Curb
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- proper noun
- /kɜrb/
- US
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Curb
- Curb's original complaint was that it required the records in order to properly assess how much McGraw owed them after an alleged breach of contract.
- Curb Your Enthusiasm
- Curb Records
- HBO's Curb
Examples
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Cheryl Hines, best known as Larry David's fictional wife on "Curb Your Enthusiasm," makes her directorial debut.
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Eventually, a member of the stadium's facilities management office confirmed Catalan's recollection and referred him to a small production company that worked for HBO's TV show Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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This, however, does not mark the end of McGraw's legal battle with Curb.
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A judge ruled in November that McGraw was free to leave his contract with Curb and record under another label.
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According to Curb, McGraw turned in his album Emotional Traffic too soon after the release of a preceding album to fulfill his record deal.
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A Nashville court ruled in favor of Tim McGraw and his new record label, Big Machine, this Friday morning in the artist's drawn-out dispute with his former record label, Curb Records.
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Curb still holds to the argument that McGraw owes the label an album and maintains that a forthcoming album from McGraw on the Big Machine label actually belongs to Curb, based on the conditions of McGraw's contract.
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Inasmuch as the women represented in Falcon's works have "no alternatives, no escape," her theater illustrates what Rosemary Curb calls the "woman-conscious drama concepts of recognition and representation."
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Larry David created the hit show Curb Your Enthusiasm, which humorously portrays his life in Los Angeles.
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Fans eagerly await the next season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, full of new comedic twists.
Synonyms
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A stock market in New York City where people buy and sell company shares
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A stock market in New York City where smaller companies trade shares
A New York stock market that lists shares of small and medium-sized companies
A place where people buy and sell stocks not listed on a formal exchange
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
A metal piece in a horse's mouth with a chin chain to help control the horse
- Specialized
A roof with two slopes on each side, a steeper lower slope and a gentler upper slope
- Offensive
A violent attack in which someone forces another person's head onto a curb and steps on it hard
Surface Forms
Etymology
Curb comes from the everyday word curb, which means 'edge', like the edge of a street, because in New York long ago brokers literally met and traded on the street curb. That's why the Curb became the name for that old exchange of smaller, often riskier stocks, now known as NYSE American.