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- noun Plural form of
redback .
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Examples
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"I am a bit silly doing what I am doing," Le Souef said of his decision to closet himself with potentially lethal redbacks as well as tarantula-like huntsmen and black house spiders, which also have nasty bites.
Australian Man To Live With Deadly Spiders For Charity Stunt Erica Liepmann 2010
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"I am a bit silly doing what I am doing," Le Souef said of his decision to closet himself with potentially lethal redbacks as well as tarantula-like huntsmen and black house spiders, which also have nasty bites.
Australian Man To Live With Deadly Spiders For Charity Stunt Erica Liepmann 2010
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Lest he gets homesick, how about some redbacks in the dunny?
Raymond Horne « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008
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You can tell the males from the females at a glance, and yes, male redbacks are pretty much harmless to humans.
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The hospital has had additions put on over time and she opines that this has created a greater number of nooks and crannies which attract redbacks in search of shelter.
Poisonous Redback Spiders Fall Upon Queensland Hospital 2008
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There were times when the Colonials did this tin soldier face-off, but also times when they unsportingly fire from hiding, ambushing the superior numbers of redbacks, even shooting them in the back.
"Kill Him!" Steven Barnes 2008
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So, I'd make it a point to find a local Bureaux de Change or Cambio (when you travel, you learn to look for those words real quick, along with the initials WC [different service there]) to turn my greenbacks into redbacks, bluebacks, orangebacks, and several other equally colorful backs of local value.
Pizza Patr�n's Peculiar Pecuniary Peso-Paying Predicament 2007
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I didn't think that there were redbacks in Victoria!
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In the winter—redbacks hibernate in the ground beneath the frost line, in rock crevices, or in a maze of decaying roots.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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Although they spend their entire lives on land, redbacks never develop lungs.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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