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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
uncoop . - adjective Not
cooped ; not kept in a coop.
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Examples
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The black family would let me come look at their particolored chickens—bantams, Dominickers—scratching around uncooped in their precisely raked dirt yard.
Dream State Diane Roberts 2008
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Either the Arabs were mistaken, or the noble brute, uncooped and unchained, had but lately crossed my path.
Eothen 2003
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The vicissitudes of life are terrible for the uncooped chicken.
The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm John Williams Streeter
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Either the Arabs were mistaken, or the noble brute, uncooped and unchained, had but lately crossed my path.
Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East Alexander William Kinglake 1850
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