to juggle
15
3.6
- verb
- /ˈdʒʌɡəl/
:
hacer malabares
- The performer amazed the crowd as he skillfully juggled three flaming torches in the air.
- juggle three balls
- learn to juggle
- juggle beanbags
So can we you're someone who's able to, to sort of juggle a bunch of chainsaws at once.
- So can we you're someone who's able to, to sort of juggle a bunch of chainsaws at once.
- Do you do other dangerous things, Like, do you, like, do you, like, juggle chainsaws?
- And they, and then they built this mechanical WC fields figure that actually juggled.
- But there is actually a wisdom to the play, and it's one that I first came across when I was learning how to juggle.
- And I could say I did a great job teaching how to juggle, but I didn't.
- There could be a giant pink elephant and a gorilla, you know, juggling, you know, fireballs.
- I've been relearning to juggle, you know, I got a bunch of small juggling stuff and I've been trying to get back into it.
- The thing I'd say most is, boy, that guy sure can juggle.
- OK, I didn't juggle but I lied because I was an actor and I said I juggled and and I learned to.
Examples
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"Where did you learn to juggle like that?" Kate asked.
Fiction book (1998) -
First, you have to juggle for me.
Fiction book (1993) -
Like, I found that if I just juggle a ball, that makes me feel better before a game.
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I had no idea you could juggle like that.
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Maybe you can teach him to juggle, too.
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Walt learned to juggle oranges.
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Jack and David have a heated exchange while the band plays, and on stage a clown juggles bricks.
Fiction book (1992) -
They're watching Marcus juggle flaming beanbags.
Academic text (2010) -
Stage proper later: two men juggle as a plump, scantily clad woman gestures and points at them.
Fiction book (1992) -
Instead, there was a tall, gangly fellow, sporting suspenders, who juggled brightly colored balls while zigzagging on a unicycle.
Fiction book (1996)
How Skilled
Surface Forms
Etymology
Juggle comes from old words for an entertainer and the Latin root jocus meaning 'joke', and it is related to the English word joke and joker. Think of a performer throwing and catching items as a playful trick, which is why to juggle means to keep several objects in the air by catching and throwing them.