Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the quantity contained in a crate.
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- noun informal As much as a
crate would hold
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quantity contained in a crate
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Examples
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We encountered glare ice as far south as Oklahoma, and if we didn't slip around quite as much as some of the other vehicles, maybe it's because they didn't have the ballast of a fruit-crateful of vinyl albums like we did.
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Unfortunately my little squib of a book was found attractive to many because it was as odorous as a crateful of bad eggs with the miasma of original sin.
Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010
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We encountered glare ice as far south as Oklahoma, and if we didn't slip around quite as much as some of the other vehicles, maybe it's because they didn't have the ballast of a fruit-crateful of vinyl albums like we did.
Eric Williams: Spinning Donuts In The Parking Lot Of Life 2010
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We encountered glare ice as far south as Oklahoma, and if we didn't slip around quite as much as some of the other vehicles, maybe it's because they didn't have the ballast of a fruit-crateful of vinyl albums like we did.
Eric Williams: Spinning Donuts In The Parking Lot Of Life 2009
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Hunting ghosts with a crateful of technological whizbangs.
"Sinister Landscapes" edited by Alan Draven (Pixie Dust Press) Paul 2009
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Hunting ghosts with a crateful of technological whizbangs.
Archive 2009-03-01 Paul 2009
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We eat dinner—a crateful of wild local durians—as Jameson tells us about the first time he saw durians at a market.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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We eat dinner—a crateful of wild local durians—as Jameson tells us about the first time he saw durians at a market.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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We eat dinner—a crateful of wild local durians—as Jameson tells us about the first time he saw durians at a market.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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And a crateful of cocaine, $8 million worth, according to police.
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