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    [Verb]  | "sell" | \ ˈsel \


    1: to deliver or give up in violation of duty, trust, or loyalty and especially for personal gain : betray —often used with out

    2: to give up (property) to another for something of value (such as money)

    3: to offer for sale

    Origin: before 12th century ;

     Middle English, from Old English sellan; akin to Old High German sellen to sell, Greek helein to take;

    [Verb]  | "sell off" 


    1: to suffer a drop in prices

    Origin: 1976 ;

    [Verb]  | "sell out" 


    1: to sell the goods of (a debtor) in order to satisfy creditors

    2: to sell security or commodity holdings of usually to satisfy an uncovered margin

    3: to sell all the available tickets for

    Origin: 1796 ;

    [Noun]  | "sell" 


    1: a deliberate deception : hoax

    2: the act or an instance of selling

    3: something to be sold or caused to be accepted; also : someone to whom something is sold

    Origin: 1838 ;

    [Noun]  | "sell" | \ ˈsel \


    1: saddle

    Origin: 15th century ;

     Middle English selle, from Anglo-French sele, from Latin sella{mat|settle|};

    [Noun]  | "sell-by date" | \ ˈsel-ˌbī- \


    1: a date printed on food packages showing the last day on which the food can be sold —sometimes used figuratively

    Origin: 1971 ;

    [Noun]  | "sell-off" | \ ˈsel-ˌȯf \


    1: a usually sudden sharp decline in security prices accompanied by increased volume of trading

    Origin: 1976 ;

    [Idiom]  | "sell a pup" 


    1: to trick someone into paying too much for something or into buying something that is worthless

    [Verb]  | "sell" 


    1: to offer for sale to the public;


      * e.g., " ... used to sell groceries in a small neighborhood market "




    [Verb]  | "sell (for)" 


    1: to have a price of;


      * e.g., " ... the house is selling for $200,000 "



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    [Verb]  | "sell (out)" 


    1: to be unfaithful or disloyal to;


      * e.g., " ... the band sold out its faithful followers, abandoning its edgy style for a more commercial sound "




    [Phrase]  | "sell a bill of goods to" 


    1: to rob by the use of trickery or threats;


      * e.g., " ... He's just selling a bill of goods to voters to garner a following. "



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    [Phrase]  | "sell down the river" 


    1: to be unfaithful or disloyal to;


      * e.g., " ... He didn't expect to be sold down the river by someone he had known for so long. "




    [Phrase]  | "sell short" 


    1: to place too low a value on;


      * e.g., " ... I think you're selling yourself short; you're much better at this than you think you are. "




     [ "sell" ]

    1: the Utahn version of "sale" or "sail"

      * e.g.,  ... ) I once went selling in a sellboat 

     [ "Selling" ]

    1: Choking, especially in a video game; making a dumb or unforced error; getting carried; being a bot; throwing

      * e.g.,  ... “Bro you’re selling so hard right now, my back hurts from carrying you so much” 

     [ "Selling" ]

    1: When playing the game “NBA 2k19” and shooting contested shots and yelling GREEN and missing your shots.

      * e.g.,  ... You’re selling dude. 

     [ "Sell" ]

    1: Commonly used as the basketball game 2k to "Sell" is to not do good as usual or to throw the game away and do bad.

      * e.g.,  ... An example of Sell: Man I played with Shawn and he sold the game when we were up 15-0 

     [ "no-sell" ]

    1: Acting as if something never happened, or acting like something is not as major as it really is.

      * e.g.,  ... Undertaker no-sold the dust that Booker T threw at him. 

     [ "Selling" ]

    1: Someone who is doing bad

      * e.g.,  ... Example #1 Daquaves was selling in trios so they didn't make any money Example #2 He could be so good but his duo might sell 

     [ "Sell It" ]

    1: love your life, own it, do it, live it up, be amazing

      * e.g.,  ... That girl is really SELLING IT today! omg i know she looks so hott. Time to go sell it at the party. We really sold our lives tonight. 

     [ "Sell" ]

    1: Purposely throwing, or choking in a video game, like League Of Legends, or other video games like NBA 2K21.

      * e.g.,  ... Friend 1: Yo Aldin sells too much wtf???? 

     [ "Sell" ]

    2: A person who sells too much is known as a seller.

      * e.g.,  ... Friend 2: I know lets beat the shit out of him 

     [ "selling" ]

    1: To be dealing drugs.

      * e.g.,  ... The minimum that I'm selling is QP's. 

     [ "Sell-in" ]

    1: The opposite of buy-in. When a person or group cannot actually commit to something unless they are given something in return, usually for much greater that its actual value, and shamelessly at a ridiculous cost. The seller invests nothing, but lies about ownership when he or she is actually bought at the expense of the organization. There is no sense of pride, only personal gain.

      * e.g.,  ... The labor union cannot commit to anything, but if you give them over time or comp time, they will sell-in to anything, just so they can say they have ownership without actually investing their effort or commitment. 

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