kirby
1 Americannoun
plural
kirbiesnoun
Etymology
Origin of kirby
First recorded in 1795–1805; after the proper name
Example Sentences
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“Complacency is a killer,” he told a crowd of about 50 last week at On the Kirb, an organic sports bar in the upmarket Houston neighborhood of Upper Kirby.
The toys tend to be collaborations with popular brands such as Nintendo’s Kirby and popular series “One Piece.”
In the early 1960s, with Bamberger now a regional distributor for Kirby vacuums, one of his employees, Bill Church Jr., approached him for a loan; Church’s dad, George W. Church Sr., had recently died, and the family was struggling to keep the fried-chicken restaurants he had started afloat.
Joshua Kirby is deputy editor for breaking news at Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal, covering European business and economics.
United’s Scott Kirby is seen as a bold, straightforward leader, while Delta’s Ed Bastian is viewed as financially astute executive, reaping the benefits of a solid background in finance.
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