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I think Mr Rubens should consign Pee Wee to where he should have spent the last 15 years, in with the other nonces in a high security prison for all my US buddies out there a Nonce is a UK term for a petterass.
Pee-Wee Herman Returns with a Twitter Account…and a Jay Leno Interview | /Film 2009
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• A single bit flag in the SACK chunk called the Nonce Sum (NS).
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"Nonce," of course, has a radically different meaning in colloquial British speech.
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Danny returns in "The Nonce Prize," where a vengeful drug kingpin frames him for a heinous crime.
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Having previously been dubbed "the most hated man in Britain" for mocking the media's paedo-scare tactics with his fictional "Nonce Sense" campaign, Morris adopts similarly no-holds-barred tactics with the country's contemporary sacred cow.
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'Nonce word' is a perfectly standard piece of linguistics jargon, and will remain so, regardless of other uses the word may have in the language.
On a child's view of English DC 2009
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A Nonce who is said to bedangerously radioactivemay have fled to Ireland ahead of his trial on Child Pornography Charges.
Radioactive nonce lost. FIDO The Dog 2009
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Nonce! posted by Devil's Kitchen at 10/25/2005 11:26:00 PM
Archive 2005-10-01 2005
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Nonce! posted by Devil's Kitchen at 10/25/2005 11:26:00 PM
Nonce! 2005
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That container went air cargo to Belgium; then was trucked to a paper factory in Nonce, in northern France.
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