Definitions
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- noun An individual piece of the breakfast cereal,
Cheerios .
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Examples
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He lumbers over to a table where he has gathered some pictures of summer vacations they used to take with friends at a cluster of rental cabins known as Cheerio on the Hood Canal, about two hours away.
American Sketches Walter Isaacson 2009
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A weekend critic for the Inquirer called Cheerio! quite simply the rebirth of the American musical.
Rhapsody In Time Judith O’Brien 1994
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A weekend critic for the Inquirer called Cheerio! quite simply the rebirth of the American musical.
Rhapsody In Time Judith O’Brien 1994
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One, called Cheerio, was of three dancing girls doing their routine; another, That Old Fashioned Mother of Mine, I liked a lot.
Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography Bothroyd, Betty 1988
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He just points out to these boys in harness, gas mask and parachute on, where to go, and, in a quiet voice, says "Cheerio".
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When the word "Cheerio" popped into my head, I just fell apart.
Comic Book Resources 2010
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Other than that "Cheerio" is a parting salutation!
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Not that I expected a speech or some grand send off, but 'Cheerio'?
unknown title 2009
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Not that I expected a speech or some grand send off, but 'Cheerio'?
unknown title 2009
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"Cheerio" as an upper-class adjective is not so much whiskery as dead.
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