Close
Close verb - To position (something) so as to prevent passage through an opening.
Owe
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- The first Lipstick Lesbian close encounter in DEBS is followed by the villain's sidekick telling the heroine's friend "You owe me fifty bucks."
Source: Side Bet -
While they did adopt a couple of moves in homage to their father, Rikishi, neither brother is anywhere near as big, and a close examination of their movesets reveals that they actually owe more of their wrestling style to Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka and their late uncle Umaga.
Source: Wrestling / The Usos
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