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Definition of Cover for
1. Verb. Provide an excuse or alibi for someone so as to cover up guilt. "I won't lie and cover for you"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cover For
Literary usage of Cover for
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1912)
"I; WE USE THIS PROMINENT BACK cover for A FURTHER ANNOUNCEMENT OF A New Novel by
John Breckenridge ЕШ The book is so eood that we take this о additional ..."
2. Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York by John Romeyn Brodhead, Berthold Fernow, Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, New York (State). Legislature (1881)
"This letter serves further as cover for the enclosed proclamation for a general
day of thanksgiving on account of the successful peace and especially for ..."
3. Fonts and Font Covers by Francis Bond, Frederick Charles Eden (1908)
"Thus at Great Wigston, Leicestershire, a cover for the font in 1599 cost 1s. 8d.
At All Saints', Derby, in 1620, there is an " Item, paide to William ..."
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