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Run with
verb, slang
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Verb
- 1 To be streaming with a fluid. literally
"After a long run, his face was running with sweat."
- 2 To follow something through to completion or realization. idiomatic, informal
"3M's culture and its organizational structure are all directed to encouraging its people to take an idea and run with it."
- 3 To take an incomplete or inadequate (plan, text, etc.) and develop it further, often with the implication of carelessness. idiomatic, informal
"They took this three-second sound bite and ran with it to try to smear me."
- 4 To be a member of (a gang, hooligan firm, etc.); to associate with a, typically disreputable, individual or group. US, idiomatic, informal
"The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face."
- 5 Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, with.
"The thief was running with the purse in his hands."
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