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- noun Alternative spelling of
whack-a-mole .
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Examples
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I was not aware that netflix awarded prizes, nor that they had anything to do with either the drink or action of pop …. or whac-a-mole.
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In Lunaville, you can play whac-a-mole and win a cute stuffed dog.
An Amusement Peak Anne Kadet 2011
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In Lunaville, you can play whac-a-mole and win a cute stuffed dog.
An Amusement Peak Anne Kadet 2011
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Care to take a shot at thoughtfully answering a question or are you just playing through with right wing whac-a-mole?
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General Petraeus's approach now is, you go ahead and whac-a-mole, and when you go in and clean out the area, you leave Iraqi security forces with American forces there, Marines or Army, until they have control of the area.
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BOND: The whac-a-mole approach that we took previously, I think turned out to be the wrong approach.
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That game of whac-a-mole, he said, is "part of an ongoing, inarticulate conversation about how these things are going to work."
Ars Technica Timothy B. Lee 2011
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Never-ending European debt crisis European leaders say they have solutions to the sovereign-debt crisis, but their lack of decisive action is leading to one giant game of whac-a-mole, MarketWatch columnist Brett Arends says.
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"It's this constant game of whac-a-mole," he said.
Ars Technica Timothy B. Lee 2011
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A decade into the entertainment industry's massive game of whac-a-mole when it comes to file sharing sites, you would think that people would realize that blocking or banning any particular site doesn't do a damn thing to slow the pace of file sharing around the globe.
Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now Tim Stevens 2010
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