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Patton

American  
[pat-n] / ˈpæt n /

noun

  1. Charley Charlie Patton, 1881–1934, U.S. blues guitarist and singer.

  2. George Smith, 1885–1945, U.S. general.


Patton British  
/ ˈpætən /

noun

  1. George Smith. 1885–1945, US general, who successfully developed tank warfare as an extension of cavalry tactics in World War II: captured Palermo, Sicily (1942) and much of France (1944)

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The school bus appeared out of the early-morning darkness just then, and he and Chip crammed themselves into the screaming, squealing line of kids jabbering about how Spencer Patton was going to sneak his iPod into math class today and how Kelly Jefferson had just broken up with Jordan Cowan and, “Did you hear—six kids got sick from eating the cafeteria pizza yesterday! Do you think they’ll finally fire the lunch ladies?”

From Literature

Ian Patton, a Long Beach resident, said most parts of the investigation into the 2015 explosion were withheld.

From Los Angeles Times

“Obviously, it was a book about grief, but it didn’t affect me in that way. Then I read it again — no, actually, I listened to Will Patton’s audiobook, which is a work of art in itself — and suddenly it wasn’t something I read from a distance.”

From Los Angeles Times

And in the voice-over the narrator Will Patton says something like, “He never spoke on a telephone.”

From Los Angeles Times

Walking around with that naturalist, meeting the Kootenai people who were reintroducing the sturgeon into the river systems, and of course, listening to Will Patton narrate the book and feeling like I was hearing the book for the first time even though I had read it at least five times by then.

From Los Angeles Times