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  • adjective Having three heads.

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From three +‎ headed.

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  • Mar. 25th, 2010 05: 08 pm (UTC) unrelated, but of note did you see hbo's hard knocks will about gang green this year? looks to be interesting, especially with the three-headed dragon running game.

    The Hard Call grrm 2010

  • Most of the spooktacular decorations my friends and neighbors have grown to love -- the toxic waste can; the ghastly three-headed dog; the 8-foot Grim Reaper, and the airplane yes it is a real 1946 Ercoupe 415-D -- were back again this year.

    David Lohr: It's Halloween Time At Lohr Haunted Manor In 'Eerie,' Pa. David Lohr 2011

  • And Seena realizes Lint is her Cerberus, the three-headed dog who guards the entrance to the underworld, who prevents the living from entering.

    Amaryllis in Blueberry Christina Meldrum 2011

  • Whatever the case, though Angle's performance at the polls ended with a relative whimper, especially considering the high expectations in her ability to cripple the three-headed Obama-Pelosi-Reid hydra by defeating the Democratic Senate leader, many believe that her return to politics, whether at a state or national level, is likely.

    Harry Reid Election Results Spur Questions About Sharron Angle's Political Future The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • Whatever the case, though Angle's performance at the polls ended with a relative whimper, especially considering the high expectations in her ability to cripple the three-headed Obama-Pelosi-Reid hydra by defeating the Democratic Senate leader, many believe that her return to politics, whether at a state or national level, is likely.

    Harry Reid Election Results Spur Questions About Sharron Angle's Political Future The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • “All right, Kate,” Adrian said, three hours later, “what is this business that is so pressing you got past Cerberus, my three-headed dog—otherwise known as Mrs. Hopewell,” he added in quieter voice.

    Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011

  • Her three-headed likeness was placed at Roman crossroads.

    Science Fiction & Fantasy 2009

  • The three-headed monster, or rather, Joey, Sam, and Greg, made their way across the back yard where David swung on the swingset.

    The Disease of Righteous Indignation | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009

  • In one marvellous passage he defines the word "grotesque" from the word grotto, a small cave and goes on to sing the praises of the "modern master printers who think like the scribes of our old Icelandic languages" and decorate their texts with impossible creatures –"a centaur here, an old woman with birds' feet there, a three-headed dog".

    From the Mouth of the Whale by Sjón - review 2011

  • Whatever the case, though Angle's performance at the polls ended with a relative whimper, especially considering the high expectations in her ability to cripple the three-headed Obama-Pelosi-Reid hydra by defeating the Democratic Senate leader, many believe that her return to politics, whether at a state or national level, is likely.

    Harry Reid Election Results Spur Questions About Sharron Angle's Political Future The Huffington Post News Team 2010

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