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  • noun Plural form of guineapig.

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Examples

  • We had mostly guineapigs and a couple of rabbits growing up.

    Pets: Getting to know you.... Elizabeth McClung 2009

  • Boblolhedded kittehs aer liek teh noddin goggies sum peepl has awn teh bakk ledj in dere car, but kitteh oar similar pinni gig – guineapigs in non lolspeak snoglobes aer doez fing dat u shaek to maek liek a snostorm in a glass bawl.

    Office Cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • A New Earth made no sense because you didn't get a chance to see the New Earth society that the CatNurseNuns cared so much about - there was therefore no emotional investment in the society that the zombie-guineapigs were protecting.

    School Reunion annawaits 2006

  • All you could get Dr. Gould to admit was that this phenomena in monkeys and guineapigs offered interesting subjects for further investigation, and the fact that this little squirming thing, hard to detect with the most powerful microscope, seemed to be mixed up with the business some way, might lead to the suspicion that it had something to do with it.

    The Work of the Rockefeller Foundation. Health as an International Bond 1920

  • He got some perfectly healthy guinea-pigs, and also got some that were suffering from this phenomena; and he got these female stegomyia mosquitoes, and got them to bite those guineapigs that were suffering from something like yellow fever, and then got them to bite the healthy guinea-pigs.

    The Work of the Rockefeller Foundation. Health as an International Bond 1920

  • Then from those guinea-pigs that had been so infected and which manifested symptoms, cultures were made and another group of guineapigs were infected, and in due time they began to develop symptoms which closely approximated the symptoms which developed in humans.

    The Work of the Rockefeller Foundation. Health as an International Bond 1920

  • The rabbit, together with the hares and conies, rats and mice, voles, squirrels, beavers, cavies, guineapigs is included in that order of the class of mammals which is called the rodentia, and is distinguished by the character of the incisor teeth from other orders of the class.

    Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata 1906

  • Day after day the cages of guineapigs flowed in a steady stream from Westcote to Franklin, and still Flannery and his six helpers ripped and nailed and packed -- relentlessly and feverishly.

    Pigs is Pigs Ellis Parker Butler 1903

  • Clearly 2 set of laws exist, one for the rich / elite, another for the peasantry / guineapigs to

    www.hardwarezone.com.sg 2009

  • "This generation of young people are guineapigs ... we need an educational response that extends beyond the focus of safety, towards broader questions of privacy and intellectual property."

    Latest education news, including the university guide 2010, RAE results, higher and schools news, schools tables and further education | guardian.co.uk 2008

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