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noun

army ant.

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Origin of driver ant

First recorded in 1855–60

Words nearby driver ant

drivel, driveline, driven, drive-off, driver, driver ant, driver ed, driver education, driverless, driver's license, driver's seat

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Thankfully there were no casualties—the driver managed to stop the train immediately.
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He also was working to recruit Castro as a driver for a drug load.
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So I asked the driver to honk the horn, which he does, and Rod looks over.
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Abraham, a yellow cab driver and student, feels that blacks are targeted unfairly by the police.
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Public employee unions are a little-acknowledged driver of this conflict.
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But, when the car came thundering down, it was crammed to the step; with a melancholy gesture, the driver declined her signal.
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Her feet crush creeping things: there is a busy ant or blazoned beetle, with its back broken, writhing in the dust, unseen.
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Pervenimvs huc (sicut ant numeratum est) vigesim secund Maij.
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The driver must at all times have his car under reasonable control so that he can stop in time to avoid injury.
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If there be no facilities for stopping for the night, a driver is not negligent should he proceed through the fog.
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British Dictionary definitions for driver ant

driver ant

noun

any of various tropical African predatory ants of the subfamily Dorylinae, which live in temporary nests and travel in vast hordes preying on other animalsSee also army ant

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