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81buy — [OE] Buy has relatives in most other Germanic languages, with the exception of German, and can be traced back to a prehistoric Germanic *bugjan (the Old English form was bycgan), but no non Germanic connections have ever been identified …
82buy it — vp To die. If you don t slow down, you re going to buy it in a car accident. 1960s …
83buy\ up — v. phr. To purchase the entire stock of something. The company is trying to buy up all the available shares …
84buy in — purchase a supply of (something); purchase something that provides membership or participation to a group (buy into a company, etc.) …
85buy up — purchase other companies, buy the competition; purchase all the stock …
86buy — to secure the services of a prostitute The precise nature of the accord and satisfaction is not stipulated: A geisha of the first or second tier cannot be bought for a single night. (Golden, 1997) See also buy love …
87buy it — informal be killed. → buy …
88Buy — Sp Bùjus Ap Буй/Buy L u. RF Kirovo, Permės sr., Baškirijoje, Marijoje, Udmurtijoje; mst. Kostromos sr …
89buy — 1. verb they bought a new house Syn: purchase, acquire, obtain, get, pick up; take, procure, pay for; invest in; informal get hold of, snatch up, snap up, grab, score Ant: sell 2. noun …
90buy — v 1. purchase, pick up, pay for, get one s hands on, come by; invest in, put money into; acquire, obtain, get, procure, secure; hire, engage, take on. 2. bribe, suborn, pay off, buy off, Sl. grease [s.o. s] palm; fix, Inf. rig, Inf. square. n 3.… …
