Definitions
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- noun A person who competes in the
shot put event of track and field.
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Examples
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He and his longtime travel companion, Olympic shot-putter Lady Hilda von Farfegnugen, became the first explorers known to have reached the island he christened Unicorn Isle, but that we now know as Wilkinson's Folly.
Wilkinson's Folly Lynn Beighley 2011
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Typical fare for a high-school student, though maybe not for a shot-putter who has turned the local record books into his own personal scrapbook.
N.J.'s Shot-Putter Extraordinaire Ben Cohen 2011
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One of the athletes under Arbeit's charge, shot-putter Heidi Krieger, claimed she was given so many anabolic steroids by Arbeit that she was forced to undergo a sex-change operation and lives as a man.
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One of the athletes under Arbeit's charge, shot-putter Heidi Krieger, claimed she was given so many anabolic steroids by Arbeit that she was forced to undergo a sex-change operation and lives as a man.
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Sam went on to become a shot-putter, muscles he puts to use now, over 40, in rough touch football games.
Robert Lipsyte: We Won, Dad, But I'm Lost: Lessons from Tiger, Lance, and Andre Robert Lipsyte 2010
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For a blessed few minutes, a plethora of bored gods, faeries, and Sacred Thunderbirds called me unto them, and I chucked the Methodist Church rather as a shot-putter heaves his best in the Olympics.
Pathway Lite Anne Johnson 2009
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For a blessed few minutes, a plethora of bored gods, faeries, and Sacred Thunderbirds called me unto them, and I chucked the Methodist Church rather as a shot-putter heaves his best in the Olympics.
Archive 2009-06-01 Anne Johnson 2009
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I tell her that she looks too light to be a shot-putter.
Cancer Survivor Alyssa Iacoboni Goes on the Hunt of a Lifetime 2007
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"Bruce Bennett, who has died aged 100, was, as Herman Brix, an Olympic shot-putter and screen Tarzan, and, as Bennett, he was a stolid, lanky supporting actor of the 1940s and 1950s," remembers Ronald Bergan in the Guardian.
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In a show of defiance, American shot-putter Ralph Waldo Rose refused to lower the flag before King Edward VII.
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