(n.) A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hence the appeal of Ridgewell, who went from out-of-contract at a relegation battler in the Premier League to a Designated Player in Major League Soccer.
(2) PUP senator from Tasmania Jacqui Lambie accused the government of seeking to take money from battlers for “blind ideological reasons”.
(3) I’ve always been a battler.” He remains a shareholder in the company “at the moment”, he told 3AW.
(4) Howard and Crosby used a Queenslander, Pauline Hanson, to assist during the 1990s when "battlers" felt threatened by Aboriginal gains of land and other rights.
(5) But PUP senator from Tasmania Jacqui Lambie accused the government of seeking to take money from battlers for “blind ideological reasons”.
(6) The former prime minister John Howard has warned media and politicians not to treat Pauline Hanson like a “scorned species” because isolating or attacking her will add to her battler appeal.
(7) PUP senator from Tasmania Jacqui Lambie accused the Abbott government of seeking to take money from battlers for “blind ideological reasons”.
(8) After this, a couple of new franchises – the long-awaited Crytek battler Ryse: Sons of Rome , the trailer for which managed to re-depict the Normandy beach landings as a battle of the ancient world.
(9) His hair wasn’t long, he was wearing shoes – he looked like he could be a real Aussie Battler in a couple of years.
(10) This was two points dropped rather than one gained for Sunderland, but at a ground where they suffered the humiliation of losing 8-0 last season, it was revenge of sorts and defeats elsewhere for fellow relegation battlers Newcastle United and Norwich City made it a little sweeter.
(11) Deaf for most of his Westminster career, he was an inspiration to people with disabilities, a battler on their behalf and a relentless pursuer of justice for underdog causes.
(12) Both campaigns (based on what they are saying in terms of their topline messages) look like they think the big bulk of 'undecideds' resides in the "battlers" demographic.
(13) The Manchester United manager said he had no words to describe the disappointment of the past week, going out of the Champions League, going down at Bournemouth and so on, so imagine his dismay when Alex Neil’s relegation-battlers took a first-half lead here and held on for three points.
(14) There’s a long way to go but, without Ofsted being there, I’ve no doubt standards will fall and we would go backwards, not forwards.” In his sometimes turbulent time at the inspectorate, he suggested parents should be fined if they do not turn up for parents’ evening; he said teachers who leave at 3pm should be paid less; he has backed schools that ban “inappropriate wearing” of full-face veils and issued a call to arms for maverick school leaders who are “battlers, bruisers and battle-axes” who will not put up with mediocrity.
(15) In Australia, it was former prime minister John Howard’s “Battlers”, those all-important aspirational voters of the largely white working class, who live on the fringes of our capital cities and in our regional centres.
(16) In criticising the 2012 budget, Abbott said Labor's plan “deliberately, coldly, calculatedly plays the class war card” by abandoning company tax cuts and replacing them with means-tested payments “because a drowning government has decided to portray the political contest in this country as billionaires versus battlers”.
(17) Xbox One thrills – and spills Ryse: Son of Rome: beachhead battler.
(18) You have to recognise that people voted for her.” Howard warned that in public debate in the late 90s the more Hanson was attacked “the more popular she became because those attacks enhanced her Australian battler image and she plays off that”.
(19) A self-described “battler” from Sydney has had the cost of his Domino’s Pizza order refunded after 18 months and a successful court battle.
(20) From an early age Silva was considered a guerreira, a battler, overcoming numerous episodes of tropical diseases such as malaria, and later mercury poisoning.
Rattler
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, rattles.
Example Sentences:
(1) We cannot afford to let them treat us like properties of the state,” said Ollie, a 24-year-old water protector whose partner, Michael Markus, known as Rattler, was recently taken into custody by federal officers.
(2) He spent last season with the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers in the Class A Midwest League, hitting .243 with four homers and 29 RBIs in 68 games.
(3) The media might portray Perry as a dumb sabre-rattler, but it takes more than luck to be the nation's longest-serving governor.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Michael Markus, aka Rattler.
(5) Photograph: Liminal Films The charges against Rattler, Angry Bird and three others could carry up to 15 years in federal prison and stem from a standoff with police on 27 October 2016 during which law enforcement deployed armored vehicles and pepper spray and ultimately arrested 141 people.
(6) They do this purposely to break us down Ollie, 24-year-old water protector Ollie said: “They’re going after Rattler to make him a poster child and a scapegoat.
(7) Annabel Mullion was painted with her shaggy-haired dog Rattler and reappears seven years later with a pregnant belly in Expecting the Fourth 2005 (only 10x15cm), and in a larger etching, limbs still like a thoroughbred, as described by one of Freud's favourite authors, Baudelaire: "vainly have time and love sunk their teeth into her".
(8) There are no leaders.” Sandra Freeman, attorney with the Water Protector Legal Collective, who is representing Rattler, said he was being prosecuted under a law that is rarely used in federal court, passed in 1968 to control the Black Liberation Movement and Vietnam war protests.
(9) Some supporters have compared Rattler and Red Fawn Fallis , another demonstrator taken into custody last year, to famous indigenous protesters such as Leonard Peltier , whose activism has led to decades of federal incarceration.
(10) Rattler’s purpose of being at camp was to make a safe space for people.” Rattler, who is Lakota Oglala and a US Marine veteran, has also consistently been cooperative and compliant with law enforcement, according to Ollie, who noted that he had willingly turned himself in on a state warrant and that the two of them had recently paid a $10,000 cash bond so he could be released.