Definition
To follow something through to completion or realization.
To take an incomplete or inadequate (plan, text, etc.) and develop it further, often with the implication of carelessness.
To be a member of (a gang, hooligan firm, etc.); to associate with a, typically disreputable, individual or group.
In Context
- "3M's culture and its organizational structure are all directed to encouraging its people to take an idea and run with it."
- "They took this three-second sound bite and ran with it to try to smear me."
- "The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face."
- "For about three years, I ran with several different gangs."
- "Some of these wannabe hooligans ran with the Celtic Soccer Crew for a number of years without ever being arrested or suffering as much as a broken nail."