retractable
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɹiˈtɹæktɪbəl/, /ɹəˈtɹæktəbəl/
retractable (not comparable)
- Capable of being retracted; retractile.
- French: rétractable, rétractile
- German: einziehbar
- Italian: retrattile, rientrabile, retraibile, ritrattabile
- Russian: втягиваться
retractable (plural retractables)
- A retractable pen.
- 1979, Douglas Adams, chapter 21, in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy:
- Somewhere in the cosmos, he said, […] there was also a planet entirely given over to Biro life forms. […] Veet Voogajig suddenly claimed to have found this planet, and to have worked there for a while driving a limousine for a family of cheap green retractables […]
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