bite the curb

Definitions

1. 1

   To be curb stomped.

   • Watch out those crazy skinheads! They made someone bite the curb the other night.
2. 2

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bite, the, curb.

   • Having someone bite the curb and kicking him in the back of the head is a painful way to kill someone. Often, as in the movie American History X, it is used as punishment for insubordinate blacks.
   • If the horse be in the bad habit of taking the arms of the curb-bit between his teeth (bite the curb), a small strap (lip-strap) may be placed between the arms and through the extra ring on the curb-chain.

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