Default
Default verb - Fail to pay up.
Pay
Pay verb - Cancel or discharge a debt.
Usage example: pay up, please!
How words are described
| good | good default | good pay |
| special | special default | special pay |
| best | best default | best pay |
| big | big default | big pay |
| Other adjectives: great, less, random, lowest, several. | ||
Common collocations
| tab | default tab | pay tab |
Both words in one sentence
- Default to Good: Marshal Guthrie McCabe only accepts the mission because he expects to get a high pay.
Source: Film / Two Rode Together -
Freeze-Frame Bonus: During Scott's fight with Matthew Patel, if you pay attention, one of the fireballs burns Crash and the Boys, turning them into skeletons; explains why Sex Bob-Omb won by default.
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This delays the eventual meltdown for longer than any of them are prepared to deal with, as they have to pay fees back to the banks who under-wrote the credit default swaps they purchased, which they have yet to pay off (but which, obviously, eventually they do).
Source: Film / The Big Short
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