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  • verb nonstandard Simple past tense and past participle of deal.

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Examples

  • Jimmy Carter was broken because Reagan was a sneaky asshat who lied and wheeled and dealed to defeat him.

    Think Progress » DeMint Lies: ‘I Did Not Want’ Health Care ‘To Be The President’s Waterloo’ 2010

  • Clay: In about '60 an old man who lived near us and dealed mostly as a junkyard showed up in town with a wooden case of unissued military Model 12s complete with Ordinance markings of flame and bomb.

    Shotguns in Combat 2009

  • He also put up half money for the pilot, so CBS wheeled and dealed with him in the negotiations in terms of who owned what.

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  • Clay: In about '60 an old man who lived near us and dealed mostly as a junkyard showed up in town with a wooden case of unissued military Model 12s complete with Ordinance markings of flame and bomb.

    Shotguns in Combat 2009

  • It would be highly embarrassing for the Russian government to come out and say publicly, "Yes, this man Khintsagov, who by all measures did not have a very good education, and who had wheeled and dealed in furs and things like that for a living, actually had at his disposal two kilograms of bomb-grade uranium."

    Uranium on the Loose 2008

  • And I — oh I — I dealed everything that you want me to.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • And he wheeled and dealed and got us onto that barge.

    Reporter’s Notebook From The Congo 2010

  • The superdelegates are also causing trouble because they are switching to Obama and I believe he wheeled and dealed with them from beind the scenes promising them the world.

    Protest planned before hearing in Florida lawsuit 2008

  • I'm not sure how they could better sell this film - maybe a red band trailer with scenes of weed being dealed or some that use profanity to make up the better jokes.

    Second Wackness Trailer - Still Not a Great Trailer! « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • It would be highly embarrassing for the Russian government to come out and say publicly, "Yes, this man Khintsagov, who by all measures did not have a very good education, and who had wheeled and dealed in furs and things like that for a living, actually had at his disposal two kilograms of bomb-grade uranium."

    Uranium on the Loose 2008

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