(transitive, informal, mostly, in the passive) To arrest; (especially) to track down and arrest.
The guys who robbed the bank last week have finally been run in.
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(transitive, British) To use new machinery at less than full speed, preventing damage.
I have to drive slowly for the first 1,000 miles to run the engine in.
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(figuratively) To start a new regime slowly.
Toeava went over unopposed to stretch his side's lead but Japan got on the scoreboard on 56 minutes, wing Hirotoki Onozawa intercepting an attempted offload from Slade, who had a rather flaky game, and running in from the All Blacks' 10m…
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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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