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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb to test the alcohol content of someone's blood by means of a breathalyzer.
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- verb To
estimate thealcohol content of a person'sblood by using abreathalyzer
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb test someone's alcohol level in his blood by means of a breathalyzer
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Examples
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Staff have been running around trying to breathalyze prisoners.
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Staff have been running around trying to breathalyze prisoners.
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And I-- I love the idea of having breathalyzers at the bar, and you have to breathalyze on your way out.
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Prisons minister Crispin Blunt said the riot began when guards tried to breathalyze prisoners suspected of drinking alcohol smuggled into the jail.
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Prisons minister Crispin Blunt said the riot began when guards tried to breathalyze prisoners suspected of drinking alcohol smuggled into the jail.
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Staff have been running around trying to breathalyze prisoners.
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That is why I breathalyze all pharmacy techs and surgeons before I let them work.
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That is unless you are assuming that cops are going to breathalyze / field test every single driver that goes through a checkpoint and ask them for "Ze Papers!!!".
BlueOregon 2009
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That is unless you are assuming that cops are going to breathalyze / field test every single driver that goes through a checkpoint and ask them for "Ze Papers!!!".
BlueOregon 2009
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"We won't breathalyze everyone, but if we have a student who gives us a reasonable suspicion we will breathalyze that student," Hutchinson said.
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