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- noun Plural form of
croup . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
croup .
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Examples
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Being in critique croups and entering contests and getting rejections often makes me doubt my writing.
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The elephants feeling their croups stung by the arrows began to gallop more quickly; a great dust enveloped them, and they vanished like shadows in a cloud.
Salammbo 2003
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A divided drove of branded cattle passed the windows, lowing, slouching by on padded hoofs, whisking their tails slowly on their clotted bony croups.
Ulysses 2003
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"No, Sed, I's 'fraid you might git the croups an' die."
Plantation Sketches Margaret Devereux
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I dread the warm season on account of its summer-complaints; and the cold for its croups, scarlet fevers, measles, and whooping cough.
Hubert's Wife A Story for You Minnie Mary Lee
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The swords often descend upon the horses 'croups, where they drink and feast upon their blood; their riders strike them upon the flanks until at last they kill them both.
Four Arthurian Romances de Troyes Chr��tien 1914
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A divided drove of branded cattle passed the windows, lowing, slouching by on padded hoofs, whisking their tails slowly on their clotted bony croups.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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Sir Launcelot not refusing them but made him ready, with one spear he smote them down both over their horses 'croups; and so Sir Launcelot rode his way.
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I only hope that my practical advice and the little medicine I could give them relieved some of their backaches and sideaches, their felons, croups, and fevers and agues, and above all, their indigestion, which is the prevailing trouble in that section of the country.
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In a heap of croups and legs and steaming bellies, one of the postboys was buried, his boots in the air.
The Queen Pedauque Anatole France 1884
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