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fanny

[fan-ee] / ˈfæn i /


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There are few places I travel to without a good old fanny pack, and I may have a bit of a collection.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2025

Gutierrez can be seen racing to grab Baldwin’s pistol, which she quickly loads with blank ammunition pulled from her gray fanny pack.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2024

Ken Jeong is unfrozen into a present day full of miracles: fanny packs, drone delivery, Popeyes’ new chicken wings.

From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2024

Police found a handgun magazine that belonged to the FBI agent in a fanny pack during a search of the car.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2024

"You can't make a living from sitting on your fanny and reading story-books. We don't keep them in the house."

From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl

It can be a pain, yes, this defense that Bosa and the rest of the 2021 Chargers hope puts opposing offenses on their fannies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2021

One “small” sponge observed by scientists was festooned with more than 100 crawling worm fannies, sometimes more than 10 to a single opening.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 8, 2021

They worked their fannies off, they really did.

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2018

“They were playing lights-out defense in the second half and we were getting our fannies kicked,” Dale said.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 25, 2017

"We're going to eat with the fannies," one sister would say to make the others laugh.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez




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