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Word: peacocked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Your child is like a little peacock taking you around and showing you everything he learned for the past week," Jackman says. "You see those kids shine from the work that they've done...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis, | Title: Innovative Banneker School Serves City's Minority Students | 2/19/1997 | See Source »

Perhaps it isn't the act of hollow sex which itself is so base. Perhaps it is the notion of it, even at Harvard, as an act that calls forth pride enough to don a pin and strut like a peacock. The celebratory reception of sexual conquest in the drinking culture is quite barbaric. Can men's sexual indulgence represent anything more than a pillage of females given their propensity to speak of in it terms of booty? Obviously, sex has no meaning to them beside its pleasurable...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: The Grille Gratifies | 2/6/1996 | See Source »

...PEACOCK STRUTS ITS STUFF...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEEK: DECEMBER 10-16 | 12/25/1995 | See Source »

Shoot it as you would a noisy peacock...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: MASQUERADE | 11/4/1995 | See Source »

...Swept up in the trancelike flow of his jazz improvisations, he levitates from the piano stool like Jerry Lee Lewis, head thrust back and howling with pleasure. Beneath his fluid fingers, the keyboard ripples spontaneously, spinning out an endless series of riffs and variations, while his lyrical bassist, Gary Peacock, and elegant drummer, Jack DeJohnette, match him move for move. Heads nod approvingly as the melody is handed off from instrument to instrument, three men doing what they love best: making music with hand and heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: GROWING INTO THE SILENCE | 10/23/1995 | See Source »

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