tv. to reduce someone's self-assurance; to reduce someone's conceit. : I took the starch out of Kelly by telling him where he was headed if he didn't change his ways.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
