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  • noun Plural form of powderkeg.

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Examples

  • Of course, in such instances, discretion is called for, given weddings are nearly always emotional powderkegs.

    Liturgical Wedding Crashers 2009

  • When you finally learn how these four powderkegs intersect and collide, you will be picking your jaw off the floor!

    Preview – Thunderbolts #135 2009

  • Cities and neighborhoods across the U.S. will be loaded with powderkegs, waiting for a match.

    Think Progress » ThinkFast AM: July 7, 2006 2006

  • Cities and neighborhoods across the U.S. will be loaded with powderkegs, waiting for a match.

    Think Progress » ThinkFast AM: July 7, 2006 2006

  • This is unfortunate because -- PC powderkegs or not -- they contain too much of quality and historic witness to be consigned to oblivion.

    Fear and Loathing on Blood Island 2008

  • Extreme poverty in the shanty towns of Nairobi has turned them into powderkegs prone to explode at any time.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • This is unfortunate because -- PC powderkegs or not -- they contain too much of quality and historic witness to be consigned to oblivion.

    Archive 2008-03-16 2008

  • Anyone who has been around that sort of culture knows the twin powderkegs hanging between most lacrosse players 'legs are usually four synapses away from something unholy.

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  • Anyone who has been around that sort of culture knows the twin powderkegs hanging between most lacrosse players 'legs are usually four synapses away from something unholy.

    somebody done somebody wrong song 2006

  • "Anyone who has been around that sort of culture knows the twin powderkegs hanging between most lacrosse players 'legs are usually four synapses away from something unholy."

    somebody done somebody wrong song 2006

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