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- noun Plural form of
grandpappy .
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Examples
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Clearly the hot dog races are the ties that bind us with our great grandpappies.
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O’Reilly and Buchanan: another two whose great-grandpappies were undoubtedly considered part of the 19th-c assault on America’s ‘white, Christian, male power structure’. llamajockey Says:
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And how many Southern votes from Mr Bush’s demographic do you really think she will get – take a good look around next time you go to NASCAR and see if they are ready to embrace who their great grandpappies fought so hard to stop freeing and their fathers spat on and lynched.
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Like the man said, why should we still be makin’ whiskey the same way our grandpappies did?
MOONSHINER’S SON CAROLYN REEDER 1993
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Like the man said, why should we still be makin’ whiskey the same way our grandpappies did?
MOONSHINER’S SON CAROLYN REEDER 1993
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