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strangler - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
noun
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun strangles , especially who murders by strangling noun epiphyte whose aerial roots eventually strangle the tree on which it grows
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun noun
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A strangler is a work, along with a couple of mobsters named Flash and Dip.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Double Z - Maxwell Grant Blue Tyson 2006
A strangler is a work, along with a couple of mobsters named Flash and Dip.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Crime Cult - Maxwell Grant Blue Tyson 2006
Copyright Wars denounced certain copyright owners who once analogized a copying technology to a "strangler " -- and then six times accused copyright owners of trying to "kill,"
The Progress & Freedom Foundation Blog 2009
The banyan replaced the Hanging Elm in Washington Square Park as my favorite tree, because it isn't so much a tree as a tree monster, a macabre tangle of branches oozing to the ground so as to support ever more branches, threatening to squeeze to death anything in its path, a tendency that earned it the cute nickname "strangler fig."
Aloha? More Like Boo! Sarah Vowell 2011
If so, he should have concluded that the strangler was a non-secretor — and so excluded Carlton Gary as the source of the semen.
The Stocking Strangler case Rose, David 2007
The strangler was a trace of shadow, and yes! he was cutting across, through the rope factory itself!
The Burning City Larry Niven 2000
The strangler was a trace of shadow, and yes! he was cutting across, through the rope factory itself!
The Burning City Niven, Larry 2000
That thought continues to send chills down the spines of people in Kensington, where the strangler is a constant source of discussion and fear.
Phillies Zone 2010
Reveal your secret nickname (mine's "strangler ") and much other funkiness over at Cowgrass. com
Random Funny Stuff - UFies.org 2003
Reveal your secret nickname (mine's "strangler ") and much other funkiness over at Cowgrass. com
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minouchette commented on the word strangler
what a spendthrift isn't
October 8, 2010