Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A loud noise, as of cannon.
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- verb Present participle of
cannon .
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Examples
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Literally hundreds of pontoons went careering down the river, crashing into unmanned powerboats that were already cannoning into each other.
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It is an object lesson in how fast organisations have to move to address accusations cannoning around the vast echo chamber that is Twitter.
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I plunged on, dodging between trees, cannoning into bodies, knocking over a stand of piled rifles, with angry yells and pounding feet behind me, and no notion of where my terrified flight was taking me.
THE NUMBERS 2010
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He charged through it and stopped, Helen cannoning into him.
Naked Cruelty Colleen McCullough 2010
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He rocked back on his heels, blood coming out of his mouth, and toppled over,76 and I scrambled up and away, cannoning into a red body, hurling my empty Bulldog at a leaping Indian and closing with him; he had a sabre, of all things, and I closed my teeth in his wrist and heard him shriek as I got my hand on the hilt, and began laying about me blindly.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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You wasted all that money in the good times, water-cannoning our dosh with so little thought or restraint that only Hungary, Pakistan and Egypt are suffering from comparable indebtedness, and Hungary and Pakistan are already in the hands of the IMF.
Archive 2008-11-01 Not a sheep 2008
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The statement about public cannoning applies also to the two man cages found along the Kabul-Jalalabad-Peshawar road.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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You wasted all that money in the good times, water-cannoning our dosh with so little thought or restraint that only Hungary, Pakistan and Egypt are suffering from comparable indebtedness, and Hungary and Pakistan are already in the hands of the IMF.
It might actually be Gordon Brown's fault Not a sheep 2008
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The statement about public cannoning applies also to the two man cages found along the Kabul-Jalalabad-Peshawar road.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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Michael Clarke followed soon after his captain, run out as he danced down the pitch to Swann, his clip to mid-wicket cannoning off Cook at short leg, whereupon Strauss at leg slip pounced and threw down the stumps.
Oval Provides Another Golden Memory Mike Atherton, The Times 2009
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