springer

• When instant travel via matter transmission or "springer" is invented, all these cultures will be put in touch with each other, and the Office of Special Projects will take on the goal of keeping the species unified against the day when the aliens--whose wrecks and ruins have been found--finally appear A Million Open Doors (reviewed here in February 1993) introduced Giraut Leones, a rowdy troubador in a culture dedicated to Romance. —  AnalogSFF,June2006
• * I thought Perfectly Three years after you stumbled out of that springer, Yokhim Kiel, an experienced diplomat, was assigned to command the newly-formed OSP. —  AnalogSFF,March2006
• Good-Foot cast off the bow, loosed the springer, and the Yankee Reaper chugged out into harbor. —  TheMagazineofFantasyandScienceFiction,March2005
• She delivered direct groin shots to Obama with finesse and aplomb, and in rapid succession no less, like I haven't seen inflicted since I don't know when! springer: Thursday, September 04, 2008 12: 09: 00 AM I was wavering - a nervous nellie - being what you call a New England Republican, totally supportive of the Bush clan - I worried. —  ChuckerCanuck 2.0
• He was very happy with his springer, Kelly, so I asked him why he got a Brittany instead of another springer when Kelly passed away.

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