Crikey definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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So I said in a word, "Your ordinarily handsome face wore a disagreeable expression," &c It is ordinarily VERY handsome," said he, with such a leer at a couple of passers-by, that one of them cried, "Oh, crikey, here's a precious guy!"

—Roundabout Papers

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And crikey, look at these guys ;a housecat would give them trouble, wouldn't it? — The Warslayer
Answer: Oh crikey, couldn't he think of a better question to that. — Entertainment - Female First
The onus is on the dairy to prove they have used an address of convenience to gain entry and, crikey, it's not very nice stuff to be going down that road. — Lindsay Mitchell
It can't be that hard for the booking manager to read Pitchfork once in a while; or crikey, ohmyrockness will star decent bands for him ... because the Detroit Bar is usually empty for a reason.
Seems she's a charismatic right-wing evangelist anti-choice supermom, if Guy Rundle's conclusion to his just-finished liveblog of her Convention speech for crikey is anything to go by: — Larvatus Prodeo