Fencepost

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A post which helps hold up a fence.

    "Reversing the car I got the headlights on the bird sitting on the roadside fencepost to reveal a Powerful Owl imperiously staring back at us."

Example

More examples

"Nietzsche spoke of "Übermenschen," not "Übermänner," so your supermen and overmen can go sit on a fencepost."

Etymology

From fence + post.

Related phrases

fencepost errorfencepost problem

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