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  • noun Plural form of smoot.

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  • President Obama, you must rule the congress, if not the lobbyist surely will. jc smoots in tulsa

    Obama challenges reform detractors to explain themselves 2009

  • Obviously the earlier readings is inclined to be less accurate as they were converting from furlongs per fortnight, smoots, or some such arbitrary scale.

    Trenberth [1984] « Climate Audit 2005

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    Matthew Yglesias » Articles 2004

  • In this way, it was determined that the bridge was 364.4 smooots long "plus epsilon," although this was later recorded as 364.4 smoots plus an ear.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • Meantime the Massachusetts Metropolitan District Commission the folks in charge of the bridge went on record in support of smoots.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • Go to a Google calculator, there it is again: You can translate meters, miles or what-have-you into 'smoots.'

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • Smoot (the man) lay down on the bridge, his position was marked, and he moved on (or was moved on - eventually he so tired from the movement that his frat brothers carried him), until the bridge was established as being 364.4 smoots, plus or minus an ear, in length.

    Neatorama 2009

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