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- noun Plural form of
cripple .
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Examples
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Whatever we think of the dear departed, surely we can all admit that fighter jets versus cripples is pretty damned cold blooded.
Matthew Yglesias » The Risk of Catastrophic Success In Gaza 2009
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We may let in cripples, say a man who has lost an arm, on condition that he give satisfactory evidence that he has an occupation or an art, and is not likely to become a public charge.
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And this play-calling cripples fantasy football managers.
Why Fantasy Football Matters Erik Barmack 2006
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And this play-calling cripples fantasy football managers.
Why Fantasy Football Matters Erik Barmack 2006
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The girl who grew up around British Naval bases, who once dated a Spitfire pilot and somehow held him enthralled despite being wheelchair bound in a time that was unforgiving to "cripples" (how we wince at the term now), grew up into a writer who understood soldiers and soldiering, empires and subject peoples.
zornhau: My Eagle of the Ninth zornhau 2010
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Unlike the above policies of segregation that brazenly named the objects of their scorn - − "masterless men," "cripples," "negroes," and "Bolshevik bums" − - today's vagrancy laws are dressed up in post-civil rights legalese.
Paul Boden: The Quality of Whose Life? Part 3 Paul Boden 2010
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Unlike the above policies of segregation that brazenly named the objects of their scorn - − "masterless men," "cripples," "negroes," and "Bolshevik bums" − - today's vagrancy laws are dressed up in post-civil rights legalese.
Paul Boden: The Quality of Whose Life? Part 3 Paul Boden 2010
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Her themes resonated with the audience, especially when she spoke of the common experience of the "imposter syndrome" - which "cripples" people's dreams, as they fear being exposed as less than how they are presenting themselves.
Marcia G. Yerman: Omega Institute Comes to NYC for a Weekend of Renewal 2010
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Unlike the above policies of segregation that brazenly named the objects of their scorn - − "masterless men," "cripples," "negroes," and "Bolshevik bums" − - today's vagrancy laws are dressed up in post-civil rights legalese.
Paul Boden: The Quality of Whose Life? Part 3 Paul Boden 2010
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And what the hell are you thinking, to suggest that shunting off the "cripples," the "abnormals," "the disturbing" and so forth can possibly protect against that?
What is the sound of one hand on a children's TV show host? Ann Althouse 2009
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