palming
- 1Present participle and gerund of palm.
Security cameras caught the dealer palming chips off the table.
Palming the basketball with one hand takes large hands and plenty of practice.
Note
One spelling doing two grammatical jobs: a participle after be (the dealer was palming chips) and a gerund that names the act itself (palming takes practice). Every meaning of the verb carries over, from the conjurer's hidden coin to gripping a ball without curling the fingers or pressing a hand to a scanner. The old British slang sense 'to bribe' is obsolete, so palming something today suggests hiding it, not paying.
palming is a form of palm
palm, verb: To hold or conceal an object in the hand, as in a sleight-of-hand trick or to take something secretly. Full entry
- Spelling
- palm → palming: add -ing
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