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- noun Plural form of
hobbyist .
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Both statements, posted on a Web site that rates escorts, describe in more explicit terms the experiences of customers - or "hobbyists" - with women of Executive Playmates, an escort service suspected by the San Antonio Police Department of generating about $150,000 a month from prostitution between 2005 and 2007.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009
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Less eagerly anticipated by the hobbyists is a new comedy film in the works at Columbia, starring Sacha "Borat" Baron Cohen as the detective and Will Ferrell as Watson, but even it represents homage (of a sort) to Holmes.
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The people who raise our fruits and veggies have priority over hobbyists, which is as it should be, I guess.
Bees still alive and buzzing | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2007
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Hackers, called "hobbyists" in the post, know that "governments are not really the sort of people you want to get involved with," Ady said.
NYT > Global Home By JOHN F. BURNS 2011
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What better way to involve the American "hobbyists" than knowing that your computer was processing the data!
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That law opened the door for "hobbyists" to sell guns to anyone age 18 or over without conducting background checks.
Josh Horwitz: NRA's Latest Poster Boy Sounds Like School Shooter Josh Horwitz 2010
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That law opened the door for "hobbyists" to sell guns to anyone age 18 or over without conducting background checks.
Josh Horwitz: NRA's Latest Poster Boy Sounds Like School Shooter Josh Horwitz 2010
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That law opened the door for "hobbyists" to sell guns to anyone age 18 or over without conducting background checks.
Josh Horwitz: NRA's Latest Poster Boy Sounds Like School Shooter Josh Horwitz 2010
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Now "hobbyists" know that ABC cut out the full extent of Palin's remarks, but "non-hobbyists" don't know that because it's not covered in the MSM.
Was Obama's only education accomplishment "legislation to teach 'comprehensive sex education' to kindergartners"? Ann Althouse 2008
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The intention is to reduce the number of licensors to a manageable level, to lock out "hobbyists" and other entities that Microsoft doesn't want to have to trouble itself with.
Boing Boing: January 29, 2006 - February 4, 2006 Archives 2006
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