tripes
Example Sentences
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“I could have chosen way worse than a finger, right? I could have made it, like, tripes, brain, buttocks, something big and fat, you know? But I did not,” Ducournau said.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 21, 2017
Barcelona, in yellow and red tripes up their back, are beaten back with a wave of head tennis before the visitors concede a throw in on their left.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 20, 2016
Then, as they had no wine, they made libation with clear spring water, broiling the entrails first; and when the bones were burnt and tripes shared, they spitted the carved meat.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
“Yes! I dream of tripes a la mode de Caen—warm—with sweetbread.”
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
Sometimes it is synonymous with entrails—as "tripes and trullibubs"; sometimes it is meant for something very trifling, and then is occasionally spelt "trillibubs."
From A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide by Arthur C. Behrend
