one's chest
  4. puts hair on someone's chest
  5. puts heads together
  6. puts horns on
  7. puts in
  8. puts in a good word
  9. puts in a word
  10. puts in an appearance
  11. puts in an oar

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