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- noun Plural form of
dummy .
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Examples
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Hi, i started fishing years ago with my grandfather, and he taught me quite a bit, but one day at a local bookstore i noticed numerous books on fishing. the k.i.s.s. series has a very informative book on different species and what to use for specific fish, also fishing for dummies is full of useful info.
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Hi, i started fishing years ago with my grandfather, and he taught me quite a bit, but one day at a local bookstore i noticed numerous books on fishing. the k.i.s.s. series has a very informative book on different species and what to use for specific fish, also fishing for dummies is full of useful info.
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Republican policies are for well off individuals like myself so please vote for McCain dummies, and we'll continue to take your money and leave you poor.
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To get the water necessary to keep the flume in operation the partners -- again by means of "dummies" -- filed on the water rights of certain streams.
The Killer Stewart Edward White 1909
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I switched on BBC's News 24 last night and from 9. 45pm for about 10 minutes, Gada Kharmi the well-known Hamas supporter, was talking over the live pictures, 'explaining' why these murders took place, without ANY interruption from the 2 dummies aka presenters.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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U willz nebbur unnerstand. an nebbur fine out sum ub us wuttchu call dummies are brillyunt, habbin fun Wuttchu care for?
responz-o-meetr - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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To this point, all safety regulations have been met using 55th percentile male dummies, which is OK if you are 6 feet tall like me.
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Give no artificial teats or pacifiers (also called dummies or soothers) to breastfeeding infants.
Chapter 8 1997
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No, it's everyone else - the idiots, morons and "dummies" - who is out to get them.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed DAVID EDDIE 2011
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Education in the schools for cadets, regularity in service, obligation to keep the companies full instead of pocketing a portion of the pay in the name of imaginary soldiers who appeared only on the registers, and who were called dummies (_passe-volants_), the necessity of wearing uniform, introduced into the army customs to which the French nobility, as undisciplined as they were brave, had hitherto been utter strangers.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 1830
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