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seckle

seckle verb: to settle down, relax.

Verb

seckle (third-person singular simple present seckles, present participle seckling, simple past and past participle seckled)

  1. (Multicultural-London-English, intransitive, slang, transitive, African-American Vernacular) To settle down, relax.
    • I don't know why you even bothered and got my hopes up / Bitch, I should've just seckled and kept my love gun in my holster2015 July 1, Manga Saint Hilare, “Current Mood”
    • Gotti kisses his teeth and says I only took a little bud. A little bud? Are you mad? I still had half my fucking draw left, don’t try take me for some dickhead and Gotti says seckle yourself and stop shouting man.2020, Gabriel Krauze, Who They Was, London: 4th Estate, →ISBN, page 177

Forms of seckle

third-person singular presentseckles
present participleseckling
past participleseckled
pastseckled

Origin of seckle

Borrowed from Jamaican Creole sekkle, from English settle.

Questions about seckle

What does seckle mean?
Seckle means to settle down, relax.
What part of speech is seckle?
Seckle is a verb.
What is the past tense of seckle?
The past tense of seckle is seckled.

Words near seckle in the dictionary

  1. seckilling
  2. seckills
  3. Seckinger
  4. Seckingers
  5. Seckington
  6. seckle
  7. seckled
  8. seckles
  9. seckling
  10. Seckman
  11. Seckmans

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