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[serve a sentence] {v. phr.} To be in jail. * /Charlie served four years of an eight-year sentence, after which he was paroled and released./ A Dictionary of American Idioms

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[serve up] {v.} To prepare and serve (as a food). * /Father caught a trout and Mother served it up at dinner./ A Dictionary of American Idioms

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serve

[serve] See: [FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED]. A Dictionary of American Idioms

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