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  • noun Plural form of hydro.

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Examples

  • Tom explains that there are also "high grade epilecs" at the Home, and "micros," with little heads no bigger than a fist, usually droolers, who live a long time; and "hydros," with big heads who don't drool, never grow up, and die young.

    “I am only a wild girl, and I am afraid of the world....” 2008

  • Mercury is also known by the popular name of quicksilver, derived from the Greek words, hydros meaning water, and argyros meaning silver, because this silvery mineral occurs at room temperature as a liquid.

    Mercury (element) 2009

  • Getting upset when they won't bleed your Avid hydros at Pep Boys?

    Metamorphosis: The More Things Change, The More They Shouldn't BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • Must remember: Bedtime sorrow is for Vicodin name-brand or generic hydros, must not be a snob.

    You Know Where to Find Me Rachel Cohn 2008

  • Must remember: Bedtime sorrow is for Vicodin name-brand or generic hydros, must not be a snob.

    You Know Where to Find Me Rachel Cohn 2008

  • English watering resorts packed with hydros and seaside theatres, turning money away, duets in Italian with the accent perfectly true to nature and a quantity of other things, no necessity, of course, to tell the world and his wife from the housetops about it, and a slice of luck.

    Ulysses 2003

  • Another thing just struck him as a by no means bad notion was he might have a gaze around on the spot to see about trying to make arrangements about a concert tour of summer music embracing the most prominent pleasure resorts, Margate with mixed bathing and firstrate hydros and spas, Eastbourne, Scarborough,

    Ulysses 2003

  • And it's basically it's because my Dr. did my lap to check out possible hydros.

    brile Diary Entry brile 2001

  • There are: industrial investments in the Peru, Argelia Libre and Guiteras sugar mills, the diesel locomotives installation shop; the Jesus Menendez sugar mill's factory for hydros lime; reconstruction and expansion of the shop in the Amancio [sugar mill], and reconstruction and expansion of the shop in the Argelia Libre.

    DEDICATION OF BULK SUGAR TERMINAL 1978

  • On the whole, from a literary point of view, the hydros come out better than the mere hotels.

    Punch or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 24, 1920. Various

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