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Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of parlay.
Etymologies
- Alteration of paroli, staking of double the sum staked before in faro, from French, from obsolete Italian, probably from Italian parare, to place a bet, from Latin parāre, to prepare; see pare.
Examples
“He will try to replicate Barbara Walters 'and Meredith Vieira's successes in parlaying their serious journalism backgrounds into successful daytime gigs.”
“Who can really take pride in creating fictitious people and assigning them a gender and a name and parlaying this to the public.”
“You have a better shot at being a millionaire by parlaying your union-benefits job into savings that you put into a house and starting capital for a small business or investments than you would as a non-union wage-slave at, say, Wal-Mart.”
“The holdings are enormous, and sales, even at a discount, could cover the system's needs for years, much less the time to finish budget parlaying.”
The Wall Street Journal: The Debt Battle Is Good for the GOP
“Since it emerged that he would be participating in this year's Strictly, the badinage on his Twitter feed has been considerably less "self‑confident" than usual, suggesting that here was a man who had finally realised he was out of his comfort zone, a safe haven where he can generally be found parlaying about football with other football men.”
The Guardian: Bad boy Robbie Savage finds life tough outside his comfort zone | Barry Glendenning
“And they've been parlaying their remixed subculture far beyond L.A. Here's Far East Movement at a club in the agricultural town of Bakersfield, California.”
“In the summer of 1982, at the Sacramento County Fair, twelve-year-old Ben Holden could not be beat, parlaying a black light poster of Blue Öyster Cult into a San Francisco 49ers AstroTurf doormat that graced the hall outside his bedroom.”
“HOUSTON - A pilot accused of parlaying phony NASA, CIA and war credentials into access to some of the space agency's highest security areas was in custody Tuesday, charged with impersonating a federal officer.”
“HOUSTON - A pilot accused of parlaying phony credentials into access to high-security areas at NASA has been arrested, charged with impersonating a federal officer.”
“HOUSTON (AP) - A pilot accused of parlaying phony NASA, CIA and war credentials into access to some of the space agency's highest security areas was in custody Tuesday, charged with impersonating a federal officer.”
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