fixed-head coupé

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noun

another name (esp Brit) for coupé (def. 1)

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Words nearby fixed-head coupé

fixed-do system, fixed exchange rate, fixed-focus camera, fixed-gear, fixed head, fixed-head coupé, fixed idea, fixed-income, fixed-length, fixed liability, fixed link

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How to use fixed-head coupé in a sentence

The gunman hardly broke stride as he nonetheless shot Merabet in the head, killing him.
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The scheme has been condemned by civil liberties groups and queried by the National Association of Head Teachers.
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He closed his eyes, imagining the virgins, imagining away the pain in his head and groin.
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I think all the traveling and all the nationalities put that stuff in my head.
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“I usually see people head to the stationary bikes,” Steinbrick says.
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Madame Ratignolle, more careful of her complexion, had twined a gauze veil about her head.
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As men fixed in the grip of nightmare, we were powerless—unable to do anything but wait.
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Only in the carnage of the head, the tilt of the chin, was the insolence expressed that had made her many enemies.
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Old Mrs. Wurzel and the buxom but not too well-favoured heiress of the house of Grains were at the head of the table.
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She sat straight up in bed, and jerked her hands to her head, and screamed long and terribly.
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