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  • noun Plural form of lamp.
  • noun A slang term for obesity.

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Examples

  • Three set-in lamps, which come with a 10-year warranty, emit intense heat and light.

    Hot Off the Range: Speedcook Ovens « Colleen Anderson 2009

  • A Scot writing about another Scot where sticking posters on lamps is prefectly normal.

    Once can be an error, but twice ? Oh Mr Murray what a lack of honesty Norfolk Blogger 2009

  • Just as in other countries, the miracle of the long-burning oil in the temple lamps is commemorated not only with potato latkes, but with a variety of sweet fried foods.

    Mexican holiday sweets: cookies, candy and more 2007

  • Just as in other countries, the miracle of the long-burning oil in the temple lamps is commemorated not only with potato latkes, but with a variety of sweet fried foods.

    Mexican holiday sweets: cookies, candy and more 2007

  • Pendent in front of John Ziegler's face, attached to the same type of hinged, flexible stand as certain student desk lamps, is a Shure-brand broadcast microphone that is sheathed in a gray foam filtration sock to soften popped p's and hissed sibilants.

    Host 2005

  • Pendent in front of John Ziegler's face, attached to the same type of hinged, flexible stand as certain student desk lamps, is a Shure-brand broadcast microphone that is sheathed in a gray foam filtration sock to soften popped p's and hissed sibilants.

    Host 2005

  • There were porcelain lamps in the shape of ginger jars, round and Oriental, and with none of the usual dust on the bulbs, because it was Jocelyn's house.

    Excerpt: The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler 2004

  • Confronting the table on which are the butter-lamps is a long, low bench covered with red cloth, prepared for the lama dignitaries who are to come to worship the image.

    With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior 1901

  • She had been built for canvas and oil-lamps, and this new thingumajig that kept her nose snoring at eight knots when normally she was able to boil along at ten, and these unblinking things they called lamps (that neither smoked nor smelled), irked and threatened to ruin her temper.

    The Ragged Edge Harold MacGrath 1901

  • Dick's old one, opened them, and shut the end one, which is too cold, and put in lamps, stoves, and stores and comforts of all kinds; in fact partly refurnished.

    The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton William Henry Burton Wilkins 1897

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