Nanaimo bar

/ (nəˈnaɪməʊ) /

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noun

Canadian a chocolate-coated sweet with a filling made from butter and icing sugar

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Word Origin for Nanaimo bar

C20: named after Nanaimo, a city on Vancouver Island

Words nearby Nanaimo bar

Namur, Nan, nana, Nanai, Nanaimo, Nanaimo bar, Nanak, nana nap, Nana Sahib, Nanay, NANB hepatitis

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How to use Nanaimo bar in a sentence

I took out my knife, my Ka-Bar, and knocked his teeth out, but they fell into his throat.
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You might work on the same groove for five hours nonstop, some three-bar thing over and over.
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The bar also claims that it hosted the first-ever poetry slam 28 years ago.
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A sepia photo shows him as a young boy, head in his hands, with a large book open at a bar table.
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His later books drew heavily from experiences and people he encountered at the bar, including the cruel captain in The Sea-Wolf.
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But you will find most colleges and most college societies bar religious instruction and discussion.
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Ogden Hoffman, a distinguished member of the New York bar, died, aged 62.
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The mosquito bar was drawn over her; the old woman had come in while she slept and let down the bar.
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And when three come, me and Maud was on the Bar Y road where it goes acrosst that crick-bottom.
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If dat preacher goes to run a bar agin me,” he says, “py golly, I makes no more moneys!
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