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Verb: have words
  1. Censure severely or angrily
    - call on the carpet [US], take to task, rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out [N. Amer], chew up [N. Amer], lambaste, lambast, ream [N. Amer]

Derived forms: has words, having words, had words

Type of: criticise [Brit], criticize, damn, knock, pick apart

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have in mind
have intercourse
have it away
have it coming
have it off
have kittens
have on
have sex
have the best
have to do with
have words
have young
Havel
havelock
haven
have-not
haven't
haver
Haverhill fever
haversack
Haversian canal