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third-person singular simple present colls, present participle colling, simple past and past participle colled
(transitive, intransitive) To hug or embrace. quotations examples
'You couldn't expect her to throw her arms round 'ee, an' to kiss and to coll 'ee all at once.'
1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 82
They kissed and colled in parks and fields and, better, a / Warm bed, her own.
1995, Anthony Burgess, Byrne