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- noun Alternative spelling of
lamppost .
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Examples
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INSI - Safety Resources - If walking in to a lampost is the less serious (but no less painful) side of journalism then this is the serious stuff.
AndyDickinson.net deli 2008
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Sadly for me and to the entertainment of the said motorists I walked straight into a lampost that someone had deliberately positioned to catch unsuspecting, daydreaming coppers on their way back for a cuppa.
You Heard It Here First (Bulbgate) « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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She jumped onto a lampost and hopped her way up to the roof of the building.
Arcana Magi Pure - c.3 H-M Brown 2011
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This is why the industry has been pressing for consideration of LTE femtocells for outdoor usage (the LTE femtocell on each lampost scenario).
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Looking out the crusted window, the sight of the lampost and tree-lined street, the granite block park wall, the wandering path through an open field and the woods behind with a barely visible waterfall and stream traversed by a stone arching walkway, took my mind to a different place and time, forty years past and worlds away.
The Strange Tantes 2010
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Having taught the books for 18 years, I can't tell you the thrill of hearing dozens of normally reticent 6th graders exclaim aloud in joy, "so THAT'S how the lampost got there!"
Chronologist or Publicationist? Roger Sutton 2008
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Pleasingly, well actually, maddeningly, ironic coming from the man who clings to power despite numerous clear signals that the public would quite happily string him up from a lampost with a variety of materials, a BNP banner being one... in fact, they already have.
Gordon May Suppress... He Cannot Endure Tory Teacake 2009
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Pleasingly, well actually, maddeningly, ironic coming from the man who clings to power despite numerous clear signals that the public would quite happily string him up from a lampost with a variety of materials, a BNP banner being one... in fact, they already have.
Archive 2009-06-01 Tory Teacake 2009
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Just lucky no one else had to as they swung from nearby lampost! on February 1, 2007 at 3: 35 pm | Reply Sergeant Says
An Army Of One « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007
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Grumpy I agree, I just wish a sharp object or raging mob with lampost and piano wire would remove him..
Happy Birthday - James Gordon Brown PM. FIDO The Dog 2009
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