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long johns

noun as in long underwear

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In one of Bird and Fortune's most famous recurring sketches, known as The Long Johns, one of the two actors - Bird or Fortune - would portray a senior figure from public life, being interviewed by the other.

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Lining the cases inside are rows of Long Johns, a traditional Hawaiian crispy doughnut with a custard filling; nine types of cookies; and slices of the shop’s bestselling strawberry cake topped with homemade guava sauce.

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The walk: My husband and I found a sun break on a recent rainy Saturday to enjoy our Long Johns and coffee at nearby Oxbow Park, site of the giant Hats n’ Boots sculpture relocated here from a Western-style gas station in Georgetown.

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All semester long, Johns Hopkins professor Sharfstein has been drilling the principles of the CDC manual into the class he teaches at Johns Hopkins.

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Our first encounter with him is as he’s smoked out of a cabin, his face cartoonishly black from an explosion, rolling around in his Long Johns.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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