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- noun Plural form of
home . - noun slang Alternative spelling of
holmes . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
home .
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Examples
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(I can hear my own voice beating out the horror of it in hard, cruel jerks.) "That their homes -- their _homes_ -- are burned to ashes somewhere down there?"
The Belfry May Sinclair 1904
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"These are nice homes, well-built homes+ but I represent 12,500 people and whatever they want is where I am at," Fike said.
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From the Washington Post: A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that the District's longtime ban on keeping handguns in homes is unconstitutional.
On Guns 2007
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Nevertheless, the term homes is extended to a great variety of institutions.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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But the excesses and abuses of Wall Street with their billions of dollars bonus pools while families all over America were being evicted from their homes is another matter altogether.
Raymond J. Learsy: The President's Misdirected Class Warfare Raymond J. Learsy 2010
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But the excesses and abuses of Wall Street with their billions of dollars bonus pools while families all over America were being evicted from their homes is another matter altogether.
Raymond J. Learsy: The President's Misdirected Class Warfare Raymond J. Learsy 2010
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But the excesses and abuses of Wall Street with their billions of dollars bonus pools while families all over America were being evicted from their homes is another matter altogether.
Raymond J. Learsy: The President's Misdirected Class Warfare Raymond J. Learsy 2010
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The fact that many people have poor reception in their homes is a problem T Mo should be paying for not the customer.
T-Mobile Offers New Home Phone Service - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Something that sets the Mennonite kitchen apart from those found in other homes is the traditional churn, still used to produce butter for home use, apart from the commercially sold product, and the hand-carved wooden butter molds.
Immigrant cooking in Mexico: The Mennonite kitchens of Chihuahua 2007
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And not far enough from your homes is the Toronto Tree sacred to Mars, not the God of Chocolate.
Archive 2007-06-01 2007
tbtabby commented on the word homes
An acronym used for remembering the names of the Great Lakes: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior.
October 7, 2009