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toad-stranglers

toad-stranglers is the plural of toad-strangler.

Meaning of toad-strangler

Noun

toad-strangler (plural toad-stranglers)

  1. (US, dialectal) A very heavy downpour of rain.
    • "I mean, hit's a toad-strangler of a rain," he proffered. "I mean!" she agreed. "Reckon your daddy'll keer, me a-follerin' this-a-way?" "Reckon he mought."1940, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, When the whippoorwill

Questions about toad-stranglers

What is toad-stranglers the plural of?
Toad-stranglers is the plural of toad-strangler.

Words near toad-stranglers in the dictionary

  1. toad-in-the-hole
  2. toad-in-the-holes
  3. toad-like
  4. toad-spit
  5. toad-strangler
  6. toad-stranglers
  7. toadate
  8. toadback
  9. toadbacks
  10. toadbug
  11. toadeat

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