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- proper noun nonce word, figuratively A simple-minded but good-hearted person who becomes involved in historically significant events by chance.
Etymologies
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Examples
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League is 5 feet 11 inches and goes by the nickname Forrest Gump in the Yankees 'bullpen, where he is not the hardest thrower.
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League is 5 feet 11 inches and goes by the nickname Forrest Gump in the Yankees 'bullpen, where he is not the hardest thrower.
WN.com - Articles related to 'Talks on to arrange jobs for trained inmates after release' 2009
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The phone was ringing without a pause, and she picked it up, shouting into the phone like an army medic calling for reinforcements off of a dead man's backpack in a movie called Forrest Gump.
Marc Philippe Eskenazi: High-Rise Panic in a Hurricane Supermarket Marc Philippe Eskenazi 2011
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The phone was ringing without a pause, and she picked it up, shouting into the phone like an army medic calling for reinforcements off of a dead man's backpack in a movie called Forrest Gump.
Marc Philippe Eskenazi: High-Rise Panic in a Hurricane Supermarket Marc Philippe Eskenazi 2011
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The phone was ringing without a pause, and she picked it up, shouting into the phone like an army medic calling for reinforcements off of a dead man's backpack in a movie called Forrest Gump.
Marc Philippe Eskenazi: High-Rise Panic in a Hurricane Supermarket Marc Philippe Eskenazi 2011
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The phone was ringing without a pause, and she picked it up, shouting into the phone like an army medic calling for reinforcements off of a dead man's backpack in a movie called Forrest Gump.
Marc Philippe Eskenazi: High-Rise Panic in a Hurricane Supermarket Marc Philippe Eskenazi 2011
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Save for Titanic, which might considered an historical hysterical love story with SFX, and Forrest Gump, which is an allegory and as much a fantasy as Star Wars in its own way, all the top twenty are SF&F.
Sicko and Hairspray Steven Barnes 2007
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To paraphrase Forrest Gump: "Stupid is as stupid does".
Propeller Most Popular Stories jovial 2010
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To paraphrase Forrest Gump: "Stupid is as stupid does".
Propeller Most Popular Stories jovial 2010
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To paraphrase Forrest Gump: "Stupid is as stupid does".
Propeller Most Popular Stories jovial 2010
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