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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of shrill.

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Examples

  • I found that it meant "when a guitarist/bassist makes excessive use of soloing and techniques such as shrills, taps, slaps & pops, slides, bends, sweeps and the like".

    Where is Nick Clogg?: He Has 2008

  • Reform is needed, but this piece of crap bill needs to go ... along with the shrills who wrote it and tried to pass it without reading it.

    Obama: Status quo is scarier than health-care overhaul 2009

  • It is a loud sadness, one that smiles big with teeth, drinks, dances, shrills and stomps, whirling.

    The Fat Man's Third Wife Katie Moore 2012

  • Now I might be opening myself up for tons of rebuttal by ** AA shrills by saying this, but can someone PLEASE tell me how the rebroadcasting a sports events in areas that the sport was not originally broadcasted, takes money away from the broadcasters?

    BayTSP bid to cash in on sports streamers 2009

  • Until then … .. the cable companies, their paid lobbiest shrills, and anyone trying to throw FUD into the mix can go back to their desks in hell and work out a new busienss model.

    Time Warner Offers More Pricing Options to Sweeten Its Tiers 2009

  • Cue the shrills of 'Judas' as another person dares to speak what is plainly obvious to most.

    McGovern to Clinton: Time to go 2008

  • His mobile shrills and he answers then turns to me and says he has to go.

    January 2008 2008

  • As if to feed some primal urge, starved by a 21st century lifestyle disconnected from the earth, emasculated by the droning shrills of sustainability and pastoralism, you can “doze and excavate dams and ponds” and “move and remove sand, gravel, rock, and other materials from your own individual area.”

    Training Ground for Future Terraformers 2008

  • His mobile shrills and he answers then turns to me and says he has to go.

    Shards in Desperance 2008

  • But even on liberal blogs, we're shouted at to shut up, we're radical leftist shrills who are presumptuous, or dreamers with unrealistic notions - like perhaps am antigay jillionaire God-botherer wouldn't get pride of place.

    Friends don't let friends preach hate 2008

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