Definition of pencil in

pencil in    

verb - transitive

• to tentatively add something to one's schedule.

  I called my doctor and he penciled me in for today.

                                                                                                                                                      
  
  Citation from "The Righteous Brothers", Arrested Development (TV, 2005), Season 2 Episode 18 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

  • See more words with the same meaning: to schedule, check the availability of.

  Last edited on Apr 19 2013. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Oct 03 2009.

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Other terms relating to 'to schedule, check the availability of':
calendar	Definitions include: to examine schedules to determine a time when two or more people would be available to meet for some purpose.
ping	Definitions include: to send a short message to someone or call them briefly, often to enquire about their availability.

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Other terms relating to 'in':
a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.	Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting.
ace in the hole	Definitions include: a secret advantage.
all in	Definitions include: involving everyone or everything.
all up in	Definitions include: doing something emphatically.
an ice cube's chance in hell	Definitions include: no chance.
a walk in the park	Definitions include: something easy.
back in the day	Definitions include: at some time before the present.
back in the saddle	Definitions include: having resumed an activity that one had previously stopped performing.
baked-in	Definitions include: included.
bald man in a boat	Definitions include: clitoris.
barge in	Definitions include: to intrude.
barge in on	Definitions include: See barge in.
Bash one's skull in	Definitions include: To beat someone up, inflict head injury
bat in the cave	Definitions include: visible mucus in one's nostrils.
BBIAB	Definitions include: acronym for "be back in a bit", i.e. "I will return in a short amount of time."
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Other terms relating to 'pencil':
pencil pusher	Definitions include: a person whose job consists of shuffling pieces of paper.
put lead in (one's) pencil	Definitions include: make one stronger.
sharpen a pencil	Definitions include: Needing to defecate very soon.
sharpest pencil in the box, the	Definitions include: used only for comparison, to imply that a person is either insane or unintelligent.

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