pan

/pæn/ verb [T] (present participle panning, past tense and past participle panned) informal

Definition

› to criticize something severely: [often passive] His last novel was panned by the critics.

(Definition of pan verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

to do something without worrying about the risk or negative results

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