(transitive, idiomatic) To test or try out something, especially an automobile. / (transitive, idiomatic, of a person) To take, as a companion, for a drive in a motor vehicle.

(intransitive) To speak at a public meeting.

To come to rest, usually briefly, with one of one's knees on the ground.

(idiomatic, somewhat vulgar, euphemistic) To mock; to make fun of.

(idiomatic) To enter into a rehabilitation program. / To take the waters

(US, dated) To promise to abstain from alcohol.

(colloquial, often in imperative) To change one's attitude or expressed feeling.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of take after

(US, idiomatic) Everything that is required.

(idiomatic) To be lured by an offer, flattery, or a provocation into doing something, especially something disadvantageous or dubious. / To nibble at bait (of a fish) on a hook.