User:Soap/scrambled

These are words with multiple senses, but where the quotes and use examples have been strewn about into the most inappropriate places.

=throw up=

Verb

 * 1) * 2011,, "Baffled at a Bookcase", London Review of Books, XXXIII.15:
 * In 1944, believing, as people in Leeds tended to do, that flying bombs or no flying bombs, things were better Down South, Dad threw up his job with the Co-op and we migrated to Guildford.
 * 1)  To vomit.
 * 2) * 1910,, 
 * The servant (who) had first entered had thrown up the window
 * 1) To produce something new or unexpected.
 * 2) To cause something such as dust or water to rise into the air.
 * 3)  To erect, particularly hastily.
 * 4)  To give up, abandon something.
 * 5) * 1872, Every Saturday (page 96)
 * Every depression in the ground had been utilized; every rise taken advantage of, to dig rifle-pits or throw up a little earthwork, surrounded with sand-bags
 * 1) To display a gang sign using the hands.
 * 2)  To enlarge, as a picture reflected on a screen.
 * 1)  To give up, abandon something.
 * 2) * 1872, Every Saturday (page 96)
 * Every depression in the ground had been utilized; every rise taken advantage of, to dig rifle-pits or throw up a little earthwork, surrounded with sand-bags
 * 1) To display a gang sign using the hands.
 * 2)  To enlarge, as a picture reflected on a screen.
 * 1) To display a gang sign using the hands.
 * 2)  To enlarge, as a picture reflected on a screen.
 * 1)  To enlarge, as a picture reflected on a screen.

=blow up=

Verb
=bring up=
 * 1)  To blow something upward.
 * 2)  To explode or be destroyed by explosion.
 * 3)  To cause (something or someone) to explode, or to destroy (something) or maim or kill (someone) by means of an explosion.
 * 4)  To inflate or fill with air, either by literally blowing or using an air pump.
 * 5)  To enlarge or zoom in.
 * 6)  To fail disastrously.
 * 7)  To become popular very quickly.
 * 8)  To suddenly get very angry.
 * 9)  To become much more fat or rotund in a short space of time.
 * 10) * 1999, Eminem, My Name Is (song)
 * You know you blew up when the women rush your stands / And try to touch your hands like some screaming Usher fans
 * 1)  To inflate, as with pride, self-conceit, etc.; to puff up.
 * 2)  To excite.
 * 3) * 2015,
 * They're blowing up our phones, asking where we are / Just say we're almost there; we ain't even in the car
 * 1)  To scold violently.
 * 2)  To blow the whistle.
 * 3)  To succumb to oxygen debt and lose the ability to maintain pace in a race.
 * 4)  To bombard with a large number of calls, texts, etc., often exasperating the recipient.
 * 5) * 1807, The Port Folio (page 313)
 * did not choose to comply with her wishes. Upon which Mrs. Basset, in the language of the Old Bailey, nabbed the rust; insisted upon some liquor, would not quit the house without it, and began to blow up the hostess and blast the rose.
 * 1)  Receiving a large number of calls or notifications to the point of making the device effectively unusable.
 * 2)  To cause a malodorous smell by flatulation or defecation.
 * 1)  To excite.
 * 2) * 2015,
 * They're blowing up our phones, asking where we are / Just say we're almost there; we ain't even in the car
 * 1)  To scold violently.
 * 2)  To blow the whistle.
 * 3)  To succumb to oxygen debt and lose the ability to maintain pace in a race.
 * 4)  To bombard with a large number of calls, texts, etc., often exasperating the recipient.
 * 5) * 1807, The Port Folio (page 313)
 * did not choose to comply with her wishes. Upon which Mrs. Basset, in the language of the Old Bailey, nabbed the rust; insisted upon some liquor, would not quit the house without it, and began to blow up the hostess and blast the rose.
 * 1)  Receiving a large number of calls or notifications to the point of making the device effectively unusable.
 * 2)  To cause a malodorous smell by flatulation or defecation.
 * 1)  To succumb to oxygen debt and lose the ability to maintain pace in a race.
 * 2)  To bombard with a large number of calls, texts, etc., often exasperating the recipient.
 * 3) * 1807, The Port Folio (page 313)
 * did not choose to comply with her wishes. Upon which Mrs. Basset, in the language of the Old Bailey, nabbed the rust; insisted upon some liquor, would not quit the house without it, and began to blow up the hostess and blast the rose.
 * 1)  Receiving a large number of calls or notifications to the point of making the device effectively unusable.
 * 2)  To cause a malodorous smell by flatulation or defecation.
 * 1)  Receiving a large number of calls or notifications to the point of making the device effectively unusable.
 * 2)  To cause a malodorous smell by flatulation or defecation.
 * 1)  To cause a malodorous smell by flatulation or defecation.
 * 1)  To cause a malodorous smell by flatulation or defecation.

=kill / slay= kill / slay. No scrambling needed here ... I'd say that the sentences are funny enough the way they're written, because all of the definitions except the literal use are just expressive metaphors of the literal use.
 * Our team has been trailing in the standings all season, but last night we absolutely killed the visiting team.

=get off= I want to do this one properly with all 24 senses out of place and not just the most obvious ones, but it will take more work than the others up above.

Verb

 * 1)  To move from being on top of (something) to not being on top of it.
 * 2)  To move (something) from being on top of (something else) to not being on top of it.
 * 3)  To stop touching or physically interfering with something or someone.
 * 4)  To cause (something) to stop touching or interfering with (something else).
 * 5)  To stop using a piece of equipment, such as a telephone or computer.
 * 6)  To disembark, especially from mass transportation such as a bus or train; to depart from (a path, highway, etc).
 * 7)  To make or help someone be ready to leave a place (especially to go to another place).
 * 8)  To leave (somewhere) and start (a trip).
 * 9)  To leave one's job, or leave school, as scheduled or with permission.
 * 10)  To reserve or have a period of time as a vacation from work.
 * 11)  To acquire (something) from (someone).
 * 12)  To escape serious or severe consequences; to receive only mild or no punishment (or injuries, etc) for something one has done or been accused of.
 * 13)  To help someone to escape serious or severe consequences and receive only mild or no punishment.
 * 14)   To (write and) send (something); to discharge.
 * 15)  To utter.
 * 16)  To make (someone) fall asleep.
 * 17)  To fall asleep.
 * 18)  To excite or arouse, especially in a sexual manner, as to cause to experience orgasm.
 * 19)  To experience great pleasure, especially sexual pleasure; in particular, to experience an orgasm.
 * 20)  To kiss; to smooch.
 * 21)  To get high (on a drug).
 * 22)  To find enjoyment (in behaving in a presumptuous, rude, or intrusive manner).
 * 23)  To achieve (a goal); to successfully perform.
 * 1)  To achieve (a goal); to successfully perform.




 * 1) * 1975, Mary Sanches, Ben G. Blount, Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Use (page 47)
 * For example, one addict would crack shorts (break and enter cars) and usually obtain just enough stolen goods to buy stuff and get off just before getting sick.
 * 1) * 1942-1963, J. F. Powers, quoted in 2013, Katherine A. Powers, Suitable Accommodations: An Autobiographical Story of Family Life: The Letters of J. F. Powers, 1942-1963, Macmillan (ISBN 9780374268060), page 155:
 * I heard Nelson Algren on the Chez Show, a radio program emanating from the Sapphire Bar of the Chez Paree—you see I've sunk to the lower depths—and he got off a line about Hollywood being a con man's paradise, which wasn't a very ...
 * 1) * 1991, Newsweek:
 * When Quayle looked silly by saying he would be a "pit bull" in the 1992 campaign, David Letterman got off a line about it ("For Halloween, he's going to be a Ninja Turtle"), but the general reaction was curiously tame.
 * 1) * 2001, Ken Follett, Jackdaws, Dutton, ISBN 0525946284, page 140:
 * "And you're the only person in the country who can do it."
 * "Get off," she said skeptically.
 * 1) * 1981, Magnus J. Krynski and Robert A. Maguire, “A Million Laughs, A Bright Hope”, translating Wisława Szymborska, “Sto Pociech” in Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems by Wisława Szymborska:
 * "en"
 * 1) * 2001, Ken Follett, Jackdaws, Dutton, ISBN 0525946284, page 140:
 * "And you're the only person in the country who can do it."
 * "Get off," she said skeptically.
 * 1) * 1981, Magnus J. Krynski and Robert A. Maguire, “A Million Laughs, A Bright Hope”, translating Wisława Szymborska, “Sto Pociech” in Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems by Wisława Szymborska:
 * "en"
 * "Get off," she said skeptically.
 * 1) * 1981, Magnus J. Krynski and Robert A. Maguire, “A Million Laughs, A Bright Hope”, translating Wisława Szymborska, “Sto Pociech” in Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems by Wisława Szymborska:
 * "en"

- in a word: he’s almost nobody, but his head’s filled with freedom, omniscience, transcendence beyond his foolish flesh, just where does he get off!


 * 1) * 1962, Henry Lawson, Prose Works:
 * Then he was charged with killing some sheep and a steer on the run, and converting them to his own use, but got off mainly because there was a difference of opinion between the squatter and the other local J.P. concerning politics ...
 * 1) * 1970, Milton Travers, Each Other's Victims (page 43)
 * The beginner's dose may be anywhere from 100 to 250 mikes — micrograms, or millionths of a gram. Most hardened heads need 600 to 800 mikes, and some as many as 1,400 mikes, before they experience any sensation of getting off.
 * 1) * 2017, Barbara Robey Egloff Shackett, Stranded in Montana; Dumped in Arizona, Dorrance Publishing (ISBN 9781480939974), page 202:
 * They said if they sent a form to me it would take about ten days, but if I could get a form off the Internet, I would greatly speed up the process.
 * 1) * 1970, Milton Travers, Each Other's Victims (page 43)
 * The beginner's dose may be anywhere from 100 to 250 mikes — micrograms, or millionths of a gram. Most hardened heads need 600 to 800 mikes, and some as many as 1,400 mikes, before they experience any sensation of getting off.
 * 1) * 2017, Barbara Robey Egloff Shackett, Stranded in Montana; Dumped in Arizona, Dorrance Publishing (ISBN 9781480939974), page 202:
 * They said if they sent a form to me it would take about ten days, but if I could get a form off the Internet, I would greatly speed up the process.
 * 1) * 2017, Barbara Robey Egloff Shackett, Stranded in Montana; Dumped in Arizona, Dorrance Publishing (ISBN 9781480939974), page 202:
 * They said if they sent a form to me it would take about ten days, but if I could get a form off the Internet, I would greatly speed up the process.