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- adverb nautical Alternative form of
apeak .
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Examples
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Guy says: gwjd: C.J. – “For everyone who gets the vapors whenever any Justice takes a peek at foreign law or practice, do you really think those Justices, or any other, would decide any case differently if they didn’t take apeek?”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Justice Sotomayor, Graham, and International Law 2010
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“For everyone who gets the vapors whenever any Justice takes a peek at foreign law or practice, do you really think those Justices, or any other, would decide any case differently if they didn’t take apeek?”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Justice Sotomayor, Graham, and International Law 2010
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“For everyone who gets the vapors whenever any Justice takes a peek at foreign law or practice, do you really think those Justices, or any other, would decide any case differently if they didn’t take apeek?”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Justice Sotomayor, Graham, and International Law 2010
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“For everyone who gets the vapors whenever any Justice takes a peek at foreign law or practice, do you really think those Justices, or any other, would decide any case differently if they didn’t take apeek?”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Justice Sotomayor, Graham, and International Law 2010
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“For everyone who gets the vapors whenever any Justice takes a peek at foreign law or practice, do you really think those Justices, or any other, would decide any case differently if they didn’t take apeek?”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Justice Sotomayor, Graham, and International Law 2010
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–“For everyone who gets the vapors whenever any Justice takes a peek at foreign law or practice, do you really think those Justices, or any other, would decide any case differently if they didn’t take apeek?”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Justice Sotomayor, Graham, and International Law 2010
chained_bear commented on the word apeek
"... implies when the cable is drawn so tight as to bring the ship directly over the anchor, which is then said to be apeek."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 18
October 13, 2008