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  • noun Alternative spelling of absinthe.

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Examples

  • Had some absynthe, which is served everywhere even though its illegal in the states.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

  • That warm tingly feeling you get with being the centre of attention while people give you presents and cake and money, it stayed with me until I tried the absynthe in the Green Lounge.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Sweet jeebus, lookit this mess! 2009

  • It wuz kwite kwiet on teh week, week, weke-end nd WP wuz borked tu, butt! did notiss yer absynthe !

    Video: Kittehs Beggin For Fud - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • Sew, thay just thot ov sumpin funneh adn dint pay neo attenchin n teh forf graid…mebbe tehy wur absynthe taht dai ov skool win thay tot u adn u r adn ur!

    mother-in-law deer - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • "What, ho! an absynthe cocktail, knave! and make it strong!" he said;

    A Little Book of Western Verse Eugene Field 1872

  • It is the western world itself that has drowned itself in absurdist absynthe, perhaps out of too great affluence, or perhaps the human genome has reached its limits.

    AMERICAN DIGEST Vanderleun 2010

  • But Edward Galligan, ohmyfreakingod. he made me insane, thought i wasn't even going to graduate. he was like a cross between boris karloff and abe vigoda, wearing a dark suit and carrying a briefcase which i don't think he even opened, and he would just chainsmoke and go off on these bizarre, long winded meandering lectures on aristotle and plato and the meaning of life like he was taking you on some strange absynthe trip. and then after hearing this and making zero sense of it i'd have to go try to read the nichomachean ethics without slitting my wrists and write a 20 page paper on it. my paper would be totally wrong, and would come back littered with nasty notes such as "put your spitballs back in your bag". in retrospect it's really pretty funny, but at the time i literally hid in the bushes when i saw him coming. ok, that is all, good luck with the show.

    breaker one-nine 2009

  • ~ spend a year renting a room in Cesky Krumlov, drinking absynthe and writing a novel;

    five things i hate about you 2006

  • ~ spend a year renting a room in Cesky Krumlov, drinking absynthe and writing a novel;

    Archive 2006-03-01 2006

  • new shot of the author, gripping his hair on his temples, on his desk a manuscript, and a half empty bottle of absynthe, the kind sold on some of my favorite blogs.

    Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: What Lies Beneath 2006

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