Cantonese Slang
💡 Tip: [[to build; to increase]]
Definitions
  1. 1 [[to build; to increase]]
  2. 2 héi choi 起菜 — [to serve dishes] to swear; to be verbally abusive; to chase girls (OS); to have sex with a girl (OS).
  3. 3 héi dái 起底 — [to bring out a background] to investigate someone; to check up on someone's background (especially police checking on triad members) (gwdl 111, 1); to destroy.
  4. 4 héi dáhn siing lihp — saat gai waahk, mouh kàuh vàt gik jik jung, yiu jēung deui tàuh yi gwo héi dái ūn go hèi múhn gwo hóhk je. To finish the murder plan, we have to strike the target, we have to destroy the enemy at one go (djhn 1, 5).
  5. 5 héi saai ngóh dái — yáuh màt yēh jām sin? 你起唔我底,有乜野事先? You checked up on me, so what was the reason for that? (gwj jan⁹³, 65).
  6. 6 héi déng 起釘 — [to raise nail] to collect an interest payment (in loan sharking, dyj 11, 26).
  7. 7 héi jām 起秧 — to have worked in a business for a long time, to have over-exerted oneself in a particular activity.
  8. 8 héi jih yuhng 起字容 — [to raise word content] to check up on someone; to check out someone's background.
  9. 9 héi jūng 起鐘 — [to raise hour] to buy the time of a prostitute, to see a prostitute (dyj 2, 12).
  10. 10 héi mēih jyu 起尾注 — to seize something from somebody, to usurp ownership.
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