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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In teratology, a monster having three feet.

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Examples

  • Ma décision correspond-elle à ce que me disent mes "tripes", avec mes valeurs?

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2008

  • If recognizing that a long -- thousands of years -- series of tree rings suddenly stops being a good climate proxy in or before your lifetime doesn't blanch your tripes, you're not paying attention.

    Making Light: Scholarly works to avoid citing at all costs 2010

  • When the Professor reached the line, mores tripes appeared on the pitch, but unlike a moment ago, these were caused by the clouds and sun.

    Home Of The Brave Loren Long 2010

  • Bouchons were originally wine bars where the local silk workers or passing stagecoach drivers could fill up on a simple, hearty cuisine that was based on fresh local products -- mostly pig in the form of andouillette, fried crackling, tripes, petit salé -- and lots of the local wine among like-minded souls, enjoying their brief moment of freedom amid laughter and loud, boisterous behavior.

    Jamie Schler: A Side Trip to Lyons: Le Bouchon 2010

  • You shoulda bin at Delhi, see the bloody way they ripped up wimmen an 'kids - fair sicken yer, wot wi' tripes an 'innards all over the plice.

    Fiancée 2010

  • When the Professor reached the line, mores tripes appeared on the pitch, but unlike a moment ago, these were caused by the clouds and sun.

    Home Of The Brave Loren Long 2010

  • Welch gasped like a leaky flue, hugged his punctured tripes, and slowly doubled over, fell flat on his smeller.

    The Big Book of Pulps Bill Crider 2007

  • Et l'andouille c'est avec des tripes et d'la chaire!

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2009

  • Welch gasped like a leaky flue, hugged his punctured tripes, and slowly doubled over, fell flat on his smeller.

    Archive 2007-12-23 Bill Crider 2007

  • 'Tis International Talk Like A Pirate Day, so ye'd best be puttin' a lively seafarer's tongue betwixt those pearly teeth, if ye don't fancy a cutlass in yer gory tripes.

    Arrrr, Me Pretties 2008

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