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Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: September 06, 2011 07:37AM

Boulevards: a collection of boule / bocce playing grounds organised into a long strip.

Define: promenade

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (62.6.182.---)
Date: September 06, 2011 08:19AM

Promenade: a fizzy drink made from the musical fruit, a promegranette.

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Define drink

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: old boiler (---.range86-133.btcentralplus.com)
Date: September 06, 2011 11:51AM

D rink ...the act of turning a large sheet of ice into a boulevard again.

Define sheet

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: ibborobb (217.196.236.---)
Date: September 06, 2011 12:28PM

Sheet: To consume quietly.


Define: Whimsical

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Gary Indiana (50.104.232.---)
Date: September 06, 2011 02:52PM

Whimsical: an interactive musical in which members of the audience take the stage in turns, each singing in the genre of their choice.

Define: genre

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: mycroftstwin (60.234.201.---)
Date: September 07, 2011 02:04AM

Genre - A fuel-powered device for making electricity, only half-working.

Define - unserviceable

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (62.6.182.---)
Date: September 07, 2011 08:28AM

Unserviceable: description of person not suited to being a member of the armed forces.

Define: member

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Marit (159.190.251.---)
Date: September 07, 2011 11:10AM

Member: to study something very carefully, imprinting every detail in one's mind, in order to be able to re-member it later

Define: Detail

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: mycroftstwin (---.xdsl.xnet.co.nz)
Date: September 07, 2011 08:27PM

Detail - de thing on de end of de lion.

Define - lion

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: September 08, 2011 12:51PM

Lion: the creature prostrate on the ground.

Define prostrate

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: bunyip (---.pa.vic.optusnet.com.au)
Date: September 09, 2011 02:29PM

prostrate: rate at which prosts experience the universe. Apocryphal messaging tends to suggest that this is is a variable, but the affecting variables are not yet known.



Define : Apocryphal

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Gary Indiana (139.102.82.---)
Date: September 10, 2011 10:01PM

a-poc-ryphal: not containing pookas. Most Hollywood films are apocryphal, with film "Harvey," starring Jimmy Stewart, remaining the most notable exception.

Define: exception

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: mycroftstwin (---.xdsl.xnet.co.nz)
Date: September 11, 2011 08:47AM

exception - The one thing in a list that's not quite exceptional...

Define - travesty

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: annie (---.lns5.lon.bigpond.net.au)
Date: September 11, 2011 10:39AM

Travesty - any song by the Bee Gees.

Define

Marsh mallow

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: mycroftstwin (---.xdsl.xnet.co.nz)
Date: September 16, 2011 08:36AM

Marsh Mallow - A rare and infrequently sighted member of the mallow species, probably because it looks and tastes yuck.

Define - yuck.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: old boiler (---.range86-133.btcentralplus.com)
Date: September 17, 2011 02:07PM

Part of a mucky aquatic bird. Define a l'orange.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.10-3.cable.virginmedia.com)
Date: September 17, 2011 04:46PM

A l'orange: a way of ruining a perfectly good meal, especially when any of plum, cherry or port sauce are available.

Define meal

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Eoink (---.range86-147.btcentralplus.com)
Date: September 18, 2011 05:36PM

Meal - Prince Albert's way of introducing himself before Victoria got him an English tutor.

Define tutor.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: delacuesta (---.adsl.xs4all.nl)
Date: September 18, 2011 07:14PM

Tutor: One who tought how to be a king (or queen) in the era from Henry VII onward and ending with Queen Anne.

Define: Hannover.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: annie (164.53.222.---)
Date: September 19, 2011 03:25AM

Hannover: That from which a dyslexic person suffers after a night of heavy drinking.


Define: alcohol

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