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Geezer


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I know Richard, I know Tony, we are all old geezers, but I swear I haven’t talked once to them about it,” he told the Guardian while campaigning for the Lib Dems in the Richmond byelection.
  • (2) Ozzy Osbourne joined fellow sexagenarians Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward at the venue where the band made their Los Angeles debut in 1970, to address a large, black-t-shirt-clad crowd.
  • (3) In a way, the Falkirk row became so prominent because it fitted a narrative the press already likes to push when it comes to trade unions: they're full of dodgy geezers.
  • (4) Once you’ve decided, you believe in it strongly, you tell your friends and family, and you’re more likely to go out and vote.” By contrast, the remain line he hears from “blokes in the bar – local businessmen, geezers running building companies, doing quite well” is: “‘Nigel, we kind of get the stuff about sovereignty and controlling our borders.
  • (5) "He's amazing, that geezer," he says, his voice betraying his Cornish roots as well as traces of cockney.
  • (6) As the tagline – "May the best man live" – suggests, it's basically the same old flick with the same old schtick: the Stath tops baddies, boffs toffs (he's a one-man manifesto for geezer supremacy), and cops off with a blondie.
  • (7) There is a word that people overuse – authentic – but he is a straight geezer.
  • (8) The new members Corbyn attracted to the party helped him win the candidacy and he does not want to turn his back on them – or Corbyn – who he describes as “a straight geezer”.
  • (9) What a geezer.” The former pupil at the Somerset boarding school, which charges fees of £30,000 a year, said: “They were ... only about four or five people but they made themselves heard.
  • (10) Instead of Terry's Old Geezers and Gals, his ­audience has now been labelled Wogan's Ageing Sunday Participants, or Wasps.
  • (11) "I look at what Jamie Oliver did; Jamie Oliver does not need to be trawling round schools in Britain - the geezer's a multi-millionnaire.
  • (12) And here he is again diving in to Tiote's cross from the left to head for goal and the full back Coentrao gets his fluffed blond 1980s pop-geezer highlights to the ball and bouffants it clear.
  • (13) What a geezer.” Parsons has since taken down his Instagram account, as well as his Facebook and Twitter profiles, after he was named by a number of sources as appearing in the video published by the Guardian on Tuesday .
  • (14) You ain’t a fat bald geezer with a chain!” A schoolchild shouted: 'You ain’t no mayor!
  • (15) As it turns out, the God of Fuck and post-Britpop’s most famous crack smoker had very little on some of our booked-for-lolz, avuncular old geezers in terms of genuine evil.
  • (16) Did he ever think of himself as a dodgy geezer, a bit of an Arthur Daley ?
  • (17) The jubilation of topless, pear-shaped West Ham geezers running on the pitch as we win in extra time against our ultimate rival – Millwall .
  • (18) Wogan's fans, known as Togs – Terry's Old Geezers and Gals – have been particularly vociferous against Evans since he took over the show in January.
  • (19) They came out to support him and didn’t care if he knocked out some fat geezer who never stood a chance.
  • (20) And the entire framing device – as Tonto recalls the Lone Ranger in old age in 1933 San Francisco – is a straight lift from Little Big Man's 121-year-old Jack Crabb, right down to the geezer makeup.

Guy


Definition:

  • (n.) A rope, chain, or rod attached to anything to steady it; as: a rope to steady or guide an object which is being hoisted or lowered; a rope which holds in place the end of a boom, spar, or yard in a ship; a chain or wire rope connecting a suspension bridge with the land on either side to prevent lateral swaying; a rod or rope attached to the top of a structure, as of a derrick, and extending obliquely to the ground, where it is fastened.
  • (v. t.) To steady or guide with a guy.
  • (n.) A grotesque effigy, like that of Guy Fawkes, dressed up in England on the fifth of November, the day of the Gunpowder Plot.
  • (n.) A person of queer looks or dress.
  • (v. t.) To fool; to baffle; to make (a person) an object of ridicule.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Guy Jobbins, a Cairo-based British water scientist who heads Canada's International Development Research Centre climate change adaptation programme for Africa, says understanding of the issue has rocketed in the past few years.
  • (2) The guy upstairs, I heard he was maybe affiliated with Islamic Jihad, but he wasn't there.
  • (3) They had to be seen as the good guys, and not as either this administration or that administration.” Comey left the justice department in 2005 for Lockheed Martin, the largest military contractor in the US, and eventually an investment firm and Columbia Law School.
  • (4) While the Spielberg of popular myth is Mr Nice Guy, Lean was known as an obsessive, cantankerous tyrant who didn't much like actors and was only truly happy locked away in the editing suite.
  • (5) If you’ve been to a red brick university in the past 10 years then chances are you know the guy.
  • (6) As for Scotland Soccer Club, Altidore's deputy at franchise level, Steven Fletcher, is gonna be the guy that the hosts will look to kick the soccer ball in to the soccer goal interior.
  • (7) "This is the guy we've all seen in Borders or HMV on a Friday afternoon, possibly after a drink or two, tie slightly undone, buying two CDs, a DVD and maybe a book - fifty quid's worth - and frantically computing how he's going to convince his partner that this is a really, really worthwhile investment."
  • (8) Opposition spokesman Matthew Guy said it was unclear how the government intended to fund the project given the federal government was yet to come to the table.
  • (9) How many other countries celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
  • (10) The Fed is also painting itself as one of the Good Guys in the Libor scandal, pointing out that it spotted the problems in 2008, and promptly tipped off the Brits.
  • (11) "While the country is sunk in misery, families are ruined and children are growing up in poverty, this guy turns up and we pay €91m for him.
  • (12) Davenport, possibly in a fit of pique at having been knocked out, said playing Mauresmo was like 'playing a guy'.
  • (13) He laughs: "I've had a few guys buck up against me, but that's all right because some of us enjoy the bucking."
  • (14) There are three kinds of motivation: the intrinsic motivation which means the guy is naturally demanding of himself that he wants to be the best, and he has always that inner dissatisfaction with what he has achieved.
  • (15) He's the sort of guy who takes form every experience something good and uses it in the future.
  • (16) It seems to have brought his own beliefs into sharper focus: "Watching the film, and I've seen many cuts, I'm a guy who fights the idea of heaven but what I do respect is that there is a greater power than anything we understand, and for me the film is about that.
  • (17) If I’m the bad guy because I’m not the guy they want me to be, then so be it.” Over the last year he resolved his promotional woes in court and has since signed with Jay Z’s Roc Nation Sports – along with Miguel Cotto the nascent sports agency’s highest-profile signing in boxing.
  • (18) Jenny Lewis - Just One Of The Guys [Official Music Video] Oh boy!
  • (19) Still, he reiterates that he'd never heard of "this guy," Mayor Sokolich, until yesterday.
  • (20) Romney contends the president is a nice guy who has failed to make things better.

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