Definitions

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  • proper noun A patronymic surname.

Etymologies

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Variant of Robin, from Robert.

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Examples

  • Promoted to Headline (H3) on 3/1/09: Robbin 'the Hood yahooBuzzArticleHeadline =' Robbin\ 'the Hood'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Remember when politics were interesting and important and that\'s all you could talk about?

    Robbin' the Hood 2009

  • Baskin Robbin's Large Heath Bar Shake (32. oz) 2,310 calories, 266 grams of sugar, 108 grams of fat

    America's Most Unhealthy Drinks Exposed - The Consumerist 2008

  • If you didn’t check the forum yesterday then you missed out on a 31 cent Baskin Robbin’s ice cream cones [Midtown Eating]

    ML Forums: Sardines, Street Meat, & Shilling | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan 2010

  • His indulgence - the indulgence of all the so-called Robbin 'Hoods - was to think that what had happened had only happened to him.

    Country of the Blind Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1997

  • • Somebody please explain why the judges praised Megan Joy Corkrey for "Rockin 'Robbin" - a song choice that's a total cop-out, by the way.

    Rolling Stone : Rock and Roll Daily 2009

  • Without money a man was less than the dirt beneath the feet of such as Robbin-Steele and Hurley and Gower, because their criterion of another man's worth was his ability to get money, to beat the game they all played.

    Poor Man's Rock Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

  • Set in 1959 at Boston’s Colonial Theatre, Curtains, which starred David Hyde Pierce, is a murder mystery that revolves around the intrigues that develop during the out of town tryouts for the show-within-the-show, a musical called Robbin’ Hood!

    Medieval Broadway: Curtains (2007) The Society for the Study of Popular Culture 2009

  • Set in 1959 at Boston’s Colonial Theatre, Curtains, which starred David Hyde Pierce, is a murder mystery that revolves around the intrigues that develop during the out of town tryouts for the show-within-the-show, a musical called Robbin’ Hood!

    Archive 2009-03-01 The Society for the Study of Popular Culture 2009

  • 'Robbin' th 'naygurs,' says th 'Fr-rinchman, bein' thruthful as well as polite.

    Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • You have to get a sense of what 'Robbin' Hood 'is about because that's not something they tell you. "

    phillyBurbs.com: Home RSS feed 2010

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