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- noun Plural form of
rapscallion .
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Examples
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But under the first-past-the-post system anyone living in a safe seat knows the "rapscallions" aren't going anywhere.
Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2009
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Having grown up in a New Jersey neighborhood where it was common to have a relative, family friend (or three) tied in some direct or attenuated way to "the life," I became fascinated with the disparity between what our culture insisted on believing about this loose confederacy of rapscallions and the banal realities of their lives.
Eric Dezenhall: Waiting for Lucky Luciano Eric Dezenhall 2010
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Earlier this week when I left for work I found these two rapscallions along with a veritable hoard of smaller turkeys, likely offspring.
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Do we Mirandize the surviving rapscallions when the shooting finally stops?
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » How Is This Different From Citizens United 2010
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Earlier this week when I left for work I found these two rapscallions along with a veritable hoard of smaller turkeys, likely offspring.
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Having grown up in a New Jersey neighborhood where it was common to have a relative, family friend (or three) tied in some direct or attenuated way to "the life," I became fascinated with the disparity between what our culture insisted on believing about this loose confederacy of rapscallions and the banal realities of their lives.
Eric Dezenhall: Waiting for Lucky Luciano Eric Dezenhall 2010
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These petty rapscallions, on the other hand, sought protection behind the majesty of the law.
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Having grown up in a New Jersey neighborhood where it was common to have a relative, family friend (or three) tied in some direct or attenuated way to "the life," I became fascinated with the disparity between what our culture insisted on believing about this loose confederacy of rapscallions and the banal realities of their lives.
Eric Dezenhall: Waiting for Lucky Luciano Eric Dezenhall 2010
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If we can make wealth more efficiently than those rapscallions, let us show them that we can destroy wealth with the same facility.
CHAPTER XV 2010
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Google records that I myself added to the Mencken lexicon by wrongly attributing to him the maxim that, at elections, we should always "Chuck the rapscallions out."
Simon Jenkins: Half a Century After Mencken's Death, Opinion Is What is Riding High Simon Jenkins 2011
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