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- noun Plural form of
riprap .
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Examples
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They are great dogs but the lack some of the character of the ripraps, lemons, and livers of my younger days.
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They are great dogs but the lack some of the character of the ripraps, lemons, and livers of my younger days.
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And at sight of him Marielihou ruffled and swelled to twice her size, and raked up most horrible and blood-curdling oaths from away down in her inside into her black throat, and spat them out at him, as he came up, in a fusillade that sounded like ripraps, and her eyes flamed baleful fires.
Pearl of Pearl Island John Oxenham 1896
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