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husky

slang Large, strong, and imposing in size and stature. Usually of a man. A husky guy like Jack can't borrow your clothes—you're too skinny! You need some husky friends to help you move all this furniture. They've got some pretty husky defensemen, so you smaller forwards better watch out.
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husky

(ˈhəski)
n. a strong man; a thug. A couple of huskies helped me get my car unstuck.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Q10: TWL98's fairly standard amanomic for DANCER was LEPT HUSKILY which also reminded players of the less common spelling of the verb.
[NF:] "But I don't understand," she said huskily. "Yesterday--"
Available now as a download-only single through itunes, it's a sort of ska/folk dance/ballad which combines a huskily poignant vocal from Sam with an irresistibly infectious tune that would sail through any old grey whistle test of instant catchiness.
Stone slinks through every frame, huskily trotting out the salty double entendres ("Who knows if I'll ever come again?"), shedding her figure-hugging apparel with alarming regularity, including a brief spot of full-frontal nudity around a Jacuzzi.
'I had leaves and stalks coming out of every orifice,' she laughs huskily. 'It was great fun.'
'Oui, c'est vrai', he said huskily, clearing his throat.
But that old saying, "Beauty is only skin deep" comes to mind when Sophie was overheard huskily saying: "Axl keeps on looking at me.
Stone slinks through every frame, huskily trotting out the salty double entendres, shedding her figure-hugging apparel with alarming regularity.
"You invited me," he whispers huskily. "It's all right there in your eyes." Though feminists have often insisted that the gaze is agency, King's romance sensibility reminds us that an opposite tradition aligns the gaze with the loss of agency.
For this her debut effort, Capitol surrounded McNally, a more huskily voiced Sheryl Crow with far greater range, with studio aces like Jim Keltner, Billy Payne, Greg Liesz, and Benmont Tench and sheltered her under the wing of producer Ron Aniello.
"She is only a female," said Tomi huskily, "yet believe me, though it is her father speaking, she is an admirable example of her despised sex.
Tenderly, Weintraub began to wipe the blood from Stone's face and huskily replied, "Don't mention it, Al.
Where is the writer who comes up with the occasional tantalizing image: "the grueling needlepoint of footnotes," or Anne's "huskily sexy divinity." On sabbatical?
"Thanks, Alec," she said huskily. "That's what I hoped ye'd say.
Here he looked down on the losses he had suffered in the Battle of Sayler's Creek and said huskily: "My God!
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