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Murphy

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Noun

1. irish potato, murphy, potato, spud, tater, white potato

an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Murphy

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noun plural -phies
a dialect or informal word for potato
noun
1. 
Alex. born 1939, English rugby league player and coach; scored 16 tries in 27 test matches for Great Britain (1958–71)
2. 
Eddie, full name Edward Regan Murphy. born 1951, US film actor and comedian. His films include 48 Hours (1982), Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Coming to America (1988), Dr Dolittle (1998), and, as a voice artist, the Shrek series of animated films (2001–10)
3. 
William Parry. 1892–1987, US physician: with G. R. Minot, he discovered the liver treatment for anaemia and they shared, with G. H. Whipple, the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1934

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Murphy

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nounWord forms: plural ˈmurphies
Slang, Obsolete
a potato

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Murphy

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American soldier who was the most decorated American combat veteran of World War II. In later years he became a popular actor in war movies and Westerns.
n. pl. Mur·phies
Slang
1. A Murphy game.
2. or murphy A potato.

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