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  • noun thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1941

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Examples

  • To her at the time -- her time -- it had been a quick, hilarious whirlaway.

    Operation Luna Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999

  • In the amusement section, the last of the whirlaway rides and games of chance had closed down and only the occasional roar of a caged animal in the interplanetary zoo disturbed the night.

    On the Trail of the Space Pirates Carey Rockwell

  • There are just better ways to explain it than through coloring books. whirlaway Says:

    Think Progress 2009

  • There are just better ways to explain it than through coloring books. whirlaway Says:

    Think Progress 2009

  • 15 Alfaro Morag, who, in his own mind, styled himself The Long Shark of Dawn, rode his whirlaway high above a forest.

    Saturday Night Songs of the Dying Earth Rhapsodic Cockney Remix 2009

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