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- proper noun soccer Aberdeen Football Club, a football club based in
Aberdeen , Scotland. - proper noun soccer Wimbledon Football Club, a defunct football club based in
London . - proper noun soccer AFC Wimbledon, a football club based in
London , founded by the supporters of Wimbledon FC. - proper noun soccer Milton Keynes Dons F.C., a football club based in
Milton Keynes , England, the legal continuation of Wimbledon FC.
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Examples
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I mean, I'm guessing one of those Dons is Don Cherry (which would make it Don & Ron, for Ron MacLean).
mrissa: This icon gets less appropriate by the minute, so I'm trying to write faster. mrissa 2010
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Personally, I can think of only one thing to say in favour of the Dons, which is that of all League clubs they seem – no doubt out of a sense of economic self-preservation – to be more energetically involved in their local community than most.
Are MK Dons still beyond the pale? Barney Ronay 2010
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The Dons are the crash dummies of the knockout tournaments, which has a great deal to do with why they have averaged a manager every two years for the last decade and a half.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Roddy Forsyth 2011
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In one sense, though, USF's 71-68 overtime win at the Leavey Center on Saturday night was business as usual: that is, the Dons and Broncos played a close game.
SFGate: Top News Stories Steve Kroner 2010
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The Dons are a very big club in Scottish terms, and in the good years can lay claim to being the third biggest in the country.
BBC Blog Network 2010
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The Dons were a great side under Fergie and regularly came down to Glasgow and took home the points, much to the annoyance of the bigoted hordes at Ibrox and Parkhead.
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Garrard's last appearance for the Dons was a midfield performance in the Surrey Senior Cup win over Camberley Town last week.
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The team, called the Dons, played UCLA early in the 1954-55 season.
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Your Dons are your parents, RA's become older brothers and sisters, and House Exec are ... your best friend who always wants to have a good time.
Progressive Bloggers Geoff at Mount Allison 2009
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The team, called the Dons, played UCLA early in the 1954-55 season.
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