How To Use Hugger In A Sentence
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The Kensington High Street rag reckons chuggers—paid workers who stop you in the street and persuade you to give over your bank details for charity—are well on their way out.
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said the term "thuggery" has been used as a catchall crime since the military assumed power Feb. 11 and is so broad that people have been arrested for no reason.
Washington Post: Breaking News, World, US, DC News & Analysis
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And where does the dividing line lie between racial bias and crude, alcoholic thuggery?
Times, Sunday Times
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The tall, dark one with the angular face was Thomas; even at Ruth's age, when he'd been only four, Thomas had had a leading man's kind of handsomeness -- a combination of poise and thuggery that, in his teenage years, gave him the seeming confidence of a much older man.
Excerpt: A Widow For One Year by John Irving
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The exuberant first dance sequence brings to the New York streets a multiethnic rhythm nation of cuties in halters and hip-huggers, all waving little American flags.
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Socially, the fabric is often as fragmented as the physical one, with immigrants from rural areas or from abroad mixed hugger-mugger with some of the least privileged traditional citizens.
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The Reds and Rockies played that "nothing to lose" role, while St. Louis was the NL's big second-half team — like Oakland, a "chugger" — roaring past the sinking Cubs for a playoff berth.
USATODAY.com - Mets may be in position to 'chug' into playoffs
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Despite a thriving democracy, the justice system has not always been successful in stopping fascist thuggery.
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I yawned constantly, and yet could not sleep; I hugged myself imagining it was Harry's bear-like hug - such a brilliant hugger, often lifting me off my feet to stretch my backbone.
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It's the televisual equivalent of the chuggers who hang round Liverpool Street station - it makes me walk to the other side of the road to avoid them.
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But the rest are all hugger-mugger, and I like them that way.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Delia Sherman and Christopher Barzak on Interfictions 2
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But Johnson was clearly disturbed by what he characterized as "mob rule and thuggery.
Sen. Ron Johnson denounces 'mob rule'
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As an naturaluzed immigrant living in Texas, I have seen much more thuggery from the left than theright.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Sad Victory for Thuggery in Texas
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And where does the dividing line lie between racial bias and crude, alcoholic thuggery?
Times, Sunday Times
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And how come when we first meet Tomas in his young monkhood, as when we last see him after the erotic hugger-mugger, he is naked except for a diaper?
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It has taken a little over a fortnight for a large group of adults to regress to that institutional hugger-mugger one first encountered at boarding school at the age of eight.
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In all 3 patients, the symptoms resolved after 4 to 6 weeks of avoiding hiphuggers and wearing loose-fitting dresses.
Boing Boing: January 5, 2003 - January 11, 2003 Archives
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they did it all hugger-mugger
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Is it mindless thuggery or as mentally demanding as a game of chess?
Times, Sunday Times
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And a pair of tight hip hugger blue jean flares with star patches all down the sides.
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So let's all move onward and upward, do the ladies who've inspired us these past ten years proud, and perhaps try and usurp them in the next decade with something a bit better than poppy-colored hiphuggers.
Elizabeth Nicholas: What the Aughts Taught Us: The Decade's Most Stylish Women
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Serial celebrity 'hugger' Tania McIntosh ran towards Peaches and grabbed hold of her tightly, before hugging her for several seconds.
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The washing machine wasn't draining, and, in desperation I lay my head down on the dasher inside what the kids call the 'chugger' to bemoan my fate before looking for a free washer on craigslist when I noticed a bit of metal poking down.
Duct Tape
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The room is a hugger-mugger of tables with a bar, and pictures of Iberians in pink knickerbockers doing painful things to ungulates.
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As appalling as that 1968 assault was, thuggery is nothing new in politics; it transcends time, ideology and party.
Michael Winship: The Pulpit of Bullies
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I guess you'd flip it around and put the hook at the pointy end to make a chugger?
There's A Lure In Your Beer Bottle
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Horrible mental image: John Ratzenberger in hiphuggers and an extra small T-shirt.
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English before the latter, and upon the whole it seems most probable that _hugger_ is a mere intensitive form of _hug_, and that _mugger_ is
Notes and Queries, Number 206, October 8, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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He has certainly not condoned or excused racist violence or thuggery.
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My objections are not the usual huge-corporate-malls-are-soulless rants, or the cars-destroy-the-environment bleats you usually get from the tree-huggers.
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If Burger gouged, that is inexcusable but, apart from that, what else did they do that was thuggery?
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Crew's tradition-abiding MacAlister boot ($135), H&M's imitation-suede desert boot ($50), Rockport's dressy Tetlin Lane ($100) and Topman's multiple takes (from $75) including a fleece-lined, beige ankle-hugger.
Get Your Kicks
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I was carrying about 80 lbs. of groceries to the “T” subway and wearing precious little clothing mostly, a red charmeuse camisole, green velvet hiphuggers, English riding boots, waist-length dark hair, and Mitsouko.
La Perfumista par Excellence, Part I: The Other Passions
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Maybe Mikey Boyd is ready to act like a tree-hugger again after being a complete builder stooge so far this term.
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You appear to offer just a fancified version of thuggery.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Everybody Back Off. I Have A Child and I’m Not Afraid to Use It
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To lots of builders and lots of designers and certainly lots of clients, Passive Solar means dirty hippie, lefty tree hugger, bludging waste of time.
Zero Energy Homes in California by 2020 | Inhabitat
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And I hate to break it to him but mexicans are known as lazy welfare huggers who outbreeds every other group of people on earth.
MMA Mania
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A kind of hugger-mugger inquest produced a declaration that Clarke's death was not caused by the blow he had received from his assailant, and in consequence, "whereas a doubt had arisen in our royal breast," the King formally pardoned the murderer by royal {130} proclamation.
A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III (of 4)
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Then it was destroyed by mindless thuggery.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is not a heartless man, but he insisted that folk who lived hugger-mugger 12 feet below sea level and refused to budge, even when the mayor ordered them out, should not be surprised to drown.
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As a measure of character, also consider how he finessed the problem of appeasing tree-huggers while avoiding offence to countrymen whom the accords would have thrown out of work.
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This is a counterrevolutionary organization, with a long history of gangsterism and thuggery against any and all left-wing political opponents.
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Inside, arranged hugger-mugger on a selection of chairs and boxes, are the NCO instructors.
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With crop tops, hip-hugger jeans and low-slung skirts in style, all arrows point to our abs.
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It was like being constantly nagged by a drunk chugger.
Times, Sunday Times
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A calm surface favors the finesse of a dogwalker, and a riffled surface suggests the increased commotion of a chugger or a slush-type plug rigged with propellers.
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chugger" a week earlier in Santiago, we thought it was a splendid idea.
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This may have helpfully covered up some of the (to rephrase Proust) intermittences of the art, but it also increased the sense of hugger-mugger.
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Is it mindless thuggery or as mentally demanding as a game of chess?
Times, Sunday Times
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Virginia Attorney Gen. Ken Cuccinelli R is accusing Arlington County of engaging in "legal thuggery" with an "an egregiously frivolous" and "dirty" lawsuit against the state's proposed construction of High Occupancy Toll lanes along I-95 in Northern Virginia.
Cuccinelli accuses Arlington of playing 'dirty' with HOT lanes lawsuit
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Analysts say the president's tactics of power consolidation and political thuggery have been successful in shutting out challengers.
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After Polonius and Ophelia have both died violently and been buried ‘in hugger-mugger,’ as Claudius tells Gertrude, the mistreatment of the dead is shocking indeed.
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Surely all our victories by sea and land might warrant our stipulating for so much, in place of huggermuggering with doubtful ill -- defined treaties, specifying that you Johnny Crapeau, and you Jack Spaniard, shall steal men, and deal in human flesh, in such and such a degree of latitude only, while, if you pick up one single slave a league to the northward or southward of the prescribed line of coast, then we shall blow you out of the water wherever we meet you.
Tom Cringle's Log
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I stood up and it was a chugger.
The Sun
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The Crips was a vehicle to provide us with illusionary empowerment, payback, camaraderie, protection, thuggery, and a host of other benefits.
Blue Rage, Black Redemption
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Back at the bar, Maxwell Cole was looking at his latte with all the distaste of a tree-hugger faced with a clear-cut.
BREACH OF DUTY
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On one hand, it provides a platform for mindless thuggery and serious criminality.
Times, Sunday Times
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Possibly castable from an 8wt as a surface chugger for topwater action?
There's A Lure In Your Beer Bottle
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Maybe Mikey Boyd is ready to act like a tree-hugger again after being a complete builder stooge so far this term.
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This may have helpfully covered up some of the (to rephrase Proust) intermittences of the art, but it also increased the sense of hugger-mugger.
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It was announced years ago that I'm not a "hugger" and to not hug me more than once per visit.
Unclebob Diary Entry
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The historian Thomas Carlyle in 1839 was the first to extend the term beyond India by decrying “the Glasgow Thugs,” and he also coined thuggery.
No Uncertain Terms
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The value of funds raised by an average chugger is 96 on the street and 120 from door-to-door work.
Times, Sunday Times
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It should not look like some shabby impromptu of gangsterish thuggery.
Rites and Wrongs: James Wolcott
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My friends wore hip huggers and bell-bottoms which I staunchly refused to even consider.
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Just because I like to look at animals doesn't mean I'm some damn pantywaist tree-hugger.
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I hated going hugger-mugger in the car because I wanted to read and this was impossible with elbows and knees stuck across your face.
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When people in the North repeatedly turn out to vote for sectarian demagoguery and backstreet thuggery above all available normal democratic alternatives, then they have not delivered a verdict which needs to be respected.
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As for why door blockers, pole huggers and other egregious violators of subway etiquette do not experience the same opprobrium, perhaps another study is in order.
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I pass four Shelter chuggers, my do-not-approach aura clearly on the fritz as two of them tried their circus-style freakshow beckoning tactics on me.
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Who on earth would choose to be a chugger?
Times, Sunday Times
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TreeHugger contributor Sami Grover has suggested that equipment developed for a “certain herbalist demographic” is very effective at growing food without soil, often indoors under artificial light.
Lloyd Alter | Inhabitat
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And then, an old one that has new life, Ethan Zuckerman reflected upon DOS and other "cyberwar" tactics in the context of Israel, writing back then that "forming groups to shut down websites looks a lot like gang thuggery to me.
Iran Roundup: Facts and Framing
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The party likes to style itself as a big tent, which goes some way towards explaining its obsession with inviting big business for a hugger-mugger under canvas at the Galway races.
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Why I think you may be inebriated is that you obviously think that any of those young ladies with hiphugger jeans and tattoos on their backs might possibly be reading your weblog.
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On one hand, it provides a platform for mindless thuggery and serious criminality.
Times, Sunday Times
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Corporate thuggery is destroying the rainforests.
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A hugger-mugger horizontal tenement of ugly, awkward, moulded plastic bathroom fittings bobbing in cess.
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The first one will always be the most frightening, because the beast we put together with Giger and all its parts - the face-hugger, the chest-burster, the egg - they were all totally original, and that's hard to follow. ...
Filmstalker: Ridley Scott talks Alien Prequel
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A few degrees left, and the hugger-mugger of the Old Town resolved itself into an open garret window here, with orange curtains, or there, a ladder leaning precipitously from a roof up onto a disorderly row of chimney pots.
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It's important, I thought, to have awkward hugs at any convention and I am an extremely awkward hugger.
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And the plot wandered and annoyed, piling on new mystical hugger-mugger… but when it came to the end, it hit me like an anvil in the sternum.
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And then a little while ago I had a chugger at my door.
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Charities that employ any sort of 'chugger' can forget if they think they will get any money out of me.
The Guardian World News
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On one hand, it provides a platform for mindless thuggery and serious criminality.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was told I could hug him, and I was told he was a hugger, which is great because I'm a hugger, too," she said in a phone interview later that night.
In search of approval for his party and himself
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He successfully pursued this hugger-mugger strategy in 1810.
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The attendant, sometimes called the hugger, places his left arm across the shoulder of the first dancer and walks beside and a step behind him, using his feather wand or snake whip to distract the attention of the snake.
The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi
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And where does the dividing line lie between racial bias and crude, alcoholic thuggery?
Times, Sunday Times
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I'll tell you all about it if you can hugger mugger me.
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He admitted having been beguiled into signing up as a donor by a chugger, the nickname for 'charity mugger'.
Times, Sunday Times
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She had lost her eye when she was fifteen, in a brawl with the Gaschuggers outside Welcome, Arizona.
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Egypt's de facto head of state said Tuesday that the military government would limit its use of extrajudicial arrests and detentions to cases of what he called "thuggery.
NYT > Home Page
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Hugger-mugger is part of life, especially under modern political conditions.
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Possibly castable from an 8wt as a surface chugger for topwater action?
There's A Lure In Your Beer Bottle
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She said no chuggers had been in Tooting since January, but claimed the PFRA had received no complaints there.
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The church is the second to be damaged in what appears to be a campaign of thuggery.
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This isn't to say that many of the nutrition rules that apply to sofa huggers don't apply to, say, marathon runners.
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My particular favourite is the following line: We also need to ensure Ministers are featured on online forums, such as Mumsnet, money supermarket, Treehuggers etc.
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I'd pick out those I thought would be the exuberant huggers, the proper handshakers or the ones who never touch at all.
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They will never even dare raise the question of thuggery with us, as we work with the lumpenproletariat closely; in fact they are somewhat concerned for their own well-being.
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Treehugger points us to an interesting interview with fashion designer Lika Volkova, in which she calls bullshit on a mushrooming business trend: Green clothing.
Fast Company
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November 6th, 2005 at 10:24 am mythago, no, no, no…when I was a teenager it was skintight Jordace jeans and parachute pants…they were SOOOOOO much better than the hiphuggers of today!
Mass Marketing Sexist T Shirts
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We've become the therapeutic nation of huggers and fondlers.
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So if you're reading this and your toddler is a "hugger," please email me, because I want to invite you over for a playdate.
Meredith Lopez: I Cheat On My Toddler
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Asylum seeker, economic migrant, bed-blocking, and stakeholder pension reflect the serious side of life; bunny-hugger (a conservationist or animal lover), chick flick (a film appealing to women), gearhead (a car enthusiast), and Grinch (a spoilsport or killjoy) are entries in a more light-hearted vein.
Boing Boing: September 22, 2002 - September 28, 2002 Archives
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She'd put me in low, hip hugger jeans, a blue tank and a denim jacket.
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There was assortment of girls sitting around, dressed in a variety of short skirts, low-rise, hip hugger jeans, and skimpy tops.
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A phugger, says Veritape, is the cold-calling equivalent of the poor 'chugger' sods you see standing around Oxford Street desperately trying to sign punters up to charities you've never heard of.
Technology, Science, Entertainment, and Business News
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Is it mindless thuggery or as mentally demanding as a game of chess?
Times, Sunday Times
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The hugger-mugger squalor endured by the planet's traveling billions.
Planes, Trains And Miseries
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Then it was destroyed by mindless thuggery.
Times, Sunday Times
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The young women here seem to have plenty of places to buy their hiphuggers and tight shirts, it's all you see them wearing.
Clothing stores in Ajijic/Lake Chapala area
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All the hugger and mugger is over the cubicle walls, which is fine this week.
Horoscope for the week of March 16, 2008
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I think the best chain tensioner for the Empire State Courier is the Fuck Nut Hugger, which is probably on sale at Nashbar.
BSNYC Product Review: Scattante Empire State Courier
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The hugger is Juan Mann and the music is from the Sick Puppies.
October 2006
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Right now it'sattracting hordes of onlookers and sending shad fishermen into a tizzy overwhat measures the tree huggers might take in order to keep anglers a safedistance — say, 6 nautical miles — from the navigationally challenged marine mammalduring the peak of the American shad migration up America's greatest shadriver.
Fishing the Delaware River shad run in early spring
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Vandalism and thuggery are an all-too-frequent blot on the landscape in recent years.
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Unlike conventional crime, computer thuggery frequently reaches across territorial lines, often originating from countries where the act is not illegal.
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Leon's sister Helene Mar had herself acted in the silent film era, then spent the rest of her life creating artistes - her hugger-mugger brother, her daughters, who became dancers, and pre-eminently, Johnny.
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It is a hugger-mugger bubbling pot of intrigue, smuggling, poverty, filth and some of the best food in Asia.
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The latter group is made up of those whining whale lovers, owl spotters and tree huggers who try to prevent trawlers, loggers, miners and oildrillers from making an honest living looting our planet's finite resources.
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There's no place in football for the kind of thuggery that went on out there.
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He loved its hugger-mugger houses, the strange sea creatures that came up in baskets from the boats, the constant harbourside shouting.
THE MAIN CAGES
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Brown may have tried to sign this wretched Treaty hugger-mugger back in December, out of sight and out of mind, but the truth of the matter is that he is in fact an EU enthusiast who has played a leading part in not just the drawing up of this Treaty but also the gerrymander that is seeing it through the process of ratification.
Brown Takes Careful Aim At Foot
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Rights lawyers, however, noted that the military has applied the term "thuggery" very broadly, covering street protesters and potentially anyone else it chooses.
NYT > Home Page
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Every scene was like a chugger begging you for lachrymose donations.
Times, Sunday Times
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The network -- reliably thought to be based in Waziristan in Pakistan -- has much of the border regions of Af-Pak tied up, and made a true art form out of bloody-minded thuggery, extortion, murder, and bastardry.
Virginia M. Moncrieff: Clear and Present Danger: The Haqqani Network
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Whether called coolies, koozies, cozies, huggies, huggers or can coolers, a neoprene sweater will keep your drink chilled on the hottest of days (or warm on the coolest of days).
Leisure: Keeping It Cool
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he engaged in the hugger-mugger of international finance
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Greendale is Young's idea of Shangri-La, where lumberjackets are always in style and girls with far-out tree-hugger names grow up to be ecologically responsible cheerleaders instead of SUV-driving mall rats.
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The clans of Tokyo's underworld have moved beyond certain rituals of an earlier era, even though they cling to a classic thuggery that involves crime families, turf wars and loyalty that's blind until it turns into clear-sighted treachery.
'Shame': Tracking The Travails of Lost Souls
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Tree-huggers will relish their seclusion at two ancient forests on both coasts, while water-lovers will delight in untamed Texan rafting adventures, snorkeling at an underwater Floridian marine park, or whale-watching on a Canadian cape.
Top 10 National Parks Without Crowds | Impact Lab
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I offer below the ten women who did the most to bring us from red hiphuggers to the Roger Vivier flats and shift dresses I'm so in love with now, and thank them for pushing our wardrobes up to happier heights --
What the Aughts Taught Us: The Decade's Most Stylish Women