Dirty Dozen
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English[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
- Any of certain groups of twelve people.
- (American football) The twelve rookies who made the Dallas Cowboys team in 1975.
- A team of twelve IBM employees, formed in 1980, who created the first IBM PC in 1981.
- (Basketball) The United States' men's basketball team (which consists of twelve players) at the 1998 FIBA World Championship.
- Saddam Hussein and eleven others who carried out his orders.
- (cycling) A one-day road cycling race founded in 1983 (which originally featured twelve hills, but since 1988 has typically featured a baker's dozen of thirteen hills), held annually in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- (aviation) The twelve most common aircraft problems, resulting from human error, that may lead to accidents etc.
- The twelve species of fruits and vegetables that are declared the most likely to be contaminated by pesticides over the last year
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Further reading[edit]
- Dirty Dozen on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Dirty Dozen (American football) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- United States men's national basketball team on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Dirty Dozen (bicycle competition) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia