BUDGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Budge mean? 

• BUDGE (noun)
  The noun BUDGE has 1 sense:

1. United States tennis player who in 1938 was the first to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles championship in the same year (1915-2000)

  Familiarity information: BUDGE used as a noun is very rare.

• BUDGE (verb)
  The verb BUDGE has 1 sense:

1. move very slightly

  Familiarity information: BUDGE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUDGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States tennis player who in 1938 was the first to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles championship in the same year (1915-2000)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Budge; Don Budge; John Donald Budge

Instance hypernyms:

tennis player (an athlete who plays tennis)

• BUDGE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they budge    ... he / she / it budges   
Past simple: budged   
Past participle: budged   
-ing form: budging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move very slightly

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

agitate; budge; shift; stir

Context example:

He shifted in his seat

Hypernyms (to "budge" is one way to...):

move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

“Twice! We'll have to budge, mates.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

And don’t budge, whatever happens—whatever happens, do you hear? Don’t speak! Don’t move! Just listen with all your ears.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Nay, let him come!” cried Alleyne. “I shall not budge a foot for him or his dogs.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He has a secretary who is devoted to his interests, and never budges from the study all day.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Men offered odds of two to one that Buck could not budge the sled.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

You don’t comply with the conditions if you budge from the office during that time.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Maud even contrived, at times when all my efforts could not budge the windlass, to hold the turn with one hand and with the other to throw the weight of her slim body to my assistance.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I would that you two could put them to shame by budging it, though I fear that I overtask you, for it is of a grievous weight.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I flopped down into that chair, and nothing would budge me until Mr. Soames he went for you.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Go ’way, Chook!” he cried, but Buck refused to budge.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)