"sell the pass" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: En-au-sell the pass.ogg [Australia] Forms: sells the pass [present, singular, third-person], selling the pass [participle, present], sold the pass [participle, past], sold the pass [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|sell<,,sold> the pass}} sell the pass (third-person singular simple present sells the pass, present participle selling the pass, simple past and past participle sold the pass)
  1. (idiomatic, originally Ireland) To betray one's comrades or countrymen; to betray a cause. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-sell_the_pass-en-verb-I-ahMa65 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Irish English

Inflected forms

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