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squeeze the pips

squeeze the pips verb: to wring all available resources out of something.

Verb

squeeze the pips (third-person singular simple present squeezes the pips, present participle squeezing the pips, simple past and past participle squeezed the pips)

  1. To wring all available resources out of something.
    • […] he had not been able to grab and squeeze the pips of the rich, so to speak, and catch and use their juice for his own.2011, Gill Knox, The Legacy of the Talents, page 86
    • The Empire disintegrated as the money holding it together ran out. Except the really poor bits who wanted to squeeze the pips to get a cash injection from the 'Mother Country' by screaming 'Imperialism' at the politicians that had been given a politically correct indoctrination (sorry, education).2012, Harvey Beach, Apocalypse Overture, page 11

Forms of squeeze the pips

third-person singular presentsqueezes the pips
present participlesqueezing the pips
past participlesqueezed the pips
pastsqueezed the pips

Questions about squeeze the pips

What does squeeze the pips mean?
Squeeze the pips means to wring all available resources out of something.
What part of speech is squeeze the pips?
Squeeze the pips is a verb.
What is the past tense of squeeze the pips?
The past tense of squeeze the pips is squeezed the pips.

Words near squeeze the pips in the dictionary

  1. squeeze out
  2. squeeze play
  3. squeeze plays
  4. squeeze stile
  5. squeeze stiles
  6. squeeze the pips
  7. squeeze theorem
  8. squeeze under
  9. squeeze up
  10. squeeze zoom
  11. squeeze zooms

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