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tails

noun as in white tie

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Chicken satay and shrimp cocktail are also good options, as you can watch the skewers and tails stack up.

She was gambling on a coin toss where somehow “heads, you win” would have been politically more advantageous than “tails, I lose.”

Google has more than a million hits—and countless images—for the term “babies born with tails.”

Human tails are a genetic accident—and a big problem for the faux-scientific creationism known as ‘intelligent design.’

Human tails are part of the evolutionary baggage that we carry in our bodies, leftover from our ancestors.

The poor dandy showed a pair of straight coat-tails instanter, and the whole table joined in a "tremenjous" roar.

But I don't suppose Weston would bother spreading the tails out when he sat down.

He fed the monkeys with candy, and laughed to see them hang by their tails while they took it from his hand.

After all, bombs and grenades are easy things to make if the tails of the manufacturers are well twisted.

"Bears don't have tails, Benny," argued Jess—although she wasn't exactly sure she was right.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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