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- noun informal
grandfather .
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Examples
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Excellent, now great grandpappy is going to relate to this generation of soldier and tell them how to do their jobs.
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He was born in New Haven and his grandpappy was a senator, but he got a special operation and thinks he's a regular guy from Midland.
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Go back enough generations and it will blow your mind to think of who it is you could call your grandpappy and your grandmama.
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Let's just say that I'm an anglo-arab and my grandpappy was a very renowned studmeister.
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Why did he invoke the swarthy boogeymen of the modern right-wing imagination right before launching into a verse about the good old days when his "grandpappy" would "take all the rope in Texas ... find a tall oak tree," and "hang them high in the street, for all the people to see?"
Max Blumenthal: Feelin' The Hate With Toby Keith Nation 2008
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Or, as my grandpappy use to say .., well watered horses don't jump the fence to drink from the creek next door.
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As my grandpappy Moby used to say (like, this morning), “What would a day be without another scandal from Amazon?”
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My grandpappy always warned me to NOT use plastic bags for toilets, too.
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Of course If you don't have access to powder, pyrodex or 777 you are still up the creek .... but the bullets you can make just like yer great grandpappy.
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Of course If you don't have access to powder, pyrodex or 777 you are still up the creek .... but the bullets you can make just like yer great grandpappy.
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