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cone off

verb

  1. (tr, adverb) to close (one carriageway of a motorway) by placing warning cones across it

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Sir Iain said he took the cone off his head and turned round.

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“We moved the inverted cone off center to build in left-right control,” Dipert said.

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He lashes himself to the bendy trunk and then reaches out with sticky gloves, twists a lime-colored cone off a bough, and chucks it over his shoulder.

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Wilmot had to cone off and maintain a people- and vehicle-free “bracket” along the roadway to give the bruin space to cross over.

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Early in his process, he took the cone off the ice-cream and held it in his fingers while he ate with with his spoon.

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