Gaines

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  1. 1
    A surname.

    "On the podcast, Gaines and his co-host Walter Weekes (Fresh), regularly refer to women as “hoes” or 304s (304 on an upside-down calculator looks like the word “hoe”)."

  2. 2
    A place in the United States:; A township and village therein, in Genesee County, Michigan.
  3. 3
    A place in the United States:; A township in Kent County, Michigan.
  4. 4
    A place in the United States:; A town in Orleans County, New York, named after Edmund P. Gaines.
  5. 5
    A place in the United States:; A township and village therein, in Tioga County, Pennsylvania.
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  1. 6
    A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Upshur County, West Virginia, named after Joseph H. Gaines.

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"Riley Gaines managed to turn a fifth-place tie with a trans woman, the most inconsequential thing imaginable, into a career as a paid anti-trans activist."

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Fort GainesGaines County

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