girdle-tailed lizard

[ gur-dl-teyld ]

/ ˈgɜr dlˌteɪld /

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noun

any African lizard of the family Cordylidae, having a spiny tail used in defense.

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How to use girdle-tailed lizard in a sentence

Another set of hackers that goes by the name the Lizard Squad told the Washington Post that they helped with the Sony hack.
U.S. Spies Say They Tracked ‘Sony Hackers’ For Years|Shane Harris|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
And some members of the Lizard Squad are now claiming that they were never trying to poison the network.
The Attack on the Hidden Internet|Marc Rogers|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
There is a lot of residual concern that Lizard Squad was able to get even this far.
The Attack on the Hidden Internet|Marc Rogers|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But the Lizard Squad was able to get one thing done: Piss off Anonymous, the best known of the hacktivist collectives.
The Attack on the Hidden Internet|Marc Rogers|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST

It almost makes you wonder if Lizard Squad did this just to annoy Anonymous and the other earnest champions of privacy.
The Attack on the Hidden Internet|Marc Rogers|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And he girded him about with a glorious girdle, and clothed him with a robe of glory, and crowned him with majestic attire.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
Pass thy land as a river, O daughter of the sea, thou hast a girdle no more.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
The girdle which the prophet had been commanded to hide, in process of time was marred; it was profitable for nothing.
The Ordinance of Covenanting|John Cunningham
It was probably 'the metal chape or tag fixed to the end of a girdle or strap,' viz.
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The woman reminds one of a red lizard—a salamander—her “svelte” body seemingly boneless in its gown of clinging scales.
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