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Or there are the more hyperspecific suggestions, like this one from a Neptunes knockoff: “a sample of rick james saying ‘shake ya tailfeatha’ would fit on this.”
From Slate ● Jun. 21, 2018
It looked like Bassong might have got away with his rick as Rooney got the ball caught under his feet before he could pull the trigger.
From The Guardian ● May 7, 2016
There’s rick material to be mined in comedy when cultures, on the surface, do not mix.
From Forbes ● Sep. 16, 2013
The best and worst apologies of the week Topics: Trayvon Martin, rick ross, Matt Lauer, David Patraeus, Piers Morgan, George Zimmerman, Doug Gottlieb, Don Young, It has been one sorry excuse for a week.
From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2013
I had a quick picture of Da standing outside our doorway one summer, the rick of hay caught on the edge of his pitchfork.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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Down in the tunnels, workers sorted the remains of the dead, filing them by bones into space-efficient ricks and stacks.
From The New Yorker ● May 23, 2019
Burnley’s welcome back to the Premier League ends in encouraging defeat, while Monday Night Football ends an hour later with no obvious ricks or gaffes.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 23, 2014
In Martinsburg, W. Va., a heifer dropped down between two ricks of straw and subsisted seven weeks without water.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The tempo is high, the ricks are ticking and the song is a shaggy Pekinese.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Them summer ricks be all rotten at bottom.
From Wild Life in a Southern County by Richard Jefferies