Definitions
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- noun a small gasoline engine (as on motor boat)
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Examples
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(* Kudos are redeemable for Fun-Bux, which are redeemable for gold stars, which can be redeemed for 1/2 off a frozen yogurt at your local put-put golf establishment)
I Love To Be Wrong SVGL 2008
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Obviously it meanders at a slow pace to some second rate put-put golf course.
BSNYC Friday Fun Quiz? BikeSnobNYC 2009
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Then explain to me how a put-put golf company operates.
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Then explain to me how a put-put golf company operates.
Thank you very much, it is from Italy– actually, no, Bulgaria. 2008
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Then explain to me how a put-put golf company operates.
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Unable to find the press staff, hungry, and clearly too early for the story, your correspondent ducked out and strolled along the nearby San Antonio Riverwalk, a parallel reality with little put-put tourist boats going by where nobody seemed aware that a presidential candidate was about to stop nearby (and nor was anyone there campaigning to rope them in).
Al Giordano: Dueling San Antonio Rallies Point to a Caucus Stampede on Tuesday 2008
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When I was an associate pastor in Eugene, Oregon, I was a children's pastor mainly, and yes, I did wear jeans and a t-shirts for VBS and for trips to the local put-put.
PeaceBang's Friendly Nemesis (Part I In a Series) PeaceBang 2006
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Not an explicit back-room conspiracy though the tech world has its share of those, but rather, an emergent conspiracy of risk-aversion and overstuffed comfort that has turned our once-heroic, envelope-pushing defenders into a race of cowardly, timid toymakers whose wares put-put along alongside of the roaring engines of progress in the world of general-purpose computers and networks...
B2fxxx 2004
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Not an explicit back-room conspiracy though the tech world has its share of those, but rather, an emergent conspiracy of risk-aversion and overstuffed comfort that has turned our once-heroic, envelope-pushing defenders into a race of cowardly, timid toymakers whose wares put-put along alongside of the roaring engines of progress in the world of general-purpose computers and networks...
Archive 2004-12-12 2004
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In the distance Brennerman could hear the put-put of an approaching helicopter.
Fatal Care Goldberg, Leonard 2001
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