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A number of strikers in cup tie perhaps to give yellow card
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matchbook
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a small folder of paper safety matches
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Matchbook is an album by guitarist Ralph Towner and vibraphonist Gary Burton recorded in 1974 and released on the ECM label.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also match-book , in reference to a folder holding fire-starting devices, 1913, from match (n.1) + book (n.).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A small folded sheet of cardboard containing rows of cardboard matches, generally with a striker on the outside.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A bowl containing matchbooks from every restaurant she had ever gone to sat beside a pair of wooden soldiers. ▪ Get rich quick schemes on the inside of matchbooks? ▪ He went through matchbooks when he was 6. ▪ She'd obtained ...
Usage examples of matchbook.
Deciding that matchbooks were in the category of objects which no one much minds losing, Wexford dropped it into his pocket and forgot it.
For despite the red carnations in bud vases gracing each booth, despite the zebra-striped menus, matchbooks, and napkins, the Zebra Room itself was empty.
The smaller rocks closer to the water were coated with algae and weeds, and in niches between them Max saw matchbooks, plastic six-pack holders and aluminum pop-tops from soda cans.
WD40, several McDonalds napkins, a matchbook from some place called the Pink Lady, a folded schedule with addresses and codes he didnt recognize and a small screwdriver.
Definitely not Allison's turf pounds iShe placed the matchbook on top of the bureau to show to Steele.
She spent a few minutes telling him about the matchbook she'd found in Allison's bureau.
He'll check out the bar identified on the matchbook we found at Allison's, as well as interview Mrs.
It was enough to make art schools that distribute DRAW ME matchbooks fork over scholarships as if they were hamburgers.
He gave a little shrug, and drew out another cigarette, and stood there, staring off, considering, apparently, as he pulled out his matchbook, and without even noticing it, did that wonderful one-handed match trick of bending out one book match, and closing the book and then bending that match and striking it and putting the flame to the cigarette.
Comb, lipstick, dental floss, matchbooks, payroll stub, airplane tickets, used.
Now and again he stopped, pulling stock from the racks, scattering matchbooks over the stream of flammables, adding fuel that would feed the flames and spread them.
He habitually preferred gasoline as an accelerant, used streamers of convenient, onsite flammables, along with matchbooks from his own collection.
At first I thought this was a mistake until I looked at the list of banned items again–and saw that butane lighters and matchbooks were NOT on the forbidden list.
The publicist is there too, and she and the agent look out the tinted windows while the trainer sharpens a needle against the scratch pad of a matchbook and shoots me up with 50 milligrams of Laurabolin.
He felt a flicker of excitement when he found a matchbook from a motel in Pine Bluff, but then he remembered the girls had played in a tournament there the year before.