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  • proper noun A taxonomic genus within the family Monarchidae.

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Examples

  • He has kicked the Arses off of the Great Clinton Dynasty!!!

    Hillary Airs Another Indiana Ad Hitting Obama On Gas Tax 2009

  • She will kick your Arses if you dare call the Red Phone line at 3. 00AM.

    Clinton Campaign May Soon Be Getting Call From Collections Agency 2009

  • Amazing that none of these people ever managed to notice the fact that "Emerson LaSalle" is obviously an anagram for "No Smella Le Arses."

    Pulling the plug on the bullshit (before somebody puts an eye out) Victor Gischler 2009

  • Both Artaxerxes III and his weak son, Arses (338–336), were assassinated, and it was Darius III Codomannus (336–330) who met the invasion of Philip's son, Alexander the Great.

    e. The Persian Empire 2001

  • Ah! noble Inspector of Arses, let me congratulate you.

    The Knights 2000

  • It was through keeping faith with his young son Arses, against Bagoas the Vizier, that my father died.

    The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972

  • He was a faithful friend to Arses, whose spirit may the Wise God receive; had he lived, he would have been welcomed here as a friend of mine.

    The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972

  • But the news now was that not long after King Arses 'death, their own King had been killed, at some public spectacle where, in their barbarous way, he had walked about unguarded.

    The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972

  • I don't know what Arses would have done, if his brothers had not been poisoned.

    The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972

  • So had King Arses 'brothers been faithful, and in the way.

    The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972

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