Crossword-Solution: ALLIGATOR
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Alligator | n. | A large carnivorous reptile of the Crocodile family, peculiar to America. It has a shorter and broader snout than the crocodile, and the large teeth of the lower jaw shut into pits in the upper jaw, which has no marginal notches. Besides the common species of the southern United States, there are allied species in South America. |
| Alligator | n. | Any machine with strong jaws, one of which opens like the movable jaw of an alligator |
| Alligator | n. | a form of squeezer for the puddle ball |
| Alligator | n. | a rock breaker |
| Alligator | n. | a kind of job press, called also alligator press. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEARE
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greedy person
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Sentences with ALLIGATOR (5)
She ate nothing but alligator-pear salad and hothouse grapes, drank a little champagne, and took cognac in her coffee.
The traveler told an alluring tale of his long voyage up the great river from Para to the sources of the Madeira, through the heart of an enchanted land, a land wastefully rich in tropical wonders, a romantic land where all the birds and flowers and animals were of the museum varieties, and where the alligator and the crocodile and the monkey seemed as much at home as if they were in the Zoo.
Trina wore a blue cloth skirt, a striped shirt waist, and a white sailor; about her round waist was a belt of imitation alligator skin.
There was a tree just behind which bore alligator pears, and all about were the cocoa-nuts which gave the land its revenue.
Once, when an odd-looking craft, with a vast coal-scuttle slanting aloft on the end of a beam, was steaming by in the distance, he indifferently drew attention to it, as one might to an object grown wearisome through familiarity, and observed that it was an 'alligator boat.' 'An alligator boat? What's it for?' 'To dredge out alligators with.' 'Are they so thick as to be troublesome?' 'Well, not now, because the Government keeps them down.
Quotes with ALLIGATOR (3)
If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!
I don't do romance, in the same way I don't do heroin Russian roulette, or nude alligator wrestling. I consider all of the above self-destructive, and demeaning and these are things up with which I will not put.
No one is adequate to comprehending the misery of my lot! Fate obliges me to be constantly in movement: I am not permitted to pass more than a fortnight in the same place. I have no Friend in the world, and from the restlessness of my destiny I never can acquire one. Fain would I lay down my miserable life, for I envy those who enjoy the quiet of the Grave: But Death eludes me, and flies from my embrace. In vain do I throw myself in the way of danger. I plunge into the Ocean;…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 21 times in crossword archives (1944–2022).