Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Plural form of crampon.
Examples
“When that was over and we were sitting at the base of the Glacier we had our safety chats and put the little ice climby helper thingies called crampons on our boots and we were ready to start climbing up what the guides called "Hells mountain".”
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“Not all hipposandals have the 'crampons' But she says that horses in the Roman period were unlikely to be shod as a matter of course.”
“But you don't have to bring crampons to feel at home.”
“The grating of granite beneath our crampons, the tinkling of powder as we float through a slope of unbroken snow, the vast roar of the ocean as we drop in on a reef break: these are the mediums through which we understand ourselves.”
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“From a shot of fantastical ice spikes in the Andes to Ed Cooper's intense photos of climbers scaling vertical faces, each is so compelling it may leaving you longing for your own set of crampons.”
The Wall Street Journal: 'Mountains' Book, Paris Spa, Tie Case
“So a significant chunk of the U.S. contingent scheduled to be here — where the snow is whisked away and the World Economic Forum laptop bags came equipped with crampons to put on your wingtips —ended up getting snowed in back home.”
“They are both clever and funny and – despite tenure at the Brit school – it feels like they have clawed their way up out of leftfield with crampons.”
“Earlier this year, crews from the pyramid, as it is usually known, strapped on crampons and installed a weather station on the south col of Everest at about 8,000m.”
The Guardian: Everest's ice is retreating as climate change grips the Himalayas
“Climbers had reported that they barely needed crampons for the climb, there was so much bare rock, Tenzing said.”
The Guardian: Everest's ice is retreating as climate change grips the Himalayas
“The winter-skills courses cover navigation, avalanche awareness and use of ice axes and crampons.”
The Guardian: Culture in Glasgow, cosy pubs in the Cotswolds
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘crampons’.
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Shoes
character shoes, duck boots, huaraches, espadrilles, mary janes, sneakers, tennis, stilettos, fuck me pumps, slippers, sandals, flip flops and 93 more...
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Unfortunately Necessary Words
Words we have to use all the time, but that doesn't mean they sound good. In fact, they kind of suck. See also this list.
milk, cheese, neck, teeth, moist, dry, skin, head, feet, mouth, frankly, hair and 97 more...
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I like the sound of that!
Words that I find euphonious, eurhythmic, or just generally fun to say.
euphonious, gossamer, spelunking, moist, bedridden, rutabaga, quagmire, succotash, hootenany, glacial, sesquicentennial, caucus and 77 more...
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Getting high
Vertical, that is. Nothing quite like high altitude with a view.
cornice, talus, moraine, col, crevasse, glacier, arete, timberline, rime, alpine, crampons, glissade and 15 more...
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chained_bear Ha! That's a great story. I'm glad it turned into a joke! I can think of few better greetings shared between siblings than "ah! tampones!"
It should be a song. Oct 23, 2007
john Reminds me of traveling in Italy many years ago with my sister. Neither of us spoke Italian, and she needed to buy tampons. Between language issues and embarrassment, she was having a lot of trouble trying to describe what she wanted to a clerk. She's looking at her feet and mumbling at him, and all of a sudden his face lights up, he raises his arms in a very Italian talking-with-hands gesture, and he pretty much yells "Ah! TAMPONES!"
We thought it was the funniest thing ever. For a while our standard greeting was to raise our arms and sing "ah! Tampones!" Oct 23, 2007
chained_bear I know they're for shoes. I know they're for shoes. And yet, when I see this word, that's not what I think of.
I also think "Crampon, crampoff... crampon crampoff... the cramper!"
*hides in shame* Oct 23, 2007