put-put
投放-投放
Definitions
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- : the sound made by a small internal-combustion engine or imitative of its operation.
- : Informal. a small internal-combustion engine, or something, as a boat or model airplane, equipped with one: the sound of distant put-puts on the lake.
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put-put·ted, put-put·ting.
- : Informal. to operate with sounds suggesting a put-put, as a small motor or motor-driven device.
Examples
To put it rather uncharitably, the USPHS practiced a major dental experiment on a city full of unconsenting subjects.
Kennedy: "Mankind must put an end to war — or war will put an end to mankind."
Obsessive exercising and inadequate nutrition can, over time, put people at high risk for overuse injuries like stress fractures.
When I put their allegations to Epstein, he denied them and went into overdrive.
We did ThunderAnt stuff for ourselves and just put it online, and then it blossomed into something else.
He was voluble in his declarations that they would “put the screws” to Ollie on the charge of perjury.
Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
This is the place where the Muscovite criminals are banished to, if they are not put to death.
Let them open their minds to us, let them put upon permanent record the significance of all their intrigues and manœuvres.
Before the spinet a bench was placed about four feet below the keys, and I was put upon the bench.