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Examples
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I will have nightmares about her collagen-plumped duck-bill lips for the rest of my boring white-girl life.
Small wonder 2009
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In “Furious Seasons,” Frank is “a big man, with a thick quilted jacket zipped up to his chin and a brown duck-bill cap that made him look like a grim umpire.”
Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009
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He was really mellow, with all this wild white hair stuck under a duck-bill cap.
DO NOT PASS GO KIRKPATRICK HILL 2007
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He was really mellow, with all this wild white hair stuck under a duck-bill cap.
DO NOT PASS GO KIRKPATRICK HILL 2007
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Increasing the effective length of the spillway crest by employing, in principle, the duck-bill weir arrangement previously described (the crest in this case has a zig-zig configuration, in plan) can also reduce the height of flood-rise, thereby increasing live storage capacity.
Chapter 16 1995
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He wore a cloth, duck-bill cap and a soiled, striped shirt, and his face was beaded with perspiration from the heat inside the closed car.
To The Bright and Shining Sun James Lee Burke 1989
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Another, the platypus, or duck-bill, has the bill and webbed feet of a duck and the body and tail of a beaver.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson
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The duck-bill may well boast of its sting, because the honey-bee of Australia has none.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson
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The duck-bill carries a hinged spur on the hind legs, which also is a sting that injects a violent poison into whatever it strikes.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson
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The duck-bill is a near kinsman of the porcupine ant-eater.
Harper's Young People, March 2, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various
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