Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
hammer or some aspect of one.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Little kids when first encountering a hammer and without any parental teaching pick up hammer and begin using it, mostly in the intended hammerlike use-case.
Archive 2009-07-01 enowning 2009
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Little kids when first encountering a hammer and without any parental teaching pick up hammer and begin using it, mostly in the intended hammerlike use-case.
enowning enowning 2009
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These excesses are being corrected elsewhere, like South Korea, under the IMF's hammerlike conditions.
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This was a hammerlike hit of acid that split open all the flaws in the facets of my cultivated gem of a personality, revealing negative traits in inverse correlation to what had appeared on the surface: social anxiety of a pervasive, mushroom-cloud-like insidiousness; existential doubt to rival that of Kierkegaard; paranoid susceptibility to basic insecurities of all sorts.
Dont You Forget About Me Jaime Clarke 2007
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This was a hammerlike hit of acid that split open all the flaws in the facets of my cultivated gem of a personality, revealing negative traits in inverse correlation to what had appeared on the surface: social anxiety of a pervasive, mushroom-cloud-like insidiousness; existential doubt to rival that of Kierkegaard; paranoid susceptibility to basic insecurities of all sorts.
Dont You Forget About Me Jaime Clarke 2007
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This was a hammerlike hit of acid that split open all the flaws in the facets of my cultivated gem of a personality, revealing negative traits in inverse correlation to what had appeared on the surface: social anxiety of a pervasive, mushroom-cloud-like insidiousness; existential doubt to rival that of Kierkegaard; paranoid susceptibility to basic insecurities of all sorts.
Dont You Forget About Me Jaime Clarke 2007
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She watched Braeg lift both of his hammerlike fists in the air, bringing his diatribe to a crescendo.
Death in Winter Michael Jan Friedman 2005
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She watched Braeg lift both of his hammerlike fists in the air, bringing his diatribe to a crescendo.
Death in Winter Michael Jan Friedman 2005
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She watched Braeg lift both of his hammerlike fists in the air, bringing his diatribe to a crescendo.
Death in Winter Michael Jan Friedman 2005
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She watched Braeg lift both of his hammerlike fists in the air, bringing his diatribe to a crescendo.
Death in Winter Michael Jan Friedman 2005
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