noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mutton chop whiskers
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
chop
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They smacked of mutton-\#chop whiskers and paternalism.
■ VERB
lose
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He finished second in the 1988 Superstars, losing by a whisker in the final event.
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He had lost his whiskers + fought his own friend.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the cat's whiskers/pyjamas
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For rabbits, use red pimento for ears, strips of cucumber peel for whiskers and small pieces of olive for eyes.
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He lowered his head into his hands, fingers rasping whiskers.
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One of the difficulties in the early stages of this work was to find any reasonably reliable method of measuring whisker strengths.
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She laughs and says his whiskers tickle.
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Smoke issued in whiskers from hornos and chimneys.
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Two large tusks and whiskers were clearly visible.
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Using a paint brush paint blue eyes and whiskers on to the rabbit's face and pink ears and a nose.
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Where there had been whiskers there was pancake makeup.