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afters

/ ˈɑːftəz /

noun

  1. informal.
    dessert; sweet
  2. slang.
    a confrontation or physical violence between football players immediately after they have been involved in a challenge for the ball


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“People have seen design shows before, with beautiful befores and afters,” says Jonathan.

As for afters, forget a grotty gym shower and leaping into your street-clothes: the post-workout is as much fun as the class.

Every little stone bes worth more nor all the fore-and-afters on the coast.

Such in-and-in fore-and-afters that their booms won't stay guyed-out, even after you've been at the pains to use a hawser.

You wanted looking afters just fancy, nosing around a dug-out and not taking any bombs.

The fore and afters were the ropes secured to the side corners, and they, on being hauled taut and belayed, held it out square.

A fleet of fore-and-afters at anchor has its own slender graciousness.

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