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- noun Plural form of
killjoy .
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Examples
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According to The Sun, Palace "killjoys" have decreed that tea towels commemorating next year's royal wedding would not be "in good taste."
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Sanchez goes on to suggest the city of Houston build a parking lot for club-goers, that the cops patrolling the street not be "killjoys", and that a management district be created for …
Lone Star Times 2009
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A lot of times, in the 1920s, in the Prohibition era and the women behind the temperance movement are sort of depicted as a bunch of killjoys and party poopers, and, you know, they want to prevent people from having a good time.
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I've reduced the posted story to just an excerpt; I was going back and forth about it, but enough well-meaning killjoys in the comments pointed out that as a copyrighted story, there were issues in posting it all online, especially since the donation I suggested went to the homeless shelter as opposed to the author directly, who is still unreachable.
Boing Boing 2009
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However, as Conservative-studded as it was, the list of British dignitaries was not the controversial one: I know it's déclassé to mention it, and they disinvited Syria, and is that not enough for you human-rights-abuse killjoys?
Royal wedding guest list: perplexing – and where was naughty Uncle Gary? 2011
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A lot of times, in the 1920s, in the Prohibition era and the women behind the temperance movement are sort of depicted as a bunch of killjoys and party poopers, and, you know, they want to prevent people from having a good time.
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* A british expression that they should really be ashamed of using. guest jesus.killjoys. only the sceptics on today then?
VOTD: Spaced Slow-Mo Finger Gunfight Flashmob in London | /Film 2010
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A lot of times, in the 1920s, in the Prohibition era and the women behind the temperance movement are sort of depicted as a bunch of killjoys and party poopers, and, you know, they want to prevent people from having a good time.
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It would have taken courage: in those days Tony Blair still had a little gloss left on him and we did not want to sound like killjoys.
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A lot of times, in the 1920s, in the Prohibition era and the women behind the temperance movement are sort of depicted as a bunch of killjoys and party poopers, and, you know, they want to prevent people from having a good time.
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