make good
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.80 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To match the first player's bet with one's own, rather than dropping out.
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonym: come good"
- "America does vaguely feel a man making good as something analogous to a man being good or a man doing good."
- "Some of the Cubans who come to this country hoping to make good may be in for a shock. Would those 1,400 Cuban exiles already locked up have left Cuba — where jobs, education and health care are available to all, and where no laws against homosexuality exist — had they known they would end up in U.S. federal prisons, isolated from other prisoners and without benefit of trial?"
- "The moment DJay becomes a rapper, the moment he becomes an artist, is linked to his own understanding of what hip hop was about when Skinny Black, his idol, a local homeboy who made good as a rapper, was “blowing up.""
- "He [Eisenhower] was their own, the boy who made good."
- "As she told Playboy in 1958, “I realized some time ago that as long as there were men in this world, I’d make good.”"