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- adjective Characterised by
hiccups .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Stuck Like Glue" is a cheerier play on Underwood's similarly hiccupy "Undo It," if that song had had a reggae-accented rap in the middle.
Album review of Sugarland's 'The Incredible Machine' Post 2010
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St. Ulrich (the patron saint of wolves, but too much like Skeet Ulrich?) and St. Gertrude (too much of a hiccupy g sound in the title?).
A Conversation with Karen Russell author of St. Lucys Home for Girls Raised by Wolves 2010
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"Stuck Like Glue" is a cheerier play on Underwood's similarly hiccupy "Undo It," if that song had had a reggae-accented rap in the middle.
Album review: Sugarland, "The Incredible Machine" Allison Stewart 2010
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I heard her hiccupy breaths and thought about waiting until she was ready to come out.
The Viognier Vendetta Ellen Crosby 2010
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Essayed with Sia's signature drowsy, hiccupy vocals atop a bed of nostalgic synths, it's a 2010 model that out-'80s the original.
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She turned back to my sister, who was making little hiccupy sobs but looked okay.
imperfect endings Zoe FitzGerald Carter 2010
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I first heard this gorgeous, hiccupy Four Tet song in a brick and mortar record store.
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He had seen mothers and fathers comfort crying children—but those had been little kids, crying eye-rubbing baby tears with little hiccupy sobs.
Pathfinder Orson Scott Card 2010
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She turned back to my sister, who was making little hiccupy sobs but looked okay.
imperfect endings Zoe FitzGerald Carter 2010
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The only time I cried Tuesday during the Michael Jackson memorial was in the middle of it, when I went back to sleep after an awful night of tossing and turning and dreamed that I was crying, uncontrollably, that hiccupy, face-contorting, ugly kind of crying.
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