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  • noun Plural form of razorback.

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Examples

  • Snakehead fish, honeybees, kudzu and feral pigs - also called razorbacks - are all invasive species.

    Daily Headlines 2008

  • Hundreds of dogs, cats, roosters, goats, and "razorbacks" run at large through the streets, and the three former combine to make night hideous.

    Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom Trumbull White 1904

  • They began to realize the cheesy situation as the guide commenced to jabbing at the snoring razorbacks.

    Archive 2008-10-01 ____Maggie 2008

  • They began to realize the cheesy situation as the guide commenced to jabbing at the snoring razorbacks.

    Poor Man's Provence (copy) ____Maggie 2008

  • Other than your razorbacks and everybody else that's going to go down during your new year holiday, pal.

    CNN Transcript Dec 22, 2007 2007

  • And if things work out my way, my Arkansas razorbacks will be in that championship game as well.

    CNN Transcript Nov 18, 2006 2006

  • Discovering a still-intact and unpillaged pen of domesticated razorbacks, Ahlitah quickly and effortlessly supplied a feast not only for himself but for his companions.

    Carnivores of Light and Darkness Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000

  • All seventy-five bulls, the entire compliment of baggage and performing horses, all performers, every show and cage wagon, even the show's can-vasmen and razorbacks found themselves costuming for the parade.

    Elephant Song Longyear, Barry 1982

  • The spielers in Tarzak were calling themselves barkers; the candy and fizz butchers were calling themselves merchants; and the canvasmen and razorbacks were calling themselves roustabouts.

    Elephant Song Longyear, Barry 1982

  • After some initial disagreements, the cargo crew and razorbacks arrived at an understanding, depositing the show intact upon the planet Ahngar with bruised knuckles and aching heads.

    City of Baraboo Longyear, Barry 1980

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