budge

Noun

• United States tennis player who in 1938 was the first to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles championship in the same year (1915-2000)
• A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on, formerly used as an edging and ornament, especially on scholastic habits.
• Alcoholic drink.

Verb

Verb Forms: budged, budging, budges

• To move or cause to move a small amount.
• move very slightly
• To move; to be shifted from a fixed position.
• To move; to shift from a fixed position.
• To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs.
• To cut or butt (in line); to join the front or middle rather than the back of a queue.
• To try to improve the spot of a decision on a sports field.

Adj

• austere or stiff, like scholastics

Examples

• Hey, no budging! Don't budge in line!
• I’ve been pushing this rock as hard as I can, but I can’t budge it.
• I’ve been pushing this rock as hard as I can, but it won’t budge an inch.
• The Minister for Finance refused to budge on the new economic rules.
• The tile didn’t budge from its position until I found the perfect word to play.

Synonyms

agitate, Don Budge, John Donald Budge, shift, stir

Anagrams of budge