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  • proper noun A British surname; variant of Pratt.

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See Pratt.

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Examples

  • DN Pritt is described as an "almost certainly underground" Communist but also a "Good MP (ie locally).

    Big Brother with a High Moral Sense 1998

  • They first asked a vote question without mentioning Pritt's name and found 49% support for Caperton and 33% for Republican Cleve Benedict, while another 9% volunteered that they planned to write-in Pritt.

    Murkowski's Support Goes Up And Down, According To Yet Another Alaska Poll The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • But a real Communist would, of course, hand the secret over without any sense of guilt, & so would a real crypto, such as Pritt [the MP, D.N. Pritt].

    Orwell's List 2003

  • But a real Communist would, of course, hand the secret over without any sense of guilt, & so would a real crypto, such as Pritt [the MP, D.N. Pritt].

    Orwell's List Ash, Timothy Garton 2003

  • This time they offered a three-way choice between Democrat Caperton, Republican Benedict or the option to "write in Charlotte Pritt."

    Murkowski's Support Goes Up And Down, According To Yet Another Alaska Poll The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • That year incumbent Democratic Governor Gaston Caperton received a spirited primary challenge from Charlotte Pritt, so spirited that when Pritt lost the primary she launched a write-in campaign for the general election.

    Murkowski's Support Goes Up And Down, According To Yet Another Alaska Poll The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • The split was first noticed on Tuesday, when the PM was reportedly seen locking himself in the Cabinet Office with a Pritt-Stick and Lord Mandelson's porn stash.

    Brown and Mandelson Rift Reported Dungeekin 2009

  • Mason-Dixon then followed up with a sentence explaining that Pritt, "who finished second in the May Democratic primary election, has announced she is running as a write-in candidate," and then repeated the vote question.

    Murkowski's Support Goes Up And Down, According To Yet Another Alaska Poll The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • The split was first noticed on Tuesday, when the PM was reportedly seen locking himself in the Cabinet Office with a Pritt-Stick and Lord Mandelson's porn stash.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Dungeekin 2009

  • But one thing we do know about John Pritt Harley is that his nickname, “Fat Jack,” was something of a misnomer—he was a tall and skinny guy.

    The Flex Diet M.D. James Beckerman 2011

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