Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of northern Texas in the Panhandle north of Lubbock. It grew as a cattle-shipping center after the coming of the railroad in 1887.
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- proper noun A
city in thenorthwest plains ofTexas
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a city in the northern panhandle of Texas
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Examples
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AMARILLO (September 13, 2010) -- A skateboard-toting man grabbed a Quran from an evangelist who planned to burn the scripture at an event Sunday in a park in Amarillo.
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AMARILLO (September 13, 2010) -- A skateboard-toting man grabbed a Quran from an evangelist who planned to burn the scripture at an event Sunday in a park in Amarillo.
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Reader note: "The narrator did not seem to realize for whom" Rick Husband Airport "in Amarillo is named."
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Reader note: "The narrator did not seem to realize for whom" Rick Husband Airport "in Amarillo is named."
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And now some right-wing religious fundamentalist terrorists in Amarillo Texas are terrorizing U.S. citizens … in the name of Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace?
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My friends here in tejas tell me that the fastest growing franchise in Amarillo is the fundamentalist churches.
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Those criminals in Amarillo represent the true face of the teabagger movement.
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Now appearing, one week only, at the Strip Search Club just off I-40 in Amarillo!
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My family and I had the misfortune of being stuff in Amarillo for a half day some years back during a car repair.
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My family and I had the misfortune of being stuff in Amarillo for a half day some years back during a car repair.
bilby commented on the word Amarillo
Is this the way ...?
November 29, 2009