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  • noun Plural form of lobby.

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Examples

  • It allows me to take advantage of travel time, time spent waiting in lobbies, and most recently time spent on jury duty, to blast through some fantastic books and escape from some of the more mundane times in one's life.

    What's Your Favorite Bookstore? 2009

  • McCain adviser/DC power lobbyist Charlie Black, who is appearing on Face the Nation, actually lobbies from the McCain campaign bus.

    Sunday Talk Shows Open Thread 2008

  • McCain adviser/DC power lobbyist Charlie Black, who is appearing on Face the Nation, actually lobbies from the McCain campaign bus.

    Sunday Talk Shows Open Thread 2008

  • -- Silicon Valley kids -- so-called 'lobbyconners' -- won't pay the entry fee for tech conferences but they will loiter in lobbies to make connections.

    Coffee Break: Oct. 15 2007

  • The tying of liberal loyalties to public-school-employees 'lobbies is a historical accident that has undermined the moral integrity of liberalism.

    Reversing White Flight 2002

  • The tying of liberal loyalties to public-school-employees 'lobbies is a historical accident that has undermined the moral integrity of liberalism.

    Reversing White Flight 2002

  • Because politicians do not court martyrdom, the intimidatory power of these lobbies is formidable.

    On Abortion: A Lincolnian Position 1995

  • Legitimating soldiers’ lobbies is likely to warp national-security policy and crack open the door to praetorianism.

    Warrior Politics 2007

  • Legitimating soldiers’ lobbies is likely to warp national-security policy and crack open the door to praetorianism.

    Warrior Politics 2007

  • We all let Box Jelly off first because heaven knows that box jellyfish attacks are most common in lobbies.

    Also a good answer: Airheads pabba 2009

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