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- noun Plural form of
napping .
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Examples
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The news of a cluster of dog nappings—there have been three in Brooklyn in the past two months—has led some to be more wary of doing so.
Shortening the Leash Sumathi Reddy 2011
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Helena has reported gnome-nappings but nobody's identified these particular little guys.
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Helena has reported gnome-nappings but nobody's identified these particular little guys.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy has faced a flurry of sometimes-violent wildcat strikes and "boss-nappings" in which workers protesting layoffs held their managers hostage.
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Overall, other than a few boss-nappings and some local protests, things have been reasonably tranquil.
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But most protests are being aimed at specific employers rather than governments -- including France's recent spate of "boss-nappings," in which workers detain executives in their own offices to protest job cuts.
U.S., Europe Are an Ocean Apart on Human Toll of Joblessness and Roger Thurow 2009
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I am accustomed to viewing child-nappings and missing victims from our late twentieth-century bogeyman perspective.
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The fact the US has allowed Israel to respond to the Hezbollah attacks and kid-nappings with such excessive force and has not called on Israel for a immediate cease fire is most troubling.
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The fact the US has allowed Israel to respond to the Hezbollah attacks and kid-nappings with such excessive force and has not called on Israel for a immediate cease fire is most troubling.
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We are hearing of sponge-nappings also in Utah and Minnesota.
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