humble
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Is humble a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (Baltimore, slang) An arrest based on weak evidence intended to demean or punish the subject.Examples: "You're on a corner in my district, it ain't gonna be about no humble, it ain't gonna be about no loitering charge, nothing like that. There gonna be some biblical shit happening to you on the way to that motherfucking jail wagon."; "Years ago, guys on Baltimore's streets would have, by definition, called an arrest for loitering a "humble.""; "A humble is a cheap, inconsequential arrest that nonetheless gives the guy a night or two in jail before he sees a court commissioner. You can arrest people on “failure to obey,” it’s a humble. Loitering is a humble. These things were used by police officers going back to the ‘60s in Baltimore. It’s the ultimate recourse for a cop who doesn't like somebody who's looking at him the wrong way."slang
verb (English)
1. (ambitransitive) To defeat or reduce the power, independence, or pride of.Examples: "Here, take this purse, thou whom the heaven's plagues have humbled to all strokes."; "Humble yourselues therefore vnder the mighty hand of God, that hee may exalt you in due time,"; "But, after the death of the master, the servant proved himself capable of supplying with eminent ability the master's place, and was renowned throughout Europe as one of the great Triumvirate which humbled the pride of Lewis the Fourteenth."ambitransitive
2. (transitive, often reflexive) To make humble or lowly; to make less proud or arrogant; to make meek and submissive.Examples: "And you say you've been humbled in love / Cut down in your love / Forced to kneel in the mud next to me"; "The final, quiet moments of the book return to Sten; his experience of his sick son humbles him, just as his aging body humbles him, and Boyle seems to suggest this makes him a better man."oftenreflexivetransitive
verb (English)
1. (intransitive, chiefly obsolete) To hum.Examples: "humbling and bumbling"intransitiveobsolete
noun (English)
1. (Northern England, Scotland, also attributive) Alternative form of hummel.Examples: "humble cattle"Northern-EnglandScotlandalsoalt-ofalternativeattributive
verb (English)
1. (transitive) Alternative form of hummel.alt-ofalternativetransitive
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