Alternative form of cast one's net wide

(slang, vulgar) Ineffectual, pointless.

Without having eaten.

(US) Synonym of fly off at a tangent

simple past tense and past participle of lay hold on

Alternative form of lay hold of

To pour a libation or a liquid from a container, particularly from a forty of malt liquor, as an act of remembrance for someone deceased.

(baseball, slang) To make a mistake.

Talking to someone using a telephone; Synonym of on the telephone / (dated, UK) Connected to a telephone system or having a landline telephone in one's home.

(idiomatic, chiefly US, vulgar) Used to express contempt after a victory, a refuted argument or the sharing of undesirable information.