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- noun Alternative form of
rabbit's foot .
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Examples
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From dire threats, such as pushing in the front of his face, from rabbit-foot fetishes to lucky horseshoes, from dinky jerkwater bids to the quarter-of-a-million-dollar offers of irresponsible nobodies, he knew the whole run of the surprise portion of his mail.
Chapter I 2010
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The Giants overall aren't a rabbit-foot sort of group.
How Much Luck Is Needed? (No, Not Andrew) Aditi Kinkhabwala 2011
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Also rabbit-foot clover, mullein, day-lilies, and the first of the vexed purple loosestrife of the season.
Sunday roadkill report jhetley 2008
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She picked a piece of rabbit-foot clover, still with one of its fuzzy, grayish pink flowers in place.
The Unquiet John Connolly 2007
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She picked a piece of rabbit-foot clover, still with one of its fuzzy, grayish pink flowers in place.
The Unquiet John Connolly 2007
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On the walk back, I noticed the rabbit-foot clover is coming into bloom--so pretty.
rain and sun asakiyume 2006
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We are slowly emerging from the crash of '93, and the cuckoos are cock-sure that Cleveland hoodooed with that financial rabbit-foot known as the gold-reserve -- that a country fairly bursting with wealth was saved from the demnition bowwows by the blessed expedient of going into debt; that labor found salvation by shouldering an added burden in the shape of interest-bearing bonds.
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"But this is a magic rabbit-foot," Jimmie retorted, scornfully as if any sane person ought to know of the virtues of a left hind rabbit-foot.
Boy Scouts in the Philippines Or, The Key to the Treaty Box 1909
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Slow-plodding perseverance is almost sure to tell against rabbit-foot, if not in a quarter race, in the elongated life race, which is most unerring test of "bottom."
Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more, 1906
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The clovers, though thoroughly naturalized, are most of them imported plants: the downy "rabbit-foot," or "stone-clover," the common red variety; the "zig-zag," and the "hop clovers" are all introduced.
Rural Hours 1887
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