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SPILLANE
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• SPILLANE (noun)
The noun SPILLANE has 1 sense:
1. United States writer of popular detective novels (born in 1918)
Familiarity information: SPILLANE used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States writer of popular detective novels (born in 1918)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Frank Morrison Spillane; Mickey Spillane; Spillane
Instance hypernyms:
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
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