| 词汇 | rooking |
| 释义 | rooking present participle ofrook rook verb[ T ] old-fashionedinformaluk /rʊk/ us /rʊk/ to cheat someone out of some money诈骗，敲诈，骗取（某人的）钱财 Synonyms coninformal defraud diddle(TRICK)informal gypUSinformal old-fashioned swindle Cheating & tricking anti-fraud bad faith bamboozle bilk blackmail deceive diddle fiddle flannel game-fixing grift grifter gull have an eye to/for the main chanceidiom pretext pretextual pull pull a fast oneidiom pull the wool over someone's eyesidiom racket Examples of rookingrooking In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. I do not say that he should shout from the housetops that we should "rook"the foreigners, although some of them are"rooking" us all right. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have been rooking them for years. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A variety of animal species meet their needs for food, shelter, nesting, and rooking in pine rocklands. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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