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  • adjective Describing lyric poetry that is not written in stanza form

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Examples

  • Craptastic, going to the movies sober would be scat-astrophic … see what I did there?

    CANADA HATES LARRY THE CABLE GUY 2008

  • Cat-astrophic Health Insurance Don't worry, Judith Miller's dog is all right, despite a medical scare over the long weekend.

    The Whatever President 2009

  • Hashim, mebbe we use dem just for re-splort pertekshun or for Cat-astrophic splortatious sich…. sityooo…… events whenna reskyoo teams mebbe need more portection.

    enemy sighted - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • This cat-astrophic event was precipitated by the following, which I found on her computer screen when I went to investigate the source of the nap-snapping thud:

    Archive 2006-10-29 Miss Snark 2006

  • This cat-astrophic event was precipitated by the following, which I found on her computer screen when I went to investigate the source of the nap-snapping thud:

    Killer Yapp here Miss Snark 2006

  • The injustice of our heritage was cat - astrophic, for plain males would still marry well now that the Pass was ending and Fort's Holder was extending his settlements.

    Nerilka's Story McCaffrey, Anne 1986

  • He supposed that such volcanoes as Teneriffe in the Canary Islands had not been built up gradually by many repeated volcanic eruptions carried on over an immense period of time, but by an upheaval of the surrounding rock strata, and that this upheaval had been essentially a single event, cat - astrophic in nature, and without parallel in the mod - ern world.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas LEONARD G. WILSON 1968

  • The cat astrophic flood, which occurred in Florence, Italy in 1966.

    BroadwayWorld.com Tempe Stories 2009

  • The cat astrophic flood, which occurred in Florence, Italy in 1966.

    BroadwayWorld.com Dayton Stories 2009

  • The cat astrophic flood, which occurred in Florence, Italy in 1966.

    BroadwayWorld.com Dayton Stories 2009

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