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*** Alternative forms
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*** Pronunciation
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*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A pole , garlanded with streamer s held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day .
2. * [en]
3. [en] A very tall girl or young lady.
4. [en] A maypole-like structure of stick s placed about a sapling in the bower s of certain species of bowerbird .
5. * [1=en]
6. [en] A penis , especially a large one.
7. * [passage=and now, disengag'd from the shirt, I saw, with wonder and surprise, what? not the play-thing of a boy, not the weapon of a man, but a MAYPOLE of so enormous a standard, that had proportions been observ'd, it must have belong'd to a young giant.]
**** Derived terms
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**** Translations
[pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to
celebrate May Day]
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**** Further reading
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*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. To dance or spin in a circle around something.
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2010 | author=Julie Clark | title=Asperger's in Pink | page=223
|passage=Kristina quieted a little, and MAYPOLED around me.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2011 | author=Simon Brett | title=Cast in Order of Disappearance
|passage=The line jerked and MAYPOLED itself around the rod.}}
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