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pole-sitters

pole-sitters is the plural of pole-sitter.

Meaning of pole-sitter

Noun

pole-sitter (plural pole-sitters)

  1. Someone who sits on a pole for an extended period of time, following the fad begun in 1924 by Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly; a flagpole sitter.

Questions about pole-sitters

What is pole-sitters the plural of?
Pole-sitters is the plural of pole-sitter.

Words near pole-sitters in the dictionary

  1. pole-ring
  2. pole-rings
  3. pole-screen
  4. pole-screens
  5. pole-sitter
  6. pole-sitters
  7. pole-smoker
  8. pole-smokers
  9. pole-socket
  10. pole-sockets
  11. pole-star

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