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  • One sees the decade as Day-Glo froth, 10 years Britain spent moonwalking in deely-boppers to the Thompson Twins.

    Alexis Petridis: It's been donkey's years... Alexis Petridis 2010

  • Frank Rossitano (Judah Friedlander): Just before the show begins, neglects to put on one of his ridiculous trucker caps and accidentally slaps some deely boppers on his head instead.

    '30 Rock' live: What could possibly go wrong? Jen Chaney 2010

  • As long as people aren't wearing crotchless jeans outside primary schools or deely boppers with attached sparklers on petrol station forecourts, we've all got the right to wear exactly what the hell we like and I can barely believe that we're having this debate.

    If Britain decides to ban the burqa I might just start wearing one 2010

  • By that time it had already grown from a tiny protest/art happening that began in 1989 to a sea of a million gurning ravemonkeys in deely boppers surging through the streets in an undifferentiated mass, soundtracked by the thud of lowest common denominator German "Schranz" techno.

    Love Parade's tragic final chapter 2010

  • Or will they just give him the ‘alien’ look by him wearing deely-boppers?

    KEANU PLAYS KLAATU, KNOWS KUNG FU 2007

  • Of course the deely-boppers should be CGI, that goes without saying …

    KEANU PLAYS KLAATU, KNOWS KUNG FU 2007

  • It explains succinctly why it is going to take more than a blue version of the province's name surmounted by three deely boppers to undo the negative branding the Premier has already given the province.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Ed Hollett 2006

  • Sadly, you can't see my sparkly deely-bobbers (actually, I suspect I'm wearing stripy tiger-ears in that photo) or my purple fishnet stockings or my big gold lame frou-frou skirt worn in homage to the goddess Belinda Carlisle or my darling spike-heeled yellow patent leather Mary Janes or my waist-cinching wide-elastic belt or my red lace push-up cleavage-inducing nipples-revealing bra, but take it from me – they were there; they were there with bells on.

    bluemeany Diary Entry bluemeany 2005

  • Just a guy with a portable stand, filled with the lighted deely-boppers and devil's horns.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2002

  • It was also a recognition of the fact that all surveys of public opinion in South Africa showed that the population was deely divided over the matter.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

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