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- noun Plural form of
midway .
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Examples
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Instead of rides and games of chance, the midways and exhibition halls teem with anything and everything you could ever want for your airplane.
In the Navy, 100 Years of Altitude Mark Yost 2011
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As the pooh-bahs of the nation's most prominent and lucrative theater realm prepare to unveil on Tuesday the nominees for this year's Tony Awards, the issue arises, once again, of whether Broadway can sustain more than the occasional work of real quality, to push aside all the spectacle and celebrity midways and showcase an imaginatively supple variety of what theater has to offer.
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Several block of food booths, two midways with rides and games, and Evansville's finest citizens out in all their fat glory, eating everything in sight, and often fighting amongst themselves and ending up in jail.
Archive 2008-10-01 2008
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This is one thing I do like about shooting midways.
Midway in motion 2006
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Several block of food booths, two midways with rides and games, and Evansville's finest citizens out in all their fat glory, eating everything in sight, and often fighting amongst themselves and ending up in jail.
2008 Fall Festival 2008
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No midways with games offering prizes of doubtful quality blow-up guitars or overstuffed bears for me.
Spice of Life -- Berkeley CA FJK 2007
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Take your fill when the cask is first opened and when it is nearly spent, but midways be sparing: it is poor saving when you come to the lees.
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No midways with games offering prizes of doubtful quality blow-up guitars or overstuffed bears for me.
Archive 2007-10-01 FJK 2007
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We stayed at Coney Island until just past noon, strolling the midways, playing Skee-Ball, and even taking a turn on the strange Matterhorn-themed ride that spins riders past spray-painted images of the Swiss Alps and giant rest-in-peace portraits of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls, while blasting hip-hop from Hot 97 at eardrum-exploding volume.
Miss Misery Andy Greenwald 2006
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We stayed at Coney Island until just past noon, strolling the midways, playing Skee-Ball, and even taking a turn on the strange Matterhorn-themed ride that spins riders past spray-painted images of the Swiss Alps and giant rest-in-peace portraits of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls, while blasting hip-hop from Hot 97 at eardrum-exploding volume.
Miss Misery Andy Greenwald 2006
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