patronymic surname from Reilly.' name='description'> O'Reilly - definition and meaning

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  • proper noun An Irish patronymic surname from Reilly.

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  • BILL O'REILLY, TALK SHOW HOST: The irony of the "Radio Factor" is that for 40 years, people just said shut up, O'Reilly.

    CNN Transcript Mar 28, 2004 2004

  • After the Memo he said we would get another view of this, but brought on D'Amato (yet another graduate of Chaminade High School, like O'reilly) who was in complete agreement and not surprised that they were all "afraid" to take on O'Reilly, and certain that their principled stance would hurt them politically.

    News Hounds 2009

  • Goldberg also said that, as soon as she had cursed on the air she called O'Reilly's statement "bullshit", she knew she had to leave.

    Whoopi Goldberg: I Would Have Been Fired If I Stayed On 'View' With O'Reilly (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • A number of people shouted falafel, the word O'Reilly used in a racy set of telephone conversations with a young woman he was trying to seduce as he described a shower they might take together.

    Secret Service agents told Bill O 'Reilly to calm down and get behind a barricade. Ann Althouse 2008

  • Instead, after I called O'Reilly to get his response before we aired our report, he lambasted me.

    CNN Transcript Sep 27, 2007 2007

  • See, one of the occasional hosts of the morning conference call O'Reilly was talking about -- the 8: 45AM teleconference of largely Democratic labor, health care, and environmental lobbies -- is none other than my good friend Jacki Schechner.

    Chez Pazienza: The Other Cable News Face-Off: O'Reilly vs. Schechner 2009

  • It was an ersatz Irish pub called O'Reilly's, all lettering and decor in green.

    Neurosurgical Intervention For Beginners 2009

  • Drupal also has non-user-friendly features and then there's the other big piece of this you aren't telling us, Nancy, which we have to get from O'Reilly, which is that the mods that the whitehouse. gov goverati geeks are putting on to this particular Drupal project will be hidden and unavailable to the public.

    WhiteHouse.gov Goes Drupal [Updated] Scola, Nancy 2009

  • But Erbe had the clarity to call O'Reilly's remarks hateful so, apparently, that was reason enough to categorize her, along with Adam Moss of New York Magazine as the "far left fringe" of society that was somehow in cahoots with Media Matters.

    O'Reilly refuses apology for Helen Thomas remarks 2009

  • Drupal also has non-user-friendly features and then there's the other big piece of this you aren't telling us, Nancy, which we have to get from O'Reilly, which is that the mods that the whitehouse. gov goverati geeks are putting on to this particular Drupal project will be hidden and unavailable to the public.

    WhiteHouse.gov Goes Drupal [Updated] 2009

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