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whacker

wa ker

  • n  something especially big or impressive of its kind

  • It's high time to lower taxes, including corporate taxes, to take a weed-whacker to government regulations, to reform entitlements, and to stand up to the increasingly voracious .
  • Jerry Davis, a local artist who played the role of Bloom on Bloomsday, says of Joyce: "He was an impudent whacker.
  • It's tempting to take a weed whacker and chop them down, but the crabgrass comes back twice as strong unless you get at its roots.
Quotes

  • Mitt Romney in MiamiHerald.com
    The right course is the one championed by Ronald Reagan 30 years ago, and by John McCain today,Romney said in a prepared text released in advance. "It is to rein in government spending and lower taxes, for taking a weed-whacker to...
  • Robin Williams in San Francisco Chronicle
    Speaking on Ellen DeGeneres' TV talk show on Tuesday, Williams said, "I'm lucky ...... with someone like Marsha, and we have amazing kids and it's not a slash and burn. I think a lot of times divorce can be like circumcision with a weed whacker."
  • Lleyton Hewitt in Independent Online
    The situation has got steadily worse for visiting teams and it takes only one whacker over there to turn things on its head,Hewitt said in July.

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