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merry-andrews

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plural of merry-andrew

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The club hosts nationally known comedians and up-and-coming performers.

— Adam Thompson, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026
Bigger, Longer & Uncut, in which the flatulent Canadian comedians Terrance and Phillip outrage the parents of South Park with their foul-mouthed hit comedy Asses of Fire.

— Damon Wise, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of comedians

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The two buffoons shave her head, chain her in the basement of a messy remote home and then accuse her of being an alien.

— Randy Myers, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
But times have changed, and this team of buffoons is forced to grapple with changing industry ethics and sensationalist journalism in its transition, all while Ron faces an identity crisis that challenges his bravado, his massive ego.

— Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025

Definition of buffoons

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One morning during my stay, there were even clowns buzzing about—a thrill to receive a balloon poodle alongside my morning flat white.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 July 2026
Perhaps most astonishingly, the movie manages to make creepy clowns — that shopworn trope — genuinely frightening again.

— Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 7 July 2026

Definition of clowns

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Moreover, if Griffin stepped into public life now, the cynical wags in finance would declare the reason obvious—his hedge fund’s returns have been sagging.

— Gary Sernovitz, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
Many critics, political pundits, and wags asked, somewhat rhetorically, whether anyone in the administration recalls how handing the responsibility of nuclear weaponry over to machines turned out in the Terminator movies.

— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2026

Definition of wags

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There are Jewish jokes and Jewish jokesters and Nazis who torture and kill the jokesters.

— Cathleen Schine, The New York Review of Books, 19 Mar. 2026
The Harvard jokesters’ ad noted that a $10 million reward is being offered for the return of the 13 missing masterpieces that were taken from the Boston museum 35 years ago.

— Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2025

Definition of jokesters

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Holden eagerly rebels against Pencey Prep, gets the boot, and flees to New York City, a place with its own vices and hazards, but without the sort of propaganda and pretense that obscure the school’s dark underside.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Aug. 2026
The long-standing problem is that Skid Row is both a social service center and a mecca of drugs and other vices, with traps on every block.

— Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026

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