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To soil or dirty; to mess up; to clog.
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The sandpaper strips off the old green paint, but it gunks up quickly.
Submitted on March 17, 2011
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- cloud nine
- come to terms
- common-or-garden
- cooking with gas
- cut of one's jib
- eye candy
- follow through
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- frog in one's throat
- from a to z
- get it
- go on the rampage
- green light
- hand in hand
- hat in hand
- have a cow
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- hold your fire
- honest-to-goodness
- hustle and bustle
- in heaven's name
- in layman's terms
- in line
- in touch
- is the pope catholic
- jump the gun
- light a fire under
- light up
- lip service
- low-hanging fruit
- odd and curious
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- oh dark thirty
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