secret Santa

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noun

a system whereby each member of a group chooses at random another member of the group for whom to buy a Christmas present at an agreed cost, so that each member buys one present and receives one present
a person chosen in this way to buy another person's Christmas present

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Words nearby secret Santa

secretory duct, secretory nerve, secretory otitis media, secret partner, secret police, secret Santa, secret sauce, secret service, secret society, secs., sect

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Example sentences from the Web for secret Santa

In secret, before the referendum, the council went ahead and fluoridated the water anyway.
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The death toll, which experts believe has been significantly undercut by secret burials, stands at 7,905.
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Henri Paul actually worked for the French Secret Service and he had €200,000 in his account when he only earned €30,000 a year.
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Never mind the huge buildup of clandestine operatives and secret warriors since 9/11.
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Slowly, slowly, dance classes may cease to be such secret and guilty pleasures in Iran.
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The remarkable thing was that all the hurrying people she met seemed also each of them to be on a secret and mystic errand.
Hilda Lessways|Arnold Bennett
General Santa Anna is within a mile of us with fifteen hundred men.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
To Berthier, if to any one, Bonaparte entrusted his secret designs, for he knew that he could do so in safety.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison
He must be The saltest fish that swims the sea.And, oh!He has a secret woe!
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Dr. Adam Weishaupt, professor of canon law at Ingolstadt, founded the secret society of the illuminati.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell

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