LIST DISCUSSION

Autim tiket

Smith (1990: 284) gives a few more meanings for the phrase "outim tiket":
1) "to disadvantage"
2) "to mark as desirable"
3) "to have had sex with"
4) "to beat"
5) "to kill"
6) "to win the favors of"

Smith is a good source for many other words and meanings that were
not in Mihalic.

Smith, Geoff P. (1990). "Idiomatic Tok Pisin and referential
adequacy." In: Melanesian Pidgin and Tok Pisin: Proceedings of the
First International Conference of Pidgins and Creoles in Melanesia,
John W. M. Verhaar, ed. Studies in Language Companion Series, Volume
20. Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing, pp. 275-287.

Tom Slone
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