Wayne was returning home from a business trip... bags in hand ... and slowly making his way to his vehicle in the crowded airport garage.
Suddenly a large dark car screeched to a stop in front of Wayne, and the driver pointed menacingly at him. “Get in," the driver ordered. "I"ll take you to your car."
Startled, Wayne took a step backward. "Ah ... no thanks," he answered. "I can get there myself."
"No," the man barked back as he threw open his passenger side door. "Get In !"
Wayne’s eyes now darted around the garage, hoping to find a security guard.
Just then, the driver’s face softened. "Please," he said, "I’ve been driving up and down for two hours. I can’t find a space to park and I want yours.
v. Discourage, intimidate. daunting adj. [latin domito from domo tame]
DAVIT
n. Small crane on board ship, esp. For moving or holding a lifeboat. [french diminutive of david]
DEALT
past and past part. Of *deal1.
DEATH
certificate n. Official statement of a person's death.
- duty n. Hist. Property tax levied after death.
- n. - irreversible ending of life; dying or being killed.
- instance of this.
- destruction; ending (death of our hopes).
- being dead (eyes closed in death).
- (usu. Death) personification of death, esp. As a skeleton.
- lack of spiritual life. at death's door close to death. Be the death of 1 cause the death of.
- be annoying or harmful to. Catch one's death colloq. Catch a serious chill etc. Do to death 1 kill.
- overdo. Fate worse than death colloq. Very unpleasant experience. Put to death kill or cause to be killed. To death to the utmost, extremely (bored to death). deathlike adj. [old english]
- penalty n. Punishment by death.
- rate n. Number of deaths per thousand of population per year.
- row n. Us part of a prison for those sentenced to death.
- squad n. Armed paramilitary group.
DEBAG
v. (-gg-) slang remove the trousers of (a person), esp. As a joke.
DEBAR
v. (-rr-) (foll. By from) exclude; prohibit (debarred from the club). debarment n. [french: related to *bar1]
DEBIT
—n. - entry in an account recording a sum owed.
- sum recorded.
- total of such sums.
- debit side of an account. —v. (-t-) 1 (foll. By against, to) enter on the debit side of an account (debit £50 to my account).
- (foll. By with) charge (a person) with a debt (debited me with £500). [latin debitum *debt]
DEBUG
v. (-gg-) colloq. - remove concealed microphones from (a room etc.).
- remove defects from (a computer program etc.).
- = *delouse.
DEBUT
n. (brit. Debut) first public appearance (as a performer etc.). [french]
- n. (us debut) first public appearance (as a performer etc.). [french]
