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  • noun Plural form of collegiate.

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Examples

  • These were four collegiates who thought they would upset world order by doing something immature that looks to be straight out of Animal House.

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: January 27, 2010 2010

  • Both times more voters in this country voted for not-Clinton than voted for Clinton, but because those not-Clinton votes were split between two candidates, Clinton was able to claim the electoral collegiates in many of these three-way splits.

    Poll: Obama More Electable Than Hillary 2009

  • I still need to talk to James about why I can't register collegiates as a class ... because uhhhhh that's not cool.

    eros-archer Diary Entry eros-archer 2008

  • She first appears as the waitress in an off-the-A3 greasy spoon, who serves coffee to a pair of hooky-playing collegiates played by McDowell in his first screen role and David Hood.

    Archive 2007-06-03 2007

  • She first appears as the waitress in an off-the-A3 greasy spoon, who serves coffee to a pair of hooky-playing collegiates played by McDowell in his first screen role and David Hood.

    Remembering the "If...." Girl 2007

  • "It was a world first - throughout history one has had noteworthy movements by university students and collegiates but this was a protest by primary, junior and high school children," said Ali Hlongwane, curator of Soweto's Hector Peterson Memorial

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

  • Having a philosophical objection to sobriety in the Castro or Halloween, a very naughty friend enlisted me to help hand out shots of Jim Beam as dumbfounded collegiates looked at us like we were handing out human eyeballs — no, wait, given that it was Halloween, that would have been totally normal.

    I am a bad, bad man…. « Skid Roche 2003

  • There is talk of the team including players much more grizzled than the usual collection of collegiates.

    covering baseball for USATODAY.com.Bottom line holds true for cash-rich teams 2000

  • That's why Remy shuddered to think of her innocent sister walking the streets of the Vieux Carre late at night where she would be prey for rowdy tourists, drunken collegiates, and countless miscreants with depravity on their minds.

    Fat Tuesday Brown, Sandra, 1948- 1997

  • Mr. Perkins 'newlie corrected and amended, wch books the Donor desyred they might be sent to the Colledge in Virginia there to remayne in saftie to the use of the collegiates thereafter, and not suffered at any time to be sent abroade or used in the meane while.

    A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries Ainsworth Rand Spofford

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