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• n  an irritating or obnoxious person
• n  any usually predatory wild animal considered undesirable; e.g., coyote

• Moss spends most of his sorry time being chased and shot at: as he tries to ford a river pursued by a varmint posse and a killer dog, or jumping out a second-story hotel window .
• The pause before a man speaks suggests the world of options available to someone facing an armed varmint in a desolate space.
• Still, he was the marshal, and when he whipped his Colt from its holster and fired at the varmint standing at the other end of the dusty, deserted street, western fans could .

• vermin
• varment

News & Articles

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• Varmint conquered
  Twenty years of chasing the Varmint... Some of the 437 runners leave the start line as the 20th Annual Varmint Half-Marathon and 5K Run begins at Burkes Garden.
  June 9, 2013 - Bluefield Daily Telegraph

Quotes

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• John McCain in Forbes
  McCain said Romney's solution to illegal immigration might be "to get out his small varmint gun and drive those Guatemalans off his lawn" - a reference to reports that several illegal immigrants, including at least one from Guatemala, worked on...
• Mark Salter in Washington Post
  His campaign once called Romney's "desperate and flailing," and McCain's chief aide, Mark Salter, wrote of Romney late last year that "he does what any small-varmint-gun-totin,' civil-rights-marching, NRA-endorsed fantasy candidate would do:...
• Mitt Romney in CNN
  WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Republican presidential hopeful John McCain taunted rival Mitt Romney on immigration Monday, saying the former Massachusetts governor should "get out his small-varmint gun and drive those Guatemalans off his lawn."