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- noun Plural form of
skanger .
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Examples
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The best fighters in my neighborhood were the skinny lads like me, not the burly skangers.
The Season of Risks Susan Hubbard 2010
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The best fighters in my neighborhood were the skinny lads like me, not the burly skangers.
The Season of Risks Susan Hubbard 2010
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The best fighters in my neighborhood were the skinny lads like me, not the burly skangers.
The Season of Risks Susan Hubbard 2010
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It is not an excuse to mock provincial skangers and laugh at the strange language they use ...
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First, the song from “Once” (even though it wasn’t the best song from the movie), because it’s a wonderful small independent movie that is well written, honestly performaed; andmanages to look and sound great (makes me miss Dublin… even the crappy bits… but not the skangers).
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For all the idealistic reasons put forward by some for a list system, the real reason why our opinion-formers have taken a shine to it is the prospect of freeing Irish politics from the influence of the bogpersons and skangers who make up the majority of the electorate, and instead allowing the creation of a Dáil full of "our kind" of people - the sort who could be safely allowed on the Marion Finucane Show to hold forth on the need for the unemployed and pensioners to tighten their belts for the good of the Irish financial system.
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For all the idealistic reasons put forward by some for a list system, the real reason why our opinion-formers have taken a shine to it is the prospect of freeing Irish politics from the influence of the bogpersons and skangers who make up the majority of the electorate, and instead allowing the creation of a Dáil full of "our kind" of people - the sort who could be safely allowed on the Marion Finucane Show to hold forth on the need for the unemployed and pensioners to tighten their belts for the good of the Irish financial system.
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For all the idealistic reasons put forward by some for a list system, the real reason why our opinion-formers have taken a shine to it is the prospect of freeing Irish politics from the influence of the bogpersons and skangers who make up the majority of the electorate, and instead allowing the creation of a Dáil full of "our kind" of people - the sort who could be safely allowed on the Marion Finucane Show to hold forth on the need for the unemployed and pensioners to tighten their belts for the good of the Irish financial system.
Irish Blogs 2009
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