palmed
past simple and past participle ofpalm
palm
verb[T]
uk/pɑːm/us/pɑːm/to make somethingseemtodisappearbyhidingit in the palm ofyourhandaspartof atrick, or tostealsomething bypickingit up in a way that will not benoticed:
Isuspectedthat he had palmed aplayingcard.
Hiding and disguising
- be holed upidiom
- booby trap
- camo
- camouflage
- camouflaged
- cloak
- drown
- hiding
- hit the deckidiom
- hole up (somewhere)
- illusion
- incognito
- secrete
- shroud
- shut
- shutsomeone/somethingout
- sidle
- skulk
- smokescreen
- tuck
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Stealing
Phrasal verbs
palmsomethingoff
palmsomeoneoff withsomething
Examplesofpalmed
palmed
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
They arepalmedoff on the poor and it is the poor who are plundered by this deliberate, wanton, fraudulent, misrepresentation.
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Genetically modified maize is beingpalmedoff on consumers, and keeping everything secret like this is contrary to consumers' interests.
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Let no one suppose that all this can bepalmedoff on to shareholders or that it is only a matter of concern to them.
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I am sorry to say that there is no consistent overall plan and you leave everything open - everything ispalmedoff on subsidiarity.
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To get round this inconvenient fact, some patients have beenpalmedoff on to physiotherapy practitioners, thus eliminating them altogether from the waiting list statistics.
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If the customer asks for a milk drink, in future he will get it, whatever may have beenpalmedoff on him in the past.
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Knowing the full implications of that decision, it hid from the reality andpalmedoff the fishing communities.
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Worse still, the debts will bepalmedoff on to other people's laps.
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They have not used these deleterious compounds whch have beenpalmedoff on this country.
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I hope that the problem has not beenpalmedoff on to a study as a way of deflecting pressure and aggravation.
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We will not stand for beingpalmedoff with second-rate stuff.
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Their interest is genuine and schoolmasters cannot palm off on them things which werepalmedoff even on my generation.
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We all know what happens to the lady in the three-card trick: it is shown briefly and thenpalmedby the con man.
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The monk fish is important for our fishermen because it fetches a high price nowadays; it ispalmedoff in many restaurants as scampi because of its quality.
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This we conceive to be the boldest paralogism that was ever offered to the world, orpalmedupon willing credulity.
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