Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word SERVE

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Definitions of SERVE

1. (sports) An act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play in various games.
2. (chiefly, Australia) A portion of food or drink, a serving.
3. (gay slang and AAVE) An impressive presentation (especially of a person's appearance).
4. (personal) To provide a service (or, by extension, a product, especially food or drink).
5. (transitive, archaic) To treat (someone) in a given manner. [from 13^thc.]
6. (transitive, archaic) To be suitor to; to be the lover of. [from 14^thc.]
7. To be effective.
8. (transitive, legal) To deliver a document.
9. (transitive, intransitive, sports) To lead off with the first delivery over the net in tennis, volleyball, ping pong, badminton etc. [from 16^thc.]
10. (transitive) To copulate with (of male animals); to cover. [from 16^thc.]
11. (intransitive) To be in military service. [from 16^thc.]
12. (transitive, military) To work, to operate (a weapon). [from 18^thc.]
13. (transitive) To work through (a given period of time in prison, a sentence). [from 19^thc.]
14. (nautical) To wind spun yarn etc. tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing or from the weather.
15. (transitive) To perform (a public obligation).
16. (ambitransitive, slang, drugs) To provide crack cocaine (to), usually by selling, dealing, or distributing.
17. (gay slang and AAVE) To present an attractive personal appearance.

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