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  • noun Plural form of johnny.

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Examples

  • Which also explains why, when Procter & Gamble decided to put out Tide in retro-packaging at Target this month, the marketing johnnies made it clear that the vintage boxes would only be offered May 22 to June 10.

    Disney's Movie Vault: Scarily Creating a Fantasia of Scarcity Eric Felten 2011

  • The advertising johnnies at Just For Men products know just what buttons to push, and have been running spots featuring a graying dad whose teenage daughter asks why he's putting on a tie.

    In Hollywood, New Rage Against Age 2010

  • What does Lord Bonkers make of the selection of all those foreign johnnies?

    Nick Clegg's Private Passions 2008

  • It's like a CBBC show which includes copious references to rubber johnnies and "doing it".

    Tonight's TV highlights 2010

  • Snob rents his mellow johnnies t-shirts whenever he needs one -- much cheaper than buying.

    A Shot in the Dark: The Art of Appropriating Blame BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • There were the philanderers (serial and otherwise), the cads, the love children, the sexual deviant, the cash-for-questions johnnies and the perjurers.

    Sir John Fluffs It Again 2007

  • Obama even flashed the Vulcan hand sign -- not so easy to do the first few times you try -- at Nimoy at an Obama fundraiser in, for those of you who were johnnies-come-lately, January 2007.

    William Bradley: Star Trek's New Coming-of-Age Saga for Generation O 2009

  • There were the philanderers (serial and otherwise), the cads, the love children, the sexual deviant, the cash-for-questions johnnies and the perjurers.

    Archive 2007-12-16 2007

  • The gowns were nicer-looking - big white poofy things - than the hospital johnnies we had where I worked in Boston.

    Archive 2009-06-01 C N Heidelberg 2009

  • The gowns were nicer-looking - big white poofy things - than the hospital johnnies we had where I worked in Boston.

    My Experience in a German Hospital - Part II C N Heidelberg 2009

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