have on


verb(tr)
  1. (usually adverb) to wear

  2. (usually adverb) to have (a meeting or engagement) arranged as a commitment: what does your boss have on this afternoon?

  1. (adverb) informal to trick or tease (a person)

  2. (preposition) to have available (information or evidence, esp when incriminating) about (a person): the police had nothing on him, so they let him go

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Other Idioms and Phrases with have on

have on

have something on. See have nothing on, def. 3.

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