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  • proper noun baseball A player on the team the "Houston Astros".

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Examples

  • Astro is short for "Asashio Sogo Teacher's ROom," and gives you an idea of what we're dealing with: four teachers who work at Asashio High School.

    Japanator 2008

  • Adriana Echandi , a singer who said she goes by the name "Astro," wore Mylar as a shawl over her silver dress.

    Guerrillas on Ice 2012

  • "It'd be what we call Astro-Dirt and so I'd hurt my feet standing out there just watching and so you could imagine how the kids felt," he said.

    WOWT - HomePage - Headlines 2009

  • They create and finance their own patient groups, which we call Astro Turf because they are not real grassroots.

    Accidental Deliberations 2009

  • I guess Busiek is still doing this in Astro City, with a shared setting but otherwise unconnected or only very loosely connected stories.

    Matthew Yglesias » Invincible 2009

  • The Astro is peace of mind and a great tool in case the worse situation happened.

    K-9 G.P.S. 2008

  • The Garmin Astro sounds like a good replacement for beeper collars that never really do the job well.

    K-9 G.P.S. 2008

  • Bourjaily: K-9 G.P.S. I first saw the Garmin Astro in action last week.

    K-9 G.P.S. 2008

  • Edward Craven Walker applied for a patent in 1965 for his invention he called the Astro, but it was marketed as a Lava Lite.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Fresca 2009

  • I'm quite proud of this week's Games of our Lives, which is a game called Astro Fighter.

    WIL WHEATON dot NET: 1.5: WWdN in Exile Archives 2006

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