uncoil

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Etymology

From un- +‎ coil.

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uncoil (third-person singular simple present uncoils, present participle uncoiling, simple past and past participle uncoiled)

  1. (transitive) To unwind or untwist (something).
    Can you help me uncoil this rope?
    • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 174:
      I was walking up and down, putting her to sleep one evening, when I found myself treading on something most repulsively soft; and as I did so, the reptile uncoiled itself and quietly glided off the verandah.
  2. (intransitive) To unwind or untwist oneself.
    The snake uncoiled and prepared to strike.
  3. (slang, derogatory, somewhat euphemistic, transitive, rare) To defecate.
    • 2009 June 24, Gul N. Khan, “india has toilets, u.n. honors bharat ratna narendra modi”, in aus.politics‎ (Usenet):
      Indians defecate everywhere. They defecate, mostly, beside the railway tracks. But they also defecate on the beaches; they defecate on the hills; they defecate on the river banks; they defecate on the streets; they never look for cover ... the one thing we can and must learn from the West is the science of municipal sanitation.' They do uncoil anywhere and everywhere. It is a great mingling of cow, dog, goat and human feces. sh!t dust is in the air.
    • 2020 July 6, Araya, “Kuwait to deport 800,000 Indian Hindus.”, in soc.culture.uk‎ (Usenet):
      Ah the remittance power is slowly going to die a slow death, but the only impact will be that street shitter slumdogs will go up also. From 70% to 90% will uncoil on side walks and railway tracks. The rest 10% will either die of starvation or escape the paradise to live in Christian or a Muslim country. America has already cancelled H1 visas and is deporting illegal Hindus back to the Indian paradise. EU including UK must do the same so should the remaining Arab states.
    • 2023, DilettanteGonePro, Reddit‎:
      Ugh, my brother used to say uncoil a butt snake

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