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all-american

/awl-uh-mer-i-kuhn/US // ˌɔl əˈmɛr ɪ kən //

全美,全美国,全美式,全美洲

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : representing the entire United States.
    • : composed exclusively of American members or elements.
    • : selected as the best in the United States, as in a sport: the all-American college football team of 1983.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an all-American player or performer.

Examples

  • Fluoride first entered an American water supply through a rather inelegant technocratic scheme.

  • Have you looked around the American Dental Association website for an explanation of how fluoridation actually works?

  • The best comparison here for an American audience is, well, Internet stuff.

  • But along with the cartoon funk is an all-too-real story of police brutality embodied by a horde of evil Pigs.

  • The benefits of incumbency are quite potent, especially in the all-important area of raising campaign funds.

  • We prefer the American volume of Hochelaga to the Canadian one, although both are highly interesting.

  • We can readily see how this might have been, from numerous experiments made with both American and European varieties.

  • He was in early life a shipcarpenter, and subsequently American consul at Antwerp.

  • The difficulty of educating handlers of bills in distant places as to American credits.

  • He had discovered that the all-glorious boast of Spain was not exempt from the infirmities of common men.