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  • noun informal A biography.

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Examples

  • Thanks to the Editor's son Tim a full detailed and instant 'biog' was made available for the benefit of the event press co-coordinator, the Editor, whose knowledge and indeed interest in Football being absolutely nil; which makes the event even more unique.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Peter Troy 2007

  • By the time of his move to the Met last month, his Surrey biog had been redrafted.

    Hugh Muir's diary 2011

  • Few words seem to get written about those, like Bahar, who DJ but don't produce their own music, save for the predictable biog detailing their first cool record bought aged five, and just how tough it was growing up in a chimney in Detroit.

    Clubs picks of the week 2011

  • When I get the biog cancer I have a choice, I can take the extra 3.5 years, or I can eat the Black Capsule.

    Matthew Yglesias » Yes, Health Insurance Saves Lives 2010

  • Few words seem to get written about those, like Bahar, who DJ but don't produce their own music, save for the predictable biog detailing their first cool record bought aged five, and just how tough it was growing up in a chimney in Detroit.

    Clubs picks of the week 2011

  • Robert Brooke's resplendent little biog of FR Foster The Fields Were Sudden Bare, ACS £12 is a harrowing, diligently researched memoir on Warwickshire's captain when Edgbaston welcomed its first Championship a century ago.

    William Hill must be brought to book for sport prize's lack of joy | Frank Keating 2011

  • This is the weakest card I have seen UFC put in awhile with no championships on the line and only one biog fight supposedly feeding in to TUF's next season.

    UFC 93 - Franklin vs. Henderson Tyler 2009

  • Because if you looked at his official biog in July, it revealed that as a detective superintendent at the National Criminal Intelligence Service, he "led on the national deployment of covert techniques to combat organised crime such as telephone interception".

    Hugh Muir's diary 2011

  • In Private Eye: The First 50 Years £25, the spankingly appealing and classy new anniversary biog by Adam Macqueen – a rewarding must for any Eye devotee – eminent staffer Barry Fantoni laments Neasden FC's sad death because Ian Hislop "seems not to be interested in football nor knows anything about it".

    Fifty years of Private Eye's eccentric eye view of sport | Frank Keating 2011

  • Off with a trumpety trump to Northumbrian Water, where his biog neatly avoided any mention of Northern Rock and which has now been sold to the Chinese Ka-shing Group – controlled by Hong Kong's richest man Li Ka-shing.

    Hugh Muir's diary 2011

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