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Dempsey   /dˈɛmpsi/   Listen
Dempsey

noun
1.
United States prizefighter who was world heavyweight champion (1895-1983).  Synonyms: Jack Dempsey, Manassa Mauler, William Harrison Dempsey.






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"Dempsey" Quotes from Famous Books



... that if they were deadly enemies and locked in a room together which one would come out alive. Now I claimed that Jack Dempsey ...
— Tales of the Jazz Age • F. Scott Fitzgerald

... still for sale," replied the other. "They don't want to rent it again, you know, and ever since that last party moved out of town and left things looking so bad, Mr. Dempsey has ...
— The Banner Boy Scouts - Or, The Struggle for Leadership • George A. Warren

... what the present trouble meant, now that it was started, and she knew in what it might end. But her courage never wavered. She ran over in her mind the names of the several men who were fighting her—McGaw, for whom she had a contempt; Dempsey and Jimmie Brown, of the executive committee, both liquor-dealers; Paterson, foreman of the gas-house; and the rest—dangerous ...
— Tom Grogan • F. Hopkinson Smith



Words linked to "Dempsey" :   Manassa Mauler, Jack Dempsey, William Harrison Dempsey, gladiator, prizefighter



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