(n.) A colloquial name for the Southern portion of the United States, esp. during the Civil War.
Example Sentences:
(1) Along the way, in the heart of the heart of Dixie – his office stands next to the Hank Williams museum – he has been a tireless advocate of the pressing need to confront racial bias at every point in the American justice system.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close Seven years later, though, there was disappointment against Dixie Dean's Everton.
(3) "If we did, we would have thought of a better name than the Dixie Chicks."
(4) This intolerance of free expression during a war is underlined by the fact that the Dixie Chicks are so resolutely American.
(5) There is no denying the quality of a side boasting a forward line of Alex Jackson, Hughie Gallacher, Alex James and Alan Morton, one that could thrash a team containing Dixie Dean, on his way to 60 league goals that season, by five goals to one.
(6) Of course, when famous goalscoring achievements are mentioned, William Ralph 'Dixie' Dean's name is usually close behind; as is the case here.
(7) At about 5pm Crystal asked Thibodeaux to go with her to the local Winn-Dixie supermarket, but he was busy mending CJ's watch.
(8) SNCC's John Lewis , representing bold young activists, wanted to make a fiery speech warning Kennedy that "We will march through the South, through the heart of Dixie, the way Sherman did.
(9) administration of riluzole (10 nmol) prevented the seizures induced by MCD, and to a lesser extent those due to DIXi, whilst leaving 4-AP seizures unaffected.
(10) Dixie Square Mall sat vacant for more than 30 years after serving as the backdrop for the iconic chase scene in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers .
(11) The urines were collected in Dixie Cups without prior preparation of the perineum and cultured on 5% sheep cell agar.
(12) @LengelDavid October 12, 2013 You ain't just whistlling Dixie.
(13) The rich get richer and the poor get Paul Pogba Peace, Bread and Landon Donovan Karl-Marx Rummenigge Dixie Deans of Production 10.14pm BST EXTRA TIME, HALF TIME: Germany 0-0 Argentina Another 15 minutes, please!
(14) ☞ The Wembley Wizards of 1928, an England team starring 60-goal Dixie Dean no match for Alex Jackson, Hughie Gallacher, Alex James, et al!
(15) Parked a few metres away from Dixy Chicken is the knowingly funky red-painted street food Box Chicken van.
(16) All this might not sound especially subversive, but it is only 10 years since the Dixie Chicks faced death threats and had to install metal detectors at their live shows because of quite restrained comments at a gig in London about George W Bush and the war in Iraq.
(17) As Glenn Stuart, front man for the tribute B Street Band, observes: "He's never been Dixie-Chicked".
(18) And any time you have got the pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.” Moore was booed, threatened and stalked for his trouble.
(19) The 25-year-old Musgraves is certainly not the first to have rebelled against these traits – the Dixie Chicks , Gretchen Wilson and Miranda Lambert have all taken stands – but her assault is particularly threatening.
(20) Soon after, the jury was told, Floorgraphics began to lose crucial contracts with key clients – Safeway, Winn-Dixie, the South Carolina retail chain Piggly Wiggly and others – many of whom defected to News America.
Pixie
Definition:
(n.) An old English name for a fairy; an elf.
(n.) A low creeping evergreen plant (Pyxidanthera barbulata), with mosslike leaves and little white blossoms, found in New Jersey and southward, where it flowers in earliest spring.
Example Sentences:
(1) I resented my own parents on far flimsier grounds (unwillingness to buy me purple suede pixie boots, for instance).
(2) Their European tour , which finishes in London on Monday, is sold out and there seems to be a general consensus that Pixies, who suddenly find themselves with everything to prove, are playing ferociously.
(3) • Black Francis speaks of Kim Deal's departure from the Pixies
(4) We started seriously talking about recording new music about four years ago,” Pixies drummer David Lovering explained.
(5) Aside from asking Essex to "put a ring on it", she'll debut that new pixie cut in the UK.
(6) The rights of women and of minority populations and vulnerable and low-income people are under threat and we must do everything we can to protect these rights and fight for true equality.” Musician Pixie Geldof, writer Stella Duffy, activist Jack Monroe and US rock musician Thurston Moore are supporting the London march, while in the US organisers claim that many of the musicians who have refused to play at Trump’s inauguration will join them.
(7) Scott Morrison says Labor 'selling a unicorn' with negative gearing savings Read more “I can sell them a fantasy or whatever you want to call it, pixie horses, whatever your preferred analogy is, but I’m not going to spin the public a line that there is some simple answer to getting expenditure down,” Morrison told 3AW on Friday.
(8) Whatever they’ve been talking about in public – tax cuts, steel workers’ jobs, unicorns, pixie horses , negative gearing, etc – behind the scenes politicians from all parties have been utterly preoccupied for months with this proposed change.
(9) The inhibition by PIXI of factor XIa-catalyzed activation of factor IX and its capacity to prevent factor XIa inactivation by alpha 1-protease inhibitor, combined with the specificity of PIXI for factor XIa among serine proteases found in blood, suggest a role for PIXI in the regulation of intrinsic coagulation.
(10) He has engineered more than 2,000 records – by bands you mostly won’t have heard of, although a few of them you will, including PJ Harvey, Joanna Newsom, Pixies, Fugazi and that little three-piece out of Seattle, Nirvana .
(11) But unlike, say, Duran Duran or the Pixies, they've never really been away, so there's no opportunity to key into the nostalgia circuit.
(12) pIXY 321 may offer significant clinical advantages over the individual cytokines.
(13) Pixies made me forget I was dressed in a bin-liner I wasn't expecting too much from the Pixies before their second from top slot on the Other stage .
(14) Clockwise from top left: Grimshaw with Kelly Osborne; Sara Cox and Annie Mac at the Brit awards; Queens of Noize DJ Tabitha Denholm; dressed as Lily Allen, off to Mark Ronson’s birthday party; at Amy Winehouse’s funeral; with Henry Holland; Pixie Geldof and Alexa Chung at the NME awards afterparty; predecessor Chris Moyles.
(15) Look, Pixie Geldof has found a big conker made of twigs, and it might have something to do with River Island, and she looks quite pleased .
(16) The full title of this event is the artistic gymnastics, and for 2012 the event seems to want to place the emphasis on art; thus the competitors were played in with a curious acoustic set from singer Pixie Lott, standing in the middle of the floor mat, surrounded by feline acrobats in latex body stockings.
(17) The festival in question, Summer in the City, has officially announced some of its July performers: Pixies and Royal Blood on 10 July, and James with Starsailor on 11 July.
(18) Double dissolution is a 'live option' as Morrison rules out 'pixie horse' tax cuts Read more The Coalition government kept the option of calling a double-dissolution election up its sleeve, he said, and could pull the trigger if the Senate “becomes inoperable”.
(19) Widely read, with a quick wit and sharp intelligence, she was also a devoted partner and mother to her and Geldof's extravagantly-named daughters, Fifi Trixibelle, Peaches and Pixie.
(20) "Today, the thrill and pixie dust of Barack Obama's presidency is gone."