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- adjective UK, slang, informal Short for
savage (unpleasant orunfair ). - noun UK, Australia, New Zealand, informal A
saveloy .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Tho 'sav'd, alas I am but as a. shadow, my soul will never learn to joy in life.
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He won't have a chance at the presidency because our young people (like me at age 67) are too sav vy to let it happen.
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My pop died when I was youn leaving me a Savage Model 99 in .308 and my Uncle recently had surgery leaving him unable to shoot shouldered firearms (he's now using a pistol, of course) letting me buy a few of his guns, including a Remington 760 in .300 sav. a few months ago.
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Sat nav is the cause of much trouble, as HGV drivers blindly follow their sav nav down country lanes and get stuck and knocking chucks out of cob walls.
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My pop died when I was youn leaving me a Savage Model 99 in .308 and my Uncle recently had surgery leaving him unable to shoot shouldered firearms (he's now using a pistol, of course) letting me buy a few of his guns, including a Remington 760 in .300 sav. a few months ago.
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Daily Referendum: Conservative voters about to sav...
Monday Morning. Same Brown mess. Same Brown Spin Thatsnews 2009
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Daily Referendum: Conservative voters about to sav...
Mid morning update: Brown shuffles as party crashes and burns Thatsnews 2009
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Daily Referendum: Conservative voters about to sav...
Oh, dear. Brown will lead Labour That'll put paid to Labour... Thatsnews 2009
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Dana Perino is all like, who's got the Xanax and a vibrator and a bottle of cold sav blanc, am I right, Michele Bachman?
Mark Morford: Top 10 Status Updates on the New Social Networking Site for Former Bush Staffers 2009
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It was something of a get-together with the ECC crowd (with whom I went and LARPed a week or two ago); and it was perfectly pleasant except for the raging headache I inadvertently nursed with a glass of cab-sav that tasted like paint thinner.
Even so, Spring -- quickly come the_mercury 2007
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