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gluey

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n. a person, usually a teenager, who sniffs glue. (Drugs.) Teddy is a gluey. That’s why he’s failing in school.
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The step up in trip should more than compensate for his 7lb higher mark, and he will enjoy being back on a sound surface after failing to cope with gluey ground in a hot contest at Sandown last time.
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He made some mistakes the last day and Graham thinks that was because the ground was gluey he couldn't get out of it, so we are hoping the better ground will see him jump better.
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Visiting a school in Telford he discovers 13-year-olds today are less enthralled by tiny, gluey bits of plastic, but presses on with his mission to build a life-size model of a spitfire.
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When these chemicals bump into acidic industrial air pollution, a reaction occurs creating tiny gluey droplets as aerosols--and that is unhealthy, warned researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in the USA (they have been working with the University of Copenhagen, Denmark and the University of Otago, New Zealand).
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It stood in a field on its own, save for a stand-pipe from where I was invited to draw water having marched across a gluey field carefully avoiding eye contact with the watching cattle.
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However, Worgan, signed from Llanharan, did not have a debut to remember, giving too much ball away and seemingly short of Premier pace in the gluey conditions.
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Nearly all consumers commented that the appearance of the water process sample was greyer, blander and had gluey, gummy or pasty texture.
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Murphy said: "If it's going to be gluey, he wouldn't run and he'd go to Punchestown.
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Afterward, I picked gluey wood chips off my feet for a good hour and decided that next time my kid should hire a pro.
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Philip Hobbs, who trains the gelding, rates him highly and blamed the gluey ground for his poor run over course and distance last month - a performance that came just 11 days after he had won easily on his jumping debut at Southwell.
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Just be extremely careful not to overmix your potatoes; otherwise, they'll become gluey, and no one will be thankful for that.
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It's also feasible to use an electric mixer, but you must keep mixing to a minimum to avoid ending up with gluey mashed potatoes that have lost their fluffiness.
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Owned by Khalid Abdullah, the Joh Gosden-trained colt handled the gluey conditions best the Group Three contest and will now have his sights raised.
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Lab tests showed that the gluey substance was made from vegetable oil and resin, or a sticky liquid that comes from trees.
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Pass on the standard gluey pizza or sliced sub, and try to put out more unique and tempting treats, like Chinese dumplings or chicken satay.
A night to remember: think setting out a bowl of Doritos, cranking up the tunes and stringing streamers in the basement add up to party time? Neh
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