reef
v.— «Son of Briartic started cranking his head sideways during the stretch run. “All those people were there.…But I was reefing on him. He responded well.”» —“It was all hollering and hoots for Souter” by Beverley Smith Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada) June 28, 1982. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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