chew out

2 definitions found

chew out - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  chew out
      v 1: censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child
           for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the
           Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for
           bringing cold soup" [syn: call on the carpet, take to task
           , rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture,
           reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold,
           chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out,
           chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast]

chew out - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  22 Moby Thesaurus words for "chew out":
     bawl out, carpet, chew, chew ass, cuss out, give a going-over,
     give hail Columbia, give hell, give the deuce, give what-for,
     jack up, jaw, lambaste, ream, ream ass, ream out, revile, sit on,
     tell off, tongue-lash, vituperate, wig