privet
- n any of various Old World shrubs having smooth entire leaves and terminal panicles of small white flowers followed by small black berries; many used for hedges
- By whatever name, the goal is the same: to sneak out in the dead of night and shroud the victim's house from chimney pot to privet hedge with yard upon yard of toilet paper .
- Major General Amos Alfred Fries, 68-year-old retired chief of chemical warfare, won a sharp skirmish with District of Columbia authorities over the height of his privet hedge.
- Will one of these sidling, loquacious ones ever be a huge brown Argentine with a mane like a privet hedge? Luis Angel Firpo, will he ever tell unbelievers how he was "cheated .