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- noun idiomatic Insertion of one's
finger into one'snostril , especially to removemucus .
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Examples
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Two employees of a Catawba County pizza restaurant have been fired and charged with a felony after they produced a stomach-turning YouTube video that involves nose-picking and food preparation.
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I make fun of the thumbs of a gorgeous Hollywood starlet, and dispense tips on preparing 7-11 nachos and nose-picking in the car.
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As far as prose books go, I just started Lawrence Shainberg's unbelievably strange Crust, an erudite, obsessive, mock-memoiristic, mock-annotated novel about nose-picking (and media/information overload).
What Are You Reading? | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009
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Puck dips his nose-picking finger in Pedro Zamora's peanut butter (The Real World, Season 3) 'Snot bad!
Sneak Preview: 25 Most Shocking Reality Moments of All Time 2010
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I write about bunny daggers and nose-picking goblins and muppet werewolves.
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The ground forces at Tora Bora were overwhelmingly provided by a motley crew of Afghan commanders: Haji Zaman Gamsharik, an Afghan who had been living in exile in the comfortable environs of Dijon, France, before he returned to Afghanistan as the Taliban fell; Hazarat Ali, a nose-picking, semi-literate from a local tribe who spoke the obscure Pashai language; and Hajji Zahir, the twenty-seven-year-old son of a Jalalabad warlord.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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The ground forces at Tora Bora were overwhelmingly provided by a motley crew of Afghan commanders: Haji Zaman Gamsharik, an Afghan who had been living in exile in the comfortable environs of Dijon, France, before he returned to Afghanistan as the Taliban fell; Hazarat Ali, a nose-picking, semi-literate from a local tribe who spoke the obscure Pashai language; and Hajji Zahir, the twenty-seven-year-old son of a Jalalabad warlord.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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The ground forces at Tora Bora were overwhelmingly provided by a motley crew of Afghan commanders: Haji Zaman Gamsharik, an Afghan who had been living in exile in the comfortable environs of Dijon, France, before he returned to Afghanistan as the Taliban fell; Hazarat Ali, a nose-picking, semi-literate from a local tribe who spoke the obscure Pashai language; and Hajji Zahir, the twenty-seven-year-old son of a Jalalabad warlord.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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The ground forces at Tora Bora were overwhelmingly provided by a motley crew of Afghan commanders: Haji Zaman Gamsharik, an Afghan who had been living in exile in the comfortable environs of Dijon, France, before he returned to Afghanistan as the Taliban fell; Hazarat Ali, a nose-picking, semi-literate from a local tribe who spoke the obscure Pashai language; and Hajji Zahir, the twenty-seven-year-old son of a Jalalabad warlord.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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I make fun of the thumbs of a gorgeous Hollywood starlet, and dispense tips on preparing 7-11 nachos and nose-picking in the car.
Archive 2009-09-27 Tyler 2009
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