tumble to

verb

Definitions

  1. To discover or understand something.

    • He finally tumbled to our secret.
    • Speaking of this language, a costermonger said to me: "The Irish can't tumble to it anyhow; the Jews can tumble better, but we're their masters. Some of the young salesmen at Billingsgate understand us, — but only at Billingsgate; […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for tumble to. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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