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  • noun Plural form of starer.

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Examples

  • Comments (2) rick: hey i were at that show! later that night we bon voyaged our good friend gabe barnett for californai, who also says he's not playing anymore. those tin starers are just fooling, so is gabe, they'll play again. if they dont in five years i'll get some frat buddies and go over and sing "say it aint so" like at least ten times in a row. come on guys stop pulling at our heart strings

    Closer and closer to moving further away (Music (For Robots)) 2006

  • And, with inimitable elegance of gesture, my dear lady raised a pair of "starers" to her eyes and fixed them on Jane Turner's quaking figure.

    Lady Molly of Scotland Yard 1912

  • If it does exist - and it certainy exists in huge areas (heath. education, local government for starers, the three big devoution spenders) if not in net terms - it effectvely is an inneficiency sunbsidy to our sir humpreys, bnotthe people of scotand, the poor of scotland who need it, deserve it.

    Pre-Revolutionary Scotland 2009 Alan Smart 2009

  • The very difficult letter I'm composing has me swamped, just as whatever trials of composition or tabulation or memory they are enduring have the starers swamped.

    The Line 2010

  • The starers, caught, look away and readjust their features.

    The Line 2010

  • In a restaurant, anybody can lean over and eavesdrop and anybody can stare ... and anybody can spot eavesdroppers and starers.

    MIND MELD: Are We Headed For a Technological Panopticon? 2008

  • Of willingness to be suckered by a world of lurkers and starers who fear gaze and ridicule above imprisonment without law.

    Suttree » Casual Games, Social Software » 2007 » May 2007

  • Of willingness to be suckered by a world of lurkers and starers who fear gaze and ridicule above imprisonment without law.

    Suttree » Casual Games, Social Software » Over & Over 2007

  • But the art of fascination seems among the artes perditae, and I cannot learn that this most pertinacious of starers produced any effect by his attentions beyond an occasional yawn.

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

  • We wandered around the mall with this guy she ran into that she knew ... we ended up stopping for a while near the store where Bam's mom works, where she proceeded to stare at me to the point of me being uncomfortable, then we stopped near Bam's store where he did the same ... a family of starers they appear to be.

    Cheese Please! emu-head 2007

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