color up
To blush (to go red).
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color-struck
Having a personal prejudice against darker-skinned people.
Colored People Time
Synonym of Colored People's Time.
Colored People's Time
A notional system of time (or time zone) which others sometimes derogatorily ascribe to African Americans, and which they sometimes jocularly ascribe to themselves, to account for their supposed tendency to be tardy.
colour in
To colourise; to add colours to a black-and-white drawing, using coloured drawing equipment.
colt
A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice. — A professional cricketer during his first season.
columbine
An incident in which someone shoots multiple people at a school.
columbiner
One who idolizes the perpetrators of the Columbine High School massacre, with this fascination often expressed on social media in a fandom-like way.
columbus
To explore; to go around exploring, to go around as an explorer.
comatoast
Unresponsive as a result of drug use.
comb down
To comb (something or someone).
comb out
To remove (something) by combing; to thoroughly comb (something); to thoroughly comb (something) so as to remove something else from it (such as tangles, dirt, or nits).
comb over
To examine scrupulously.
combo
A combination.
combozine
A combination of zines bound or distributed together.
come a cropper
Fall heavily.
come a gutser
To do a belly flop; to fall flat on one's face.
come about
To come to pass; to develop; to occur; to take place; to happen; to exist.
come across with
To provide something owed; to show up with something that is anticipated or that is assumed to be received.
come after
To pursue or follow; to pursue with hostile intent.
come aloft
To mount sexually; to have an erection.
come apart
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, apart.
come at
To come to; to attend.
come away
To become separated from something.
come back
To return to a place.
come before
To appear publicly in front of someone superior.
come between
To affect negatively or cause discord between (someone) and another person.
come by
To obtain; to get, especially by chance or involuntarily.
come clean
Be completely honest.
come correct
To behave properly or decently; to do the right thing.
come down on
To punish or criticize (someone).
come down with
To develop symptoms or signs of (an illness).
come down with one's dust
To pay up, especially in cash; to settle one’s accounts, to lay down one’s money.
come for
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, for.
come forth
To move forward and into view, to emerge, to appear.
come from
To have as one's origin, birthplace or nationality.
come from behind
To be in a winning position after having been in a losing position.
come from below
To originate among ordinary people instead of the elite.
come full circle
Return to a past position.
come hell or high water
No matter what difficulties may occur.
come in for
To be subjected to.
come in from the cold
Gain acceptance.
come into
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: See come and into.
come off
To become detached.
come off it
An expression of disbelief.
come on in
Synonym of come in (“to enter”).
come on to
To make a romantic or sexual advance to.
come out in
to be afflicted by (a visible disruption of the body)
come out with
To say (something) unexpectedly.
come over
To affect in a sudden, unprecedented or surprising manner; to overwhelm a person's ordinarily contrary impulse.
come round
To change direction.
come together
To assemble; to congregate; to combine.
come under
To come underneath (something).
come up against
To face (someone, something) in a match, problem, competition or fight.
come up from behind
To surprisingly succeed despite long odds; to stealthily or unobtrusively rise up from a low-status position.
come up to
To approach.
come up with the goods
Do what is expected of you.
come upon
To discover or find, especially by chance or accident.
come with
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, with.
come with it
To challenge or dare (someone); to meet a challenge or dare; to try or endeavor.