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- proper noun A male
given name , variant ofGermaine
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Examples
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The second volume of Detective Jermain is complete, but a publication date hasn’t been set.
Ed at Otakon — Thursday and Friday » Manga Worth Reading 2009
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He certainly revealed audacity when he shimmied away from Jermain Defoe and was fouled in front of his posts but it was still a peculiar and needless risk to take.
Manchester United 3-0 Tottenham Hotspur | Premier League match report 2011
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It is hard even to recall that England were playing a hoary 4-4-2, with Wayne Rooney and Jermain Defoe in attack, when Germany routed them in last year's World Cup.
Fabio Capello: The feared ogre who became England's nurturer | Kevin McCarra 2011
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Jermain Defoe, scorer of one goal, hugs Emmanuel Adebayor, who got two, on a successful afternoon for the Spurs strikers against West Bromwich Albion.
How do Tottenham solve a striking problem like Jermain Defoe? 2011
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I knew [Jermain] Defoe from the Under‑21s so that helped but then I saw people like Rio [Ferdinand] and the others going out for training and remember thinking, 'Am I in the right place here?'
Darren Bent: 'I remember David Beckham coming up to me. I was shaking' 2011
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I knew [Jermain] Defoe from the Under‑21s so that helped but then I saw people like Rio [Ferdinand] and the others going out for training and remember thinking, 'Am I in the right place here?'
Darren Bent: 'I remember David Beckham coming up to me. I was shaking' 2011
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The manager is, however, prepared to offload a number of players before he signs again, with Roman Pavlyuchenko, Jermain Defoe, Alan Hutton and Robbie Keane, who is currently on loan at West Ham, among those Spurs are seemingly willing to sell.
Players seduced more by wages than Champions League – Harry Redknapp 2011
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Although Spurs hit the post with an attempt from Jermain Defoe after United's goalkeeper, David de Gea, had dealt poorly with a cross Sir Alex Ferguson's side led 2-0 by then.
Manchester United 3-0 Tottenham Hotspur | Premier League match report 2011
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Jermain Defoe scored 20 goals as a teenager and Wayne Rooney 40, but the young Michael Owen comfortably tops all his Premier League contemporaries with 53.
The Knowledge | Which clubs have had the longest wait for a derby? | John Ashdown 2011
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In the other goalmouth David de Gea was still ruminating over his own contribution to the final minutes of the match, a missed catch that allowed Jermain Defoe to smack a volley against the woodwork followed by a fumble around the foot of the post from Tom Huddlestone's crashing 30-yarder.
Tottenham's Brad Friedel is left naked but outshines David de Gea | Richard Williams 2011
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