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  • noun Plural form of pacer.

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Examples

  • Over the past couple of years the West Indies have tried some 20 so-called pacers with little success.

    CaribbeanCricket.com 2009

  • Excellent "pacers" both were; and, before the night came down, we had made more than half of our journey.

    The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West Mayne Reid 1850

  • Only three from the over, though, and Hastings is doing a decent containing job with his ostensibly harmless medium-pacers.

    Australia v England - live! | Rob Smyth 2011

  • With more than 150 Girls on the Run councils across the United States and Canada, there are plenty of mentoring opportunities as head coaches, assistant coaches, and race-day pacers.

    Long May You Run Chris Cooper 2010

  • The ICC cobbled together its first survival plan, allowing fast bowlers 15 degrees tolerance, medium-pacers 10 degrees and spin bowlers five degrees, an entirely arbitrary distinction.

    Chucker or castigated hero, Murali always incited impassioned debate 2010

  • Motorcycle pacers leading the pack spun out, buttering up the road with transmission oil and producing, rather than preventing, nasty crashes.

    Ann Reynolds: Tour de Crash 2010

  • Motorcycle pacers leading the pack spun out, buttering up the road with transmission oil and producing, rather than preventing, nasty crashes.

    Ann Reynolds: Tour de Crash 2010

  • Gary Busey once started a brawl at a pistons pacers basketball game by throwing a cup of the blood from all the children in section 23 row 17 becahe hates that those numbers and up to 40

    HO HUM, BUSEY IN A STRAITJACKET AGAIN 2008

  • One is the Little Brown Jug, part of the triple crown for pacers in harness racing.

    Five Rules for Managing a Two-Speed Economy Harold L. Sirkin 2010

  • The Australians have drafted in "the towering NSW quick" (the Australian newspaper) – they do not have medium-pacers there – Josh Hazlewood, who could almost look Steven Finn in the eye.

    Andrew Strauss has ODI worth as England prepare for Ashes phoney war 2010

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