bawl off

English

Verb

bawl off (third-person singular simple present bawls off, present participle bawling off, simple past and past participle bawled off)

  1. (transitive) To severely scold; to shout at; to (figuratively) remove by shouting invective.
    He bawled off at the disobedient children.
    He got his pants bawled off by his boss.
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