Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation patent
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Examples
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Thus the rest of the afternoon passed in getting the thing down "pat."
Guy Garrick 1908
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Thus the rest of the afternoon passed in getting the thing down "pat."
Guy Garrick 1908
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Thus the rest of the afternoon passed in getting the thing down "pat."
Guy Garrick 1908
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And as he happens to be sittin 'humped over here in the corner brushin' traces of an egg sandwich from his mouth corners, the josh comes in kind of pat.
Torchy and Vee Sewell Ford 1907
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A quick experiment Friday with colleagues in New York and Boston produced different results for a query containing the letters "pat."
CNET News.com 2010
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