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- noun Plural form of
breather .
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Examples
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The comic store owner should have prosecuted the woman for Providing R rated material to underage mouth breathers is against the law round these parts.
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But seriously man (or woman, whatever the case may be), these two episodes were fun breathers from the heavy drama or mythology episodes.
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Apparently it gets the back up on some of the mouth-breathers from the right.
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Certain damage-control strategies have backfired, and others could be just short-term breathers to talk of club mergers, sales and closings.
unknown title 2009
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I often read short stories in between novels, as "breathers," and sometimes to decide if I want to read or reread that author's novels.
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It's a lesson Miller may have absorbed from Will Eisner, or maybe even Will Shakespeare, but too many later DD writers seemed to forget how to leaven the unremitting tragedy with goofy "breathers" beyond recycling Turk being thrown through the window of Josie's Bar.
Top 100 Comic Book Runs #4 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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We had passed some red fritillaries and the bee-orchid, a little wild mauve crocus, and some magnificent clumps of white heath, which smelt of almonds and honey; had seen several pairs of stone-chats with their white collars; had sat down for many "breathers"; and at last were at the top, in a wind which flattened every palmetto-bush plumb against the hillside.
In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory
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21+ Bringing undead amounts of carnal splurge and sweaty masses of putrid flesh to the unsuspecting and as yet, still living 'breathers' of Corvallis!
The Daily Barometer 2010
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21+ Bringing undead amounts of carnal splurge and sweaty masses of putrid flesh to the unsuspecting and as yet, still living 'breathers' of Corvallis!
The Daily Barometer 2010
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New York seems to have gone to his big head and now he does political vaudeville for the liberal mouth breathers.
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