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Sharps

[ shahrps ]

noun

  1. a single-shot, lever-action breechloader rifle patented in the U.S. in 1848 and adopted by the U.S. military in the 1850s.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Sharps1

After Christian Sharps (1811–74), U.S. gunsmith, who invented it
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Example Sentences

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“The spilling and leaking of bodily fluids from dead bodies was not only due to a lack of body bags, but also due to the fact that bodies would occasionally be delivered to the morgue with intravenous tubes still attached to them and with needles and other hospital ‘sharps’ still lying on the gurneys,” the lawsuit alleged.

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As Herring doled out supplies, he directed new recipients to Sidewalk’s drop-in site on Stanford Avenue — a renovated garage space where unhoused community members can eat, rest and shop a free stock of the overdose reversal drug naloxone, clean syringes and sharps containers and other first-aid and hygiene supplies.

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Jay Kornegay, vice president of the Westgate race and sports operations, said roughly 80% bets on the Chiefs was driven by casual gamblers, but that a number of six-digit bets from the so-called sharps on San Francisco caused the line to move back up.

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Professional bettors, otherwise known as sharps, affect betting lines for all sports.

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Langston Sharps, 33, Southeast, was shot on the 2800 block of Hartford Street Southeast around 12:15 p.m. on July 3.

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