Uncle!

An exclamation of defeat or a plea for mercy, especially in an informal physical contest of some kind. Uncle! Uncle! Let me out of this headlock already!

Uncle

verb

See Uncle Sam

References in classic literature ?

'But bless your hearts and eyebrows, all this sort of thing was nothing to my uncle! He was so well seasoned, that it was mere child's play.

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"What-ho, great uncle! Couldn't lend one a fiver, could one?" Some married, some didn't, and the partners of those that did became, as custom demands, honorary and adoptive aunts and uncles.

Authority's all relative

I shouted out Thats my Uncle! but none of the other boys believed me.

But Richard Burton IS Guys uncle! my mother replied.

The name's Burton... Richard Burton!

During a time of doubt, despair and sickness, a little girl with a performer's smile skipped up to me exuberantly and shrilled, 'Hello Uncle! How are you?' St was like a thunderclap that cleared the skies.

1.2 billion relatives in China: a friendly child gives Tom Duncan the courage to climb China's contemporary Great Wall