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thinks verb Think (the so-called "historical present," used with first-person and other subjects in recounting a narrative).

1866 Smith So Called 119 Thinks, says I to myself, this is a big thing certain, and I will invest my bottom dollar in this kind of money. 1939 Hall Coll (Nine Mile TN) One of my old dogs, he seen me, and he whupped off under the hill and went to hollering, I thinks to myself [that] I’ll just slide down there and see if he'd make me holler  1973 Carpenter 122 I thinks t’m’self, “She don’t need t’read such junk.” 1985 Irwin Alex Stewart 156 I thinks to myself, “Now he’s a gonna pull something on me.”

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