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Look up: Akimbo

  1. akimbo
    [adv] - with hands on hips and elbows extending outward
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Akimbo
    A·kim'bo adjective [ Etymology unknown. Confer Kimbo .] With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward. 'With one arm akimbo .' Irving.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/A/49

  3. akimbo
    With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward. 'With one arm akimbo.' ... Origin: Etymology unknown. Cf. Kimbo. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  4. akimbo
    adverb with hands on hips and elbows extending outward; `she stood there akimbo`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  5. Akimbo
    • (a.) With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  6. akimbo
    having the hand on the hip and the elbow turned outward.
    Found on http://charlesdickenspage.com/glossary.h

  7. Akimbo
    (on-demand service) `Akimbo` was a video on demand system that allowed subscribers to download television shows, movies, and other video to a set-top box on demand. Before adopting the name Akimbo, the company also operated under a number of other names including StaticTV and Blue F...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akimbo

  8. Akimbo
    `Akimbo` is a human body position in which the hands are on the hips and the elbows are bowed outward, or bent/bowed in a more general sense . Origins: The term was recorded first in the English language around 1400 in The Tale of Beryn: "The hoost ... set his hond in kenebowe." In ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akimbo

  9. Akimbo
    (band) `Akimbo` is an American hardcore band from Seattle, Washington. The band was founded by its two original members, Jon Weisnewski (Bass, Vocals) and Nat Damm (Drums). The two met in 1995 in a high school gym class after noticing each others` home-made punk t-shirts. They quickly became ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akimbo



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11 February 2012

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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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