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- noun
hazardous materials
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Examples
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Earlier this month, broom-carrying activists in hazmat suits demonstrated outside Chevron stations in San Francisco and called on the company to "clean up" its operations.
Chevron Ad Campaign Answers Critics Head-On Ben Casselman 2010
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Boing Boing: Anti-DRM demonstrators in hazmat suits storm Bill ...
Boing Boing 2009
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Anti-DRM demonstrators in hazmat suits storm Bill Gates keynote ...
Boing Boing 2008
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A staged show brought to you by Rove productions, The same bunch that dressed the troops up in hazmat suits for a photo ops in the deserts of Iraq.
Think Progress » Bush Uncensored: President Uses Expletive During Chat At G8 Summit 2006
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Definitely E.T. - giant tubes, Feds in hazmat suits.
Weird Event #3,947 Slimbolala 2006
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Anti-DRM demonstrators in hazmat suits storm Bill Gates keynote
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EFF Staff Technologist Seth Schoen has written a great blog-post on the Defective By Design campaign, which stages public anti-DRM protests in hazmat suits.
Boing Boing 2006
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I’m not trained in hazmat and if you aren’t willing to touch your phone with a 10 foot pole than neither am i.
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The list of instructions for decontaminating a kitchen from a broken CFL, including airing out the room, is so daunting that one feels like calling a hazmat team for help.
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If I got Billy Bob Thorton ` s blood anywhere near me, I would go to the emergency room and call the hazmat team.
bilby commented on the word hazmat
"This was the era before dentists started dressing in hazmat suits and motorcycle helmets. The guy would just waltz in there and drop his booger hooks right into my mouth. Sometimes I wondered if he might just be warming them? I'm sure he had poor circulation at his age."
- Jeff Kay.
May 17, 2009
rolig commented on the word hazmat
"booger hooks"?
May 17, 2009
rolig commented on the word hazmat
This word, by the way, has always sounded like Turkish to me.
May 17, 2009
nuxiy commented on the word hazmat
I think Greek
May 17, 2009
bilby commented on the word hazmat
I can only think booger hooks stands for fingers or hands. It's way over the top, which is pretty much Jeff Kay's style.
May 18, 2009