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- noun A vehicle that applies
grit to icy roads to improvetraction
Etymologies
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Examples
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Conservative columinist wants you to be "gritter" i.e. more willing to kill Muslims.
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I wanted to re-do the piano track because it was a bit too live (too much sustain pedal), and Rashbre suggested a gritter vocal.
Grittier Vocal? « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2009
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The roads pretty much depend on the frequency of the snow ploughs and the gritter lorries.
Archive 2010-02-01 Scott Harrison 2010
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The roads pretty much depend on the frequency of the snow ploughs and the gritter lorries.
The Snows of Terror (part I) Scott Harrison 2010
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Then the gritter drivers would be held up getting back from the salt mine by the dozens of accidents caused by recruiting 300 "volunteer" students to drive the gritters..
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Anyway, New Soviet Man would immediately transfer a shock brigade of gritter drivers to get the salt out, and then discover there were no drivers to spread it on the roads.
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Conservative columinist wants you to be “gritter” i.e. more willing to kill Muslims.
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An irony oft-noted in these reviews and articles is that, whereas Moore's and Miller's masterpieces aimed to raise the sophistication bar for superhero comics with their revisionist, meta-, deconstructionist concerns, the influence that took hold amongst fans and creators was for more "mature" superhero comics--which is to say, superhero comics that are darker and gritter in tone, more "realistically" violent, and sexier.
Archive 2009-08-16 2009
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The art of the politician is similar, I believe, to the used car salesman, the gritter and the other guys who sell dreams.
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Dave was still at the top of his game then — though his style was a bit more gritter than his 70s work — which made it very appropo for this story.
Legion Blogpost #3 2009
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