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syringe

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1. syringe - Noun

2. syringe - Verb

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A kind of small hand-pump for throwing a stream of liquid, or for purposes of aspiration. It consists of a small cylindrical barrel and piston, or a bulb of soft elastic material, with or without valves, and with a nozzle which is sometimes at the end of a flexible tube; -- used for injecting animal bodies, cleansing wounds, etc.

To inject by means of a syringe; as, to syringe warm water into a vein.

To wash and clean by injection from a syringe.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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He looks at my hand. "So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.”. Suzanne Collins

I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe. Jacques Derrida

One minute she is a sweet old silly, knitting herself a set of syringe covers and talking about her favourite flowers, and the very next moment she has told you and your friends she has a ring supporting the back of her vagina. Derren Brown

Disappear Here. The syringe fills with blood. You're a beautiful boy and that's all that matters. Wonder if he's for sale. People are afraid to merge. To merge. Bret Easton Ellis

The idea of getting a, you know, syringe full of heroin and shooting it in the vein under my cock right now seems like almost a productive act. Bill Hicks

I was walking in the city the other day. I saw a syringe lying on the sidewalk. I stuck the needle in my forearm. That was a classy neighborhood, so the use of the syringe seemed justified. Xavier Leroy

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