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Kidnapper (A)

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One who nabs or steals “kids” or young children.

“Swarms of kidnappers were busy in every northern town.”—J. B. McMaster: People of the United States, vol. ii. chap. x. p. 357.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Kick (A)
Kick Over the Traces (To)
Kick the Beam (To)
Kick the Bucket (To)
Kick Up a Row (To)
Kickshaws
Kicksy-wicksy
Kid (A)
Kid (A)
Kidderminster Poetry
Kidnapper (A)
Kidney
Kilda (St.)
Kildare
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Kilkenny
Kilkenny Cats
Kill (A)
Kill Two Birds with One Stone (To)
Killed by Inches
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