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- noun Plural form of
tyro .
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Examples
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(END VIDEO CLIP) KING: Kelli, what did you think when he -- in the wild days, when Morton Downey Jr. would blow smoke in the face of guests and get "tyros" -- in fistfights.
CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Remembering Morton Downey Jr. - March 13, 2001 2001
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Does he remove his shoes to placate the Muslims, or keep them on to placate the H & S tyros? on July 30, 2009 at 7: 53 pm NyseriA
Islam? Yes. Gay? Yes. British? No, Oh, OK then. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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The stupid Dems have blown this election like a bunch of fumbling tyros!
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Scotland expected, scenting vulnerability in an England squad stuffed with tyros, but the opening summed up what was to come.
Brad Barritt revels in England's rock-like solidarity against Scotland 2012
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When we meet the two friends they are tyros — they read Spinoza, study Bergson in prep school!
Intellectual Intrigue in Mexico City Alexander Theroux 2011
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When Robert Ruark wrote the immortal phrase, "Use enough gun," hunters, nimrods, beginners, tyros, and, yes, even card carrying ID10Ts had a few ethics, and a smidgen of common sense.
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Like many Shakespearean tyros, he also falls into the trap of seeking to illustrate virtually every line with an appropriate hand gesture: thus when he offers "to write sorrow in the bosom of the Earth" he mimes a signature forgetting that the potency of the idea lies in the words.
Richard II – review 2011
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When Robert Ruark wrote the immortal phrase, "Use enough gun," hunters, nimrods, beginners, tyros, and, yes, even card carrying ID10Ts had a few ethics, and a smidgen of common sense.
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Those of his successors in each branch of natural philosophy with whom I was acquainted, appeared even to my boy's apprehensions, as tyros engaged in the same pursuit.
Chapter 2 2010
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But these runs, along with those made by Collingwood whose unbeaten 74 herefollowed 94 in Adelaide augur well enough, given that the attack in this game in particular, on a surface offering some help, contains tyros, including the distinctly brisk Mark Cameron, itching to make an impression.
The Ashes 2010: Sublime Ian Bell dances to a century for England Mike Selvey in Hobart 2010
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