bant

Example Sentences

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Despite a contemptuous response from the medical profession, his modest booklet went on to become a bestseller and "to bant" became a popular term for dieting.

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2016

We passed by Spoons on the way, and the steak club nearly distracted me, imagine the amount of bant and dec going on in there.

From The Verge • Jul. 14, 2015

A nice verb, to bant, though not approved of by the dictionary, which scornfully terms it “humorous and colloquial”.

From Penguin Persons & Peppermints by Eaton, Walter Prichard

I’ve got all the instincts of a real society lady and sometimes it irks me awful not to be able to let myself loose and bant like—” “Pant?” asked Mr. Gubb.

From Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective by Irvin, Rea

Of course he might bant in the same way that a woman bants.

From Cobb's Anatomy by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)