re-tease

verb

re-tease

verb

Etymology From re- + tease.

1

To tease again.

  • The house throbs with people, girls giggling in our bedroom as they drop cigarettes on the floor and re-tease their hair; muscle-bound football players cruise the halls, squat awkwardly on Mother's Queen Anne chairs as they pop open beers.2000, Patricia Foster, All the Lost Girls: Confessions of a Southern Daughter, page 158:

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