Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
baboon or some aspect of one.
Etymologies
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baboon + -like
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Examples
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The druid had unleashed eight large, baboonlike primates, each over seventy pounds and armed with a long canine snout capable of crushing stone.
Chainer's Torment Mcgough, Scott 2002
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Indeed, such are the benefits of a career in real estate that the absence of women can’t possibly be entirely pinned on the boys’ club and its baboonlike image.
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Indeed, such are the benefits of a career in real estate that the absence of women can’t possibly be entirely pinned on the boys’ club and its baboonlike image.
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When he wants to fight back, he uses his foot in a baboonlike way to rip off the guy’s jacket.
Archive 2008-02-01 James Gurney 2008
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