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- noun Plural form of
jolly . - noun slang
Kicks ;satisfaction ;entertainment . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
jolly .
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Examples
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Is this the only way they can get there jollies is thru a penthouse.
After reading about Sarah Palin in the "Message Boards" I've got 1 question. 2009
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Like, my main concern with slash done for jollies is the fetishising of gay men in/for a heterosexual female gaze -- which I'm divided on.
Fanfiction Hal Duncan 2010
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Is this the only way they can get there jollies is thru a penthouse.
After reading about Sarah Palin in the "Message Boards" I've got 1 question. 2009
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Sure we may get our cheap jollies from a quick snack of Twinkies, but most of us have metapreferences not to find ourselvs having finished the whole bag of chips in one sitting.
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Here at Chez Scrubbles we’ve been getting a few jollies from a new channel that popped up on our DirecTV lineup earlier this year — Chiller.
Cheap Thrill: Joan Crawford on The Sixth Sense : Scrubbles.net 2007
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QUAID: Two combat search and rescue helicopters known as jollies responded (INAUDIBLE) They worried that you wouldn't come get them because of the sandstorm.
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Further generous sums are provided for home furnishings, office equipment, local publicity, stationery, rent, hotel expenses and fact-finding trips (not "jollies," please) to Europe for themselves and their families.
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Further generous sums are provided for home furnishings, office equipment, local publicity, stationery, rent, hotel expenses and fact-finding trips (not "jollies," please) to Europe for themselves and their families.
Disorder! 2008
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It would seem that their are a few readers of blogs that enjoy leaving negative comments all over blog land-I guess that is how they get their "jollies".
A Rejoinder and Statement of Principles - A Dress A Day 2008
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If men got their 'jollies' I mean erotic escapist fantasies from books the way some women do, I'd bet those fiction/non-fiction gender differences numbers would level out.
Archive 2007-09-01 Ann Althouse 2007
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