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  1. Verb.  (British) To swindle; to extort.
  2. Verb.  (British, Australia) To raise the selling price of something (especially property) after previously agreeing to a lower one.
  3. Verb.  (British, Australia) To buy a property by bidding more than the price of an existing, accepted offer.
  4. Verb.  (British, Australia) To trump or preempt; to reap the benefit underhandedly from a situation that someone else has worked to create.
  5. Noun.  (US, slang) An automobile.
  6. Noun.  (rfdef, lang en) .

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