Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An inflatable, vestlike life preserver.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun An inflatable life jacket, originally used as a personal flotation device by aviators downed at sea.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Nickname for a type of
life jacket used by Allied forces inWorld War II having an inflatable rubber bag on the chest of the wearer.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun United States film actress (1892-1980)
- noun an inflatable life jacket
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Actually, to paraphrase Mae West, “public” has nothing to do with it.
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I may have gotten Ann's poem a bit wrong, but the idea of Mae West as Moon is absolutely hot and bothered, stunning and right, and I can hardly wait for this October's late night burlesque.
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Mae West liked a guy who took his time, and Mike Leigh certainly exercises that privilege in this 2¾-hour play originally seen at Hampstead in 1979.
Ecstasy - review 2011
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But when I read this uncharacteristically sincere sentiment, all I can think of is Mae West's line: "I used to be Snow White, but I drifted."
Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland Richard Bangs 2011
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In Brooklyn's Cypress Hills Cemetery, $770 buys an urn niche and the pride of sharing a permanent home with Jackie Robinson , Mae West and famed recluse/hoarder Langley Collyer .
Ponying Up for Forever Anne Kadet 2012
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As Mae West once put it: "I used to be Snow White, but I drifted."
Debra Ollivier: Why Americans Are As Adulterous As The French: Questioning a Tired Cliche Debra Ollivier 2011
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But when I read this uncharacteristically sincere sentiment, all I can think of is Mae West's line: "I used to be Snow White, but I drifted."
Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland Richard Bangs 2011
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So you get everything from the proto-sauciness of Mae West's 1933 She Done Him Wrong through to the YBA Gillian Wearing's first film Self Made, for which she typically placed an ad in a local paper saying, Would you like to be in a film?
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But when I read this uncharacteristically sincere sentiment, all I can think of is Mae West's line: "I used to be Snow White, but I drifted."
Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland Richard Bangs 2011
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As Mae West once put it: "I used to be Snow White, but I drifted."
Debra Ollivier: Why Americans Are As Adulterous As The French: Questioning a Tired Cliche Debra Ollivier 2011
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