Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
piston or some aspect of one.
Etymologies
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Examples
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One knee moves pistonlike; her foot beats out a double-bass rhythm.
Venomous 2008
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One knee moves pistonlike; her foot beats out a double-bass rhythm.
Venomous 2008
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She moved like an automaton now, not wanting to think, because to think might be to stop the pistonlike thrust of her pained muscles; to think might be to submit to Luis Quental.
River Of Desire Taylor, Abra 1982
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Their blows against the thing's pistonlike legs failed to even shake it.
The Cavern of the Shining Ones Hal K. Wells
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Then he brought his gaze back to Lilly, his Adam's apple above the gray necktie throbbing so that it seemed to her his entire body must reverberate to the pistonlike process.
Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928
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Sanford transformed the song into a pistonlike pounding of two or three gnarled chords, with only odd peeks of the Long Island schmaltzmeister's hammy touch peeking through here and there.
17 dots jayson 2008
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