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  • noun Plural form of spanker.

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Examples

  • At the word spankers he had effected another drive, but Marriott at mid-off had stopped it prettily.

    A Prefect's Uncle 1928

  • Not because I think that spanking and spankers are in all circumstances evil and terrible – my own parents were spankers – but because I think that although spanking is not always or necessarily abusive, it tilts too obviously and too dangerously in that direction and anything that encourages the practice just might, you know, grease the slope.

    A Spanking A Day Keeps Failure Away? | Her Bad Mother 2010

  • What is called "spanking" for a child becomes "senior abuse" for the same offenses when the spankers get old.

    LIVE Blog: Chat with us during the show 2010

  • Do people really confront bottle feeders but *not* confront the TV sitters, play-pen putters, diaper disposers, and child spankers?

    "The happiness of the mother is far, far more important in shaping the life of the child than whether or not the child was breast-fed as a baby." Ann Althouse 2009

  • Clear discrepancies in the funding of the local party - including monies passing through Cyril's clammy spankers - have gone uninvestigated.

    Rochdale Obbie: What Have Cyril and Libs Got On Them? 2008

  • Which is how, in an era of spankers, Mary Kay Blakely became a spoiler.

    As American As Blaming Mother 2008

  • I've seen PR people get spanked over the past few days for approaching Mom bloggers the wrong way no offense at all to the spankers, and man, I'm still reeling in amazement that anyone wants to talk to me.

    blog: Dawn 2008

  • I've seen PR people get spanked over the past few days for approaching Mom bloggers the wrong way no offense at all to the spankers, and man, I'm still reeling in amazement that anyone wants to talk to me.

    blog: March 2008 2008

  • Comments (2) robotanders: according to an email newsletter, the song 'Breathin' will be featured prominently in the season premiere of the show "Veronica Mars" on sep 28th. another spankers song, "The Minor Waltz" (with some great musical saw playing from Christina) will be featured on the next week's show.

    no, seriously (Music (For Robots)) 2005

  • The patched and dirty spankers were tense before the wind, and up aloft the little ship seemed carrying every sail she had.

    The Island of Doctor Moreau Herbert George 2006

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