tartar
noun
tartars
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pluralof tartar.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Mine’s “Cheese, fries, two tartars, two ketchups, please.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 25, 2018
The patent-medicine makers, the rich-food-makers, the formaldehyde-and-seekers, the sulfiters, the coal tartars rose up against him, dubbed him "Old Borax."
From Time Magazine Archive
Thar be young 'uns an' young 'uns," he elucidated, "but they be tartars!
From Old Lady Number 31 by Louise Forsslund
The wall and the floors were of pitch-pine, and covered with specially manufactured tartars.
From Queen Victoria by Giles Lytton Strachey
What else? no part I take in party fray, With troops from Billingsgate's slang-whanging tartars, I fear no Pope—and let great Ernest play At Fox and Goose with Foxs' Martyrs!
From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Thomas Hood
