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  • noun Plural form of mumble.

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Examples

  • Tammie: new say hi to your mom, very cool. numbers and mumbles is nice ... too bad he lost points for covering the beatles.

    If I Chipped in For the Ink (Music (For Robots)) 2005

  • As its followed by "What Dogs See", four minutes of echoing rubble and near spoken-word mumbles, it initially seems like a pokey bit of sequencing, but the song evolves into a prelude to the deceptively bouncy "Wind Phoenix", which turns personal devastation into a sing-along.

    Pitchfork: Latest News 2009

  • Actually, he's known as "mumbles" because he's completely incoherent when he speaks.

    Boston's Menino gets first test in bid for fifth term 2009

  • But Clurman followed his hunch and helped cure him of his "mumbles," and Marlon opened in the role.

    Marlon Brando: The King Who Would Be Man Schulberg, Budd 2005

  • Nicknamed "mumbles" because he was so difficult to understand, Perez de Cuellar kept a low profile and, like Ban, preferred backroom diplomacy, not Annan's bully pulpit.

    Hoopler - middleeast.org 2009

  • You'll have such a good time with In The Loop, you'll barely notice that it peters out towards the end (the film kind of mumbles away when it's over instead of putting a period on the end of it).

    DVD Talk 2009

  • But it is strange how he kind of mumbles like this one day and then talks clearly the next.

    digg.com: Stories / Popular 2009

  • What is wrong with simply showing the same story with the original Asian faces in them? recently announced his candidacy for mayor of Boston, attempting to beat out two other candidates to take over the post long held by Tom "mumbles" Menino.

    Hyphen Blog 2009

  • “I just want to go back the the circus and pet my doves!” he mumbles, clutching himself, in several scenes.

    Fantastic Fest – K-20: The Fiend With Twenty Faces « Geek Related 2009

  • We just keep getting these toothless mumbles about the "big picture."

    Key senator rejects 'trigger' for public health insurance option 2009

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