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Face off   /feɪs ɔf/   Listen
Face off

verb
1.
Start a game by a face-off.  Synonym: bully off.






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"Face off" Quotes from Famous Books



... now livid with anger and losing all control over her words and actions, her eyes flashing with maddened rage and the froth working from her lips. "I'll let you ken or no'. I'll tear the pented face off your new doll; and I'll sort you too, you dirty ...
— The Underworld - The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner • James C. Welsh

... rest. Have good things to cook and good things to cook with. Of all people in our country, you should live the best. Throw your miserable little stoves out of the window. Get ranges, and have them so built that your wife need not burn her face off to get you a breakfast. Do not make her cook in a kitchen hot as the orthodox perdition. The beef, not the cook, should be roasted. It is just as easy to have things convenient and right as to have them any ...
— The Ghosts - And Other Lectures • Robert G. Ingersoll

... at us. 'I don't very well understand this damned lingo,' he said; 'but if so be you dirty Dutchmen are sayin' anything against England, I'll ask you to repeat it. And if so be as you repeats it I'll take either of you on and knock the face off him.' ...
— Greenmantle • John Buchan

... he was preparing to face off, the master skated up and asked the umpire for time. At once ...
— Glengarry Schooldays • Ralph Connor



Words linked to "Face off" :   face-off, play



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