Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
glut , 8.
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- noun Plural form of
glut . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
glut .
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Examples
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(I think, but am not sure, that ability to choose childrens 'gender has resulted in gluts of male babies followed by gluts of female babies.)
August 10th, 2006 2006
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These came each year in two successive armies or "gluts," the one when the plants were half grown, the other when they were nearly ready for harvest.
American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Ulrich Bonnell Phillips 1905
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It is admitted that some sentences ” notably, the Liars ” are truth value gluts, that is, both true and false (the construction may also sustain sentences which are both true and not true); and no artificial hierarchy of metalanguages is needed ” not to speak about the further epicycles of the (allegedly) consistent solutions to the Liar paradoxes.
Dialetheism Priest, Graham 2008
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Plenty meant ruin to agriculturists, and commercial 'gluts' resulting in manufacturers 'warehouses crammed with unsaleable goods.
The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Leslie Stephen 1868
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The paupers of Glasgow were 'excrescent,' and the 'gluts' were visible in the commercial crises which had thrown numbers of poor weavers out of employment and degraded them into permanent paupers.
The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Leslie Stephen 1868
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If I sit in my chair and squeeze my ass twenty times in a row (apologies for lack of class in my phrasing), like a “clench and hold” kind of thing, does that work my gluts?
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Farmers aren't producing gluts yet but it isn't for lack of trying.
Farmers Sense the End of Big Boom Scott Kilman 2011
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But supply gluts for manufacturers in those business slowed plans to boost production capacity in the past year.
Applied Issues Upbeat Forecast Don Clark 2012
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As she followed him into his kitchen, she was unable to ignore his tight gluts, muscular thighs, small waist and broad shoulders.
Who Said It Would Be Easy Cheryl Faye 2011
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As she followed him into his kitchen, she was unable to ignore his tight gluts, muscular thighs, small waist and broad shoulders.
Who Said It Would Be Easy Cheryl Faye 2011
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