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| to swindle, cheat, hoodwink, or hoax. |
| to run away hurriedly; flee. |
| tape (teɪp) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a long thin strip, made of cotton, linen, etc, used for binding, fastening, etc |
| 2. | any long narrow strip of cellulose, paper, metal, etc, having similar uses |
| 3. | a string stretched across the track at the end of a race course |
| 4. | slang chiefly (Brit) military another word for stripe |
| 5. | magnetic tape ticker tape paper tape See tape recording |
| —vb | |
| 6. | (also intr) Also: tape-record to record (speech, music, etc) |
| 7. | to furnish with tapes |
| 8. | to bind, measure, secure, or wrap with tape |
| 9. | informal (Brit) (usually passive) to take stock of (a person or situation); sum up: he's got the job taped |
| [Old English tæppe; related to Old Frisian tapia to pull, Middle Dutch tapen to tear] | |
| 'tapelike | |
| —adj | |
| 'taper | |
| —n | |