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gillespie
  • n  United States jazz trumpeter and exponent of bebop (1917-1993)
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gibson
  • n  United States illustrator remembered for his creation of the `Gibson girl' (1867-1944)
  • n  Australian actor (born in the United States in 1956)
  • n  United States tennis player who was the first Black woman player to win all the major world singles titles (1927-2003)
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gibson girl
  • n  the idealized American girl of the 1890s as pictured by C. D. Gibson
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giddiness
  • n  an impulsive scatterbrained manner
  • n  a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall
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gide
  • n  French author and dramatist who is regarded as the father of modern French literature (1869-1951)
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gideon algernon mantell
  • n  English geologist remembered as the first person to recognize that dinosaurs were reptiles (1790-1852)
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gidgee
  • n  scrubby Australian acacia having extremely foul-smelling blossoms
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gielgud
  • n  English actor of Shakespearean roles who was also noted for appearances in films (1904-2000)
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gift
  • n  something acquired without compensation
  • n  natural abilities or qualities
  • n  the act of giving
  • v  give qualities or abilities to
  • v  give as a present; make a gift of
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gift horse
  • n  a gift (usually of inferior quality) that should be accepted uncritically
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gift shop
  • n  a shop that sells miscellaneous articles appropriate as gifts
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gift tax
  • n  a tax imposed on transfers of property by gift during the lifetime of the giver
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