wind_up

[wind_up]

Give a preliminary swing to the arm pitching

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Verb
finally be or do something; "He ended up marrying his high school sweetheart"; "he wound up being unemployed and living at home again"

Verb
coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem; "wind your watch"

Verb
stimulate sexually; "This movie usually arouses the male audience"

Verb
give a preliminary swing to the arm pitching


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Usage Examples

The government's view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn't want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better.

The thing about New York is you can leave your house without a plan and find the day. You can't do that in Los Angeles. You need to get in your car, all this, you can't just drive around like a lunatic. In New York, you can literally walk outside, and wind up anywhere.

I don't talk about who I'm dating because when you break up, you wind up reliving it in the media.

I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind of cancer when you're 45 years old. It enrages me that these big cancer-research organizations can't be bothered to man the front lines of environmental protest.

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Other Usage Examples

If I had been on 'Bowling for Dollars,' I'd wind up owing them money.

A lot of Hollywood couples get married young and wind up growing out of their relationship.

The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA.

I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.

You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree.

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