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  • proper noun Alternative spelling of Hanukkah.

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Examples

  • Hannukah is more properly understood as the first-ever war for oil.

    No War For Oil | ATTACKERMAN 2008

  • The Christians resent the Jews for muscling in Hannukah in December and making it eight days instead of one, and some whites think Kwanzaa is made-up just to give the black people something of their own -- as if Christmas wasn't a cobbled-together collection of pagan rituals, symbols and rip-offs from the Romans, the Celts, the Huns, the Norse, and the Coca Cola and Macy's marketing departments.

    December 2006 2006

  • John Legend, Elvis Costello, Toby Keith, and Feist will perform in the special, but we're somehow most psyched about Colbert's duets with Jon Stewart ( "Hannukah") and Willie Nelson

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • John Legend, Elvis Costello, Toby Keith, and Feist will perform in the special, but we're somehow most psyched about Colbert's duets with Jon Stewart ( "Hannukah") and Willie Nelson

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • John Legend, Elvis Costello, Toby Keith, and Feist will perform in the special, but we're somehow most psyched about Colbert's duets with Jon Stewart ( "Hannukah") and Willie Nelson

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • John Legend, Elvis Costello, Toby Keith, and Feist will perform in the special, but we're somehow most psyched about Colbert's duets with Jon Stewart ( "Hannukah") and Willie Nelson

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • John Legend, Elvis Costello, Toby Keith, and Feist will perform in the special, but we're somehow most psyched about Colbert's duets with Jon Stewart ( "Hannukah") and Willie Nelson

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • John Legend, Elvis Costello, Toby Keith, and Feist will perform in the special, but we're somehow most psyched about Colbert's duets with Jon Stewart ( "Hannukah") and Willie Nelson

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • John Legend, Elvis Costello, Toby Keith, and Feist will perform in the special, but we're somehow most psyched about Colbert's duets with Jon Stewart ( "Hannukah") and Willie Nelson

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • John Legend, Elvis Costello, Toby Keith, and Feist will perform in the special, but we're somehow most psyched about Colbert's duets with Jon Stewart ( "Hannukah") and Willie Nelson

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

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