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- noun Plural form of
runt .
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Examples
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When a router signal degrades the problem is usually "runts" That's right ....
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You wouldn’t go there for runts, that is, if you were in your right senses; if you were in want of runts you would have gone to my parish and have applied to me, Mr Bos; that is if you were in your senses.
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Baylor, A&M, etc. get the pick of the litter so to speak, TT gets the "runts"!!
Red Raiders 2009
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It is a strange feeling, not being condescending to the mag - ahem, I mean, the bast - ahem, that is, the li'l runts ( 'runts' is a step up, ok?).
Kottu 2009
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Second basemen are bulldogs, feisty wee runts who play with vinegar and bile and leave each game splattered with dirt stains; equipment managers hate second basemen because they have to spend extra time cleaning their uniforms.
In the Time of Bobby Cox Lang Whitaker 2011
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It is also good herd managment, because those small fawns will give birth to runts that will not survive.
who else loves to eat fawns? they taste so much better i think. 2009
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Then the woman reaches toward the ground and into a basket of tiny bananas, bananas that look to Seena like runts of the litter.
Amaryllis in Blueberry Christina Meldrum 2011
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I know this may sound mean, but if a runt gets bread it will only give birth to runts and they will do the same and soon you will have a problem ........
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I kept looking at him sideways as we made our way down the hall, wondering why some people could totally be themselves and still be accepted by everyone, while other people—people who did everything in the world to fit in—were shunned like the runts of the litter.
Ten Miles Past Normal Frances O’Roark Dowell 2011
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Second basemen are bulldogs, feisty wee runts who play with vinegar and bile and leave each game splattered with dirt stains; equipment managers hate second basemen because they have to spend extra time cleaning their uniforms.
In the Time of Bobby Cox Lang Whitaker 2011
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