dust off
(transitive, slang) To jilt or desert (a person).
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it's awful.. every two years they dust off squirrel nut zippers and big bad voodoo daddy and it's all you hear for like eight months
DOUBLE O-BEHAVE! #GamerPauly & #PlanoGaming Are Back with another collab! #FirstLight #Steam #PC #Giveaways Dust off your Walther PPK, pack your gadgets and enter this AWESOME #Giveaway !! Winner announced on or b…
Ralph is giving his back a much needed rest, but he never leaves the #Garmy empty handed! Dust off your quarantine sweatpants and enjoy a Flashback episode from 2020! To #TheRalphReport Wayback Machine!
Was wondering when someone would finally dust off the guarantee clause. It's been needed
In the shower (attachment over bath) and when finished reached across to bathroom door to flick dust off the panelling, slipped and put my knee through the bath, cutting my knee. Had to get a repair kit to patch the b…
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(transitive, slang) To jilt or desert (a person).
For the Pleurotus mycelium to digest the used cigarette butts it might have to dust off an unused metabolic move.
“Was wondering when someone would finally dust off the guarantee clause. It's been needed”
— Bluesky· May 2026“In the shower (attachment over bath) and when finished reached across to bathroom door to flick dust off the panelling, slipped and put my knee through the bath, cutting my knee. Had to get a repair kit to patch the bath.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Yes! Past time to dust off the guarantee clause”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Tell Trump there’s rare minerals there. He’ll try to fly his HOEmobile to the moon. ( dust off your hands). Problem solved. 🙌🏼🫶🏼🙌🏼🫵🏼🖕🏻”
— Bluesky· May 2026“I say we dust off and nuke the site from orbit.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(transitive, figurative) To use something after a long time without it.
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(transitive) To remove dust from.
I think it's time to dust off my old golf clubs, now that I'm retired.
“it's awful.. every two years they dust off squirrel nut zippers and big bad voodoo daddy and it's all you hear for like eight months”
— Bluesky· May 2026“DOUBLE O-BEHAVE! #GamerPauly & #PlanoGaming Are Back with another collab! #FirstLight #Steam #PC #Giveaways Dust off your Walther PPK, pack your gadgets and enter this AWESOME #Giveaway !! Winner announced on or before 27th May 2026 ENTER HERE👇 x.com/GamerPauly/s...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Ralph is giving his back a much needed rest, but he never leaves the #Garmy empty handed! Dust off your quarantine sweatpants and enjoy a Flashback episode from 2020! To #TheRalphReport Wayback Machine!”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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