leaner

UAB converted just 8 of 14 free throws in the last 66 seconds, and Jamal Shuler's 3-pointer - a desperate, twisting leaner from the left corner - pulled the CAA regular season champions (24-8) to within 78-77 with 9 seconds left.

USATODAY.com 2007

They seem to know that in leaner and livelier form their courtroom dramas, geisha memoirs, and horse-whisperer romances would not be taken seriously, and that it is precisely the lack of genre-ish suspense that elevates them to the status of prize-worthy "tales of loss and redemption."

A Reader's Manifesto 2001

They seem to know that in leaner and livelier form their courtroom dramas, geisha memoirs, and horse-whisperer romances would not be taken seriously, and that it is precisely the lack of genre-ish suspense that elevates them to the status of prize-worthy "tales of loss and redemption."

A Reader's Manifesto 2001

When I read this interview that just went online on "The Washington Post," Peter Baker interviewing the president, saying the president is now ready to go forward and expand the size of the U.S. military, the first thing that went through my mind is this in effect is a slap on Donald Rumsfeld because for six years he's wanted to do things with a so-called leaner, meaner, small U.S. military.

CNN Transcript Dec 19, 2006 2006

So we need a government that is leaner, that is more creative, that is less bureaucratic, that does fewer dumb things.

President To Rural Community At Mason City Iowa ITY National Archives 1996

It's been a while since Ubuntu could be called a leaner alternative to Windows.

tuxmachines.org srlinuxx 2010

A leaner is a garbage can filled with water and leaned against a door so when the door is opened, the can floods the feet of the victim.

chicagotribune.com - 2010

That means the show is trying to be leaner, which is crimping some of its environmental aims.

GigaOM Network 2009

That means the show is trying to be leaner, which is crimping some of its environmental aims.

Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0 2009

That means the show is trying to be leaner, which is crimping some of its environmental aims.

GigaOM Network 2009