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puts the bee on

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

Meaning of put the bee on

Verb

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

  1. (US, slang, transitive) To finish off; to beat.
    • When Carmen quipped in, “Well, Mr. President somebody has to put the bee on them,” the General asserted, “It won't be me, never.”2001, Travis Beal Jacobs, Eisenhower at Columbia, Transaction, page 152
  2. (US, slang, transitive) To beg from; to borrow money from.
    • Sometimes I'd see a woman in the backyard, and, if she had a kind face I'd put the bee on her.1938, Clifford Robe Shaw, Henry Donald McKay, “et al.”, in Brothers in Crime, University of Chicago, page 157

Questions about puts the bee on

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Puts the bee on is the third-person singular simple present indicative of put the bee on.

Words near puts the bee on in the dictionary

  1. puts store by
  2. puts store in
  3. puts straight
  4. puts the arm on someone
  5. puts the bad mouth on
  6. puts the bee on
  7. puts the beggar on the gentleman
  8. puts the bite on
  9. puts the boot in
  10. puts the bottom rail on top
  11. puts the brakes on

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