give it to someone
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give it to someone
verb gives it to someone · giving it to someone · gave it to someone · given it to someone
- To beat up, shoot, rob, murder, hit or provoke someone.
- To put up a good fight against someone.
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To punish, criticize or verbally abuse someone.
Similar: chastise, give what for, amerce, castigate, chasten, come down on, correct, fix someone's wagon, have someone's guts for garters, have someone's head, have someone's hide, give it to someone
- To have sexual relations with someone; to allow someone to have sex with oneself. Someone else was kissing her old boyfriend Darren, some other girl wearing his class ring and letting him give it to her in one of Erasmus's abandoned stairwells.
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To give someone credit; to praise someone.
I really have to give it to you. You did a great job!
Similar: hand it to someone
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