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  • noun Alternative spelling of lamppost.

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Examples

  • INSI - Safety Resources - If walking in to a lampost is the less serious (but no less painful) side of journalism then this is the serious stuff.

    AndyDickinson.net deli 2008

  • Sadly for me and to the entertainment of the said motorists I walked straight into a lampost that someone had deliberately positioned to catch unsuspecting, daydreaming coppers on their way back for a cuppa.

    You Heard It Here First (Bulbgate) « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • She jumped onto a lampost and hopped her way up to the roof of the building.

    Arcana Magi Pure - c.3 H-M Brown 2011

  • This is why the industry has been pressing for consideration of LTE femtocells for outdoor usage (the LTE femtocell on each lampost scenario).

    Slow Wired Broadband Could Choke LTE Femtocells 2009

  • Looking out the crusted window, the sight of the lampost and tree-lined street, the granite block park wall, the wandering path through an open field and the woods behind with a barely visible waterfall and stream traversed by a stone arching walkway, took my mind to a different place and time, forty years past and worlds away.

    The Strange Tantes 2010

  • Having taught the books for 18 years, I can't tell you the thrill of hearing dozens of normally reticent 6th graders exclaim aloud in joy, "so THAT'S how the lampost got there!"

    Chronologist or Publicationist? Roger Sutton 2008

  • Pleasingly, well actually, maddeningly, ironic coming from the man who clings to power despite numerous clear signals that the public would quite happily string him up from a lampost with a variety of materials, a BNP banner being one... in fact, they already have.

    Gordon May Suppress... He Cannot Endure Tory Teacake 2009

  • Pleasingly, well actually, maddeningly, ironic coming from the man who clings to power despite numerous clear signals that the public would quite happily string him up from a lampost with a variety of materials, a BNP banner being one... in fact, they already have.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Tory Teacake 2009

  • Just lucky no one else had to as they swung from nearby lampost! on February 1, 2007 at 3: 35 pm | Reply Sergeant Says

    An Army Of One « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007

  • Grumpy I agree, I just wish a sharp object or raging mob with lampost and piano wire would remove him..

    Happy Birthday - James Gordon Brown PM. FIDO The Dog 2009

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