Definition of pore over

pore over    

verb

• to examine closely.

                                                                                                                                                                    
  
  Citation from "No One Admits To Singing, Writing, Producing Nation's No. 1 Song", The Onion, July 18 2007 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

  • See more words with the same meaning: to look, see.

  Last edited on Mar 24 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Mar 24 2010.

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Other terms relating to 'to look, see':
dekko	Definitions include: a look.
take a skeet	Definitions include: to take a look.
lookie	Definitions include: "look".
once-over	Definitions include: A visual examination, especially of a person of the opposite sex.
eyeball	Definitions include: to stare at.
check	Definitions include: ok, or yes.
eye	Definitions include: to look at.
skeet	Definitions include: generally displeasing.
scope out	Definitions include: to watch.
check out	Definitions include: to listen to.
catch	Definitions include: to see.
track	Definitions include: a place where prostitutes gather to find clients.
feast (one's) eyes	Definitions include: to look at.
get a load of	Definitions include: to look at.
butchers	Definitions include: a look. Notes: derived from Cockney rhyming slang: "butcher's hook" - "look."
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Other terms relating to 'over':
all over	Definitions include: See be all over.
all over (one's) *ss	Definitions include: pestering a person.
all over (one's) *sses	Definitions include: pestering multiple people.
A over T	Definitions include: Arse over tip / arse over tit.
arse over tit	Definitions include: fallen in a dramatic fashion; "head over heels".
*ss over tea kettle	Definitions include: fallen in a dramatic fashion; "head over heels".
be all over	Definitions include: to do something with vigor.
bend over	Definitions include: a command (usually given by objects) implying that one is about to be taken advantage of, be in a bad situation, or fail miserably.
bend over and get screwed	Definitions include: a phrase of one is about to be in trouble big-time or something bad is about to happen.
bend over backwards	Definitions include: to be extremely accommodating.
bend over get f*cked	Definitions include: "Get ready for some serious trouble."
BOHICA	Definitions include: acronym of "bend over here it comes again."
bust over	Definitions include: to give to; hand over.
chug on over	Definitions include: to go.
chug over	Definitions include: to go.
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