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GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. a contraction of cul-de-sac.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a passage with access only at one end

Examples

  • “All they have to do is reject such allegations, leaving us nowhere except in a name calling cul-de-sac.”

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  • “Canvassing lists should be sorted by side of street in cul-de-sac or one-way road situations; and climbing numbers when you are making a loop.”

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  • “Whoa, was that com­men­tary writ­ten by a nine year old girl, or an aspir­ing PhD in cul­tural studies?”

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  • “We should note that the u in Latin culīna and derivatives is short.”

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  • “One-way streets intersect with two-way streets, dead-ending in cul-de-sacs that turn around into glorietas, - traffic circles going nowhere.”

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  • “Q: What does the French word 'cul-de-sac' mean in English?”

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  • “So now, whenever see the term cul de sac, I think of ass sack.”

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  • “By the bye, this is a pleasant corruption of white-a-se, the translation of their French name cul-blanc, taken from their colour for they are actually white towards the tail.”

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  • “However, another theory holds that fertilization may also occur outside the tube, in an area at the back of the uterus called the cul de sac, or “Pouch of Douglas.””

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  • “Nearly got a stroke of the sun, Tom -- what Whiffle would call a cul de sac by taking off my chapeau in my poetical frenzy so shove on.”

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