lister

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Name a pop music A-lister, and he or she has either worked with Pharrell Williams or probably wants to.

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  1. noun A plow equipped with a double moldboard that turns up the soil on each side of the furrow, often having an attached drill for seed planting.

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  • An A-lister, though, a lieutenant commanding a unit of couriers who doubled as scouts and light cavalry. —  Map.html
  • Not an A-lister, but keen enough for all that, and with a very useful hobby in Renaissance history. —  Map.html
  • Maybe the thing to do was to track down this Chloe Hoi-lister, then he and the reporter could fan the flames a bit before she went back to DC. —  Ross, JoAnn - Stewart Sisters 03 - Out Of The Storm.html
  • So we have a Hollywood B-lister, in a clearly disposable rental car, driving at breakneck speed away from something further up on 91. —  Vermont Daily Briefing
  • For every A-lister, looking great at an awards show is almost as important as remembering an acceptance speech.
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  1. From list2.

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  1. from list, v., 5, + -er.
  2. from list, v., + -er.
  3. Middle English lister, listre, listyr, from Old French listre, for litre, from Latin lector, a reader, from legere (later F. lire), read: see lector.
 

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