Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of a tribe.

Etymologies

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tribe +‎ -like

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Examples

  • We must take “traditional family values” to their fullest extreme: extended, tribelike clans in which each aunt is “Mom” and each uncle, “Dad.”

    The Book of the SubGenius The SubGenius Foundation 1983

  • We must take “traditional family values” to their fullest extreme: extended, tribelike clans in which each aunt is “Mom” and each uncle, “Dad.”

    The Book of the SubGenius The SubGenius Foundation 1983

  • We must take “traditional family values” to their fullest extreme: extended, tribelike clans in which each aunt is “Mom” and each uncle, “Dad.”

    The Book of the SubGenius The SubGenius Foundation 1983

  • She felt it too in the tribelike embrace of the Currie household.

    I Tina Turner, Tina 1952

  • He’d never experienced anything as wild as that before: the wacky clothes guys wore, the tribelike dancing around the fire, and the girls flaunting their boobs in his face.

    RAINBOW road alex sanchez 2005

  • He’d never experienced anything as wild as that before: the wacky clothes guys wore, the tribelike dancing around the fire, and the girls flaunting their boobs in his face.

    RAINBOW road alex sanchez 2005

  • He’d never experienced anything as wild as that before: the wacky clothes guys wore, the tribelike dancing around the fire, and the girls flaunting their boobs in his face.

    RAINBOW road alex sanchez 2005

  • He’d never experienced anything as wild as that before: the wacky clothes guys wore, the tribelike dancing around the fire, and the girls flaunting their boobs in his face.

    RAINBOW road alex sanchez 2005

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