re-tease

English

Etymology

re- + tease

Verb

re-tease (third-person singular simple present re-teases, present participle re-teasing, simple past and past participle re-teased)

  1. (transitive) To tease again.
    • 2000, Patricia Foster, All the Lost Girls: Confessions of a Southern Daughter (page 158)
      The house throbs with people, girls giggling in our bedroom as they drop cigarettes on the floor and re-tease their hair; muscle-bound football players cruise the halls, squat awkwardly on Mother's Queen Anne chairs as they pop open beers.

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