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  • noun Plural form of lapful.

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Examples

  • They unmistakably were grandkids, lapfuls of wedge-faced wolfling kits, looking as human as all get-out.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • They unmistakably were grandkids, lapfuls of wedge-faced wolfling kits, looking as human as all get-out.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • Somehow our napkins had moulted lapfuls of lint all over our Very Important Meeting outfits.

    Boutique Breakfast 2009

  • Somehow our napkins had moulted lapfuls of lint all over our Very Important Meeting outfits.

    Boutique Breakfast 2009

  • They unmistakably were grandkids, lapfuls of wedge-faced wolfling kits, looking as human as all get-out.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • Somehow our napkins had moulted lapfuls of lint all over our Very Important Meeting outfits.

    Boutique Breakfast 2009

  • There were lapfuls of lapis, which would cause people to wee-wee unexpectedly; Midrange presumed those were for unfriends or those with certain bodily complications.

    Yon Ill Wind Anthony, Piers 1996

  • There were lapfuls of lapis, which would cause people to wee-wee unexpectedly; Midrange presumed those were for unfriends or those with certain bodily complications.

    Yon Ill Wind Anthony, Piers 1996

  • He likewise gave public notice, that he would receive new-year's gifts on the calends of January following; and accordingly stood in the vestibule of his house, to clutch the presents which people of all ranks threw down before him by handfuls and lapfuls.

    The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 04: Caligula Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  • He likewise gave public notice, that he would receive new-year's gifts on the calends of January following; and accordingly stood in the vestibule of his house, to clutch the presents which people of all ranks threw down before him by handfuls and lapfuls.

    De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

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