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  • noun Plural form of ribcage (alternative spelling of rib cages).

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Examples

  • Link they'd synchronize their watches and their heartbeats and their ribcages

    they'd synchronize their watches and their heartbeats and their ribcages heresluck 2009

  • Boxers who can collapse ribcages, hockey goalies with adamantine claws that spring from their knuckles to ribbon the throats of any offensive player who comes too close.

    Keith Blanchard: Let's All Stop Whining And Let The Athletes Juice! 2009

  • Indeed, in the Mediterranean, where tuna 'farming' is now widely practiced, the removal of small fish for tuna fattening has been so extensive that the 'common dolphin' is becoming rare, with individual dolphins showing protruding ribcages like the mangy dogs one would see at the edge of Sahelian towns.

    Dr. Daniel Pauly: Fish As Food: A Love Affair, Issues Included 2009

  • Then for the under 30 crowd, teams of Dr. Mengele-inspired radio talk show hosts would stand at the gates of the major studios and separate the would-be starlets into two lines, with only the women exhibiting botoxed brows, proper saline implants, and bas-relief ribcages allowed entry.

    Danny Miller: Liv Ullmann's Face 2008

  • The explosion shook the entire building to its foundations and the crouching family felt the percussive wave punch through them, squeezing their ribcages and jerking involuntary Ahhhs! from them as their lungs compressed.

    Fathers & Sons Richard Madeley 2008

  • Zodiac i will never let a horse into my life but i have let You though You squeezed in through the stable door the way some horses do i would never let horses influence my character but like them good sense scatters at your entrance your lean shoulders studied with greyhounds such ball and socket joints i've seen only in diagrams i've let greyhounds into my vicinity nose, paws, ribcages...

    Passionate, Platonic - Straight Men, Gay Men gay person of color 2008

  • The explosion shook the entire building to its foundations and the crouching family felt the percussive wave punch through them, squeezing their ribcages and jerking involuntary Ahhhs! from them as their lungs compressed.

    Fathers & Sons Richard Madeley 2008

  • Zodiac i will never let a horse into my life but i have let You though You squeezed in through the stable door the way some horses do i would never let horses influence my character but like them good sense scatters at your entrance your lean shoulders studied with greyhounds such ball and socket joints i've seen only in diagrams i've let greyhounds into my vicinity nose, paws, ribcages...

    Archive 2008-05-01 gay person of color 2008

  • Not that I think the realistic themes aren't worth exploring, but all the darkness and despair and punching through ribcages is making me tired and I don't think that's the intended result.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Michael May 2007

  • I think they're storing their ribcages in those pockets.

    Is there such a thing as a too-big pocket? - A Dress A Day 2007

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