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"make out" has an awful lot of meanings for two words that seemingly don't make any sense together

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Submitted ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨TheTechnician27@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨showerthoughts@lemmy.world⁩

The Wiktionary entry for “make out” for reference.

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  • teft@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Phrasal verbs are weird. Get up has even more definitions:

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/get_up

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    • AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      May I draw your attention to the humble single word “set” which has 48 definitions?

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      • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Try “run”. :)

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  • fubo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I saw a bumper sticker yesterday that was a PG-rated version of an old slogan: MAKE OUT, NOT WAR

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  • cloudless@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    English is a weird language.

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    • ray@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s definitely not as straightforward as it’s made out to be

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  • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Some of those feel made up.

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    • Test_Tickles@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They all seemed legit to me.

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  • charonn0@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “Make out” makes out so many things.

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  • Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I made out like a bandit!

    …stupid sexy bandit

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