Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A three-masted Malay lugger, from 50 to 60 feet long, and from 10 to 12 feet wide and about as deep. It sails well, and carries a large cargo.
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Examples
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She was chattering happily as we came out after the third act, and caught the eye of the bold Oscar, who was holding forth languidly to a group of his fritillaries near the bar entrance, looking as usual like an overfed trout in a toup-.
Watershed 2010
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Was he so confident because he knew he had to be in order to compensate for the toup?
The Truth and Reconciliation Hairstyle Challenge Fresca 2010
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Fraser Nelsonwarns that David Cameron needs toup his game.
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Fraser Nelsonwarns that David Cameron needs toup his game.
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Fraser Nelsonwarns that David Cameron needs toup his game.
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I'm tired of hearing John McCain's "My Friends," sick of Sarah Palin's phoney corn-pone accent, bored with Biden's too-wide smile does he wear a toup?
Hola! Thoughts on Voting, Etc. Jan 2008
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Was this really the best way you could think of seeing if Trump wore a toup?
Beat 360° 9/22/08 2008
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I'm tired of hearing John McCain's "My Friends," sick of Sarah Palin's phoney corn-pone accent, bored with Biden's too-wide smile does he wear a toup?
Archive 2008-10-01 Jan 2008
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By the early 1970s he had given that up to make money again, and he was back in a tux and under a toup, snapping his fingers to "Mack the Knife" in his own TV variety series.
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By the early 1970s he had given that up to make money again, and he was back in a tux and under a toup, snapping his fingers to "Mack the Knife" in his own TV variety series.
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