Burroughs

[bur-ohz, buhr-]

noun

1. Edgar Rice, 1875–1950, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.

2. John, 1837–1921, U.S. naturalist and essayist.

3. William Seward, 1855–98, U.S. inventor of the adding machine.

4. his grandson William S(eward), 1914–1997, U.S. novelist.

Burroughs

/ ˈbʌrəʊz /

noun

1. Edgar Rice . 1875–1950, US novelist, author of the Tarzan stories

2. William S ( eward ). 1914–97, US novelist, noted for his experimental works exploring themes of drug addiction, violence, and homosexuality. His novels include Junkie (1953), The Naked Lunch (1959), and Interzone (1989)

Example Sentences

Mr. Korshak’s passion for fantasy illustration was ignited by his father, who decorated the boy’s bedroom with a J. Allen St. John rendition of a scene from Burroughs’s Mars series.

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District Judge Allison Burroughs in September ordered the government to reverse billions in cuts to Harvard.

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His specialty was portraits, many of them of well-known figures from the overlapping artistic-intellectual circles of which he was a part: William Burroughs, Fran Lebowitz and Susan Sontag, to name a few.

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Smith was rubbing shoulders with Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and the poet William Burroughs.

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She meets William Burroughs, performs a reading with Allen Ginsberg.

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