Definitions
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- noun military A large iron
pot , used in the army.
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Examples
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[+30] 11: 13 am - some people wish they were in dixie, apparently.
April 2010 2010
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On a brighter note, Alabama bow season opens the 15th. happy hunting down in dixie.
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On a brighter note, Alabama bow season opens the 15th. happy hunting down in dixie.
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Altogether, they put thirty-two "five-point-nine" (150 mm.) shells into that one old building and all the damage they did was to ruin our dinner by filling the "dixie" with mud.
The Emma Gees Herbert Wes McBride
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We had no more than arrived in the line than the cook of the first gun crew we struck brought out a "dixie" of tea and an unlimited supply of bread and butter and jam and invited us to fill up.
The Emma Gees Herbert Wes McBride
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The "dixie", by the way, is an iron box or pot, oblong in shape, capacity about four or five gallons.
A Yankee in the Trenches Robert Derby Holmes
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My grandad who saw both play always told me the greatest player was William Ralph 'dixie'
BBC Ouch! Blog BBC Sport 2010
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The only thing he lacks is the mullet haircut, long-neck bottle of Bud and white hood to go with his "down home" dixie politics.
Hutchison announces gubernatorial bid, raises $6.7 million 2009
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So dixie rethuglicants are racists and bigots – This is news?
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Your not whistling dixie, he would have another expensive war, oh well that is ok!
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