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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of kite.

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Examples

  • The Ducati jerked, righted itself, then blasted forward into some kind of kited-up supergear.

    Lifeguard Patterson, James 2005

  • This paper currency they are churning out and spending with abandon must be backed by something of value - or have they failed to grasp that the recent collapse of world markets was caused by the same lack of substance in the worthless paper that was being "kited" by traders?

    News for Culpeper Star-Exponent 2009

  • Lucien kited up from the depths, following Dante and the Morningstar out of the pit, Hekate winging in his wake.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • Lucien kited up from the depths, following Dante and the Morningstar out of the pit, Hekate winging in his wake.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • Party of the guy who kited the mortgage deals, got bailed out, and left the working man living in his car.

    Happy Days Aren't Here Again Peggy Noonan 2011

  • Lucien kited up from the depths, following Dante and the Morningstar out of the pit, Hekate winging in his wake.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • The list also includes Joe Waldholtz, a con man and husband of former Rep. Enid Greene Waldholtz (R-UT) who kited more than a million dollars in bad checks and ended up in prison.

    Matthew Yglesias » A Back and Forth on Israel 2009

  • Lucien kited up from the depths, following Dante and the Morningstar out of the pit, Hekate winging in his wake.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • So Bret Stephens is brain-dead, his conscience and journalistic competence freeze-dried one devastating scientific misapprehension, misquotation and kited factoid at a time.

    The sadists, the masochists and the scientists EliRabett 2010

  • But nobody owned up to being among the 24 who had kited $1,000 a month or more.

    Who Says There's No Free Lunch? 2008

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