Billed
having a bill or beak, especially one of a specified kind, shape, color, etc. (usually used in combination):
a yellow-billed magpie.
a statement of money owed for goods or services supplied:
He paid the hotel bill when he checked out.
a piece of paper money worth a specified amount:
a ten-dollar bill.
Government. a form or draft of a proposed statute presented to a legislature, but not yet enacted or passed and made law.
bill of exchange.
a written or printed public notice or advertisement.
any written paper containing a statement of particulars:
a bill of expenditures.
Law. a written statement, usually of complaint, presented to a court.
Slang. one hundred dollars:
The job pays five bills a week.
playbill.
entertainment scheduled for presentation; program:
a good bill at the movies.
Obsolete.
a promissory note.
a written and sealed document.
a written, formal petition.
to charge for by bill; send a bill to:
The store will bill me.
to enter (charges) in a bill; make a bill or list of:
to bill goods.
to advertise by bill or public notice:
A new actor was billed for this week.
to schedule on a program:
The management billed the play for two weeks.
fill the bill, to fulfill the purpose or need well:
As a sprightly situation comedy this show fills the bill.
the parts of a bird’s jaws that are covered with a horny or leathery sheath; beak.
the visor of a cap or other head covering.
a beaklike promontory or headland.
to join bills or beaks, as doves.
bill and coo, to kiss or fondle and whisper endearments, as lovers:
My sister and her boyfriend were billing and cooing on the front porch.
Contemporary Examples
Palin’s Post-Midterms Donations Haul Shushannah Walshe January 26, 2011
Palin’s Post-Midterms Donations Haul Shushannah Walshe January 26, 2011
Why Was Bess Myerson the First and Last Jewish Miss America? Emily Shire January 6, 2015
David Copperfield’s Magical—and Utterly Bizarre—Caribbean Island Nina Strochlic November 20, 2013
Allan Sekula, R.I.P Blake Gopnik August 11, 2013
Historical Examples
Immortal Songs of Camp and Field Louis Albert Banks
Cruel Barbara Allen David Christie Murray
Uncle Sam’s Boys as Sergeants H. Irving Hancock
Trail’s End George W. Ogden
A Man of Samples Wm. H. Maher
noun
money owed for goods or services supplied: an electricity bill
a written or printed account or statement of money owed
(mainly Brit) such an account for food and drink in a restaurant, hotel, etc Usual US and Canadian word check
any printed or written list of items, events, etc, such as a theatre programme: who’s on the bill tonight?
(informal) fit the bill, fill the bill, to serve or perform adequately
a statute in draft, before it becomes law
a printed notice or advertisement; poster
(US & Canadian) a piece of paper money; note
an obsolete name for promissory note
(law) See bill of indictment
See bill of exchange
See bill of fare
(archaic) any document
verb (transitive)
to send or present an account for payment to (a person)
to enter (items, goods, etc) on an account or statement
to advertise by posters
to schedule as a future programme: the play is billed for next week
noun
the mouthpart of a bird, consisting of projecting jaws covered with a horny sheath; beak. It varies in shape and size according to the type of food eaten and may also be used as a weapon
any beaklike mouthpart in other animals
a narrow promontory: Portland Bill
(nautical) the pointed tip of the fluke of an anchor
verb (intransitive)
(of birds, esp doves) to touch bills together
(of lovers) to kiss and whisper amorously
noun
a pike or halberd with a narrow hooked blade
short for billhook
noun
(ornithol) another word for boom1 (sense 4)
n.
v.
A single dollar: Can I borrow a couple of bills until tomorrow? (1910+)
A hundred dollars: I laid out four bills for that shearling (1920s+)
A hundred yards of gain in football: Coach Jackson told me I needed two bills to win (1990s+ Football)
see:
clean bill of health
fill the bill
foot the bill
sell a bill of goods
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