[bor-oh, bawr-oh] 
| 1. | to take or obtain with the promise to return the same or an equivalent: Our neighbor borrowed my lawn mower. |
| 2. | to use, appropriate, or introduce from another source or from a foreign source: to borrow an idea from the opposition; to borrow a word from French. |
| 3. | Arithmetic. (in subtraction) to take from one denomination and add to the next lower. |
| 4. | to borrow something: Don't borrow unless you intend to repay. |
| 5. | Nautical.
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| 6. | Golf. to putt on other than a direct line from the lie of the ball to the hole, to compensate for the incline or roll of the green. |
| 7. | borrow trouble, to do something that is unnecessary and may cause future harm or inconvenience. |
| bor·row (bŏr'ō, bôr'ō) v. bor·rowed, bor·row·ing, bor·rows v. tr.
To obtain or receive something. [Middle English borwen, from Old English borgian; see bhergh-1 in Indo-European roots.] bor'row·er n. |
borrow trouble
Go out of one's way to do something that may be harmful, as in Just sign the will
telling her about it ahead of time is borrowing trouble. [Mid-1800s] Also see ask for, def. 2.