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- noun informal
grandfather
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Examples
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Like my granpappy used to be proud to say "Birds of a feather, flock together."
Schneider: White working-class voters stick with Clinton 2008
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Damian, my granpappy had to put down his best horse after it stood on a stray of.
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My great-grandfather posed nude while holding a bouquet of roses for Hitler, who made a beautiful oil painting out of the moment. not long after, my granpappy was turned into a lampshade which granmammy kept in her attic.
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If we want to bring the Senate into the 21st Century, first we have to get rid of all the old blowhards and idiots that think the “internets” are run on “tubes”, that still talk about the South winning the Civil War, that can make it through meetings without falling asleep cause they missed their granpappy nappy time, etc.
Think Progress » Bring the Senate into the 21st century. 2006
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My granpappy told me never to poke a stick at a wounded lobbyist.
Think Progress » Sen. Conrad Burns’s (R-MT) staff ate so many free meals 2006
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Pete looks like a granpappy, but he still slays the guitar.
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Methinks our kids will someday be saying something like: "ya know, granpappy used to talk about having to refret guitars and mandolins all the time; what were they using, nickel or sumthin '?"
Mandolin Cafe News 2009
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Methinks our kids will someday be saying something like: "ya know, granpappy used to talk about having to refret guitars and mandolins all the time; what were they using, nickel or sumthin '?"
Mandolin Cafe News 2009
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Methinks our kids will someday be saying something like: "ya know, granpappy used to talk about having to refret guitars and mandolins all the time; what were they using, nickel or sumthin '?"
Mandolin Cafe News 2009
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Methinks our kids will someday be saying something like: "ya know, granpappy used to talk about having to refret guitars and mandolins all the time; what were they using, nickel or sumthin '?"
Mandolin Cafe News 2009
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