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Animal-verb challenge. Can you think of the name of an animal that can also be used as a verb? Example:

The Yankees skunked the Red Sox 6-0.

Posted - July 8, 2022

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  • 1500
    You can dog a dog. Or hound it.
      July 8, 2022 1:07 PM MDT
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  • 44608
    You can dog a hatch or a door on ships.
      July 8, 2022 1:35 PM MDT
    4

  • 1500
    Don't rat me out.
      July 8, 2022 2:04 PM MDT
    6

  • 23577
    Ha! :)
      July 8, 2022 5:05 PM MDT
    4

  • 848
    hogtied
    buffaloed
    lionized
    ferreted
    cowed
    goosed
    parroted
    floundered 
    spidered
    wormed
    sponged
    fawned
      July 8, 2022 1:29 PM MDT
    5

  • 44608
    One doesn't hear buffaloed very often. I'm the only one I know who uses it.
      July 8, 2022 3:50 PM MDT
    4

  • 1633
    The river snaked.

      July 8, 2022 2:03 PM MDT
    5

  • 34270
    Catting around
    chickened out
    ducked for cover


      July 8, 2022 2:46 PM MDT
    5

  • 16777
    Is wasn't a good look when the President fished for compliments.
      July 8, 2022 5:09 PM MDT
    4

  • 53509

     

      (Is It wasn’t . . . )

      July 9, 2022 7:58 PM MDT
    0

  • 13277
    It’s a slight digression, but one may kill a roach or smoke one, usually held with a roach clip.
      July 8, 2022 5:14 PM MDT
    3

  • 34270
    Not a verb...
      July 9, 2022 6:49 PM MDT
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  • 13277
    As I said, it was a digression.
      July 9, 2022 7:24 PM MDT
    0

  • 44608
    Nice catch, that.
      July 10, 2022 5:01 PM MDT
    2

  • 10052
    swallow
    kite
    horse 
    monkey 
    crane
    fox
    cock
    bat

      July 8, 2022 8:13 PM MDT
    4

  • 44608

    Please explain 'kite' as a verb.
      July 9, 2022 3:38 PM MDT
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  • 10052
    I'll just let dictionary.com or whatever do it for me. ;)

    kite

    [ kahyt ]SHOW IPA
     
    See synonyms for: kite / kited / kiting on Thesaurus.com
    ???? Middle School Level
     

    noun
    a light frame covered with some thin material, to be flown in the wind at the end of a long string.
    any of several small birds of the hawk family Accipitridae that have long, pointed wings, feed on insects, carrion, reptiles, rodents, and birds, and are noted for their graceful, gliding flight.Compare black kiteswallow-tailed kitewhite-tailed kite.
    Nauticalflying kite.
    SEE MORE
    verb (used without object), kit·ed, kit·ing.
    Informalto fly or move with a rapid or easy motion like that of a kite.
    to obtain money or credit through kites.
    verb (used with object), kit·ed, kit·ing.
    to employ (a check or the like) as a kite; to cash or pass (a kite, forged check, etc.).
      July 9, 2022 4:32 PM MDT
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  • 44608
    Thanks...I was too lazy to look it up.
      July 9, 2022 4:35 PM MDT
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  • 10052
    I am sure I learned it in either a crime novel or film. It made sense to me. In one word I would say it means 'float'. 
      July 10, 2022 12:54 PM MDT
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  • 53509

     

      The skipper crowed on and on about how his ship was the best one in the harbor.

      I’d ask them what’s the going rate for tilde sales, but they’d probably just parrot the same old litany about market fluctuation.  Grrrrrrr.

      Pig out if you want to; you’re still going to run five miles with me later today.

      See if you can squirrel your way into their poker game. 

      Fish the avocado bits out of the soup and toss them aside, please. Grrrrrrr. 

      Fly over to Element’s place and bug him as to whether or not insects can be included here.

      I can’t bear to avoid giving these next examples, even knowing full well that they might not count.

      The dove dove just above treetop level.

      You otter check the dictionary for the correct word.
    ~

    This post was edited by Randy D at July 10, 2022 8:50 PM MDT
      July 9, 2022 9:41 PM MDT
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  • 44608
    Insects are animals; therefore acceptable.
    Pig out if...
      July 10, 2022 5:03 PM MDT
    1