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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thesubfamily Alligatorinae — thealligators .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Just like the gators that the truckers see in Alligator Alley in Florida.
Big O has got me thinking about my younger days in Arkansas where I grew up. 2009
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Just like the gators that the truckers see in Alligator Alley in Florida.
Big O has got me thinking about my younger days in Arkansas where I grew up. 2009
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The kind with made up words that always rhyme, sort of like the poems in Alligator Pie.
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Alligator is good top to bottom, and Boxer is distinguished mostly by “Fake Empire” and “Slow Show.”
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While Walkmen and AMC's recent albums held their fair share of filler, Alligator is uniformly excellent.
I'm the new blue blood, I'm the great white hope (Music (For Robots)) 2005
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The National, who's new album, Alligator, is one of the best of 2005, really deserve the attention they've been getting lately - I was genuinely blown away by their set.
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Said Bruce Iglauer, founder of the Chicago blues label Alligator Records, Honeyboy was one of the very last links to the real world of the Delta blues, a crucial world in the development of American popular music.
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Rocker, who records for revered blues-rock record label Alligator
RGJ.com - Latest News By Mark Earnest 2010
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The avocado is colloquially known as the Alligator Pear, reflecting its shape and the leather-like appearance of its skin.
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The avocado is colloquially known as the Alligator Pear, reflecting its shape and the leather-like appearance of its skin.
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