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- noun Plural form of
niblick .
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The history is this: In 1921, some members of the City Club, a private club in the District, wanted a place to swing their mashie niblicks.
Old Beaver Dam golf course couldn't hold back development John Kelly 2010
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The history is this: In 1921, some members of the City Club, a private club in the District, wanted a place to swing their mashie niblicks.
Old Beaver Dam golf course couldn't hold back development John Kelly 2010
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The history is this: In 1921, some members of the City Club, a private club in the District, wanted a place to swing their mashie niblicks.
Old Beaver Dam golf course couldn't hold back development John Kelly 2010
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And if those Crater Critters get ‘er, she will have sufferin’ niblicks, by cracky! jeischen says:
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I think I speak for many when I say our niblicks have indeed suffered over the last year, and I look forward to the days when we can once again shout Holy Happy Niblicks, and everyone will know what we mean.
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Before we meet again I hope you will have tasted strong liquor to excess and kissed many emotional young men in red and yellow moonlights—these things being chasterners of those prejudices which are as gutta percha to the niblicks of the century.
A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994
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Before we meet again I hope you will have tasted strong liquor to excess and kissed many emotional young men in red and yellow moonlights—these things being chasterners of those prejudices which are as gutta percha to the niblicks of the century.
A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994
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One feels so much at sea when talk turns to mashie-niblicks, cleeks, and mid-irons.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003
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A charming effect was produced by a guard of honour, composed of members of the golf club, holding aloft crossed brassies, beneath which the happy pair passed into the church, while the caddies clashed niblicks and other iron clubs.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914 Various
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"I mean to say -- no offence, old man -- but no grounding niblicks in bunkers."
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