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- noun Plural form of
crowbar . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
crowbar .
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Examples
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These auctioneers are the only folks we know who call crowbars "wrecking bars."
grouse Diary Entry grouse 2002
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"She was buried under two floors and we had to dig down to get to her with light tools, such as crowbars, picks and shovels," he said.
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I can’t blame them for locking up store prior to the storm, but one of the things we learned in NERT (unfortunate name: Neighborhhod Emergency Response Training) was that the hardwar tools of rescue: such as crowbars, shovels, and hammers, would be readily avaible to us by liberating them from hardware stores.
ninth circle 2005
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The days of attacks by hooded Klansmen or mobs bearing crowbars to stop integration are past.
Alabama town faces history 50 years after Freedom Rides 2011
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The days of attacks by hooded Klansmen or mobs bearing crowbars to stop integration are past.
Alabama town faces history 50 years after Freedom Rides 2011
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Amid the tire irons and crowbars in a disabled Russian armored personnel carrier-turned Afghan teahouse, Iranian truck drivers Wednesday debated allegations that their government rigged Iran's June 12 presidential elections — and whether it did so by the thousands or by the millions.
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“Disbanded” when someone found baseball bats, crowbars and sledgehammers in their lockers?
Replace Police With Spin Doctors « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Our crowbars punctured the cheap aluminium of the outer casing, and we hauled it apart.
365 tomorrows » Sam Clough : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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Before Monday evening's events there were warnings that Turkish shopkeepers in Tottenham were forming "protection units" to stop their businesses being looted, while retailers in nearby Wood Green were said to have equipped themselves with crowbars and other weapons after holding emergency meetings.
London riots: 'People are fighting back. It's their neighbourhoods at stake' 2011
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Some were so thick that it took a dozen men—using rope, sledgehammers and long crowbars—to twist them around the float.
Japanese Town Reunites Around Festival Daisuke Wakabayashi 2011
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