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  • noun Common misspelling of octopus.

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Examples

  • What was weird is that there were some machine made rings and pieces that looked like octapus.

    Charley Brown's TheNewDiner 2009

  • What was weird is that there were some machine made rings and pieces that looked like octapus.

    Archive 2009-02-01 TheNewDiner 2009

  • Sure that there is some mistake, I email back suggesting that I could join them, we could do dueling octapus dishes, put it on the blog, won't that be fun?

    I Want to Be Greek aka TBTAM 2007

  • This octapus is carefully designed, remarkably well financed, highly coordinated and ruthlessly effective.

    Reviewing Zionism, Militarism, and the Decline of US Power 2008

  • Guys go by on bicycles selling dried octapus and squid (which smells terrible), a woman passed us by with a digital weighing scales and blood pressure measuring device which she was trying to get foreigners to use, dozens of small vietnamese girls were walking the pavement with stacks of books over a metre tall of photocopied lonely planets and other popular books for half nothing.

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2009

  • The dangers of seeing any one group as if it were an apocalyptic octapus with wide, and unambiguous tentacles, far outweigh any benefits.

    CounterPunch 2009

  • Nobody has presented any evidence that there is a single octapus living on Mars.

    Atheist Blogs Aggregated 2008

  • Lex: haha, do u have the ann rice vampire books??? my dad says that i shopuld read them but i cant get my hands on the first book or like any of them. well i know who should play Masimo in the Georgia movies, it should be the guy that played prince caspian. but ya i dont like robbie anymore cuz he went back to octapus girl (i forgot her name). did u see the Georgia movie??? cuz i want to but didnt get the chance. alright back to twilight.

    Biblio File 2009

  • * gaint octapus* (gaint nut cracker) watch to spiny thing in the middle and go the oppisite way it spining when in range navi should go over

    unknown title 2009

  • "You're clearly not basing your criticism on a sophisticated understanding of Martian octapus belief.

    Atheist Blogs Aggregated 2008

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