leprechaun
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He memorably dressed up as a leprechaun, another time as an FBI agent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2025
There’s probably a little leprechaun one for St. Patrick’s Day.
From Slate ● May 30, 2024
Think of the leprechaun of Ireland, the puckish forest-dwelling aluxe of Mexico, or the grisly krasue of Southeast Asia, a woman whose internal organs hang exposed from her neck down.
From New York Times ● Apr. 16, 2023
The ends of the rainbows touched down in the rolling fields below me, no place green enough to hide a leprechaun but a fair swap for living with rattlers.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2022
Ed looked spritelike in his leprechaun costume. straitjacket/straitlaced.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
Speaking of trillion-dollar leprechauns, you will hunt through all 545 pages in vain for those big “DOGE” savings you were promised.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026
It is easy-breezy, light spirited — rainbows, leprechauns, good luck, good cheer — it is childlike in its commitment to being pure fun.
From Salon ● Mar. 12, 2024
Three years later came Crock of Gold, with its album cover featuring a painting by Shane MacGowan of leprechauns that resembled the demons that seemed to haunt him throughout his life.
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2023
Gnomes and shrooms go together like leprechauns and pots of gold, so pair this funky fungus with your chillest gnomie.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2023
The great shamrock dissolved, the leprechauns drifted down onto the field on the opposite side from the veela, and settled themselves cross-legged to watch the match.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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