Definition of high hosey

high hosey

verb

• to lay claim to.

  I high hosey the front seat!

  • See more words with the same meaning: to claim.

  Last edited on Aug 01 2011. Submitted by Lee O. from Brewer, ME 04412, USA on Oct 30 2002.

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Other terms relating to 'to claim':
call	Definitions include: to claim ownership, at least temporarily.
shotgun	Definitions include: the passenger seat in a vehicle.
fives	Definitions include: rights to a sitting space recently vacated, that one intends on occupying again in the near future. One "calls fives" to claim, for example, a spot on a sofa when one gets up to use the bathroom. Anyone is permitted to sit in the seat during the person's absence, but must give it up immediately when that person returns. One would say, "I've got fives" while getting up from a seat.
call shotgun	Definitions include: to claim the (front) seat next to the driver in an automobile.

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Other terms relating to 'high':
as high as a kite	Definitions include: extremely intoxicated from marijuana.
come hell or high water	Definitions include: no matter what.
get high	Definitions include: "Galesville Ettrick Trempealeau High School" in Galesville, WI.
HG	Definitions include: acronym for "high gravity".
high	Definitions include: intoxicated from drugs.
high as a kite	Definitions include: very high.
high ball	Definitions include: the upper range of an estimated figure.
high baller	Definitions include: a person who makes large sums of money.
high-beams	Definitions include: erect nipples.
high budget	Definitions include: of extreme high quality, expensive to a point that it becomes unattainable.
High Class White Trash	Definitions include: a intelligent, sophisticated person who comes from a poor or middle class family.
high cotton	Definitions include: see in high cotton.
higher than giraffe ears	Definitions include: very high; excessively high.
higher than tube socks	Definitions include: very high.
high-fallootin	Definitions include: pie-in-the-sky, fancy, crazy and elitist.
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Other terms relating to 'hosey':
hosey	Definitions include: Among children, to lay claim to in a situation in which the first person to lay a claim gets the claimed object. Synonym for "dibs".

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