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- noun Plural form of
catchphrase .
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Examples
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In the past few weeks, Sheen has been everywhere, coining catchphrases in TV sit-downs "winning," "tiger blood," "Adonis DNA", Tweeting about his philosophies and live-streaming his life online.
Mark C. Miller: Can Judaism Save Charlie Sheen? Mark C. Miller 2011
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Instead, he just emits a light puff of wind and spouts his catchphrases from the Toy Story franchise.
Monopoly Revolution predicted to be Christmas toy bestseller Helen Pidd 2010
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In the past few weeks, Sheen has been everywhere, coining catchphrases in TV sit-downs "winning," "tiger blood," "Adonis DNA", Tweeting about his philosophies and live-streaming his life online.
Mark C. Miller: Can Judaism Save Charlie Sheen? Mark C. Miller 2011
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Totally different: He went from Martin Scorsese epics and "A Streetcar Named Desire" on Broadway to coining catchphrases in "Talladega Nights."
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That, and the impressive ability of right wing pundits to coin catchphrases get their talking points into the mainstream discourse.
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That, and the impressive ability of right wing pundits to coin catchphrases get their talking points into the mainstream discourse.
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Later, “Speilburgh” devolves into every part of an action film passionately hated, right up to a character being revealed as a bad guy and fitting every point of one, including speaking in catchphrases.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2005
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He was the king of TV comedy, with millions repeating his witty one liners and weekly-coined catchphrases, but as a trained standup comedian, Seinfeld was more used to self-loathing than congratulations.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Jordan Zakarin 2012
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Whereas most bands can be described in two - or three-word catchphrases, this one resists blithe categorizations.
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The question of whether all of the expressions, words, compounds, and so forth can properly be called catchphrases is not very important.
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