"put the cabosh on" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "puts the cabosh on",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "putting the cabosh on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put the cabosh on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put the cabosh on",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "put<,,put> the cabosh on"
      },
      "expansion": "put the cabosh on (third-person singular simple present puts the cabosh on, present participle putting the cabosh on, simple past and past participle put the cabosh on)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "put the kibosh on"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1988, Jacqueline Cochran, Maryann Bucknum Brinley, Maryann Busknum, Jackie Cochran: An Autobiography, page 332",
          "text": "That's when NASA, in the midst of the Mercury space flight program, put the cabosh on our women's astronaut program.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, Barbara Siegel, Scott Siegel, Jack Nicholson: The Unauthorized Biography, page 55",
          "text": "Nicholson's reputation with the ladies apparently put the cabosh on his affair with Anspach.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Beth Rubin, Washington, page 7",
          "text": "As long as an ill-timed freeze hasn't put the cabosh on the blossoms, the sight around the Tidal Basin is breathtaking.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, M.L. Lindberg, The Cutting Edge, page 100",
          "text": "These two thieves, for the time being anyway, put the “cabosh” on their plans.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of put the kibosh on"
      ],
      "id": "en-put_the_cabosh_on-en-verb-WWV~k6DW",
      "links": [
        [
          "put the kibosh on",
          "put the kibosh on#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "put the cabosh on"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "puts the cabosh on",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "putting the cabosh on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put the cabosh on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put the cabosh on",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "put<,,put> the cabosh on"
      },
      "expansion": "put the cabosh on (third-person singular simple present puts the cabosh on, present participle putting the cabosh on, simple past and past participle put the cabosh on)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "put the kibosh on"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1988, Jacqueline Cochran, Maryann Bucknum Brinley, Maryann Busknum, Jackie Cochran: An Autobiography, page 332",
          "text": "That's when NASA, in the midst of the Mercury space flight program, put the cabosh on our women's astronaut program.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, Barbara Siegel, Scott Siegel, Jack Nicholson: The Unauthorized Biography, page 55",
          "text": "Nicholson's reputation with the ladies apparently put the cabosh on his affair with Anspach.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Beth Rubin, Washington, page 7",
          "text": "As long as an ill-timed freeze hasn't put the cabosh on the blossoms, the sight around the Tidal Basin is breathtaking.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, M.L. Lindberg, The Cutting Edge, page 100",
          "text": "These two thieves, for the time being anyway, put the “cabosh” on their plans.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of put the kibosh on"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "put the kibosh on",
          "put the kibosh on#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "put the cabosh on"
}