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runs with scissors

runs with scissors is the third-person singular simple present indicative of run with scissors.

Meaning of run with scissors

Verb

run with scissors (third-person singular simple present runs with scissors, present participle running with scissors, simple past ran with scissors, past participle run with scissors)

  1. (idiomatic) To behave recklessly.
    • Maybe instead of overprotecting, we should allow Katie, and the thousands other childhood cancer survivors like her, to play in traffic, run with scissors, and walk blindfolded with suckers sticking out of their mouths! Right?2005, Bob Wallace, Flying with Scissors: A Different Perspective on Childhood, page 48
  2. (idiomatic) To take a calculated risk.
    • Fly solo. Sure it’s safer to go with a partner, but every once in awhile^([sic]) you have to run with scissors.1998 June, Jim Gorman, “Get out!”, in Backpacker, page 67
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, scissors.

Questions about runs with scissors

What is runs with scissors the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Runs with scissors is the third-person singular simple present indicative of run with scissors.

Words near runs with scissors in the dictionary

  1. runs up in
  2. runs up in it
  3. runs up on
  4. runs wild
  5. runs with
  6. runs with scissors
  7. runs with the hare and hunts with the hounds
  8. runscorer
  9. runscorers
  10. runscoring
  11. runspace

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