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  • proper noun Plural form of Alan.
  • noun Cockney rhyming slang knickers (shortened form of Alan Whickers).

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Examples

  • There are millions of Great Uncle Alans encouraging younger people there.

    The United States Of Anger Shaun Rein 2010

  • This unsettling tone mercifully relented when the two Alans finally met.

    TV review: Double Agent - the Eddie Chapman Story; Imagine … Alan Ayckbourn - Greetings From Scarborough 2011

  • The two Alans seemed to have put in a little more homework than usual, with Hansen making some mildly interesting points about Chelsea's defending, and Shearer able to comment on Steven Gerrard's elbow on Danny Welbeck from the expert's point of view.

    Ian Botham and David Gower put boot into cricket's happy campers Martin Kelner 2010

  • Instead, I would like the Alans to take note of their MC, Gary Lineker, who has been sporting a quality selection of pink button-down shirts, which not only proves he is a man who doesn't feel the need to look like a Guy Ritchie extra to prove his masculinity, but also is far more flattering on the complexion.

    Don't take fashion tips from Alan Shearer 2010

  • The Alans—director Alan Parker and producer Alan Marshall—begged Beatty to release her from the obligation.

    STAR PETER BISKIND 2010

  • Mostly, they saw me as Alans young wife who was a little dumb and kept the house really, really clean.

    I'm Perfect, You're Doomed Kyria Abrahams 2009

  • Alans father, Jake, was sitting on a country-style butcher-block stool in front of his country-style butcher-block kitchen table, drinking out of a highball glass.

    I'm Perfect, You're Doomed Kyria Abrahams 2009

  • It was lined with music boxes, collectible bonbon tins, and velvet-clothed porcelain dolls that Alans mother found at the flea market.

    I'm Perfect, You're Doomed Kyria Abrahams 2009

  • The Dothraki, for example, are based in part on the Mongols, the Alans, and the Huns, but their skin coloring is Amerindian

    GRRM updates on casting progress 2009

  • Alans mother, Barbara, sat beside him petting their dog and talking long-distance, to her own mother in South Carolina.

    I'm Perfect, You're Doomed Kyria Abrahams 2009

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