Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In entomology, a proleg. Kirby. See cut under
proleg .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Same as
proleg .
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Examples
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After a turkey hunt one year my uncle and I were riding back to his house on our quads and there was a tree that had fallen over and proped up against another tree.
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After a turkey hunt one year my uncle and I were riding back to his house on our quads and there was a tree that had fallen over and proped up against another tree.
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Obama is a straw man proped up by the far left media.
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One major diff between afghanistan and iraq is that we kicked out the loonie taliban, a pashtun group, and proped up a pashtun as the country's new leader karzi.
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The market needs to correct and not be proped up at the expense of the taxpayers. $700,000,000,000 can buy a ton of cat food.
A reckless vote 2008
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After 3 or 4 generations of oppression by corrupt leaders, many proped up by the US government, thus leading to torture, death and lack of democracy in those countries.
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I asked why it wasn''t clearly marked and how others would know and he pointed to a small sign on the door, which was unvisible because the door was proped open.
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To our suprise it all went smoothly right up until we got to our seats on the Eurostar and there was a young Ammerican man sitting in one with his crutches proped agaisnt the other.
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If a certain company does not adhere to these basic economic realities then they will go out of business unless they are a monopoly, an oligopoly, a quasi government agency or a company in a socialist country being proped up by said country.
Think Progress » President Bush’s Job Record Since August 2003: Nothing To Brag About 2006
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If a certain company does not adhere to these basic economic realities then they will go out of business unless they are a monopoly, an oligopoly, a quasi government agency or a company in a socialist country being proped up by said country.
Think Progress » President Bush’s Job Record Since August 2003: Nothing To Brag About 2006
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