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  • noun Plural form of sandman.

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Examples

  • I entered fandom (and convention fandom) at a time when the halls of cons were filled with runners and sandmen … Sandmen with butane filled blasters!

    Show #12: Pre-show Discussion : The Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas 2006

  • Sometimes, her music-loving parents would take her to jazz clubs where she stayed up long past her bedtime, lulled by lazy solos from sandmen with a difference to finally fall asleep on her mothers knee.

    Archive 2006-09-01 The Nag 2006

  • Sometimes, her music-loving parents would take her to jazz clubs where she stayed up long past her bedtime, lulled by lazy solos from sandmen with a difference to finally fall asleep on her mothers knee.

    Listen to "Flowers" The Nag 2006

  • There are cavemen, and neander men, treemen and sandmen, and many other kinds of men not often encountered but as comfortable in this world as you or I. -

    A Triumph of Souls Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000

  • There didn't seem to be much come back on Anakin's slaughter of the sandmen in Ep2 either.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2009

  • A thirtieth birthday spent in Amsterdam, attempting to escape any pursuing sandmen a la Logan’s Run in a haze of cannabis smoke, may possibly have had some small contributory effect, but I’m sure it’s more than just too much weed and early onset senility.

    Notes from New Sodom: To the Water-Fountains by Hal Duncan 2009

  • If so, could you please explain to me how you’ve managed to elude the sandmen for so long?

    SHATNER CALLS JJ ABRAMS A LIAR 2008

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