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- noun Plural form of
clamper .
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Examples
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So a steel frame bike with Campy gears and 'clampers' would be Led Zep?
Working for the Clampdown: The Importance of Word Choice BikeSnobNYC 2009
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Given that successive governments have taken steps to clamp down on clampers – the issue is to be submitted to parliament in the Freedom Bill this month – Gaydamak must have known this was the consequence of his outsourcing.
Prime minister to back 2018 World Cup bid in talks with Sepp Blatter Matt Scott 2010
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However, while few would condone deliberate fare evasion, it is impossible to know how many of the people on that list are hardened criminals with no intention of paying, and how many have fallen foul of what some have dubbed "railway clampers".
How train firms' fare-dodging policies turn commuters into criminals Tony Levene 2010
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It sounds like she's got a fair point and there's nothing I'd like to do more than call off the clampers but I don't have the authority.
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Unfortunately for the al-Thani family, the traffic wardens of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea are not cowed by astronomical wealth and had no hesitation when it came to ordering the clampers to Harrods last week.
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'Legalised mugging': AA demands ban on cowboy clampers making £1bn a year out of motorists
Archive 2009-08-01 Thatsnews 2009
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It is so lucrative that in one or two local car parks the shaven-headed and burly clampers wait in a plain van in the corner of the site, ready to apply a clamp within a couple of minutes of a victim's arrival.
Archive 2009-05-01 Bystander 2009
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This would build on the existing requirement for clampers to be licensed.
Clamping And The Law: Guest Post Bystander 2009
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A cursory glance at the gospels reveals that he would more likely be found among the reviled outcasts of those years: asylum seekers, trafficked sex-workers, wheel-clampers and the Cabinet of Gordon Brown.
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'Legalised mugging': AA demands ban on cowboy clampers making £1bn a year out of motorists
Friday and what the hell's going on, now? Thatsnews 2009
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