bumbershoot

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• Worry not, for I am armed with my deadly bumbershoot to stave off all the mashers of my unsolicited arsenal of verbose thoughts.
  —Fictionaut, “Excerpt from Urdoxa 2.0”
• Never mind that he later temporized this statement, and that his wife seemed to imply that after a few hours of ecstasy she was practically begging him to rush back into the studio and come up with more words to rhyme with "clover" and "bumbershoot."
  —Bob Wallace: The Goddesses at Starbucks, Part III
• And as if you hadn't enough to feel foolish about, you allow your capitulating bumbershoot to expose its soft white underbelly to the fangs of the wind so that seconds after opening, it has gone from concave to convex and joined its polka-dotted counterpart in umbrella Valhalla.
  —Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

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