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- noun Plural form of
snickersnee .
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Examples
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Another Edition and they will be on our own heads, swinging their snickersnees.
Nonsenseorship G. G. [Editor] Putnam 1915
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Page 221 to their pajamas, and their snickersnees drawn, I crawled into the welcome shadow of a banana plant.
Cabbages and Kings 1904
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When the army and the constabulary began to arrive, with their medals and decorations hastily pinned to their pajamas, and their snickersnees drawn, I crawled into the welcome shadow of a banana plant.
Cabbages and Kings O. Henry 1886
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Volkertson, with a long duck fowling-piece without any ramrod, and a host more, armed higgledy-piggledy with swords, hatchets, snickersnees, crowbars, broomsticks, and what not; the officers distinguished from the rest by having their slouched hats cocked up with pins and surmounted with cocktail feathers.
Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete Washington Irving 1821
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