Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective In financial need.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
strap . - adjective of a person, informal
muscular - adjective slang
armed , having aweapon - adjective poor
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Examples
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I've got her all excited about the sport, and use a dummy with a pheasant skin strapped to it for retrieving practice.
What, where, and how is the best way to hunt pheasants without a dog. Thanks. 2010
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I've got her all excited about the sport, and use a dummy with a pheasant skin strapped to it for retrieving practice.
What, where, and how is the best way to hunt pheasants without a dog. Thanks. 2010
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The hunter made no comment about the bearskin strapped to it, for which Domar was thankful.
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Then he looked over at Husband, who had Robin strapped to him.
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Then he looked over at Husband, who had Robin strapped to him.
You can take the girl out of the anthropology major . . . « A Bird’s Nest 2008
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The potential upside of waiting 12 or 14 hours a day, six or seven days a week, is the chance that one day Britney will roll her car into a ditch, or be taken away again strapped to a gurney.
Shooting Britney 2008
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The potential upside of waiting 12 or 14 hours a day, six or seven days a week, is the chance that one day Britney will roll her car into a ditch, or be taken away again strapped to a gurney.
Shooting Britney 2008
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The potential upside of waiting 12 or 14 hours a day, six or seven days a week, is the chance that one day Britney will roll her car into a ditch, or be taken away again strapped to a gurney.
Shooting Britney 2008
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There appeared before them, at this juncture, going in the same direction as themselves, a traveller on foot, who, with a portmanteau strapped to his back, leaned upon a stout stick as he walked, and read from a book which he held in his other hand.
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You could wear a muu-muu that said "SUCK JESUS BALLS" on the front and a Carmen Miranda merkin strapped to your thighs and we'd all just shrug.
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