Definitions
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- v. Present participle of palm.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Of course, the card that both Democrats and Republicans have been palming is the $Trillions in unfunded guarantees and loans that the Fed has been making.
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It had a rough resemblance to a pocket pistol, and gave me the idea of palming it off as such.
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Another anecdote is about three referees each calling palming on Allen Iverson in the first quarter of a particular game.
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"palming" -- _i. e._, secretly holding an object in the open hand by the contraction of the palm.
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Sure, a few advances have come along, such as palming rims, better metals and machining, and more sophisticated drags.
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It should be here mentioned that the term "palming" which we have so far used as meaning simply the act of holding any article, is also employed to signify the act of placing any article in the palm by one or the other of various passes.
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In the motion of "palming," the two hands must work in harmony, as in the genuine act of passing an article from the one hand to the other.
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This he accomplished by the familiar "palming" method.
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But Swampy had got a suspicion somehow that one of those pennies had two heads on it, and he wasn't sure that the other hadn't two tails -- also, he suspected Brummy of some skill in "palming," so he picked up a chip from the wood-heap, spat on it, and spun it into the air.
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Lena stroked their thick necks and rubbed their chests, palming their large loyal canine hearts.
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