"trade-last" meaning in English

See trade-last in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: trade-lasts [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} trade-last (plural trade-lasts)
  1. (US) A compliment heard about another person, offered to be repeated to that person in exchange for another repeated compliment about the speaker. Tags: US Synonyms: TL [initialism]
    Sense id: en-trade-last-en-noun-bKsWG44A Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for trade-last meaning in English (1.6kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "trade-lasts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "trade-last (plural trade-lasts)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1979, Robert Kirk Mueller, Board Compass, page 102",
          "text": "American adolescents regularly deal in \"trade-lasts,\" compliments in exchange for another. They will tell you something flattering about yourself after you tell them a flattering remark you have heard about them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Joan Mellen, Hellman and Hammett, page 71",
          "text": "So autobiographical was The Children's Hour that there are even “TL's” between the children, those “trade lasts” in which people must come up with compliments they have heard about each other, a game which amused Lily […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A compliment heard about another person, offered to be repeated to that person in exchange for another repeated compliment about the speaker."
      ],
      "id": "en-trade-last-en-noun-bKsWG44A",
      "links": [
        [
          "compliment",
          "compliment"
        ],
        [
          "exchange",
          "exchange"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US) A compliment heard about another person, offered to be repeated to that person in exchange for another repeated compliment about the speaker."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "initialism"
          ],
          "word": "TL"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "trade-last"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "trade-lasts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "trade-last (plural trade-lasts)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1979, Robert Kirk Mueller, Board Compass, page 102",
          "text": "American adolescents regularly deal in \"trade-lasts,\" compliments in exchange for another. They will tell you something flattering about yourself after you tell them a flattering remark you have heard about them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Joan Mellen, Hellman and Hammett, page 71",
          "text": "So autobiographical was The Children's Hour that there are even “TL's” between the children, those “trade lasts” in which people must come up with compliments they have heard about each other, a game which amused Lily […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A compliment heard about another person, offered to be repeated to that person in exchange for another repeated compliment about the speaker."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "compliment",
          "compliment"
        ],
        [
          "exchange",
          "exchange"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US) A compliment heard about another person, offered to be repeated to that person in exchange for another repeated compliment about the speaker."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "initialism"
          ],
          "word": "TL"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "trade-last"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.