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- noun Alternative spelling of
dreidel .
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Examples
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Cause we can spin a dreidl with captain kirk as well as mr. spock -- both jewish!
Archive 2009-12-01 admin 2009
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Cause we can spin a dreidl with captain kirk as well as mr. spock -- both jewish!
Adam Sandler Hanukkah Song - Video, Lyrics : emusicality.com admin 2009
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From now on the image of the cast lead dreidl will be associated with the lead of armaments and the violence of Operation Cast Lead.
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Cause you can spin the dreidl with captain kirk and mr. spock--both jewish!
Hitchens hates Hanukkah. Ann Althouse 2007
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When you start noticing the leaves changing color, or find yourself decorating a Christmas tree or spinning a dreidl, then you can legitimately start worrying if you have waited too long.
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You know, like it might be the day that you sing “Happy Holiday to You,” blow out the menorahs on a pumpkin pie, exchange boxes of gelt, and then play spin the tail on the dreidl until midnight when three wise snowmen riding on a red-nosed reindeer fling Champagne bottles full of flaming frankincense and myrrh at your front door.
Gaucho Grill - Having Nothing to Do with Anything. Or Something. 2006
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You know, like it might be the day that you sing “Happy Holiday to You,” blow out the menorahs on a pumpkin pie, exchange boxes of gelt, and then play spin the tail on the dreidl until midnight when three wise snowmen riding on a red-nosed reindeer fling Champagne bottles full of flaming frankincense and myrrh at your front door.
Archive 2006-12-01 2006
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When you start noticing the leaves changing color, or find yourself decorating a Christmas tree or spinning a dreidl, then you can legitimately start worrying if you have waited too long.
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"Dreidl, dreidl, dreidl, I made it out of clay, it contains a secret code for partisan fighters parachuting behind enemy lines today."
My life as a woman Roseanne, Barr 1989
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I wish I were more excited, but Whitney's This comes from the British press and a member of the Jackson family, so there may be more spin here than in a Hanukkah dreidl, but make of it what you will:
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