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Hanks

[ hangks ]

noun

  1. Tom, born 1956, U.S. film actor.


Hanks

/ hæŋks /

noun

  1. HanksTom1956MUSFILMS AND TV: actor Tom. born 1956, US film actor: his films include Splash (1984), Philadelphia (1993), Forrest Gump (1994), Saving Private Ryan (1998), and The Terminal (2004)


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Tom Hanks checks into hotels under the name “Johnny Madrid!”

Tom Cruise, Robert De Niro, Madonna, Tom Hanks and Gwyneth Paltrow are among those who have eaten at 960 Madison Avenue.

When I finished, Tom Hanks and Bill Hader came on either side of me and ran me down this hallway.

The match was watched in the White House by President Obama, and followed across the States by everyone from Rihanna to Tom Hanks.

The opening and closing sound bites were from Tom Hanks, actor and—oh yeah—one of the executive producers of the show.

Well, there were hanks of different colored yarns and strings of red peppers hanging from the ceiling of the loom-house.

Wolf Paw's right hand was raised high, gripping three long hanks of hair with disks of white flesh hanging from them.

One man did emerge from the trees with a big grin, holding high three bloody scalps dangling from hanks of black hair.

So farewell, false friend, till such near time as your ehrwrdig person decorate our hearth at Mrs. Hanks's in Harvard St.

Each night she spun so many hanks of yarn for her daily bread, and one hank over for the candle.

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