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Bill stopping dance to find girl's hat
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balaclava
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Balaclava is a 1928 British silent war film directed by Maurice Elvey and Milton Rosmer and starring Cyril McLaglen , Benita Hume , Alf Goddard , Harold Huth , and Wally Patch . A British army officer is cashiered, and re-enlists as Private to take part ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB wear ▪ The offender entered the premises wearing a balaclava and told the sub-postmaster to open the safe. ▪ He was wearing a balaclava so all I could see was his eyes. ▪ He was wearing a balaclava and dark clothing. ...
Wiktionary
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n. 1 A warm cap shielding the neck and head, often made out of wool. 2 (context chiefly Canada English) A ski mask with holes for the eyes and, sometimes, the nose and mouth, which may be rolled up and worn like a toque or pulled over the face for greater ...
Usage examples of balaclava.
Nearby was a scattered settlement of houses outside which stood small, dark-skinned Quechua Indians dressed in ponchos, balaclavas and colourful woollen hats.
The same brutal quality, the same quick ferocity, the same unmerciful eyes looking out of the same balaclavas.
They wore balaclavas, but I saw their dark un-Russian eyes very clearly.
The sheer animal fury swept into the room like an emotional volcano, and the half concealing balaclavas only seemed to intensify the horrendous impact.
I jumped off the sofa and laid into both of them with the chair with a fury fed by theirs, and Stephen picked up one of the vodka bottles and slammed it at one of the eye-slits of the balaclavas.
Muffled to the ears and with balaclavas and hoods pulled low over their foreheads, they were so swaddled in layers of jerseys, trousers and coats that they were barely able to waddle: given a couple of white fur coats they would have resembled nothing so much as a pair of polar bears, that had given up on their diet years ago.
When he was finished, Lieutenant Ulbricht was as immune to the weather as it was possible for anyone to be: two balaclavas and a tightly strung duffel hood made sure of that.
Handing the sextant to Jamieson, he quickly removed Ulbricht's duffel hood, balaclavas and goggles.
Though it would have helped their cover if they could have gotten Harvath and Alexandra into the Spetsnaz uniforms with their black balaclavas and pretend that Raisa was helping guide them around the ship, there was no time for that.
The men in balaclavas were a studentdarts team with the arrows and a small silver trophy toprove it.
Before his comrades could react, four night-clad figures, torsos bulky with unfamiliar gear, faces painted black and heads shrouded by balaclavas and the insect-glitter of night-vision goggles, materialized out of the shadows and opened fire.
They wore the SEALs' usual mix of headgear floppy boonie hats, woolen balaclavas, or a dark green scarf folded into a triangle and worn over the head like a bandana.
In addition to the rummage sales, every Tuesday afternoon her group knitted for the troops, in the drawing room—washcloths for the beginners, scarves for the intermediates, balaclavas and gloves for the experts.
Those with criminal convictions and the weirdoes who turned up equipped with black balaclavas or armed with knives were shown the gate.