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- noun Plural form of
wrinkly .
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Examples
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Richard North: "The obvious rejoinder to the alarums about runaway global warming, therefore, is to ask the greenies how many" wrinklies "they want to kill to make their policy work."
British Blogs 2008
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When families are being hit by a cut in universal child benefit and worse, why should the wrinklies, some of whom are far from poor, do better again under a "we're all in this together" regime?
Is the universal basic pension too good to be true? Michael White 2010
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When Floyd told us he still shoots some hoops down at the school gym, we envisioned a klatch of indomitable wrinklies playing a spirited game of H-O-R-S-E.
The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010
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When Floyd told us he still shoots some hoops down at the school gym, we envisioned a klatch of indomitable wrinklies playing a spirited game of H-O-R-S-E.
The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010
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When Floyd told us he still shoots some hoops down at the school gym, we envisioned a klatch of indomitable wrinklies playing a spirited game of H-O-R-S-E.
The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010
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When Floyd told us he still shoots some hoops down at the school gym, we envisioned a klatch of indomitable wrinklies playing a spirited game of H-O-R-S-E.
The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010
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Your parents ran the place and you helped to look after the wrinklies.
The Devil's Bedpost 2010
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So now we have the cool dudes saying Hillary is dead, the fall of the house of Clinton is here, baby-boomers are so over, don't trust those wrinklies (British for your parents 'generation), youth is roaring again, hope is the watchword, Obama has a feminist wife and two cute little girls, he'll fight for us.
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He's left her with the responsibility for chauffeuring around all his geriatric friends, and the phone is ringing off the hook with the querulous demands of the 'wrinklies,' but the car is awesome, and the guys it's attracting are hot.
Archive 2008-04-01 a. fortis 2008
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He's left her with the responsibility for chauffeuring around all his geriatric friends, and the phone is ringing off the hook with the querulous demands of the 'wrinklies,' but the car is awesome, and the guys it's attracting are hot.
The WritingYA Weblog: Wicked Cool Mystery: Pssst! Whodunnit? tanita davis 2008
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