pram

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It was strange to witness - usually Kanye West throwing his toys out of the pram is as traditional a VMA sight as a pack of disgruntled virgins.

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  1. noun Chiefly British A baby carriage.
  2. noun Chiefly New England A small dinghy having a flat, snub-nosed bow.
  3. noun A flatbottom boat used chiefly in the Baltic Sea as a barge.

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  • I noticed that a pram, a small rowboat, and a nearby river coracle were no longer moving. —  dummy 3
  • Im not sure zapping the pram is helping or just coincidental. —  Discussions: Message List - root
  • It was strange to witness - usually Kanye West throwing his toys out of the pram is as traditional a VMA sight as a pack of disgruntled virgins. —  Hecklerspray
  • No amount of throwing your toys out of the pram is going to restore the situation to how it was. —  Soccer Blogs - latest posts
  • As we walked out the station with our luggage and the baby in a pram, we asked for directions to the Sherut stand. —  Desicritics
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  1. Shortening and alteration of perambulator.
  2. Dutch praam, flatbottom boat, from Middle Dutch praem, from Czech prám; see per1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also praam, prame, prahme; from French prame = Middle Dutch prame, Dutch praam = Middle Low German prām, Low German praam = German prahm, prahme = Icelandic prāmr = Swedish pråm = Danish pram; of Slavic origin: Old Bulgarian pramū.
  2. Contr. of *peram, abbreviation of perambulator.
 

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