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  • noun Plural form of weasel.

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Examples

  • Henry Waxman give the term weasels from Washington a new meaning!

    Propeller Most Popular Stories Tasine 2010

  • Henry Waxman give the term weasels from Washington a new meaning!

    Propeller Most Popular Stories Tasine 2010

  • It still contains several of the trademark features, including the Weasel - so named because the course workers known as 'weasels' - pack the snow on the steep ledge with their boots.

    Tsn.ca Top Stories RSS 2010

  • It still contains several of the trademark features, including the Weasel - so named because the course workers known as 'weasels' - pack the snow on the steep ledge with their boots.

    Tsn.ca Top Stories RSS 2010

  • It still contains several of the trademark features, including the Weasel - so named because the course workers known as 'weasels' - pack the snow on the steep ledge with their boots.

    Tsn.ca Top Stories RSS 2010

  • If this is the beginning of the massive crumbling, then we will all have reason to celebrate – if the weasels are able to weasel out of everything, we will be waiting a long time.

    Think Progress » The hammer drops. 2005

  • _Cf. _ ibid.p. 140, where the maidens are called weasels, and ultimately marry stars.

    The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology Edwin Sidney Hartland 1887

  • He now wants to save weasels, which is also a way for him to sabotage the Ghostwood development project.

    Remarkable 2009

  • And that either goes to show you just how the word "weasels" is, or it's not about the word at all, but the fact that there are no weasels trying to break into the trash cans, and there are raccoons.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Ann Althouse 2007

  • And that either goes to show you just how the word "weasels" is, or it's not about the word at all, but the fact that there are no weasels trying to break into the trash cans, and there are raccoons.

    When one word is funnier than another. Ann Althouse 2007

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  • Someone close to me composed a great haiku with this word in it:

    Weasels rend my flesh

    (actually we can stop there, since it's the perfect first line to any haiku.)

    Weasels rend my flesh

    Wild ponies bite and kick me

    Bad day at the zoo

    November 23, 2007

  • Great haiku. Presumably after Frank Zappa, with his "Weasels Ripped my Flesh"?

    November 23, 2007

  • Actually, it wasn't. It came from a very very early haiku generator that he and a friend built. He said that was their absolute favorite line the haiku generator came up with. "Weasels rend my flesh." Pretty good one.

    November 23, 2007

  • Hmm...could Frank Zappa have made use of that haiku generator, I wonder? ;-)

    November 24, 2007