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  • The wizard never did learn their speech, barring a few basic words like "flup" and "rishathra," but he wore a necklace that spoke like a teacher before they reached the village.

    The Ringworld Throne Niven, Larry 1996

  • Get it wrong and it just goes 'flup' to groans from a computerised audience.

    Home | Mail Online 2009

  • Gleep, flup, bree bree … (that's me talking in tongues).

    Must Watch: Bill Maher's Religulous Trailer! « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • It depends alot on the quality of teacher who will be responsible to teach ethics and so far, it is a big flup.

    Quebec Schools Will Begin Mandatory Ethics and Religious Culture Courses Howard M. Friedman 2007

  • Bang on the booche, gurg in the gorge, rap on the roof and your flup is unbu ...

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • I've been injured and I've starved and I was slaved to a vampire protector, but that diplomatic flup is out of my life.

    The Ringworld Throne Niven, Larry 1996

  • You mean all this time -- Flup, everyone I _know_ thinks he knows what flup means.

    The Ringworld Throne Niven, Larry 1996

  • He and his weird companions had looked up into its black underside, where seas were bulges, mountain ranges were chains of pits, and tremendous pipes carried seabottom flup under the world and over the rim wall to become spill mountains.

    The Ringworld Throne Niven, Larry 1996

  • The pipes had to be there, or else flup would fill the ocean beds.

    The Ringworld Engineers Niven, Larry 1980

  • "The brown stuff that comes out of a spillpipe is called flup."

    The Ringworld Engineers Niven, Larry 1980

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