Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An instrument consisting of a tube or speculum equipped with a light, used to examine the rectum.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An instrument used in the examination of the rectum; a rectal speculum.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
tube -like instrument , equipped with alight , used to examine therectum ; arectoscope
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an endoscope for examining the rectum
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Having been on the receiving end of the MMS proctoscope, I speak with experience.
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The proctoscope remained in a fabric sack suspended from his neck.
Spider Bones Kathy Reichs 2010
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An Article as Proctoscope for Dick Cheney and Richard Cohen yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'An Article as Proctoscope for Dick Cheney and Richard Cohen'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: The only thing we can do with an article by Richard Cohen about how Dick Cheney might be right about torture, is to take it apart, re-assemble it as a proctoscope, lubricate it and stick it up both their asses.'
An Article as Proctoscope for Dick Cheney and Richard Cohen 2009
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It's long past time when only Democrats should be subject to a political proctoscope while Republicans get a mere skin-deep overview.
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Time will tell whether a telescope will help Thaksin escape the proctoscope treatment.
Periscope 2007
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George Will's latest recto-cranial inversion yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'George Will\'s latest recto-cranial inversion'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: George Will\'s economic pronouncements in his July 17 Washington Post article, "Committing capitalism," could have only come from using his head as a proctoscope.'
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George Will has been using his head as a proctoscope.
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He told NEWSWEEK that the Enron Task Force had "stuck a proctoscope up inside [Lay's] finances to come up with this bizarre, bulls -- t theory that's without precedent."
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And as far as Katie Couric goes she should just stop the tease and show us the whole proctoscope ‘ Fantastic Voyage’.
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For some time now I have had the sneaking suspicion that Cameron is a walking proctoscope.
Knowledge is Power 2010
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