crottled greep

plural crottled greeps

1. humorousnonce wordplural normallyslanglifestyleA fictional foodstuff.

   But if you don't like crottled greeps, what did you order them for?

   1953, Dean Grennell, Filler, Filler #378

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   Lee Hoffman wrote a story for GRUE 27 portraying Crottled Greeps as a seductive but lethal viand and imagination took over from there.

   1959, Richard "Dick" Harris Eney, Fancyclopedia II, Crottled Greeps

   Really, Diefenbaker would write to anybody. Just let someone in Nowhere-in-Particular, New Jersey. write in a comment to Diefenbaker's fan magazine, and Dief would fire back a friendly five-page letter, making the poor crottled greep feel liked.

   1988, Sharyn McCrumb, Bimbos of the Death Sun, →ISBN, page 9

   In this book, Crottled Greeps is the name of a wide range of completely unrelated foods from different cultures.

   1990, Greg Costikyan, Cups and Sorcery, →ISBN, page ?

   I won't touch crottled greeps. Why is it everyone who's seen a crottled greep wants to watch someone else coping?

   1994, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, The Gripping Hand, →ISBN, page 27

   Though many have whined about blog, and indeed about crottled greeps, this won't quite do. For one thing, most places that deign to serve crottled greeps aren't classy enough to serve blog, and those that are charge an enormous corkage fee. For another, blog is too strong (in both flavor and alcohol) and covers up the delicate nuances of crottled greeps. Some people consider this a plus.

   1995 October 6, David E Romm, “Re: parking ghods (was Re: NYC Fandom)”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), message-ID <romm-0610951335260001@ppp-66-114.dialup.winternet.com>