(n.) A short crowbar used by burglars in breaking open doors.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stringer, a Vietnam war veteran who was knighted in 1999, is already inside the corporation, if only for a few months, after he was appointed as one of its non-executive directors to toughen up the BBC's governance following a string of scandals, from the Jimmy Savile abuse to multimillion-pound executive payoffs.
(2) With respect to Sir Jimmy, those who proclaim the age of the train rarely get it right.
(3) A further 19 hospitals are to be investigated over their links to allegations of sexual abuse by Jimmy Savile , the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt has said.
(4) "Among them are Mark and Jackie Barden, whose youngest son, Daniel, was killed in the shooting; Nicole Hockley, who lost her son Dylan; and Jimmy Greene, who lost his daughter Ana."
(5) Hopefully there can be some really great performances which will try to blow away the shadow that programme has caused.” But Kilty will face a strong field in the men’s 100m that includes five athletes who have gone under the 10 second barrier in 2015, including the Frenchman Jimmy Vicaut, the American Mike Rodgers and the evergreen Kim Collins.
(6) There seems to be unanimous political support,” said Jimmy Morales, Miami Beach city manager.
(7) And she met Jimmie Miller, better known later as the folk singer Ewan MacColl, who became her husband.
(8) He also established himself as a regular fixture on BBC TV's Top of the Pops, having been appointed as one of the original four presenters in 1964, alongside Jacobs, Pete Murray and Jimmy Savile.
(9) Was it Jimmy Goldsmith [the late financier] who said there is no such thing as a hostile takeover?
(10) The BBC has spent more than £5m of licence fee payers' money so far on internal investigations and inquiries relating to the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal.
(11) The BBC has become embroiled in a row with one of its longest-serving radio presenters on the day in which the broadcaster was heavily criticised by an independent inquiry for the way it had allowed stars like Jimmy Savile to abuse women and children for nearly 50 years.
(12) The extra attacker had been Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink and he should have put Chelsea 2-1 in front in the 78th minute.
(13) Perhaps the recession will finally put the kibosh on all this vulgar Jimmy Choo-ing and Vera Wang-ing.
(14) In discussing the role of the United States in world politics, President Jimmy Carter described the changes in Europe as it prepares for unification into one economic bloc; the deteriorating conditions in the third world; the impact of the recent changes in communist countries; and the persistence of regional wars and civil disputes.
(15) He recalls, with admiration, the late Jimmy Reid , one of the leaders of the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders eight-month work-in in 1971-72 – after a Conservative government initially refused to give the company, which had a full order book, a bridging loan to secure its future.
(16) From Springsteen to Jimmy Barnes, is any rocker safe from rightwingers?
(17) The BBC will also publish an independent assessment of its child protection measures in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal, which led to the resignation of the previous director general, George Entwhistle, in 2012.
(18) A secret 10-day emergency process has culminated in the appointment of Royal Opera House chief executive Lord (Tony) Hall to the £450,000-a-year job of running the BBC , as the corporation turns to a former veteran to help begin the process of recovering from the Jimmy Savile and Newsnight crises.
(19) In his early career, Pharo said, he was sued by paedophile Jimmy Savile.
(20) He was forced to fly home from England's Euro 2012 camp in Poland last month following the death of his 49-year-old father Jimmy from throat cancer.
Pee
Definition:
(n.) See 1st Pea.
(n.) Bill of an anchor. See Peak, 3 (c).
Example Sentences:
(1) When you are not able to find a new [job], it might be challenging to put together resources to undergo the surgery if you do want it.” ‘What are they going to do at the door of every bathroom?’ What really worries activists is the enforcement of these “papers-to-pee” bills.
(2) In case the tidal volume was kept constant, increase of ventilatory rate resulted in a tremendous increase of lung volume, together with considerably higher levels of PEE.
(3) We describe a case of spontaneous perforation of the esophagus (PEE) that was satisfactorily treated by thoracotomy, primary closure and reinforcement of the suture with a gastric fundal patch (Thal plasty).
(4) But in all my travels up the M6 over the years I have never happened to need a pee between junctions 38 and 39, until last week.
(5) However often its members drop elderly patients or leave them to stew in their own pee, the RCN gracefully embraces the public's image of them as the National Union of Angels.
(6) After a few minutes I got the sense that this wasn't a good place for me to be hanging around, but I had to pee urgently.
(7) Because it is self-inflicted, hydra-headed and increasingly beyond our control, both politically and economically, at a time when Britain is losing friends fast by peeing on their chips.
(8) The next stage is that some owners will ban people from swimming, on the grounds that all that sweat, suntan oil and children's pee will ruin the Ph balance.
(9) "It's not true that girls can't pee," said Nora Dore, whose son Abdinasir runs the centre.
(10) As a further deterrent to potential anti-social tourists, the community group also placed signs around the city warning guests against urinating in the street – and threatening to “pee back” if they did.
(11) Community surveillance shows a 22.7% (p = 0.0008) decline in fatal and nonfatal acute myocardial infarction (AMI) rates during the period 1978 to 1985 in the Pee Dee area.
(12) I woke in the middle of the night to pee and thought I should use the opportunity to find out.
(13) It be like, at first, damn that is warm, and then I forget about it, because it just pee.” She could be lost to rage, but a rage every other New Yorker understands, one that comes from not suffering fools, especially people who take themselves far too seriously.
(14) High levels of PEE appear to damage the lung by favoring accumulation of liquid in the extravascular spaces of the lung.
(15) The reality for many disabled people is it’s a muddle and a minefield to have an easy pee.
(16) Instead, a predicted energy expenditure (PEE) is derived based on weight, heat loss, activity, growth requirements, and degree of stress.
(17) The idea is they will think twice next time about urinating in public.” She said the super-hard coating made the “bounce back” effect much stronger than when peeing on a regular wall.
(18) Our aim was to test this hypothesis by determining if resting energy expenditure (REE) measured by indirect calorimetry was greater than the predicted energy expenditure (PEE) calculated from the Harris-Benedict formula (variables--sex, age, height, and weight) in each patient.
(19) I would carefully arrange a coat over my knees under the train table and pee into a bottle held underneath my coat.” 'As the train empties, I worry I'll be forgotten': UK disability facilities Read more He said that he endured one particularly agonising train journey after returning from filming in India in 1999 suffering from a stomach upset only to discover there was no working disabled toilet.
(20) However, when this parameter was expressed as a ratio to the predicted energy expenditure (PEE), the ratio was significantly correlated with the postoperative excess weight loss at 2, 6, and 12 months.