IN FOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does in for mean? 

• IN FOR (adjective)
  The adjective IN FOR has 1 sense:

1. certain to get or have

  Familiarity information: IN FOR used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IN FOR (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Certain to get or have

Context example:

he knew he was in for a licking

Similar:

certain; sure (certain to occur; destined or inevitable)

 Context examples 

The bull-dog's method was to hold what he had, and when opportunity favoured to work in for more.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"It's Father's friend. I'm so surprised to see you!" stammered Meg, feeling that she was in for a lecture now.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Don't you see that the man is put in for a purpose?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Go in for a tip,” she urged.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Last night was very threatening, and the fishermen say that we are in for a storm.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Would you mind stepping in for a moment?

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I know you have it in for me,” Johnson continued with his unalterable and ponderous slowness. “You do not like me. You—you—”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I was now in for it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I went in for three minutes, and was detained by Miss Bates's being absent.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

An abstruse and learned specialist who finds that he has been called in for a case of measles would experience something of the annoyance which I read in my friend’s eyes.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)