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  • noun Plural form of prodder.

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Examples

  • We settled into the leather massage seats - very comfy except for a couple of 'prodders' sticking into my lower back! to await check-in at 4am.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

  • In his memoir, Hitchens accepts the honor of being associated with such prominent nonbelievers as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, warriors against "the literally lethal challenge" from those of "absolute certainty" and prodders of those "hesitating to defend the society that makes their existence possible."

    Christopher Hitchens On 'Hitch-22': Memoir Was 'Fantastically Difficult' To Write 2010

  • This blog has its regular prodders and so do most other blogs.

    A FEW CHANGES... 2009

  • It means, inter alia, a new race of burglar-alarm invigilators and publicly funded potato prodders poking around in our supermarkets in search of rogue Polish potatoes, and new officialdom means an increase in public-sector spending, to the point where 60 per cent of the employment in Newcastle is now in the state sector, and while that is electorally valuable for Labour it means higher taxes for everyone else.

    Boris socks it to the Puritans 2008

  • You need to look at their records in whatever public or private office to see how good they are as negotiators, prodders who can get others to actually act, who can exude personal authority in a non-authoritarian system and use it convincingly.

    A Scorecard For The Game 2008

  • We could market them as "beadmaker prodders" and I would need to use one on myself as well.

    What's Up With This Tool? Post & Win a Prize Studio Marcy - Marcy Lamberson 2008

  • RFID says who bought what, and the prodders do overalls from sales figures, but there's no track between the prodplacing and the results.

    Flash ModesittJr_LE 2004

  • I could tell I'd almost lost her, and I tried to explain it quickly, about how I used my system to connect the link and entertainment prodplacements to the sales tracking accomplished by the RFID microchips — and why that connection was more important to certain prodders.

    Flash ModesittJr_LE 2004

  • The commuters were fleeing from security guards who used electric prodders to control the crowd while checking tickets.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • The tragedy occurred on July 31, 1996 when security guards used electric prodders to control the crowd at the packed station.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

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