Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
chaca , 2.
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Examples
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One of them, Chaka, is "visited" by a still-working hologram named Winston, who offers some timely encouragement and fills Chaka with hope.
REVIEW: Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse edited by John Joseph Adams 2008
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I figured if they could elect a "Chaka" - (laughter) - then they could elect a "Barack."
Phawker Phawker 2010
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I figured if they could elect a "Chaka" - (laughter) - then they could elect a "Barack."
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 usgov 2010
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Marshall, Will and Holly must rely on their only ally - a primate called Chaka (Jorma Taccone) to navigate out of the hybrid dimension.
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Marshall, Will and Holly must rely on their only ally - a primate called Chaka (Jorma Taccone) to navigate out of the hybrid dimension.
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At the beginning of this century there arose a warrior king, called Chaka, who gathered up the scattered tribes of the Zulus as a woodman gathers sticks, and as of the frail brushwood the woodman makes a stout faggot, that none can break, so of these tribes Chaka fashioned a nation so powerful that no other black people could conquer it.
The True Story Book Andrew Lang 1878
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To illustrate his point, Q compared Michael Jackson to another well-known vocalist he’d produced I'm pretty sure Nelson can't name Chaka Khan here for legal reasons.
Michael Jackson Dead : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2009
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She could talk Zulu, -- indeed, it turned out that she had run away from Zululand in T'Chaka's time, -- and she told me that all the people whom I had seen had died of fever.
Stories by English Authors: Africa (Selected by Scribners) Percy Addleshaw 1891
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She could talk Zulu -- indeed, it turned out that she had run away from Zululand in T'Chaka's time -- and she told me that all the people whom I had seen had died of fever.
Long Odds Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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Ay, by T'Chaka's head I swear it! 'and he shook Inkosi-kaas as he galloped.
Allan Quatermain Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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