eponymous

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Now let me tag five blawgers: Steve Matthews for for his eponymous (yeah, I had to look it up) blaw on politics, technology and law;

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or constituting an eponym.

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  • Now let me tag five blawgers: Steve Matthews for for his eponymous (yeah, I had to look it up) blaw on politics, technology and law; —  Slaw
  • Western Digital's My Book range is excellent - and in fact is eponymous, as if you put it on a bookshelf you'll find that it blends right in. —  Feeds4all documents in category 'SEO'
  • To each her / his own when it comes to music, but since Zevon had a couple sports songs -- eponymous odes to Bill Lee and the boxer Boom Boom Mancini, along with the hockey anthem Hit Somebody. —  Out Of Left Field
  • Zaré also opened eponymous (and by some reports, unremarkable) restaurants on Haight Street, Sacramento Street, and in Napa Valley.
  • Director Browning took the exceptional step of casting real people with deformities as the eponymous sideshow "freaks," rather than using costumes and makeup. —  AvaxHome RSS:
 

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  1. From Greek epōnumos; see eponym.

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  1. from Greek ἐπώνυμος, given as a name: see eponym.
 

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/ɛˈpɑnɪməs/
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