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  • noun Plural form of goatherd.

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Examples

  • Yet 20 goatherds from a third rate country shoved a $1 Trillion broken beer bottle up our ass.

    Matthew Yglesias » Bob McDonnell’s Military Escort 2010

  • WHich may explain why we spent roughly $3 TRILLION in the decade prior to Sept 11 yet 19 goatherds from a primitive country were able to pull off Sept 11 with a budget of about $150,000.

    Matthew Yglesias » Cutting and Running 2007

  • What’s “weak” is spending roughly $400 Billion per year at the time — more than the next 23 major military powers COMBINED — and letting 20 goatherds from a Third World Country pull of the Sept 11 attack.

    Matthew Yglesias » India’s Response to Terrorism 2010

  • He reminded them that they were nothing before his father, Philip, accepted them into his army, only goatherds clothed in animal skins fighting off wolves and Illyrian bandits.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • He reminded them that they were nothing before his father, Philip, accepted them into his army, only goatherds clothed in animal skins fighting off wolves and Illyrian bandits.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • The office, a three-story, 80,000-square-foot glass building with a gym and cafeteria, has the feel of an urban American workplace, even as goatherds move their flocks across the lawns outside.

    Bribes, Bureaucracy Hobble India's New Entrepreneurs Amol Sharma 2011

  • He reminded them that they were nothing before his father, Philip, accepted them into his army, only goatherds clothed in animal skins fighting off wolves and Illyrian bandits.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • The path north from the town was more fit for goatherds than an army of thousands, so the king sent his Thracian soldiers to carve a road over the pass and down into the plain of Pamphylia.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • The path north from the town was more fit for goatherds than an army of thousands, so the king sent his Thracian soldiers to carve a road over the pass and down into the plain of Pamphylia.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • The path north from the town was more fit for goatherds than an army of thousands, so the king sent his Thracian soldiers to carve a road over the pass and down into the plain of Pamphylia.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

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