Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a contraction of cul-de-sac.

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  • noun a passage with access only at one end

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Examples

  • All they have to do is reject such allegations, leaving us nowhere except in a name calling cul-de-sac.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Johnny Guitar 2009

  • All they have to do is reject such allegations, leaving us nowhere except in a name calling cul-de-sac.

    Fascism and how not to fight it Johnny Guitar 2009

  • Canvassing lists should be sorted by side of street in cul-de-sac or one-way road situations; and climbing numbers when you are making a loop.

    Waldo Jaquith - Virginia Democratic list management software. 2006

  • Whoa, was that com­men­tary writ­ten by a nine year old girl, or an aspir­ing PhD in cul­tural studies?

    Snuppy!!! « Snarkmarket 2005

  • We should note that the u in Latin culīna and derivatives is short.

    languagehat.com: MA, A SMALL BIRD. 2005

  • One-way streets intersect with two-way streets, dead-ending in cul-de-sacs that turn around into glorietas, - traffic circles going nowhere.

    Aqui es México 2000

  • One-way streets intersect with two-way streets, dead-ending in cul-de-sacs that turn around into glorietas, - traffic circles going nowhere.

    Aqui es México 2000

  • One-way streets intersect with two-way streets, dead-ending in cul-de-sacs that turn around into glorietas, - traffic circles going nowhere.

    Aqui es México 2000

  • Q: What does the French word 'cul-de-sac' mean in English?

    Berks county news 2009

  • So now, whenever see the term cul de sac, I think of ass sack.

    French masterclass 2007

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