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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
jackknife .
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Examples
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One Friday afternoon, our teacher, Mrs. Thurber, let us have show and tell, and while other kids brought in jackknifes and rock collections, I brought my ukulele to class and performed “Singing the Blues” by Guy Mitchell.
Me, The Mob, And The Music Tommy James 2010
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One Friday afternoon, our teacher, Mrs. Thurber, let us have show and tell, and while other kids brought in jackknifes and rock collections, I brought my ukulele to class and performed “Singing the Blues” by Guy Mitchell.
Me, The Mob, And The Music Tommy James 2010
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One Friday afternoon, our teacher, Mrs. Thurber, let us have show and tell, and while other kids brought in jackknifes and rock collections, I brought my ukulele to class and performed “Singing the Blues” by Guy Mitchell.
Me, The Mob, And The Music Tommy James 2010
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I saw hundreds, maybe thousands, of holes left by jackknifes and razor clams, but no keyholes.
Bottling day doyle 2009
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I saw hundreds, maybe thousands, of holes left by jackknifes and razor clams, but no keyholes.
Archive 2009-04-01 doyle 2009
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And, in the most resonant strand here, a frazzled twentysomething widow named Lusa Maluf Landowski tries to make a go of her farm after her husband's truck jackknifes.
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He does cannonballs and jackknifes and wild stunts to impress me.
If I Am Missing or Dead Janine Latus 2007
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There's multiple cars that have spun out, big rigs, several jackknifes.
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There's multiple cars that have spun out, big rigs, several jackknifes.
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He does cannonballs and jackknifes and wild stunts to impress me.
If I Am Missing or Dead Janine Latus 2007
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