Definitions
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- noun Narrow plastic
balloon that is used as a promotionalnoise maker by hitting one against another.
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Examples
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Every gun, firearm, thunderstick and or smokepole I own can also be called a weapon at anytime.
Is it just me or does anyone else find it irritating when someone calls a gun a weapon? 2009
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Every gun, firearm, thunderstick and or smokepole I own can also be called a weapon at anytime.
Is it just me or does anyone else find it irritating when someone calls a gun a weapon? 2009
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I like to use a thunderstick when trolling for eyes
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I like to use a thunderstick when trolling for eyes
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There's Thor with his hammer, banging away the noise of his thunderstick booming all day.
Archive 2009-06-01 Geraldine Moorkens Byrne 2009
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There's Thor with his hammer, banging away the noise of his thunderstick booming all day.
Where Dwell The Gods? Geraldine Moorkens Byrne 2009
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The Nuggets got a boost from returning home, where they had won 12 straight, and a franchise-record 19,913 thunderstick-clapping fans.
USATODAY.com - Spurs stand tall, storm Nuggets 86-78 in Game 3 2005
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Then the Anaheim Angels, who never stop hitting, put together one of their classic, come-from-behind rallies, scoring six runs in their final two times at bat and beating the Giants 6-5 in Game 6 of the World Series at thunderstick-clapping Edison Field on Saturday night.
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So we will take the rap for the cowbell, the thunderstick and the immortal wave, where everybody, including your Aunt Nancy, waits to stand up and be identified as overserved.
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Simultaneously delicate, sensuous and ethereally fragile, as if she might snap her thunderstick any second.
DOA Jon Gordon 2010
bilby commented on the word thunderstick
Gun. Supposedly a backtranslation from a term coined by an Aboriginal tribe for the loud and devastating weapons of European colonisers. Spears and linguistic dexterity, unfortunately, were no match for thundersticks in the settlement of the Australian continent.
November 25, 2007
bilby commented on the word thunderstick
Gosh, I said that? Wow. Sometimes I really impress myself. Especially when I re-discover shit I can't really recall.
October 12, 2013