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  • adjective Not cased; without a casing.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ cased

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Examples

  • When I made breakfast sausage last year — also a uncased simple sausage — a good number of you shared with me your methods for making homemade chorizo.

    Making my own Mexican chorizo | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2009

  •  When the work was done and the meetings were over and we'd been to George's Grill for something unhealthy and wonderful, we'd go home to our scruffy old house-apartment, kick back in the Chairs of Power (Mikey's name for the two mismatched recliners someone had given him) and pick some music out of Mikey's big cardboard box of unsorted, uncased, cassette tapes.

    Eulogy for a Friend 2010

  • Once we were on the highway, he rifled through the glove box, filing through my uncased cassettes, kissing his teeth when he came across something he considered worthwhile.

    Confederates Charles Dodd White 2009

  • In addition I have a battered old 870 I use to shoot live flyers for my dog training lying uncased and in full view on the rear seat of my truck.

    Driving With Guns 2007

  • Having had a photo of his combine in the Ludington Daily News with a uncased rifle in the cab so that he could shoot any deer that happened to be running infront of the combine which is illegal by the way as well.

    Arrest made in Trumpeter swan shooting weakyknee 2009

  •     Once we were on the highway, he rifled through the glove box, filing through my uncased cassettes, kissing his teeth when he came across something he considered worthwhile.

    Confederates 2009

  • Get to drive around with uncased loaded guns (not supposed to have one in the chamber though now) hunt, and feel sort of like a cowboy (a gasoline cowboy).

    Driving With Guns 2007

  • The car was destroyed, I was badly jangled but the Telecaster (uncased) appeared to be unharmed.

    My Black Guitar 2009

  • When I made breakfast sausage last year—also a uncased simple sausage—a good number of you shared with me your methods for making homemade chorizo.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Homesick Texan 2009

  • Coarsely ground mica flakes help prevent lost circulation by sealing porous sections of the uncased drill hole.

    Mica 2008

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