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Usage examples of semipro.

One was that Kozinski had been killed by a deft or lucky amateur, or maybe a semipro hired by a jealous girlfriend or outraged husband or unpaid plumber or whatever.

We played the best semipro clubs in the Cleveland area, and I beat them all.

Jannie said, and put up her dukes like the little semipro boxer that she is becoming under my watchful eye.

The pilot of the DC-3 was a man in his fifties with the lined, haggard face of the professional pilot and semipro boozer.

Not only do they provide the only source of live classical music in many areas, but even those who will eventually populate the major professional orchestras often gain experience first with amateur and semipro groups.

Merrimac all rich with broken pines and browns, fall, the whistle was just shrilled to end the third quarter in the wintry November field where crowds and me and father stood watching scuffling uproars of semipro afternoons like in the days of old Indian Jim Thorpe, boom, touchdown.

That spring I had thirty-six bingers in seventy-five at bats, including a game against a semipro oil-company squad that didn’t count in our division standings.

His move to Berkeley for grad school had been delayed by two years playing semipro baseball at a farm club in Fresno.

He kept his sex life almost entirely to one-night stands, semipros, sometimes women and sometimes young men.

Between the hookers and semipros cutting deals in the backs of campers, and the steady trickle of randy Johns walking out of the club looking for some parking-lot action, there were too many witnesses for a crook to feel comfortable about armed robbery.