noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a desk/table/dresser etc drawer
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The passports are in my desk drawer.
snappy dresser (= someone who wears fashionable clothes )
Welsh dresser
window dresser
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
snappy
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Alec Llewellyn nodded seriously at me as he walked off in his blue overalls, Alec, that snappy dresser .
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But although a snappy dresser himself, he didn't actually buy anything.
■ NOUN
drawer
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She opened the dresser drawer to put away the knives and spoons.
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When he reached into his dresser drawer that morning, Jeffrey Pyle says, all he wanted was a clean shirt.
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In the dresser drawer was a freshly severed hand, all bloody at the roots.
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She was for ever running to ransack her crowded dresser drawers , rummaging in her sewing box as she made high-pitched excited noises.
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Anne took a tea-towel from the dresser drawer .
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They kept it in their dresser drawer until the police took it away.
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He opens a dresser drawer and picks out a cheap hairbrush, then a pharmacy bottle containing a single capsule of Prozac.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Enterprising window dressers dressed up in ski outfits to set up a display of sportswear in this store.
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He got me to sit on the edge of my oak dresser , and then he walked into me.
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Politicians were transformed into much more stylish, progressive dressers.
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She opened the dresser drawer to put away the knives and spoons.
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We could put the bed over there, Dooley could help, and the dresser here.
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When he reached into his dresser drawer that morning, Jeffrey Pyle says, all he wanted was a clean shirt.
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When the giant dresser disappeared for ever I felt better still.