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staggers

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1. staggers - Noun

2. staggers - Verb

3. Staggers - Proper noun

Meaning

A surname.

staggers

plural of stagger

staggers (uncountable)

Any of various diseases of animals that affects the nervous system, characterized by a lack of control of the limbs
staggers and jags, delirium tremens or extreme inebriation

staggers

third-person singular simple present indicative of stagger

(Oxford University slang, archaic) St Stephen's House, Oxford.

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Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting. Eric Hoffer

Bloated, one [=Kirchner himself] staggers off to work, where all work is in vain and the onslaught of mediocrity flattens everything. Like the cocottes that I painted, that is how one is now. Wiped out, next time gone. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

The soul is an immaculate virgin...Then it goes out and gets fucked by the world all day long & staggers back a baggy-eyed old whore, still hoping that after a sleep the Moment of purification will come again. Northrop Frye

The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind. Muhammad Iqbal

The weary Titan staggers under the too vast orb of its fate. Joseph Chamberlain

I realize I'm a very lucky man. I love what I do, I love films, TV and theater, and the fact that I'm able to make a living at it staggers me. Eric Stoltz

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