Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A West African kob antelope, Kobus sing-sing. See
kob . - noun Same as
singsong , n., 3.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The kob.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A kind of
antelope ; thekob .
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Examples
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CRAIGSLIST, BABY. as you know from your tar-get purse, everything ends up on craigslist.or, discount shoes + michael's rickrack= pradaness. those prada peeps are horrifying. i once tried to exchange a gift, bought by a CBS executive with signed freaking card and original packaging, godsakes, and they treated me like i just busted out of sing-sing, prada bag in hand.
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Kobe Bryant doesn't face the prospect of life in prison playing point guard on the sing-sing five.
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Near the counter where the food was served out one of the cooks swore interminably in a whiny sing-sing voice.
Three Soldiers John Dos Passos 1933
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This was the prosaic end of the great "sing-sing."
Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific Felix Speiser 1914
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A few days later I started for Hog Harbour, for the plantation of the Messrs. Th., near which I meant to attend a great feast, or "sing-sing."
Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific Felix Speiser 1914
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Some days after this we went to see a "sing-sing" up north.
Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific Felix Speiser 1914
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From him the moli learns that the two chiefs are away at a great "sing-sing," and the rest of the men in the fields or in their wives 'houses.
Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific Felix Speiser 1914
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Aunt Mary should kiss him (as, of course, she would want to do), and he would not shiver; he would (bravest deed of all) allow Mary to read "Alice in Wonderland" in her sing-sing voice so long as ever she wanted ...
Jeremy Hugh Walpole 1912
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Other forms of adornment, though only a means to a permanent end, are the ear stretchers and variety of ear plugs which are worn in a slit in the ear lobe preparing it for the earring -- the sing-sing, which all hope to possess.
The Bontoc Igorot Albert Ernest Jenks 1911
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Didn't it rag 'em beautiful, an 'won't we fair stagger the' ouse at the next sing-sing o 'the brigade?'
Between the Lines Boyd Cable 1910
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