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  • noun Plural form of amputator.

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Examples

  • For Robert Kilroy-Silk, who described Arabs as "suicide bombers" and "limb amputators" in a press column, resignation as host of a BBC show was inevitable.

    Juan Williams slipped up: he became the story Emily Bell 2010

  • (Most American ritual circumcisers - OBGYNs and Jewish mohelim - are TOTAL foreskin amputators.)

    Health care reform has to start with stopping health crime 2009

  • Not so for the head amputators and suicide bombers who in the furtherance of their beloved caliphate bring carnage and misery to the world.

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

  • The head-cutters and limb amputators that make up the Taliban elite do not think in the way the IRA did, except when it comes to murder.

    Archive 2009-07-27 2009

  • Just in case anyone was wondering, the Tories would like to hint (ever so gently) that Cameron socked it to those hand amputators in his meeting with them today.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2007

  • Just in case anyone was wondering, the Tories would like to hint (ever so gently) that Cameron socked it to those hand amputators in his meeting with them today.

    Cameron talks tough with the Saudis 2007

  • Neither, of course, was Robert Kiljoy-Silk who insisted he meant well and meant what he said in declaring Arabs “……amputators….repressors” et al.

    Jade Goody Tries To Make Peace With India 2007

  • For example, Robert Kilroy-Silk - who does not appear on BBC news but hosted a daytime chat show - was immediately taken off air after he had the temerity to write in a non-BBC newspaper article in January that Arabs were "suicide bombers, limb amputators, women repressors."

    WBUR and NPR - On Point with Tom Ashbrook 2009

  • It ran for 18 years on the BBC before it was cancelled in 2004 when Kilroy-Silk attacked Arabs as 'suicide bombers' and 'limb amputators'.

    Home | Mail Online 2009

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