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  • noun Plural form of belcher.

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Examples

  • Of the 180 or so new coal belchers that Dick Cheney tried to hard-wire into America's future, 153 have been blocked or abandoned, Only 22 escaped and are being built.

    Carl Pope: Game Time Carl Pope 2011

  • Interestingly, the Neo-con belchers were saying that Americans trust General Petraeus and do not want his credibility questioned.

    The Bush/Petraeus Fantasy Fizzle 2007

  • But back in those days decades ago when we were the primary belchers of unmitigated filth, our population was much, much lower.

    Unthreaded #20 « Climate Audit 2007

  • The Economist further reports that various emissions-belchers have joined the Chicago Climate Exchange CCX, which requires them to eliminate or offset 6% of their emissions by 2010″ and allows its members to buy credits to offset their carbon emissions.

    Think Progress » Majority Whip Blunt: If I Stay In Charge, Congress Won’t ‘Do Anything Meaningful’ On Climate Change 2006

  • He still didn't know for sure, but he might be able to tell from its action; real fire-belchers were very stupid, as dragons went, because the heat shriveled their own brains.

    A Spell For Chameleon Anthony, Piers 1977

  • He still didn't know for sure, but he might be able to tell from its action; real fire-belchers were very stupid, as dragons went, because the heat shriveled their own brains.

    A Spell For Chameleon Anthony, Piers 1977

  • Acts are passed to mitigate sweating; schooling is made free and compulsory; sanitary by-laws are multiplied; public steps are taken to house the masses decently; the bare-footed get boots; rags become rare; and bathrooms and pianos, smart tweeds and starched collars, reach numbers of people who once, as "the unsoaped," played the Jew's harp or the accordion in moleskins and belchers.

    Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion George Bernard Shaw 1903

  • Why, we can shoot ten times while they are putting their charcoal and their lead into their leathern smoke belchers, and then kindling their matches.

    The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade 1849

  • I don't understand CARB (CA Air Resource Board) that they let huge smoke belchers in and then they keep out the small clean diesel cars like Europe.

    Autoblog Green Sebastian Blanco 2010

  • Good morning, all you munchers and crunchers and belchers - wherever you may be.

    New Statesman Will Self 2010

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