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dinosaur

Definition

  • noun: one of many reptiles that lived on Earth millions of years ago
  • noun: any of a group (Dinosauria) of extinct often very large chiefly terrestrial carnivorous or herbivorous reptiles of the Mesozoic era
  • synonyms: fossil, old fart, dinosaurian

Examples

  • The character she plays is a 'dinosaur'—a former beauty queen who is living in the past.

  • The old factory is now a rusting 'dinosaur'.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) than any fish in Alabama. Some said that fish was the ghost of a thief... ...who'd drowned in that river years before. Others claimed he was a dinosaur left over from the "Cruaceous" Period. I didn't put any stock into such speculation or superstition. All I knew was I'd been trying (..)
    2003 Big Fish