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- proper noun Alternative spelling of
Timbuktu .
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Examples
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He, and all Republicans, can move to Timbuktoo for all I care ......
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Harrison Bergeron was also part of "Between Time & Timbuktoo" in 1972.
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You are a cassowary on the plains of Timbuktoo and I claim my five pounds.
This can't end well 2009
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I'd consider it a personal favor if you'd take out all the big words, like Constantinople and Timbuktoo, so I could read it too.
Overcome the first marketing hurdle Janet Ursel 2009
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I can promise you that the words Constantinople or Byzantium and Timbuktoo are not in it.
Overcome the first marketing hurdle Janet Ursel 2009
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He bought his land (for a dollar an acre) from a wealthy abolitionist named Gerrit Smith who had established a land grant program for free blacks in hopes of establishing a black community in the Adirondacks called Timbuktoo.
Alfred Gingold: John Brown's Body Lies A-Moldering in Upstate New York 2009
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Pretty things and not those huge, hollow, cardboard things from Timbuktoo that you see most of the year.
Strawberry Trifle 2006
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I don't think there is a person alive who hasn't had strawberries from Timbuktoo.
Strawberry Trifle 2006
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Pretty things and not those huge, hollow, cardboard things from Timbuktoo that you see most of the year.
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Crazy Jake followed Timbuktoo into the no-man's land of the old railyard with a mixture of hope and disbelief.
Burning Water Lackey, Mercedes 1989
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