guinea pig

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a guinea pig

if someone is used as a guinea pig, new ideas or products are tested on them. They're looking for volunteers to act as guinea pigs for a new AIDS vaccine.

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Laurence, who was considered their special patron, to the astonished guinea pig, who had strayed from its proper sphere in search of its young master. Little Women by Alcott, Louisa May View in context Finally, I will assuredly give some account of the toxodon, the giant ten-foot guinea pig, with projecting chisel teeth, which we killed as it drank in the gray of the morning by the side of the lake. The Lost World by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context I think there is nothing more pathetic than to see one of these poor old childless couples taking a menagerie of yelping little worthless dogs to their hearts; and then adding some cursing and squawking parrots and a jackass-voiced macaw; and next a couple of hundred screeching songbirds, and presently some fetid guinea pigs and rabbits, and a howling colony of cats. Pudd'n'head Wilson by Twain, Mark View in context More results

References in classic literature

Laurence, who was considered their special patron, to the astonished guinea pig, who had strayed from its proper sphere in search of its young master.

Little Women by Alcott, Louisa May View in context

Finally, I will assuredly give some account of the toxodon, the giant ten-foot guinea pig, with projecting chisel teeth, which we killed as it drank in the gray of the morning by the side of the lake.

The Lost World by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context

I think there is nothing more pathetic than to see one of these poor old childless couples taking a menagerie of yelping little worthless dogs to their hearts; and then adding some cursing and squawking parrots and a jackass-voiced macaw; and next a couple of hundred screeching songbirds, and presently some fetid guinea pigs and rabbits, and a howling colony of cats.

Pudd'n'head Wilson by Twain, Mark View in context

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