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Scouts

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1. Scouts - Noun

2. Scouts - Proper noun

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Scouts

plural of Scout

A worldwide youth movement with the aim of supporting young people in their physical, mental and spiritual development, so that they may play a constructive role in the society [1].

Any of the national Scouts organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America.

The Selous Scouts, a special forces regiment of the former Rhodesian Army.

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The Girl Scouts is an organization that constantly gives you new goals to achieve and that's what life is all about. Maria Bartiromo

I would be happy to have a gay child. He would be a Boy Scout, and he would teach all the other Boy Scouts how to build a fire with two sticks and a back-handed compliment. Margaret Cho

[After describing a hopper for feeding winter game:] If you think you're too old to enjoy building such contraptions - that only Boy Scouts get a kick out of such nonsense - just try it. You may end up by building several. Aldo Leopold

In the past, children learned their values at home, reinforced by organizations such as the Boy Scouts and, of course, their church or synagogue, but in all too many families that is no longer the case. Paul Weyrich

Scouting ought to be about building character, not about sex. Period. Precious few parents enroll their boys in the Scouts to get a crash course in sexual orientation. Rick Perry

The shovel scouts the poker. French Proverb

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