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- noun Plural form of
bindlestiff .
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Examples
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And he loves his central characters, too, the pair of itinerant ranch hands ” "bindlestiffs" ” named George and Lennie.
The Rescue of John Steinbeck Gottlieb, Robert 2008
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He has scared up a bunch of losers and bindlestiffs to run for the legislature this fall.
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Its earliest habit was burlap rags and bindlestiffs-the uniform of the simpleton mob.
A Canticle for Leibowitz Miller, Walter M. 1959
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If Abbot Zerchi had not been aware of the fact that a certain air marshal and a certain cardinal archbishop happened to be friends, the ostensible pilgrimage to New Rome by twenty - seven bookleggers with bindlestiffs might well have proceeded on shank's mare, for lack of permission to use rapid transport jet.
A Canticle for Leibowitz Miller, Walter M. 1959
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He recalled the trestle west of the forest where the bindlestiffs from the Pacific Fruit line jungled up at nights, or during long layovers.
Strange Alliance Bryce Walton 1953
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