(transitive) To remove dust from.
I think it's time to dust off my old golf clubs, now that I'm retired.
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(transitive, figurative) To use something after a long time without it.
"If you're accused of profiling or pretextual stops, you can bring your daily logbook to court and document that pulling over motorists for 'stickler' reasons is part of your customary pattern," Remsberg writes, "not a glaring exception …
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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.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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