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Catchword for “dump truck”
Catchword: dump truck
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Part of Speechn.
The part of speech reflects that used in the full entry, and not necessarily the part of speech as it is used in the quotation below.
Quotation: “One of the cruel ironies is that on the tier in any prison, the person most inmates name as responsible for them being there is ‘the dump truck P.D.,’” said David Coleman, the public defender in Contra Costa County, Calif. “Thus, the razor or weapon used against a public defender is all too common.”
Article or Document Title:
“Inside Courts, Threats Become an Alarming Part of the Fabric” (URL)
Author:
Deborah Sontag
Article, Document, Publication, Web Site:
N.Y Times
Date of Publication:
Mar. 20, 2005
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