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s nook

  • n  large tropical American food and game fishes of coastal and brackish waters; resemble pike

  • Minister-President Hermann Wilhelm Goring cocked his large snook last month in Berlin to roar: "Our colonies have been stolen from us! .
  • There have been suggestions in the London press that Al Fayed encouraged his son to court Diana as a way to get back--or, as the Independent put it, "cock a snook"--at the British .
  • I shouldn't think a Snook was much more important than a sparrow myself.
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  • Shabana Azmi in Sify
    More power to Rahul Gandhi for cocking a snook at the Shiv Sena in its own den in Mumbai by taking the local train from Dadar, which is considered the bastion of the Shiv Sena,said Shabana.
  • Ronnie Biggs in East Anglian Daily Times
    Biggs, who spent 30 years on the run after scaling a rope ladder to escape London's Wandsworth jail in 1965, added: "I apologise for glamorising what should only be thought of as a wilful crime. I accept that cocking a snook at the police was a...

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