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They showed off how easy it was to cripple the Senate, and they crippled everything instead of just cripping the important things.
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It's hard to believe that anyone could make us miss the relative intellectualism of Blogging Tory "Hunter", but "Dodo Can Spell" represents a whole new standard in cripping, Canadian right-wing dumbth.
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A wave of cripping emotion flowed outwards to the farthlest Shrill systems.
Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 10.1 of 31.1 2009
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The cripping refers to the practice Verizon has of turning off phone features and re-enabling them if you purchase a service through Verizon.
BlackBerry Storm internal product positioning, marketing points, BlackBerry Apex « Boy Genius Report 2008
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July 3, 2008 at 6:01 pm er, dat shudst be cropping, not cripping. blaem it on da wraparound. jamamakitty says:
I don’t even know his last name - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Despite the ethnic and religious homogeinty in Somalia, the clanism came cripping, killing the spirit of nationalism that fostered independence in 1960.
Equitable Distribution of Resources Key to National Unity 2007
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We call it "cripping up" in the UK when a non-disabled actor plays a disabled character - in reference to "blacking up" which is what white Shakespearean actors did when playing eg.
Blackface/Yellowface/*face Kay Olson 2007
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Public sector strikes across France in 1995, which were backed by a large worker constituency, had a cripping effect on the economy.
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While Israel has imposed a cripping blockade on Gaza since 2007, Egypt has also played a crucial role in maintaining the siege by closing its own border with Gaza.
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While Israel has imposed a cripping blockade on Gaza since 2007, Egypt has also played a crucial role in maintaining the siege by closing its own border with Gaza.
bilby commented on the word cripping
See crip.
July 6, 2021