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Word: prodder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...less lifelike. A visitor goes up to him, winks to show that he is not taken in and, with much self-assurance, just to show how certain he is, prods him in the abdomen. "Move on there, move on, please," booms the bobby without a smile, while the prodder writhes in the last agonies of a pricked balloon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fire | 3/30/1925 | See Source »

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