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Lester

American  
[les-ter] / ˈlɛs tər /

noun

  1. a male given name: from the English placename “Leicester.”


Example Sentences

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Sometimes it just meant that you were scared, like Lester Yeagle.

From Literature

“If you don’t do it right,” Gladys Herdman told Lester, “it means your eyes are in backward, and they have to take them out and put them in the other way.”

From Literature

This made Lester so nervous that he couldn’t tell L from M or X from K and when the doctor said, “Well, let’s just switch eyes,” he went all to pieces and had to go lie down in the nurse’s room till his mother could come and get him.

From Literature

Besides having three other kids and a baby, Mrs. Yeagle was a school bus driver, so she couldn’t waste much time just letting Lester be hysterical.

From Literature

But Lester was too hysterical to tell her what happened—all he said was “Herdman.”

From Literature