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paper clip

noun as in wire or plastic bent to hold paper

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Even Woo has a paper clip pinning his tiny nostrils together.

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So he found a workaround: a paper clip.

I was holding it together with Scotch tape and paper clips.

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“I kept the paper clips,’’ Wambaugh said, “and never met Webb.”

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“I mean, we may lose our paper clips and bottle caps, but we always have each other.”

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