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  • noun Alternative spelling of tapeworm.

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Examples

  • Or listen to Catherine Austin Fitts, a former assistant secretary for HUD who has detailed the "tape-worm" economy after her years on Wall Street and DC.

    Stephen H. Dinan: Get Out of Bed With the Bankers, Mr. President 2010

  • The tape-worm exists in the human intestines, so that the fewer there are of men the fewer there will be of tape-worms, other things being alike.

    Essays 2007

  • It is a humiliating reflection, perhaps, that we may be classed as direct helpers to the tape-worm, but the fact is so: we can all see that if there were no men there would be no tape-worms.

    Essays 2007

  • So the tape-worm, the caterpillar, goes from knot to knot and closes with the head.

    Representative Men 2006

  • On the fray, a first-person account of one man's discovery of a tape-worm and the ensuing potty hilarity that occured once he killed the thing with medication and it ... emerged.

    Boing Boing: May 2, 2004 - May 8, 2004 Archives 2004

  • Tapeworms and Flukes Larvae of the tape-worm Diphyllobothrium latum, which can grow in the human intestine to as long as 27 feet/9 meters, are found in freshwater fish of temperate regions worldwide.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • Tapeworms and Flukes Larvae of the tape-worm Diphyllobothrium latum, which can grow in the human intestine to as long as 27 feet/9 meters, are found in freshwater fish of temperate regions worldwide.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • No doubt the germ of the special form of tape-worm which troubles oysters, irritates to pearl-making, and passes through other transformations in other hosts, and completes its cycle in the body of a shark, would be too minute for inexpert detection.

    Tropic Days 2003

  • The King was expected to officiate at celebrations, to cut the tape-worm at the opening of a new magic path and to express regrets when someone died.

    Question Quest Anthony, Piers 1991

  • The King was expected to officiate at celebrations, to cut the tape-worm at the opening of a new magic path and to express regrets when someone died.

    Question Quest Anthony, Piers 1991

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