galore

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Conference battles galore, and plenty of potential upsets.

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  1. adjective In great numbers; in abundance: "with balloons and hot dogs . . . and fireworks galore” (Anne Armstrong).

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  • It's a huge tank and it holds fish galore, and it's just a neat little thing that the kids will really enjoy. " —  The Gazette-Enterprise: News
  • Conference battles galore, and plenty of potential upsets. —  FanHouse
  • Pulitzer prizes galore, and not a journalist with the interest or political objectivity to report them. —  WordPress.com News
  • The film has violence and nudity galore, and much of the plot dynamics border on unpleasant. —  DVD Verdict
  • They can talk about peace galore, they can give messages for "good and beauty". —  Rastî
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  1. Irish Gaelic go leór, enough : go, adv. particle + leór, enough (from Old Irish lour, alteration of roar; see wērə-o- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. Also formerly written gelore, gilore, gillore, golore, etc.; from Irish go leor = Gaelic gu leor or leoir, sufficiently, enough: go, a particle prefixed to an adjective to form an adverb; leor, adjective, sufficient, enough.
 

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