pad down

To arrange to sleep some place, especially on a temporary basis. I'll just pad down at my brother's apartment while I look for a place to live. Where are you padding down while you're in town?

pad down (some place)

Sl. to make one's bed somewhere, usually a casual or temporary bed. Do you mind if I pad down at your place for the night? Can I pad down tonight?

pad down

verb

See pad down somewhere

pad down (somewhere)

in. to make one’s bed somewhere, usually a casual or temporary bed. Do you mind if I pad down at your place for the night?

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You pull the base pad down, the rod extends, pulling the mag spring toward the base, compressing it.

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Everyone is so in your face and unctuous as if you were the first rainfall after a drought and the check in clerk is so sugary polite and courteous that people like me who are not to the manner born keep looking over their shoulder to see who the man is talking to, it cannot be you and the bellhop leads you the elevator like you were royalty and you think how much do I give him, what is the least I can get away with to avoid that supercilious sneer and then you pad down these thick-carpeted corridors and you put your key in and sure enough it comes red, not green and you have trek all the way back because no hotel has yet worked out a way to save guests this ridiculously annoying trip.

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With a concrete pad down and structural steel being erected in August, Bouffard was confident of moving into his new store by Christmas.

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The problem came when I started grinding the pad down to fit the stock.

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Cook got too far across his stumps in defence to Shami, but few would have noticed had the ball not freakishly deflected off the under-side of his thigh pad down on to leg-stump.

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It's an actual newspaper that gets delivered by a guy, and I've got to pad down to the front of the house to get it.

Harry Hamlin: despite describing his media preferences as old school, the Mad Men star is totally fascinated by futurism

Stick your soldering iron and solder into the big opening to solder the pad down.

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"Plush" pops into your head as you pad down its deep-pile corridors.

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With this stock I can sand the sides of the pad down flush with the wood without any concern for the finish.

Salvaging a Remington Model 11 Part 4: in Part 3 (4/10 issue), Coffield shaped the buttstock and fore-end of his semi-auto. This time, he installs a recoil pad

When the property couldn't be sold despite numerous attempts the former Atomic Kitten slashed 150,000 pounds off the asking price in January, bringing her detached pad down from 1.25m pounds to 1.1million pounds.

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Pull the nape strap pad down and tighten the adjustment straps.

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He just plants his front pad down the line of the ball and then tries to play around it with his bat.

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WHEN teenager Tom Lamb took his sketching pad down the pit during his shifts more than 60 years ago, he could not possibly have envisaged where it would lead.

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Run the applicator pad down the length of the wood, applying the stain in a steady, uniform manner.