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- noun Plural form of
spelunker .
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Examples
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The spelunkers from the Cave Research Foundation found the cavern last month.
Boing Boing: September 24, 2006 - September 30, 2006 Archives 2006
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Serious cavers do NOT refer to themselves as "spelunkers" (at least, not in the United States).
Boing Boing: September 24, 2006 - September 30, 2006 Archives 2006
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I keep hearing about this Saul Alinsky batted about by our irrational spelunkers but I have no idea, nor care to find out, who that is.
Think Progress » Mukasey calls Liz Cheney’s ‘Al-Qaeda 7′ ad ‘shoddy and dangerous.’ 2010
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The following day, the two would-be spelunkers were a quarter of a mile into an immense corrasional cave when they encountered a herd of giant centipedes “grazing” on the chemoautotrophic moss growing on the damp cavern walls.
365 tomorrows » Patricia Stewart : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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The following day, the two would-be spelunkers were a quarter of a mile into an immense corrasional cave when they encountered a herd of giant centipedes “grazing” on the chemoautotrophic moss growing on the damp cavern walls.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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● These listings, mind you, are not an invitation to urban spelunkers looking for the next ruin-porn centerfold.
Ben Falik: We Bought a School Ben Falik 2011
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These overeager spelunkers quickly manage to get themselves lost underground with little food and dwindling batteries.
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Because caves can be dangerous things, spelunkers are supposed to take a map of the cave they are exploring and also register their expedition with the local park officials.
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My vagina is so large that one time a guy dropped his Timex in there and had to send in an exploratory team of engineers and professional spelunkers to get it out.
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In 2003, Mark Roth, of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Institute, saw a documentary on spelunkers that discussed the danger of hydrogen sulfide: the gas is produced by volcanoes and deep-earth vents, and it can rapidly induce a coma.
Eleventh Hour: Hydrogen Sulfide, A Stinky Way To Hibernate 2009
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